• Creative cosplay at the Makerplace

    What do Queen Amidala from Star Wars, Rita Repulsa from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Drizella from Cinderella all have in common? They’re just some of the many characters that award-winning cosplayer, costume designer and Makerspace Specialist Lisa Hale has brought to life.

    Graduating from Dominican University with a degree in Fashion Design in 2006, it was just a few years later when Hale discovered the art of cosplay. Cosplay, which is a blend of the words “costume” and “play,” is a type of performance art where costumes are used to bring life to characters from movies, TV shows, video

  • Library transforms for Met Gala-inspired "One Book, One Gala" 

    On Saturday, September 27, the Arlington Heights Memorial Library welcomed over 200 guests for One Book, One Gala, a special after-hours event inspired by New York City’s iconic Met Gala. The celebration was designed to reflect one of the key settings in this year’s One Book, One Village selection, The Stolen Queen by New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis. It marked the second gala in the library’s history, with the first being the Fairy Tale and Fantasy Gala held in 2016. 

    Guests were greeted with a red-carpet experience with cameras flashing as attendees posed for photos in a scene

  • Online Learning at Your Library - Ace that Class with Your Library Card

    Whether you're in middle school, high school or college, the school year brings research assignments - and the library has a great selection of online tools that let you find reference and magazine articles, detailed overviews, and even one-on-one live tutoring when you need help with a class or topic. Find these sources and more under Research>Databases.

    Summon & Summon Research Assistant
    Magazine, journal, newspaper and reference articles from multiple databases and vendors at once. The new "Summon Research Assistant" link leads to an AI-powered tool that summarizes articles based on natural-language questions, based on published articles.

    Google Scholar

 
 

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