Homage to Herbs Event It’s time to Get Greauxing with the St. Tammany Parish Library. On the third Tuesday of every month at the Slidell Branch, Ty Carter from Cultivating Culture will present information and demonstrations about different aspects of gardening. This month we’re getting herbaceous with Ty’s Homage to Herbs. She is going to…
Exploring Two-Factor Authentication
Remembering passwords can be tricky as the need for more and more accounts on many different platforms rises. Forgetting a password can lead to frustration, and resetting passwords frequently can lead to even more confusion. One potential solution for the password problem is using Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on your account. 2FA, also sometimes referred to…
Pirates!
September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Let's celebrate with books, mateys!
Pirate Nell's Tale to Tell
Nell, a little dog, reads books and lon
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…
Disney Movie Eras: The Disney Renaissance
Disney Movie Eras: The Disney Renaissance 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 visions sought for and achieved from…
Michoud- Genealogy of a Place
Outside the city of Slidell, Louisiana, is the Michoud Assembly Facility located in New Orleans East, where it has operated as NASA since 1961. Dr. Wernher von Braun, who was living in Huntsville, Alabama, led the effort to make the site part of NASA, as it was a large and remote facility ideal for assembling…
Understanding Cloud Storage
A brief introduction to Cloud Storage.
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…
The Red Book – A Genealogy Tool
Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources published by Ancestrypublishing and edited by certified genealogist Alice Eichholz, Ph.D. is a useful research tool that is found in the Genealogy collections at the Covington and Slidell libraries. The book points the family history researcher in the right direction for locating genealogical records and it follows…
Disney Movie Eras: Live-Action Films Thru 1989
Disney Movie Eras: Live Action Films Thru 1989 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 visions sought for and…
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