Daniel Boone Regional Library

You're invited to the 21st annual Boone County Legislative Forum next week at Grand Cru Restaurant in Columbia! Mizzou Alumni Association board member WALLY PFEFFER is here with details. Also, Take Time to Take Care is the theme of Daniel Boone Regional Library's winter reading program, an idea inspired by the national MLK Day of Service, and appropriately so as both programs begin on January 16! Guest: ABBEY RIMEL (4:25) January 10, 2023

Daniel Boone Regional Library and its union failed to reach any resolution during Tuesday’s contract bargaining session.

The public library union held a press conference for the public to comment on the Secretary of State's proposed rule that would restrict book access for minors

Survey says...MOST Policy Initiative IS effective! Executive director BRITTANY WHITLEY, PhD, takes us behind the results that have both republicans and democrats (finally!) agreeing on something we can all get behind: non-partisan research information! Also, LAUREN WILLIAMS introduces us to DBRL's latest One Read winner, 'The Big Door Prize' by M.O. Walsh, and all the events that go along with it happening throughout the month of September!

Earn your high school diploma by way of Daniel Boone Regional Library. Communication outreach manager ABBEY RIMEL says anyone who's (at least) completed the 8th grade is welcome to apply to this fully online, self-paced, asynchronous accredited program! Also, SARAH EBER, RD, LD, Missouri Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, wants you to wash your veggies and your fruit and keep that potato salad on ice! "A lot of us know this, but it always helps to hear it again." (3:54) June 6, 2022

"Oceans of Possibilities" is the theme of this year's summer reading program at Daniel Boone Regional Library. It's free, it's fun (for all ages) and it starts today! SARAH HOWARD tells us how it works. June 1, 2022

Daniel Boone Regional Library wants to "help people in our community who are experiencing cognitive decline, memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer's, things like that, and their family members" by offering to them what they call "memory care kits". Guest: ABBEY RIMEL, community outreach manager March 9, 2022

Mizzou Alumni Association's WALLY PFEFFER is back (after a two-year hiatus) to tell us what's on the agenda at - and to invite the public to - the 20th annual Boone County Legislative Forum, happening next week in Columbia! Also, community outreach manager ABBEY RIMEL encourages everyone to take part in Daniel Boone Regional Library's 2nd-ever "very low key" winter reading program. (4:05) January 21, 2022

Talk about bad timing: Campus Lutheran Church in Columbia had just completed an expansion project when the pandemic hit. Guest SHARON KINDEN says born out of that unexpected downtime was the idea for this Saturday's spaghetti dinner and bazaar fundraiser! | The events continue this weekend with a children's concert on Sunday at the Columbia Public Library. Guest SARAH HOWARD recommends that those interested in attending sign-up online! (4:31) October 20, 2021

Get details on a "lovely" concert next month courtesy of the Daniel Boone Regional Library, and a reminder that you still have a couple of weeks to finish up the summer reading program, 'Tails & Tales'! Guest: SARAH HOWARD | Also, ALICE PEARCE introduces us to Aging Best, a local non-profit agency that assists senior citizens with various challenges. Their focus - as of late - is educating seniors about (and coordinating seniors to get) the COVID vaccine. (3:31) July 30, 2021