Will Steger

Will Steger, Minnesota native, polar explorer, author and global warming educator will be giving a free presentation at the Holmes Theatre on Thursday, February 16 at 7 p.m.

Will is one of only four people in the world who have been to both the North and South poles.

You can visit his website willsteger.org for more information about him and his adventures.

This event is being sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Library, the Becker County Friends of the Library, The Lodge on the Lake, Lakeshirts, and Seaberg Power Sports and is a part of Polar Fest.

Detroit Lakes Library is a branch of Lake Agassiz Regional Library.

Julie Kramer, Mystery Writer

Julie Kramer reinvented herself from journalist to novelist. She writes a mystery series set in the desperate world of television news – a world she knows well from her career as a freelance news producer for NBC and CBS. She also ran the WCCO I-Team in Minneapolis, where she won numerous national investigative awards. Her thrillers take readers inside how newsrooms make decisions amid chaos.

An avid reader, she tired of fictional TV reporters always being portrayed as obnoxious, secondary characters who could be killed off whenever the plot started dragging. Her series features reporter Riley Spartz as the heroine.

Learn about Julie’s creative process and visit with her about her mystery series!

Read Stalking Susan, book one in Kramer’s mystery series.

Print and Share the Julie Kramer Event Poster!

These events are free and open to all.

Programming is sponsored by Lake Agassiz Regional Library and supported in part with money from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage fund.

Niagra Ground Driven Duster

Allan Dragseth and Roger Odegaard are third generation sugarbeet farmers. Together they co-founded the Red River Sugarbeet Museum in Crookston. Allan is the current president and Roger is the vice president. They both had exhaustive collections of memorabilia related to both sugarbeet farming and sugarbeet industry in the Red River Valley, much of which they have donated to the museum. They have acquired many antique and vintage pieces of equipment for the Sugarbeet Museum, and much of it has been restored. In addition, Allan has collected old movies  featuring sugarbeet harvests from the last fifty years and has converted most of them to narrated DVDs for public viewing.

Learn more about our region’s sugarbeet industry history through stories, pictures and video clips with Allan and Roger!

Print and Share the Sugar Rush Event Poster!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14:
10:30 a.m. – Crookston Library
1:30 p.m. – Twin Valley LINK Site
7 p.m. – Lake Park LINK Site

These events are free and open to all.

Programming is sponsored by Lake Agassiz Regional Library and supported in part with money from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage fund.

Print and Share the Skålmusik Event Poster!

Friday, February 10
10:00 a.m. – Climax Community Center
2:00 p.m. – Fertile Library
6:30 p.m. – Shelly LINK Site

Saturday, February 11
10:30 a.m. – Mahnomen Library
1:00 p.m. – Ada Library
7:00 p.m. – Rothsay Community Center

These events are free and open to all.

Programming is sponsored by Lake Agassiz Regional Library and supported in part with money from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage fund.

Lake Agassiz Regional Library invites you to snuggle up with a good book this winter and participate in Hot Reads for Cold Nights, a winter reading program for adults. Read or listen to four Audiobooks, books or eBooks for a chance to win prizes.

To participate, simply pick up an official entry form at your local LARL location, or complete an entry form online at www.larl.org/hotreads for your chance to win. The program runs throughout January and February. You can participate at any of Lake Agassiz Regional Library’s 23 locations.

Don’t know what to read? Visit www.larl.org to check out the latest bestsellers or use Books & Authors to find book suggestions based on author, title, plot or keyword searches.

Don’t forget to visit http://digital.larl.org to browse, checkout and download Audiobooks and eBooks!

Enjoy popular titles from the comfort of home! Lake Agassiz Regional Library is proud to offer you bestselling and classic Audiobooks and eBooks, available 24/7 from the library’s website, http://digital.larl.org.

You can browse the collection, check out with your library card, and download to PC, Mac®, and many mobile devices. To get started with your computer, you will need to install the freely provided software. For audiobooks: OverDrive® Media Console™. To read eBooks, you’ll need Adobe® Digital Editions. To download directly from your iPod Touch®, iPad®, iPhone®, Blackberry®, Windows Mobile® or Android® device, install the OverDrive® Media Console™ from the Apple® App Store, Windows Marketplace® or Android Markeplace®.

Titles can be enjoyed immediately or transferred to a variety of devices, including iPod®, Sony® Reader™, and many others. Some audio titles can also be burned to CD to listen on-the-go. Titles will automatically expire at the end of the lending period. There are no late fees!

With hundreds of popular fiction and nonfiction titles to choose from, the new collection is guaranteed to have something for everyone.

This new service, powered by OverDrive, is free with your LARL library card. To get started downloading Audiobooks, and eBooks, visit http://digital.larl.org.

“Our customers are asking for this service – there have been many inquiries recently,” shared Helen Goodin, LARL Collection Development Librarian.

Visit us at http://digital.larl.org for an extensive list of compatible eReader devices and browse, checkout, download and get reading today!