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Front of Switzer Library, a brick building with a white columned entranceway

Cobb County Public Library August 7, 2022

Cobb County Library introduces the Read Around the World interactive map

The Cobb County Public Library published a Read Around The World interactive map to introduce readers to books set in nearly every continent (Antarctica was the only holdout). The map…

Welcome to Cobb County brick sign at Henderson Road on Veterans Memorial

Cobb County Public Library December 26, 2021

Digitize your documents, photos and mementos at the Cobb County Library’s Georgia Room

If you have important photos, documents, letters or family recipes that you would like to render into a digital format so you won’t have to run the risk of damaging…

Photo of South Cobb Regional Library in article about fall book sale

Cobb County December 2, 2018

Cobb County Library system expanded hours

The Cobb County Public Library System has expanded its operating hours. As a result of the budget increase voted this year, hours that were reduced in 2011 have been restored,…

Cobb County January 26, 2024

Cobb County Public Library named GPLS Library of the Year for 2023

The Cobb County Public Library was named Library of the Year by the Georgia Public Libary Service (GPLS). According to the GPLS press release announcing the award: The annual Georgia…

The brick front of the Lewis Ray Library, with dappled shade

Smyrna October 26, 2023

Cobb County’s Lewis Ray library to reopen in November with a focus on children

Photo of Lewis Ray Library: Larry Felton Johnson/Cobb County Courier The Cobb County Public Library announced that the Lewis Ray Library is expected to reopen on Monday, November 27 following…

Accidentally car-free August 31, 2022

Accidentally car-free in Cobb County Part 6: a walk to the public library

[This is an installment in the series “Accidentally car-free” about getting around Cobb County without the use of a car. To see a list of the entire series visit this…

Cobb County Public Library April 19, 2022

Cobb County Public Library Spring Book Sale this weekend, April 22-24 2022

The Cobb Public Library will host its Spring Book Sale this weekend, April 22-24, 2022 at the Cobb Civic Center, 548 South Marietta Parkway SE, Marietta, GA 30060. There is…

A view of the earth color-coded to demonstrate that 2019 was the second-hottest year on record

Environment April 10, 2022

Cobb County Public Library celebrates Earth Day with a list of scheduled events

Earth Day 2022 will be celebrated Friday April 22, and in recognition of this important day when we focus on the environment, the Cobb Public Library has scheduled the following…

Cobb County Public Library April 5, 2022

Cobb County Public Library has Wi-Fi-equipped Chromebooks for checkout for people with little or no broadband access

The Cobb County Public Library now has 150 Chromebooks with built-in cellular Wi-Fi service that are available for checkout to library patrons 17 years old and up who have either…

Cobb County Public Library March 6, 2022

Cobb Public Library to digitize the county’s city directories

If you’ve ever done detailed genealogical or historical work tracking a person, a business, or a fixed address through time, you’ll know what a valuable resource city directories can be….

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Immigration May 8, 2024

Trump promises to deport all undocumented immigrants, resurrecting a 1950s strategy − but it didn’t work then and is less likely to do so now

by Katrina Burgess, Tufts University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters…

Climate May 8, 2024

As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’

by Franco Montalto, Drexel University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] “When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters….

Justice May 8, 2024

Voting in unconstitutional districts: US Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in 2022 by allowing voters to vote with gerrymandered maps instead of fixing the congressional districts first

by Sam D. Hayes, Trinity College, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional…

Politics May 8, 2024

How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false

by H. Colleen Sinclair, Louisiana State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and they can involve just about anything. People believe…

Elections May 8, 2024

Transit and district map confusion taken up at Cobb Commission District 2 forum

By Caleb Groves From the jump, candidates for Cobb’s District 2 Commissioner voiced their opinions on redistricting and pressing issues across the county on Monday May 6, 2024. Right out…

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