February News: February is the best time to anticipate spring. The holidays are far behind us, and mud season is yet to arrive, so we can look forward to warmer days, more sunshine, and three upcoming NNYLN spring conferences.

Classes: Winter Webinars are scheduled for February and March. The first one, Crowdsourcing and Libraries, will be held February 11, 2010 .

A look at February 14, 1963 - "ST. VALENTINE'S DAY - Like everything else, the passing of time has brought marked changes into this observance. Actually there were seven Saints Valentine, but history gives the honor of naming the day to a young Roman priest who was beheaded' in 270 A.D. for refusing to renounce Christianity. While in prison he wrote a farewell message to his jailer's blind daughter and signed it 'From your Valentine.'"
(Find this and more interesting articles on the Northern New York Historical Newspapers website.

	Ice Capers of 1941 , from the 1941 Clarkson-Normal Ice Carnival booklet on the North Country Digital History site.