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.

GPO welcomes Arizona’s Yuma County Library District to the FDLP. Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) designated the library, located on the border of California and Arizona.

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

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

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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