Featured: Your Brain at Work

Your Brain at Work

Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter

When employees get distracted, everyone suffers. Learn strategies for overcoming distraction at work, re-focusing your brain on the task at hand without giving up on creativity, and maximizing your mental resources to get your work done as efficiently as possible, so there’s more time for play.

Recommended for: Employees and managers everywhere.

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Library Hours: MLK Jr. Day

Twin Cities Library will be closing early for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 21st.  The library will be closing at 6:00pm.

Regular hours resume at 9:00am on Tuesday, January 22nd.

Short Closure Friday, 1/18

The library will be closed from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm on Friday, January 18th for staff training.

If you need assistance during that time, you can use our 24/7 Chat Now service, available on the library website, or email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Featured: The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

This New York Times bestselling novel from author Colson Whitehead offers a fantastical yet terrifying look at the antebellum South, when slavery was the law of the land.  Follow one woman’s adventure as she escapes the horrors of the South, and finds a new world everywhere she turns.

Recommended for: Avid readers, history buffs, and adventure fans.

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Library Hours: Christmas & New Year's

The library will have modified hours surrounding the Christmas and News Year's Day holidays, from Saturday, December 22 through Sunday, January 6.  Regular hours will resume Monday, January 7th.

Saturday, 12/22 - Wednesday, 12/26:    CLOSED

Thursday, 12/27 - Friday, 12/28:          9am - 5pm

Saturday, 12/29 - Tuesday, 1/1:              CLOSED

Wednesday, 1/2 - Friday, 1/4:               9am - 5pm

Saturday, 1/5 - Sunday, 1/6:                   CLOSED

If you need assistance over the holiday, you can use our 24/7 Chat Now service, available on the library website.  You can also email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu for a response the next day we are open.

Happy Holidays, and we hope you enjoy the break!

 

 

Short Closure Thursday, 12/13

The library will be closed from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm on Thursday, December 13th for a staff luncheon.

If you need assistance during that time, you can use our 24/7 Chat Now service, available on the library website, or email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Short Closure Tuesday, 12/4

The library will be closed from 9:00am to 12:00 noon on Tuesday, December 4th for an all staff meeting.

If you need assistance during that time, you can use our 24/7 Chat Now service, available on the library website, or email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.