Mark St. Patrick’s Day, a global celebration of Irish culture, with books and films featuring voices and places from the Emerald Isle.

Any time a major world event unfolds people turn to libraries for information and perspectives to help understand. Here's a collection of materials to explore Ukraine’s history and culture, and its post-Soviet transformation into an independent state. 

We asked you to share your favourite Black artists, albums and songs, and you delivered! Borrow a CD or stream an album from hoopla and celebrate Black musicians. Where we recieved specific album and/or song reccomendations, we're sharing them with the tag Let's hear it. 

"The fact is, there must be hundreds of black musicians, and they’ve had such an enormous influence on every aspect of American music, that a playlist that lasted hours would only scratch the surface. Without black music and musicians, there wouldn’t be much American music." - Tricia, KFPL patron