The newest Beyond Books initiative for the Jefferson Parish Library will let cardholders check out "Experience Passes" to regional cultural institutions. Current partners include the Jefferson Performing Arts Society, New
Bill Stafford, archives supervisor for the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge, will provide an overview of the State Archives and its genealogical collections at 7 p.m. Sept. 18, at
Local authors and educators Gary Arnold and Alexandra Weiss will be featured in the August Saturday Writers’ Clinic beginning at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 19 at the East Bank Regional Library,
Robert Mann, holder of the Manship Chair in Mass Communication at Louisiana State University s Manship School of Mass Communication, will discuss his new book, "Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU,"