Memphis Public Libraries is hosting Halloween activities for their patrons. They are offering free pumpkins to take home for a decorating contest and fall craft bags to go.

Prepare your library for reopening with FDLP face masks and social distancing signage.

The Supreme Court of Ohio Law Library incorporated their publications in their Halloween decorations, and Ben is in costume, ready to assist their patrons.

National Forest Products Week (October 18 – 24) celebrates the essential role forest play in our environment and economy. Check out these resources from the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

• Developing a decision-support process for landscape conservation
• Research needs assessment for the mass timber industry
• Durability and wood protection research at the Forest Products Laboratory
• National individual tree species atlas

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an annual designation observed in October. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are victims of physical violence by a partner every year. The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications offers access to some excellent resources.

• Federal support for providing housing to individuals experiencing domestic violence
• Questions and answers: the application of Title VII and the ADA to applicants or employees who experience domestic or dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking
• The Violence Against Women Act: overview, legislation, and federal funding
• Domestic violence and the child welfare system

GPO names Indiana University, Bloomington’s Herman B Wells Library as the 2020 Federal Depository Library of the Year. Read more...

President John F. Kennedy announced on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the U.S., including Washington, D.C. Kennedy ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more offensive weapons to the island. Some related resources from the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications:

• Cuban Crisis 1962
• The Cuban Missile Crisis : President Kennedy’s address to the Nation, October 22, 1962
• CIA documents on the Cuban missile crisis, 1962

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