Learn About Someone

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

How do you really get to know someone? 

  • Asking people questions about their life is one way to find out about them.   StoryCorps has an app  that you can download to record conversations and even upload them to their story archive.
  • If you are interested in family history, MyHeritage has 117 questions that you can ask your family member.  
  • The library has hundreds of biographies to read for both adults and children!  Find out more about someone through the written (or spoken) word!

 

Head back to 62 Days of Summer for more ways to participate in the summer program!

Read Around the World - Europe and the United Kingdom

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

Books Set in Europe and the United Kingdom

Many people are excited to think about future trips this year.  You can also travel the world while sitting in your favorite comfy chair by choosing books from this list.  Enjoy your adventure!

Read Around the World

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

Many people are excited to think about future trips this year.  You can also travel the world while sitting in your favorite comfy chair by choosing books from this list.  Visit any one of these continents to experience a new setting and enjoy your adventure!

Read Around the World - Africa
Read Around the World - Asia
Read Around the World - Europe and the United Kingdom
Read Around the World - North America 
Read Around the World - Oceania
Read Around the World - South America 

 

For Kids:

Read Around the World--Kids Nonfiction

Read Around the World--Kids Fiction

 

Head back to 62 Days of Summer for more ways to participate in the summer program!

Inspirational Memoirs

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

Following someone's journey through life can be inspiring, powerful and heartbreaking all at the same time.  Walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading these memoirs.  

When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | large print

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. 

The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook

In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.

Read Around the World - South America

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

Books Set in South America

Many people are excited to think about future trips this year.  You can also travel the world while sitting in your favorite comfy chair by choosing books from this list.  Enjoy your adventure!

Read Around the World - North America

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

Books Set in North America

Many people are excited to think about future trips this year.  You can also travel the world while sitting in your favorite comfy chair by choosing books from this list.  Enjoy your adventure!

Michigan Travel

May 17, 2021 | AmyJo

It's another great day in the Mitten State! There are so many great places to visit and fun things to see and do all over our great state that hopefully you will get to enjoy at least one or two of those items this summer. Hopefully, these books will give you some great ideas!

Best tent camping. Michigan : your car-camping guide to scenic beauty, the sounds of nature, and an escape from civilization by 1971- Matt Forster
Michigan : lakeside getaways, scenic drives, outdoor recreation by Paul Vachon

Canton Public Library Senior Pulse Project

April 27, 2021 | AmyJo

The Canton Public Library embarked on a study in the fall of 2020 to learn about the unique needs of Canton Township residents aged 65 and older.  This strategic research was called the Senior Pulse Project and its goal was to learn how the library could safely meet the short term needs of Canton seniors. 

Who Was Involved in This Project?

The Pulse team included six library staff members as well as our Research Strategist, Susan Kennedy, from Look See.  
The library also received a wealth of information from our community partners who shared their expertise:

  • TejKiran Singh, Gurdwara Sahib Singh Sabha of Michigan
  • Sufia Fateh, Muslim Community of the Western Suburbs
  • Stephanie Diago, Club 55 Canton Leisure Services
  • Ariel Starr, Waltonwood Cherry Hill
  • Bill Schlatter, SEMCOG
  • Dan Patton, CPL Librarian
PDF icon Pulse Brochure.pdf

Genealogy Connect: You Can Do This - Photo Organizing and Preservation

AmyJo

Join us on Thursday, July 15 at 10:00 AM as nationally known genealogist Thomas MacEntee presents "You Can Do This: Photo Organization and Preservation".  This will be a virtual meeting via Zoom.  Registration required and will begin June 24, 2021. 

Want to know more about Zoom programs?  Check out these tips for a great experience.  

Registration required.

Upcoming sessions

There are no upcoming sessions available.

Genealogy Connect: Stuck? Research Strategies for Those Brick Wall Ancestors

AmyJo

Join us on Thursday, May 20 at 10:00 AM as Michigan genealogist Kris Rzepczynski presents "Stuck? Research Strategies for Those Brick Wall Ancestors".  This will be a virtual meeting via Zoom.  Registration required and will begin April 22, 2021. 

Want to know more about Zoom programs?  Check out these tips for a great experience.  

Registration required.

Upcoming sessions

There are no upcoming sessions available.

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