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Mango Is Good for Your Brain!
Studies have proved that learning a second language improves brain function and can slow the onset of dementia. Bilingual people benefit from these effects no matter at what age they learn a second language. GFJ offers Mango Languages, a free online language-learning suite with over sixty languages, including a free phone app. And it’s fun!…
GFJ Librarian Published in School Library Journal
No foolin’: GFJ’s own Sara-Jo Sites has three, count ’em, three book reviews published in the April 1, 2013 issue of School Library Journal, with our library name below hers on the byline. SLJ is a major library publication and widely read by the national library community; featuring professional articles as well as reviews libraries…
GFJ Needs Your Help!
GFJ needs your help! Along with the Your Home Public Library (Johnson City) we have not received an increase in funding since 2008. We hope to place a proposition on this November’s ballot seeking an increase designed to fund the libraries for another four years. But first we need to collect some 2,000 petition signatures. …
Book Sale Cancelled July 5
Due to the holiday the July 5 book sale has been cancelled. The library will be open that day. The next book sale is Friday, July 19. Please note we are not open Saturdays for the summer until September 7.
Rolling Stone Keith Richards – Librarian Wannabe
The Rolling Stones guitarist reveals his love of libraries: He once said: “‘When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.” The rock ‘n roll legend even considered…
NPR Story on the future of libraries in the e-book age
NPR ran a story last week on the future of libraries in the e-book age