• This year alone, manufacturers of video games will sell about 174 million units. That's a lot of hard-to-recycle metal, plastic and mixed-material pieces that will one day end up in landfills. As gaming continues to grow in the country, never-opened and barely used games are abundant on the secondary marketplace. Check out online resale sites like Facebook Marketplace or local yard sales and thrift shops to find games. Not only is there a wide variety of titles available, but they are often sold at a fraction of the original retail price. And stores that sell games often take them back (discs, packaging, all of it!) for free recycling.

Western Plains Library System Director Tim Miller recently took the reins at the recent OLA Conference in Tulsa as the Oklahoma Library Association president. “I am proud to lead OLA, an association I have been a member of for 21 years,” said Miller.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Rural Health Center (RHC) received a $1-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to start implementing telemedicine in the eastern and western sides of the state over the next three years.