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Special Called Meeting: January

A special called meeting of the OCPL Board will be held virtually on Tuesday, January 5th.

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Job Posting: Branch Courier

OCPL is now hiring for a Branch Courier.

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Welcome to OCPL's new website!

Welcome to the new website of the Oldham County Public Library!

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Events

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Branches: LaGrange, Goshen, South
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Virtual. You will be sent a link to the secure Zoom program after registering.
Toddler Time at Home
Toddler Time is for children ages 2 & under and their caregivers. Siblings are always welcome at our early childhood programs.

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Branches: LaGrange, Goshen, South
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2021
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Location: Virtual.
Board of Trustee Meeting
Meeting of the Oldham County Library Board of Trustees.

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Branches: LaGrange, Goshen, South
Date: Friday, 22 January 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual. You will get a link and instructions to access the day before the event.
Book Bingo
Play virtual bingo and learn about new books!

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Check out these books!

Soul full of coal dust : a fight for breath and justice in Appalachia

Hamby, Chris

Tortilla Flat : with an introduction by Thomas Fensch

Steinbeck, John

Troop 6000 : how a group of homeless Girl Scouts inspired the world

Stewart, Nikita

Voices worth the listening : three women of Appalachia

Burton, Thomas G.

Invisible Americans : the tragic cost of child poverty

Madrick, Jeff

Free lunch

Ogle, Rex

Welcome homeless : one man's journey of discovering the meaning of home

Graham, Alan

Hill women : finding family and a way forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Chambers, Cassie

Jackpot

Stone, Nic

The Public [videorecording (DVD)]

Hard times : an oral history of the Great Depression

Terkel, Studs

Sold on a Monday : a novel

McMorris, Kristina

Tobacco road

Caldwell, Erskine

Squeezed : why our families can't afford America

Quart, Alissa

On our street : our first talk about poverty

Roberts, Jillian

Ramp Hollow : the ordeal of Appalachia

Stoll, Steven

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Vance, J. D.

A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Ziegelman, Jane

Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Vance, J. D.

City of Joy [videorecording (DVD)]

The lady in the van [videorecording (DVD)]

Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Those shoes

Boelts, Maribeth

Fanny says

Brown, Nickole

Scarcity : why having too little means so much

Mullainathan, Sendhil

The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap

Taibbi, Matt.

Mary Coin

Silver, Marisa.

An invisible thread : the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny

Schroff, Laura.

Beasts of the southern wild [videorecording (DVD)]

Keep holding on

Colasanti, Susane.

Rags and riches : kids in the time of Charles Dickens : a nonfiction companion to A ghost tale for Christmas time

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Dark days [videorecording (DVD)].

Grapes of wrath [videorecording (DVD)]

The American newsboy

Burgan, Michael.

No small thing

Ghent, Natale

Beyond Goose Creek -- river of no return : daily life in rural America during the great depression

Keith, Preston J.

Poor people

Vollmann, William T.

The working poor : invisible in America

Shipler, David K.

My Appalachia : a reminiscence

Caudill, Rebecca
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308 Yager Ave, La Grange
KY 40031

Phone: +1 502-222-9713

Fax: 502-222-1141

Email Us: marym@oldhampl.org

South Oldham Branch

6720 KY-146, Crestwood
KY 40014

Phone: +1 502-241-1108

Fax: (502) 241-9017

Email Us: juliew@oldhampl.org

Goshen Branch

12505 Harmony Landing Rd, Goshen
KY 40026

Phone: +1 502-228-1852

Fax: (502) 228-1896

Email Us: susanb@oldhampl.org

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