Delivering library books to New Ulm Assisted Living Facilities is one less-known but super important service library staff offers to the community. Interacting with residents and helping them find books in the collection we haul to the facilities are services I love delivering. During these ...

It’s probably no surprise that the tea trolley emerged in Victorian England. Just the words “tea trolley” can conjure up an image of a delicate cart laden with floral china and shining silver plate (probably resting on crocheted lace doilies), pushed by a primly uniformed servant into an ...

Here we are at the end of February and tax season is here. The library has resources to help you complete this yearly task! If you choose to file your taxes yourself, we have the 1040/1040SR forms in English and Spanish, and the English instruction booklets. The Spanish instruction booklets are ...

Avid readers, do you find yourselves in a pickle when you lose your place in a book? All right, maybe that’s a little labored. Still, a brightly colored pickle-shaped bookmark can get your attention no matter what you say about it. And that’s exactly what the Heinz brand counted on with ...

He’s not an official symbol of Valentine’s Day, but it seems like the right time to have the King of Hearts make an appearance. This King of Hearts enamel was made in 1946 by Kenneth Bates, who may as well be called the king of enamels. Bates was born in Massachusetts in 1904 and ...

New Ulm Public Library has completed our 2024-2028 Strategic Plan and we’re excited to share our vision for the library’s future! We began the strategic planning process in fall 2022. An eight-member committee of representatives from the library staff, New Ulm Public Library Board, and ...