Satilla Regional Library System

10/14/2026

10/10/2026

This week is National Wildlife Refuge Week and tomorrow, Oct. 11th, there is no entrance fee for Refuges, including the Okefenokee!

Come enjoy this iconic blackwater swamp full of fall flowers and foliage. We hope to see you soon!

10/08/2026

A changing job market may mean it’s time to refine your strategy. JobNow connects you with real career coaches who can review your résumé, conduct practice interviews, and help you highlight your strongest skills.

Strengthen your next application and practice for future interviews, free with your valid Satilla Regional Library card!

Connect with a JobNow career coach: https://srlsys.org/homework-help/

10/08/2026

Studying is better together! Use HelpNow’s flashcards and virtual collaboration tools to form a study group and prepare for upcoming fall tests. It’s free with your valid Satilla Regional Library or Atkinson/Coffee PLAY card!

Start studying with HelpNow: https://srlsys.org/homework-help/

10/06/2026

***Overdrive/Libby and Kanopy Update***

A message from Overdrive: "As part of our ongoing commitment to providing secure access to your library’s digital resources, OverDrive will soon require users to enter a PIN or password in addition to a library card. This will apply when signing in to Libby, your OverDrive digital library website, or Kanopy."

This PIN requirement begins Oct. 15th. We are sharing this as soon as we were made aware of this change.

10/06/2026

09/30/2026

09/26/2026

09/26/2026

Today in History: Parents Tried to Protect Their Children from Polio

America’s parents were living in fear of polio in the summer of 1949. The disease, which seemed to target children under the age of five, caused paralysis and death. No one yet knew how it spread, though it appeared infections rose in warm weather.

As the Post reported today in that summer, worried mothers and fathers were keeping their children away from movie theaters, playgrounds, birthday parties, and especially swimming pools.

Hoping to keep out the virus, some homemakers kept their house and car windows shut all summer. Some bathed in bleach. Others wore garlic around their necks.
That year, 42,000 contracted the disease and nearly three thousand died. The annual count of polio cases was rising steadily.

But as fast as the numbers rose, they dropped even faster once the polio vaccine was administered to children. By 1960, the number of new cases had plummeted from 38,000 to 106.

Since 2020, there have been just three cases.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard on select public radio stations across the U.S.

Image: Children with polio, some in an iron lung, 1948 (Picryl)