Editor Note: The week of November 15 is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, which is an annual program where people come together across the country to draw attention to the problems of hunger and homelessness. We asked Lineise Arnold, Executive Director of the North Alabama Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. (NACH) to guest write for our blog to talk about homelessness in the Huntsville/Madison County area. NACH has a satellite office at the Downtown Huntsville Library.

POINT-IN-TIME COUNT 2020 – Homeless Numbers Increase Again

Week Three of NaNoWriMo

It is already week three of NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month challenge. How are you doing so far? Have you disciplined yourself to sitting down and writing at least once a day?

10 Movies from HMCPL Not Streaming for Free

While a good number of films are available via streaming, not all films are available and of the titles available, not all of them are offered for free. If you don’t subscribe to Amazon Prime or Netflix, or any of the other services, it doesn’t matter what is offered.

Listen to Rob and Michelle discuss the things that help them get ready for Thanksgiving and then move into the rest of the Holiday season!

We included a list of pun-ny Holiday book titles in the episode for your enjoyment, and discuss materials you can find throughout the system that we recommend to bring some joy to your season.

This is a list of a wide variety of materials from movies, to cook books, to TV shows, to Westerns!

You can listen to the episode here!

Materials Mentioned in this episode

Honoring Veterans - Veterans Day - November 11

This week’s movie blog focuses on films that Honor Veterans available on Hoopla. (Write-ups provided by Hoopla.)

Week Two of NaNoWriMo

Welcome to week two of NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month challenge. Are you making progress? Are you sitting down every day, even if it’s only for twenty or thirty minutes to write? Remember, it is all about discipline, and making it a habit to write every day.  Once you make it a habit to sit down and write every day, you will soon look forward to that time.

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span><span>November has a lot going on! There’s No Shave November, and there’s NaNoWriMo, which Rob I know is participating in. There’s Thanksgiving. And there’s also the very first meeting of the Two Librarians Walk Into A Shelf Book Club! Our first book is a Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean, and you can find it on Hoopla for free, no waiting, unlimited checkouts in both ebook and audiobook formats! It’s a Regency-era romance novel, full of scoundrels and scandals and also a very swoony love story. </span></span></span></p>

November is Family Literacy Month, and with the sunny days growing shorter what better time to gather together and share a great book?

Week One of NaNoWriMo

“All write, all write, all write.”

Welcome to NaNoWriMo! What is NaNoWriMo you ask? It’s National Novel Writing Month, the annual challenge to write a novel to in 30 days. You can pick any 50,000 words to put in any order and tell a story.

Thanksgiving is the time of year when our thoughts should turn to togetherness, unity, and appreciation for each other and our love towards our family and friends. It's a great time to share these ideas with your kids and explore what it means to be a kid and thoughtful person and to help out and celebrate the season I've put together a list of 30 books from our Youth Services collection that show off these ideas of thankfulness, empathy and kindness:

♦ Picture Books ♦