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Holidays at the Columbus Metropolitan Library Branches

We frequent the library about once a week for books and try to make it to story times and events as often as possible. We love the library! This holiday season, many of the Columbus Metropolitan Library branches have holiday-themed activities for families that look exciting AND are *free*! Check them out – especially if [...]

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CML’s Summer Reading Club Starts June 4!

CML’s Summer Reading Club Starts June 4!

Not sure if I’ve mentioned this lately, but I love the library. We have a fantastic library system in Columbus with FREE access to books, job and homework help, concerts, author visits, story times for children, and my favorite thing of all: Summer Reading Club! This year the Columbus Metropolitan Library‘s Summer Reading Club slogan [...]

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Columbus Commons in Columbus, OH

Columbus Commons in Columbus, OH

Columbus Commons in downtown Columbus is fabulous, and I am still in awe that City Center Mall once stood there. Thank you to the city for turning the space into a huge park for its residents. My memories of stopping at Au Bon Pain before acting class and fights with mom over school clothes (hee [...]

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Huntington Holiday Train at the Main Library

Huntington Holiday Train at the Main Library

Do not miss the Huntington Holiday Train set up at the Columbus Metropolitan Main Library. I took my 2 year-old Thomas-aholic and we were both mesmerized for almost an hour. Thomas with Annie and Clarabell and Percy with those mischeivious freight cars, along with a few other trains, run the the tracks through a replica [...]

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Let’s Keep Resources Available for the Community and Our Children: Keep CML Strong and Vote YES on Issue 4

Let’s Keep Resources Available for the Community and Our Children: Keep CML Strong and Vote YES on Issue 4

Last week the Dublin Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library system had a “Grave Tales” storytime for children. It was set on the lawn in back of the library near a graveyard. The graveyard is pretty significant – it has resting in it the souls that came to Dublin over 200 years ago when Dublin [...]

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Central Ohio Libraries: Get to Bookville!

Central Ohio Libraries: Get to Bookville!

Books, music, videos, story times, and homework help all FREE! Gotta love the public library. I have always been a huge fan of the library and enjoy going to hang out with the books, but had no idea the plethora of services they offered until I had children. The Central Ohio libraries have story times, [...]

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Libraries – Not Just a Book Thing…

Libraries – Not Just a Book Thing…

What is up with the library? It is so much fun, that’s what! Now, I am a geek (sorry my geekalicious librarian friends) and have always loved libraries, but seriously, I never remember them being as much fun as they are today. I have been taking my daughter Peyton since she was six months old [...]

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