Snoopy

Years ago we had a "squeak toy" SNOOPY (the Charles Schulz character).
We consider being snoopy an undesirable personality trait. Definitely not the same as being curious. Or dogged in pursuit of truth. Or inquisitive.
Libraries exist to support that role in society, and in our individual lives.
For those of us fortunate enough to have access to all the variety of web content, our curiosity can quickly lead us down any of a myriad of electronic pathways, and unless we've schooled ourselves to include consulting resources in such routines, we can go a long ways without overtly considering a library.
But even so we might be more closely linked to the library community than we imagine. If history is our bent, many of those online resources came out of some library or another. Or some library may be supporting the service and making it available.
On March 8th, Kilgore Memorial Library's "2nd Tuesday" noon brown-bag program will explore the uses of the "America's Newspapers" service from Newsbank. You can find out how the "outside world" sees our home town, or research in our local paper back to the first articles produced electronically in March 2002.