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Gary Lee Price's Story Time is installed outside the Corvallis-Benton County Library (645 Northwest Monroe) in Corvallis, Oregon. The bronze sculpture commemorates Jeanne H. Larson, who served as the library's director and staff member from 1948 to 1967, and was funded by the Larson family and other community members. [1]
Penn Avenue in Wyomissing. Wyomissing is located in central Berks County at (40.332742, −75.964603 It is bordered by the city of Reading to the northeast and southeast, by West Reading directly to the east, by the borough of Shillington and Cumru Township to the south, by Spring Township to the west and northwest, and by Bern Township to the north.
In March 2023, a drag storytime event was held at a library in the Auckland suburb of Avondale. However, the library was forced to close due to a protest. [53] In mid-March 2023, the "Queens Telling Stories" event at Christchurch's Tūranga Library was picketed by 36 protesters. 160 LGBT supporters attend the Christchurch Queens reading event. [54]
Stewart said she heard the same criticism from opponents in 2021 when the Caseyville library had its drag queen storytime, but she thinks it has gotten worse in 2022 because it is an election year.
In 2001, the Wyomissing Foundation donated a copy of Saving Pennsylvania, a video about the dangers of urban sprawl, to every public library in Pennsylvania. [5] In 2008, the Foundation also helped support development of the Berks County Citizens Academy, a project to educate potential volunteer members of county and municipal advisory boards ...
A library card from any library in the system is valid at all other libraries in the system and at most libraries in the state. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The county system serves 550,000 residents with a collection of 1,400,000 volumes. 2,150,000 items circulate per year.
A lead compound called tetraethyl lead was marketed under the brand name Ethyl and became a commercial success. Algeria was the last nation to halt the use of leaded gas in 2021.
Wyomissing Creek is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km) [1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It joins the Schuylkill River at the boundary of West Reading Borough and the City of Reading, Pennsylvania. The name "Wyomissing" is derived from a Native American language and is purported to mean "place of flats". [2]