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image marker Featured Website: Common Place: In this online journal, see how nineteenth-century Americans experienced a media explosion.

image marker Featured Website: Clerical Detectives and crime fiction from the past, selected by Philip Grossett.

* Hogwarts: More about Harry Potter novels.

* Mason City: An American Image— information for MCHS students and others from the Lee P. Loomis Archives.

*Get a Clue @ Your Library: Register for the 2007 Summer Children's programs. Click here to download a 2 page pdf about the program.

*It's a Mystery :2007 Teen Summer Reading Program

*Summer Sleuthing :2007 Adult Summer Reading Program

*Still Need Tax Information? Click Here.

* National Library Week is coming. Join Us—

* Thursday, April 19 at 6:30 p.m. Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” will be shown by Anne Tempel in the library’s Mason City Room

* Iowa Independent Film Festival, April 20-22: www.iowaindependent filmfestival.com

* Saturday, April 21, the EARTH DAY Festival— www.earthdaynorthiowa.org
  • Prepare for the GED; civil service and military entrance exams; licensing tests for law enforcement, real estate, the postal service, and many other fields; plus college and graduate school information and admissions exams. Logon with your library card number.
  • Jo Ann Lower, writer & storyteller, was in the Mason City Room on Thursday, December 14th with a special (and absolutely FREE) holiday program for adult patrons.
  • Need a good book? See what each speaker in the MacNider Museum's current series recommends by clicking here. We also have gathered some resources to help you learn about Mason City Native Charles Fritz and Lewis & Clark's adventures (Click here).
  • Did you know—the library now has wireless internet access.
  • Lewis and Clark --
    Guides to help you prepare for the MacNider Museum's upcoming exhibit of the art of Charles Fritz .