Year: 2015

During the month of April, we are fortunate to have on display a small part of the collection of the late Hilda Brueggemann, noted area historian.  Upon her death, Mrs. Brueggemann’s family left her extensive collection of books and documents to the Germantown Historical Society.  They have kindly put some of those items in our display case.  Included are early plat books and an undated Clinton County Farm Directory listing such phone numbers as 2 and 76!  There are also numerous centennial books from towns in this  county and surrounding areas and even the 1933 souvenir booklet of the Germantown Centennial.

Where can you find a list of NCAA basketball champions from 1939 to the present?  Where can you see pictures of and information about your favorite animals or today’s most popular celebrities?  Get science fair project ideas or accurate information for school reports?  Games, activities and crafts?  Interactive maps?

Just click on the “World Book Web” graphic on the right side of our homepage, right next to this post, in fact!  This is a trusted, accurate, updated daily version of the World Book Encyclopedia and it’s free to our patrons.  If you’re in the library, just click and go.  Anywhere else, once you click on the graphic, you’ll be asked for your library card number.  That’s the barcode on the back of your library card and if you don’t know it, we’ll be glad to give it to you.

Don’t take chances with incorrect information you might find elsewhere online.  Trust the library and World Book  for both fun and facts.