The Oak Ridge Public Library is offering the community free tutorials for operating many different types of Kindles starting May 21.
Joan Kearney, a Kindle enthusiast, has worked at the Library for 30 years and owns different types of Kindles. She can help walk you through the checkout process on your Kindle device, whether it’s a first-generation Kindle or the latest version so you can explore the library’s electronic collection. [Read more…]
A Thursday seminar at the Oak Ridge Public Library will focus on using Kindles to check out audiobooks and eBooks.
The free class will be taught by Joan Kearney, and it starts at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the library’s auditorium. [Read more…]
The Oak Ridge High School Madrigal Singers will perform at noon Thursday at the Oak Ridge Public Library.
The students sing routinely in many languages and perform music from many time periods, Renaissance to modern, a press release said. Several participate in All East and All State choirs, and many receive college scholarships to help them pursue their music studies.
From a regatta and football to a car show and pumpkin festival, there is much to do in Oak Ridge this weekend.
Tonight, the Oak Ridge Wildcats football team wraps up its regular season with a 7:30 p.m. game at Campbell County.
On Saturday, the Secret City Head Race starts at 8 a.m. at the Oak Ridge Marina, and the annual Pumpkin Fest starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. in Grove Center.
An East Tennessee “ghost seeker” will share ghost stories and reveal evidence he has collected from paranormal investigations during a Saturday afternoon talk at the Oak Ridge Public Library.
The speaker, Stephen Brown, is a member of East Tennessee Ghost Seekers, a group founded in 2009, and he has conducted about 300 residential and public investigations since 2001, a press release said.
The press release said East Tennessee Ghost Seekers has been selected to be part of a documentary for The Travel Channel on the Morse Mill Hotel in Morse Mill, Mo., and members have investigated many famous sites.
Saturday’s free talk starts at 4 p.m. in the Public Library Auditorium.
For more information, visit the Library’s main desk, call (865) 425-3455, or send an e-mail to CircLib@cortn.org.
To learn more about East Tennessee Ghost Seekers, visit www.eattnghostseekers.com.
The American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge Public Library have partnered to offer free admission to library card holders.
The partnership is designed to make AMSE accessible to all Oak Ridge residents and to encourage them to have a library card, a press release said.
More than 150 oral histories of residents who played roles in Oak Ridge before, during, and after the top-secret Manhattan Project are now available online.
The histories are available through the Oak Ridge Public Library’s website, and there will be a May 29 ceremony to celebrate the launch of the online collection. Hosted by the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History (COROH), the reception will be in Oak Ridge Public Library auditorium from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
