Your People Are Waiting: Why Genealogy Still Matters — and Where to Start

Somewhere in a shoebox in your grandmother’s closet, there’s a photograph of someone you’ve never met — but whose nose you share. Maybe it’s tucked behind a Christmas card, or folded into an old Bible with names written in handwriting that looked like it learned itself on a porch, in lantern light, with a stub […]
One Card. Endless Possibilities. (Seriously, Have You Seen What a Library Card Gets You?)

Somewhere in your wallet, or maybe your junk drawer, or possibly tucked into a book you returned six years ago — there might be a library card. And if there isn’t one? We need to talk. Because a library card from Adair County Public Library is, without exaggeration, one of the best free things available […]
Meet Checkers: The Library’s Free Educational Video Series Your Kids Will Actually Want to Watch

Raise your hand if you’ve ever handed a child a screen and thought, “I hope this is somewhat educational.” Same. We’ve all been there. That’s exactly why Adair County Public Library created Checkers Library TV — a free children’s video series on YouTube that’s actually designed to be good for kids, while still being the […]