BOOKMARK

Whitman County Library seeks to facilitate the expansion of local book clubs. Director Kristie Kirkpatrick said a number of people new to the area ask where they can join a book club, and the library hopes to muster enough interest to form a library book club or to at least be able to refer people to clubs willing to accept members.”

The library is offering Book Club-in-a-Box kits to clubs seeking inexpensive ways to provide a group with titles. The library’s kits consist of eight titles that can be used free of charge and for longer periods of time than traditional library books. New titles a...