Heather Butts presents a very captivating story to her African American Medicine in Washington D.C. : Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era book. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those soldiers. These brave healthcare professionals developed a medical infrastructure for African …
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Tuesday Travels
Did you know that 65 percent of America’s fourth graders do not read at a proficient level and that 71 percent of senior adults older than 60 had difficulty in using print materials? The Union Parish Library is here to help because they have Judy Lewis who is the Literacy Outreach Coordinator. She plans and …
Monday Meet Us
Every day, patrons come in and pull books off the shelf, look at them, leave them on a table, or perhaps deposit them on another shelf. Another patron drops off books in the overnight drop box outside and somehow almost like magic, these books make their way back to the shelves, back in order, all …
African American Genres
If you would like to be a Civil Rights activist working to make sure a person’s rights are not being violated or want to learn about the greatest African American baseball players of all time then I suggest you take a look at the African American Genres at the Union Parish Library! They have 1,727 …
Thursday Technology
“There was a farmer who had a Dog and Bingo was his Name-O!” Story books like “Bingo” will engage your child into learning to read because he or she can sing along in an interactive setting and Did you know that reading to babies and young children will help them learn new sounds, words and …
Wednesday Word
New Orleans, native Rosary O’Neill presents a very captivating story to her “New Orleans Carnival Krewes: The History, Spirit and Secrets of Mardi Gras.” The city’s motto is “Let the Good Times Roll or Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler” because New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras since it involves parades, the beads, the …
Tuesday Travels
From the days of a mule-drawn carriage and Model-T engines loaded with books, bookmobiles have been an outreach of public libraries for a hundred years or more. Of course, today the bookmobile in Union Parish is a Ford 450, but it still makes it’s way to all the backwoods and bayous of our parish delivering books to …
Monday Meet Us
Should “likes to read” be a requirement for working in a library? Well it seems logical that it should be! One of the first people that will greet you when you walk into the Union Parish Library is a dark- haired lady sitting at a desk behind a computer. This nice and friendly lady is Lisa Preaus. She …
Friday Fiction: Mysteries
If you would like to be a private detective investigating cases for a variety of clients including Scotland Yard or solve crimes involving international intrigue and espionage then I suggest you take a look at the Mystery Genres at the Union Parish Library! They have 5,806 mystery-detective books, 2,435 mystery books, 314 juvenile mystery books and …
Thursday Technology: Ancestry Library
There is an old joke, “I shook my family tree and a bunch of nuts fell out!” That may make us chuckle a bit when we think about browsing and piecing together our own family trees, but geneaology is a large and growing field for novice family historians who are trying to uncover the past …
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