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Missouri River Regional Library has created a virtual meeting room that is available for use in Cole and Osage County. Virtual rooms are available to community groups, non-profits, and businesses, and are hosted on the Zoom platform.  By scheduling your meeting through the Library, community members will have an unlimited amount of time for meetings and up to 300 attendees! 

Are you homeschooling and a bit overwhelmed? 

Are your kids learning from home and you need a little extra help?

Missouri River Regional Library can help you out! The Children’s Department would be happy to assist you with your curriculum needs. The staff can put together a selection of books on a specific topic or on multiple subjects. All you need to do is give us a call or send an email and let us know what subjects you need additional information on and what age your child is. 

More than 100 readers participated in the 2020 Winter Words Adult Reading Club. They read hundreds of books in all fiction genres and nonfiction categories. We asked the participants to name a book they read in 2020 that they’d recommend to other readers. Their recommendations follow: 

Fiction

By now you’ve surely heard about our popular Book Box service. The premise is simple: fill out a form with your literary likes and dislikes, tell us how often you’d like to receive books and how many you’d like at a time. Our staff will then select books we think you’ll like based on the information you’ve given us and put them on our holds shelf for you to come and pick up. But what if you’re not sure whether a Book Box subscription is right for you? What if you’ve been getting a Book Box, but it’s not working quite as well as you’d hoped?

(Spoiler Alert: No)

Many of our phone calls and more than an occasional patron ask variations of the same question:

I was trying to (insert action here) and it said – voice rising questioningly -- my library card had expired?

Sometimes it is followed by the secondary question: Have you guys canceled my account?

Good news! Unless it has been a number of years since you have last used your library card, the answer is “no” – you are not canceled, just in a time out.

So what happened?

Supplies Needed:  Washable project paints or liquid food coloring, baby shampoo or bubble bath, corn starch and water.

Utensils Needed: Mixing bowl, measuring cups/spoons, spoon, paint brush or brushes.

Extra Supplies: Paint palette, small silicon muffin pan, plastic divided container, or small plastic bottles/cups.

Compulsion rules Collin’s life. He can’t stop himself from counting the number of letters in words spoken to
him. Nor can he stop himself from announcing those totals to the speaker. If he tries to stop, he becomes
overwhelmed. Life has been extremely difficult for Collin because of his struggle with Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder. He has been raised first by his grandparents and then his father, but his OCD has made him too
much for them to handle. His grandparents gave up on him very early on, and now his father has finally

Possible Supplies Needed:  Washable project paints, cardstock or mixed media paper, canvas panels, painter’s tape, scissors, quart and gallon plastic bags, and plastic wrap.

This activity provides multiple sensory experiences while creating something that can be used as a gift from the toddler. They will touch and feel the cool of the paint and how smooth it is. They can see the different colors and how they blend. Plus, they practice their fine motors skills and learn about cause-and-effect, all of this while creating a final picture that can become a gift from them.

There is a new resource available to Missouri River Regional Library cardholders! 

Reference Solutions is the number one source of information on businesses and people specifically designed for small business owners, marketing professionals, researchers, and job seekers.

Cardholders can use it to create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds and locate people. And even better, it's free!

Use the Business Database to:

A free notary public is available at Missouri River Regional Library in the Jefferson City location. 

The weekly schedule is subject to change. To confirm availability, please call (573) 634-2464. 

I like presents, but confess I am a horrible wrapper. No matter how much care I take in positioning the gift, getting the folds just right, even finding a bow that matches, it’s a disaster. The edges don’t line up, the tape bunches up, the corner rips through the paper, I’m still 1/8 of an inch short — trust me, it’s not a pretty sight.

Fortunately, a lesson my mom taught me about wrapping presents for the holidays not only minimizes the paper carnage, but it is a lot of fun as well:

Don’t.

Join us for a new series: Holiday How-To! We are planning to share some fun holiday ideas with you all season long. 

When the leaves start falling and there's a chill in the air, you know it’s bonfire season! And what goes better with bonfires than s’mores?

The Library has chosen Elise Hooper’s historical fiction, Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team, as this year’s community read, known as Capital READ and now in its 15th year.  

Hooper has written a thoroughly absorbing historical fiction novel with about the history of the first women’s Olympic Team, the athletic training involved, and the journey to the exciting, yet tension-filled 1936 games in Berlin, Nazi Germany.

The book centers on three main “real-life” women and a host of others who make this book so appealing. 

Make your own infinity cube! 

Supplies Needed:
-48 square pieces of paper (we went with 3x3 inches); the infinity cube is composed of 8 blocks that use 6 pieces of paper each. You could do it all in one color, have each box be a different color (6 squares each of 8 different colors), or have multi-colored cubes as we do in the video (8 squares each of 6 different colors). You could even come up with your own combinations, so long as your total number of squares is 48. 
-scotch tape

World history has a gaping hole. There exist few well-known women in a world of documents, literature, and bardic traditions that placed men in the forefront of action, science, and renown. The women who did make their way into the history books are known to different degrees depending on how much fame they received over time.