Hispanic Heritage Month at Takoma Park Library, Sept. 25

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15) the Takoma Park Library is hosting a fiesta this Saturday, Sept. 25 at 1 pm. Here is Saturday's schedule, with activities for all ages:

1:00 pm: Bilingual Storytime, followed by a maraca craft

1:30 pm: Special Guest performers Sr. Rogelio Valdes and Sr. Efrain Lopez will sing songs "para todos los gustos." (The music performance will be outside, weather permitting.)

Bedbugs Found in Library Book: End of the World as We Know It

Photo from Duke University Yearbook

I've been a proponent of electronic books for a number of reasons. But yesterday I learned about a new reason that electronic books are preferred to the paper variety, perhaps the most powerful reason of all:

Bedbugs have been found in books.

You heard that right. While Niketown was closed in New York City because of bedbugs, that's not nearly as significant as bedbugs finding a nice, happy home inside of books. A library in Frederick, Maryland found bedbugs inside of a book in one of its branches.