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Millard Oakley Public Library News
 September 15, 2023


The Millard Oakley Public Library Board will meet on Tuesday, September 19, at 4:30.
This Thursday, September 21, at 10:00, the library will hold a special event to help our citizens who are color-blind.
One in 12 men and one in 200 women have difficulty seeing color. People with normal color vision see over one million hues of colors, while those who are color-blind only see about 10% of them. East Tennessee State University, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, and the Millard Oakley Public Library, are providing three people from Overton County with the opportunity to see more colors than they normally do. The library will also have four pairs of glasses to loan out to the public. The loan glasses will only be available at the library for one month, but the three individuals will be able to keep theirs. Please join us as they try on their glasses for the first time. The Friends of the Library will provide refreshments.

With the special program this week, we will not be hosting story time.
Story time will resume next Thursday at 10:30.
There will be genealogy help available on Thursday, September 28, from 4:00 until 6:00.
Hotspots are available again at the library!
To check out a hotspot, you must have a good library card with no over dues, be 18 years or older, and agree to our Library of Things policy.

New titles in the library recently include:
“The Summer Skies” by Jenny Colgan, “Condor’s Fury” by Clive Cussler, “Tea Leaves and Legacies” by Susan Page Davis, “The Five-Star Weekend” by Elin Hilderbrand, “The Resisters” by Gish Jen, “The Longmire Defense” by Craig Johnson, “Empire of Lies” by Raymond Khoury, “A Reasonable Doubt” by Phillip Margolin, “Caged Wolf” by Caroline Peckham, “Blood and Coin” by Philip C. Quaintrell, “Payback in Death” by J. D. Robb, and “After That Night” by Karin Slaughter.

“The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” John Greenleaf Whittier.