We here in the Information and Reader Services Department are always interested in what you think about your book club selections. We want to know about the books you love, the books you hate, the books that really made your think or cry, and everything in between!
Is a new eReader or tablet on your shopping list for Black Friday? If so, be sure to check out the Holiday Gadget Guide: Hottest Devices for Library eBooks blog from our eBook partner, OverDrive. Many of the newest devices on the market are compared. To further compare devices, check out the OverDrive Help Videos for a series of short videos displaying the steps to using your new device with the Library's great collection of eBooks.
The holidays are here again, and for a lot of people that means a road trip to the relatives. This time of year we get a lot of people in the Library looking for an audiobook to play in the car while traveling. However, finding one that is just the right length can be a problem. As someone once said to me, "We’re just traveling across the state, not across the country." So if you are not going to be driving long enough to listen to all 30 discs of a Stephen King novel, why not try a radio drama?
Don't know where to start looking for information on the perfect eReader for Christmas? In the market for a new or used car? Maybe, your washing machine just went kaput? Don't worry, ConsumerReports.org has you covered! It's all the quality you've come to expect from the Consumer Reports magazine, but in an easy-to-use electronic database.
"Bah humbug!" Almost everyone is familiar with this famous quote from Ebenezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I grew up on such book classics as this and Twas the Night Before Christmas. I anxiously awaited the TV cartoons like Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. There were no cartoon versions of A Christmas Carol until 1983, when Disney released Mickey’s Christmas Carol.
Are you tired of being a One Day Novelist, as in "One day I’ll write a novel"? If you have always considered writing a book, November is the month for you. November is National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), the endeavor where each participant cranks out 50,000 words of fiction in just 30 days.
Over the last few blog posts, in the spirit of Halloween, we've been looking at classic horror movies in the form of the famous Universal and Hammer monster films. In the process, we've looked at such scary movie icons as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains, the Lon Chaneys Sr. and Jr., Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. But as I've been writing these, I realized that I had neglected one of the towering figures of the genre: Vincent Price.
In August, I posted a blog about how Interlibrary Loan items travel between us and other libraries in the country. I talked about the mail service, the greyhound bus, and our courier service. I did, however, forget to mention who is responsible for organizing the courier service for us. That would be MALA (Mid-America Library Alliance).
Ernest Hemingway is an American icon, but within that status, there are many depictions of the man including: Hemingway as the Nobel Prize-winning literary hero whose terse style became synonymous with his name; Hemingway the celebrity, who cavorted with film stars and romanced Marlene Dietrich; Hemingway the journalist, attracted to dramatic stories from war fronts; and Hemingway the archetypal macho man, a sportsman and gun aficionado who survived two plane crashes while hunting on the African safari.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has been selected by the Metro Area Reader’s Roundtable (MARRT) committee of the Mid America Library Alliance as this year’s United We Read title.
