Our Blog

Join us for an exciting week of events featuring science, technology, engineering, art and math activities! We’ll meet special guest presenters, build amazing projects and much more. To register for events, visit the Children’s Services Desk or call 630.685.4181. Questioneers…

When you think of libraries, you likely think of checking out books and attending events. And while there’s no shortage of both of those here, we have a world of resources and services that will help inspire lifelong learning, foster…

Studio 300 offers a variety of professional equipment you can use in the building or check out to use at home. We offer an incredible selection of cameras, microphones, audio production tools, lighting kits and much more to help enhance…

How do you communicate with your friends or family? What do you do for entertainment? How are your foods prepared? How do you get from place to place? Everything around you and everything you come into contact with on a…

Nowadays, many producers are finding themselves at home, wanting to record music with no means to express their creativity. For those of us who don’t have money to splurge, recording and production equipment can be hard to come by. However,…

Whether you’re an expert who’s jumping for joy at the return of this power-packed resource, or you’re a new user who’s just diving in, Lynda.com is bound to be the site you go to again and again for learning new…

We all miss helping our patrons create and share their stories through the digital media and maker technology available in Studio 300. Although the library’s building is closed, we’ve been busy supporting the Library from Home initiatives and training to…

What a difference three years can make! In the summer of 2016, I wrote a blog post about Algorithmia’s free online photo coloration tool and how it offered a really promising option to colorize black and white photos quickly and…

A few years ago, if you told me you could become rich by running your computer’s graphics card 24/7, I wouldn’t have believed you. But at the time of writing this, a single Bitcoin is currently valued at over $10,000. Digital…

As many of you know, the library offers several scanners for patrons to use. The bullet scanners are perfect for standard 8.5″x11″ documents and the flatbeds will take care of almost everything else. However, if a patron has something brittle…