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Get INTO the story with new Immersive Reality books at Mentor Public Library.

You can travel back to the Big Bang, dive next to a Great White Shark, soar the solar system and more with Mentor Public Library’s new Immersive Reality books.

These books use augmented and virtual reality to teach kids about sea life, our planet, and so much more. For example, when families borrow our immersive reality book on the moon, they can use the AR to watch the formation of the moon!

You’ll need a smartphone or tablet with the free IR Books app – here’s the link for the Apple and Google Play stores – to enjoy the virtual and augmented reality extras. You’ll also need a headset (like Google Cardboard.) It’s OK if you don’t already have one. You can borrow that from the library too!

Check out the Immersive Reality books the next time you’re at our Main Branch. (They’re shelved by the reference books in our Children’s Department.) Holds cannot be placed on the books or the glasses to make sure as many patrons as possible can enjoy them. (Also, please don’t put the glasses in the book drop when you return them. We don’t want them to get crunched.

So start exploring with our Immersive Reality books. You’ll see the worlds in a whole new way.

Perhaps, you’ve heard the term “structural racism” in the last few years but are not certain what it means or how it may have affected you or your region’s history.

Dr. Jason Reece — an associate professor at Ohio State University — offers this free lecture on the topic. He explains how the federal government, local government, realtors, and local neighborhood groups had practices and policies that segregated and stratified neighborhoods throughout Ohio.

He also shows how disparities between communities and suburbs created nearly a century ago continue to persist today. Due to a technical glitch, we did not record the first few minutes of the talk. We apologize for the inconvenience.