Hartland's Cromaine Library

Listen in as Grace, Heather, and Meagan share some of their favorite feel-good reads.

Join librarian Grace for themed trivia. Play along from home while our staff team, the Dewey Decimators, tries to guess the answers! This month’s theme is History and this week: African American History Month.

Join librarian Grace for themed trivia. Play along from home while our staff team, the Dewey Decimators, tries to guess the answers! This month’s theme is History and this week: It Happened in February.

Join librarian Grace for themed trivia. Play along from home while our staff team, the Dewey Decimators, tries to guess the answers! This month’s theme is Music and this week: Soundtracks.

Join librarian Grace for themed trivia. Play along from home while our staff team, the Dewey Decimators, tries to guess the answers! This month’s theme is Music and this week: 90s Hits.

Listen in as Damon, Erik, Grace, and Heather as they share some of their favorite fantasy books, and discuss how they determine what types of fantasy books to give to readers.

Join librarian Grace for a themed trivia podcast. Play along from home while our staff team, the Dewey Decimators, tries to guess the answers! December's theme is Winter, and this week's theme: Movies.

Join librarian Grace for a themed trivia podcast. Play along from home while our staff team, the Dewey Decimators, tries to guess the answers! December's theme is Winter, and this week's theme: Get Cozy!

Listen in as Cromaine Library staff members, Damon, Erik,  Grace, Heather, Maeve, and Stefanie, share the best books they read in 2020.

Kathryn Remlinger, GVSU Professor of English, explains the social and linguistic history of English in the Upper Peninsula, or Yooper Talk, and explains how ideas of what it means to sound like a Yooper have emerged over time. The full video of this program is available on the Cromaine District Library YouTube Channel.

Are you in the mood for a not-too-scary story? Listen to a spooky little tale about a cat named Rachel.

Wondering what the library staff is reading, watching and listening to during the stay at home executive order? The mix is as eclectic as the staff and you won't be disappointed! You may even find something new to enjoy or add to your reading list. 

We know how hard it is to unwind and de-stress during the last month, so we wanted to share some of our favorite ways to relax and find hope.

Check out what Cromaine's librarians have been reading lately!

Cromaine staff share their favorite book to film adaptations! Harry Potter , Sherlock , The Walking Dead-S1 , The Hunger Games , Jane Eyre , Coraline , Let the Right One In (stream through Kanopy), The Perks of Being a Wallflower , Agatha Raisin (stream through RBdigital), Aurora Teagarden

Everyone could use a good laugh right now, and the soon to be infamous duo of Adult Services Librarian Damon and Community Relations Assistant Shelby, will definitely make you laugh in their first Podcast together! Best news of all, The Authenticity Project is currently available on the Libby app! 

Join Meagan, Grace, and Glenn as they share some of their favorite films to watch in the fall.  Films mentioned include: Beetlejuice, The Addams Family, Sleepy Hollow, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Scream, The Craft, Casper, Silver Linings Playbook, You've Got Mail, The Bookshop, Kedi, Robot & Frank

Hartland's Cromaine Library hosted the bi-annual meeting of the Historical Societies in the area. This meeting was focused on technology. Are you a library, historical society, or genealogical organization in the Livingston Country area of Michigan? Join our mailing list to keep updated on activities at tiny.cc/clustermeetings - This episode features updates from attendees had information to share...

How do you pick your next read? Cromaine staff share their own strategies for tracking reading, managing to-be-read lists, and selecting what to read next. We discuss Goodreads, Google Docs, and Google Keep as tracking tools . Suggestions for picking a book include following your mood, working your way through physical piles, using recommendations from friends, book lists, journals, asking qu...

You'll hear from Grace, Damon, Maeve, Meagan, and Glenn about their favorite summer reads. Titles mentioned in the episode can be found on Cromaine's blog here . Happy reading!

The stories that follow are a result of some staff training we did at our May 2019 Staff in-service. The general theme for these stories is: "You are why I come to work." You'll here stories from Ceci • Meagan • Grace • Wendy • Glenn • Stefanie • Bekah • Maeve • Janice

Sometimes, the path to citizenship takes a different route (through Academia). As part of the American Creed series of events at Hartland's Cromaine Library, we asked Dr. Yener Kandogan, Associate Dean of the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Management, about the experience of immigrating to the U.S.A. from Turkey. 

As part of the American Creed series of events at Hartland's Cromaine Library, we are asking patrons to tell their citizenship stories.  In today's episode we have Norwegian born Karen.

As part of the American Creed series of events at Hartland's Cromaine Library, we are asking patrons to tell their citizenship stories.  In today's episode we have Canadian born Barbara Rentola, long-time Cromaine staff member and Hartland resident. Join us tonight at 7:00 pm for a Screening and Discussion of the film American Creed at Cromaine Library! 

The path to citizenship is not an easy one to take. As part of the American Creed series of events at Hartland's Cromaine Library, we ask one of our patrons about her experience of immigrating to the U.S.A. and what citizenship means to her.