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Featured Artist: Johanna Stice

by Oran Colwell | May 1, 2026

Featured | Featured Artists

The Effingham Public Library is pleased to welcome local artist, Johanna Stice. The work of local artist Johanna Stice is on display through June 27 in the art gallery at the Suzette Brumleve Memorial Effingham Public Library.


Library of Things at the EPL

by Oran Colwell | May 1, 2026

Featured

The Effingham Public Library offers more than just books. Our Library of Things collection highlights the wide variety of resources available to our community, including board games, card games, sewing machines, label makers, vlog kits, and much more.


Book Recommendation – May

by Oran Colwell | May 1, 2026

Book Recommendations | Featured

Fun for the Whole Family by Jennifer E. Smith The four Endicott siblings—Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude—were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the country.


Book Recommendation – April

by Oran Colwell | April 1, 2026

Book Recommendations | Featured

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable coming-of-age tale in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage iniquities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father — a crusading local lawyer — risks everything to defend a black man


Welcome to Kanopy

by Oran Colwell | April 1, 2026

Featured | Library Announcements

Kanopy is a free, ad-free video streaming service available to public library and university members. It provides access to thousands of documentaries, independent films, classic cinema, and educational content from partners such as A24 and The Criterion Collection.