Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library

Drop-In Job Search Help
2026-12-28 10:30 - 14:30, 2027-01-04 10:30 - 14:30, 2027-01-11 10:30 - 14:30, 2027-01-18 10:30 - 14:30, 2027-01-25 10:30 - 14:30, 2027-02-01 10:30 - 14:30, 2027-02-08 10:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago)
Mondays – 10:30 am – 2:30 pm | No Appointment Needed!
Join us for free job search assistance at the library! Job search help sessions are informal, open hours where job seekers can get one-on-one assistance. Our friendly staff and volunteers are here to support you in your career journey!
Get help with:

Reviewing and updating resumes
Creating cover letters
Practicing interview questions
Effectively searching for jobs online
Feedback on LinkedIn profiles
Exploring career paths
And other job search resources

Preschool Story Hour
2026-12-30 10:30 - 11:30, 2027-01-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2027-01-13 10:30 - 11:30, 2027-01-20 10:30 - 11:30, 2027-01-27 10:30 - 11:30, 2027-02-03 10:30 - 11:30, 2027-02-10 10:30 - 11:30
https://www.facebook.com/events/706749379759691/

Game Night
2026-12-31 17:00 - 18:00, 2027-01-28 17:00 - 18:00
Last Thursday of every month, at 5:00pm.
Join us for games and puzzles.

TAB
2027-01-05 15:30 - 16:30, 2027-02-02 15:30 - 16:30
What is TAB?
TAB stands for Teen Advisory Board, and is a team of teenagers that help promote the library. TAB meets monthly on the first Wednesday of every month, at 3:30pm.
What do you do on TAB?
All sorts of things!

Plan, promote, and run programs with Library staff
Contribute to Library social media (Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok)
Promote the library to friends and classmates
Suggest books and other materials for the library to purchase
Learn about the Library and how it works!
Volunteer Opportunities
Redesign the Teen Area of the Library

Apply for TAB
TAB Application.pdf
Questions?
Email our librarian, Abby, or call the library! (218-546-8005)

Sci-Fi Book Club
2027-01-05 17:00 - 18:00
Meets the first Thursday of every month.
This is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books, old and new.
Our January book is The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
Book Summery:
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.

Friends Meeting
2027-01-08 09:00 - 10:00
The JFHML Friends meet on the 2nd Friday of every month at 9:00.
We discuss fundraising and program ideas, project and volunteer opportunities, and more!
Join our meetings and get involved at the Library!

Anime and Manga Club
2027-01-12 17:30 - 19:30, 2027-02-09 17:30 - 19:30
Anime & Manga Club
All junior and senior high students welcome.
We will be sharing sketches, having pizza, and watching an anime feature film.

Jane Austen Book Club
2027-01-14 17:30 - 18:30, 2027-02-11 17:30 - 18:30
The Jane Austen Book Club is the second Thursday of every month.
We will be reading through all of Jane Austen’s works.
For November we will be watching Mansfield Park.
Summary: Fanny (Frances O’Connor), born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas (Harold Pinter), his wife (Lindsay Duncan) and their four children, where she’ll be brought up for a proper introduction to society. She is treated unfavorably by her relatives, except for her cousin Edmund (Jonny Lee Miller), whom she grows fond of. However, Fanny’s life is thrown into disarray with the arrival of worldly Mary Crawford (Embeth Davidtz) and her brother Henry (Alessandro Nivola).

Movie Night
2027-01-14 17:30 - 19:30
Second Thursday of every month @ 5:30
We’ll pop the popcorn, you bring your blanket and any other snacks!

The movie goers get to pick the movie for the upcoming month!

Our movie for September is Moana 2.

Summary:
After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, a strong-willed girl journeys with her crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.

Library Reading Dog
2027-01-16 10:30 - 13:00
Come read to Nahanni the Library Reading Dog
All Ages Welcome

Banned Book Club
2027-01-19 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for Banned Book Club on September 16th @ 5:30 pm
Every month we’ll read a book that has been banned or challenged. We’ve picked the first few reads, but we want your suggestions for what we read going forward!
Banned Book Club will meet the third Tuesday of each month.
Our pick for September is This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed
Book Summary:
After her dad abruptly abandons her family and her mom moves them a million miles from their Chicago home, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school, away from everything and everyone she knows and loves. Reeling from being uprooted and deserted, Noor is certain the key to survival is to keep her head down and make it to graduation. But things aren’t so simple. At school, Noor discovers hundreds of books have been labeled “obscene” or “pornographic” and are being removed from the library in accordance with a new school board policy. Even worse, virtually all the banned books are by queer and BIPOC authors. Noor can’t sit back and do nothing, because that goes against everything she believes in, but challenging the status quo just might put a target on her back. Can she effect change by speaking up? Or will small-town politics—and small-town love—be her downfall?

JFHML Book Club
2027-01-21 17:00 - 18:00
Join the Library’s adult book club that meets the third Thursday of every month at 5:00!
Extra copies of the book are available at the front desk!
Our January selection is The Author’s Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig.
Book Summary:
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.
The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors’ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don’t quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious.
Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death?

Craft Club
2027-01-30 12:00 - 13:00
Saturday, January 31st @ 12:00
Join us on the last Saturday of every month to craft.
Feel free to bring a project to work on while we talk about our spotlight craft of the month.
January’s spotlight craft is journaling.

Sci-Fi Book Club
2027-02-02 17:00 - 18:00
Meets the first Thursday of every month.
This is a book club dedicated to Science Fiction books, old and new.
Our February book is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Book Summery:
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back – with lethal force.
