Steven Spielberg

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Steven Spielberg is celebrating his 79th birthday this month on December 18. In celebration, here's a collection of some of his movies for you to enjoy! E.T Jaws Close Encounters of the Third Kind Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark The Color Purple Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan Minority Report…
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Television

Television One of the great inventions of the 20th century, television stands tall in mankind's technological achievements. Follow along for a timeline of important events and innovations in the history of the television. Commercial televisions first came to market in the 1930s, but the earliest innovations date back to the mid-19th century. The first devices…
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Halloween 2025

Happy Halloween! This year's annual spooky blog is a short one! Enjoy a list of some of stplbloggersouthslidell's favorite horror films available right here in the library! stplbloggersouthslidell's Horror List 1408 The Ring Predators Prometheus Interview With the Vampire Jaws Sweeney Todd The Silence of the Lambs Bram Stoker's Dracula…
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Disney Movie Eras: Disney Movie Toons and Direct to Video Pt 1

Disney Movie Eras: Disney Movie Toons and Direct to Video Pt 1 This month continues a new series of blogs for fans of popular culture. Whereas in the past explorations of Walt Disney films we highlighted individual works, we will now be talking about the larger groupings of movies, and the various artistic and commercial…
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Fiction Spotlight: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

September 1st marks the traditional day students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry return to classes, so what better day to celebrate the Boy Who Lived? The Harry Potter franchise is officially celebrating 28 years as of this June, but the franchise is even older than that. Joanne Rowling first began writing about Harry…
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Bees

Bees! Bees are some of nature's most impressive, most industrious, and most successful animals. One can find most any bit of useful information on the world wide web. The information provided below will be sourced from one of our freely available databases, World Book Encyclopedia. Bees are insects from the family hymenoptera, close relatives of wasps…
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