The Bookmobile will not be at any stops this week for scheduled maintenance. We will resume a normal schedule Tuesday, May 28.
Charity is a Public Service Specialist working with genealogy and local history reference in the Topeka Room/Genealogy. Her start at TSCPL came as a genealogy researcher soon after the Baker Genealogy Center opened in November 2007. In early 2009, she became a Genealogy volunteer and in May 2010 she came to work at TSCPL. She earned her Master of Library Science degree from Emporia State University in December 2011. One of the Topeka Room programs Charity coordinates is the "Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Authors" series.
Contact Charity at crouse@tscpl.org
Have a prairie adventure with Noco, a young prairie dog who travels across Kansas with her Papa. Topeka artist and author Justin Marable wrote and illustrated this story highlighting scenic views and memorable places from around Kansas. This talk will be in the Marvin Auditorium, Room B at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library [...]
Kansas author Kathryn Movius will talk about the process of writing and publishing her first young adult novel, The Double T’s…Cowboys At Heart as part of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s Sunday Afternoons with Kansas Authors series on Sunday, June 19, 2011 from 2:00-3:00pm in the Topeka Room (Rm 204). Fourteen-year-old twins Tyran [...]
Join us in the Topeka Room on Sunday, May 1, 2:00-3:00pm for a discussion of Kipp Van Camp’s new book Always Allie. Topeka radiologist Kipp Van Camp has written his first book about the relationship between Allie, the family’s “four-legged daughter” and the other members of the family. Kipp is the son of a [...]
Topeka author Max Yoho will be in the Topeka Room on Sunday, April 3 from 2-3pm to speak about his newest novel “With the Wisdom of Owls.” This humorous look at childhood through the character of baby Harry, his owl Godfather Wyatt, two “owlces” (owl uncles), and the rest of Harry’s human family is sure to strike [...]
How do you know someone is telling you the truth? Join us in the Topeka Room of the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library for this month’s Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Authors program on Sunday, March 13 at 2:00pm to hear former FBI agent Mark Bouton as helps you become a human lie detector by [...]
How to find the obituary index, search for your person, and locate or request the information you find for obituaries published in the local Topeka area newspapers. Here’s how to proceed with your search from anywhere on the Library’s Digital Branch. Click on the “Research” button and then click on “Genealogy and Local History” in the [...]
Our yearbook collection in the Topeka Room (204) is great but we need your help to fill in the holes in the collection. Years currently needed to fill out our collection (we keep two copies: one on the shelf and one back-up): Assumption/Capital Catholic/Hayden: pre-1960, 1963-1967, 1969-1977, 1980, 1981, 1983-1991, 1993-1997, 1999-2010 Highland Park: 1916-1939, [...]
So, you want to find out more about your house in Topeka. This blog will tell you about one of the resources to search in order to find out more about the history of your property and who has owned it through the years. Come with me on a field trip downtown to the Shawnee [...]
So, you want to find out more about your house in Topeka. This blog will tell you about some of the resources and search methods which might help you find out about your house and about the people who have lived there through the years. In particular, this blog entry talks about a geographic or [...]
So, you want to find out more about your house in Topeka. This blog will tell you about some of the resources and search methods which might help you find out about your house and about the people who have lived there through the years. Throughout the history of Topeka from as early as 1870 [...]
