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The holiday season is here, and it’s the perfect time to cuddle up with a good book. Of course, we like to think we know the library pretty well, but with more than 61,000 items in our collection – and more than 9 million across the IHLS system as a

Tis the season for getting spooked, getting dressed up, and getting cozy! We’ve got quite the collection of haunted literature here, but if you’ve already exhausted our selection, there are plenty of frightening reads available through Inter-Library

One of the most popular sections in our children’s area (aside from the train table, of course) is the graphic novel aisle. On busy weekends and in the after-school hours, we can barely move fast enough to keep up with the piles of graphic novels

One of the most popular sections in our children’s area (aside from the train table, of course) is the graphic novel aisle. On busy weekends and in the after-school hours, we can barely move fast enough to keep up with the piles of graphic novels

–From Children’s Librarian Miss Julie It doesn’t matter how old you are — getting to explore a fire truck is always cool! This year, the O’Fallon Fire Rescue Department kicked off Fire Safety Week 2023 with an amazing presentation for the O’Fallon

Recently, I sat down and spoke with Linda Mitchell, OFPL Library Board Vice-President and founder of the Metro East Literacy Project. This interview was spurred by her YouTube short documentary, Defeating the Literacy Culture Beast: The Book Lady’s

This week’s article is from Sage, one of our brilliant circulation clerks, who may be too humble to let you know that he created a lot of the resources mentioned: Has this happened to you? Some days, I walk into the library or pull Libby up on my

NaNoWriMo – as fun to say as it is to do!  For more than 20 years, aspiring and established writers have competed – against themselves and against the clock – to write a 50,000-word novel draft during the month of November.   Deciding to write a book

From Library Director Ryan Johnson: Just four years ago (although it feels like eight with COVID mixed in) the Friends of the O’Fallon Public Library elected a new president, Ray Farmer.  A few months after that, I took over as director.  It’s been a

I think about books as food a lot. (Please feel free to assume that here I have written – and deleted – several tortured metaphors about literature as nourishment, and so on). Mostly I think it’s the variety that resonates with me: I love a buffet, a