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Written on: August 25th, 2009 in Q & A's
A: Yes! Both the Federal Government and New Castle County define a first time home buyer as a buyer who has not owned another principal residence at any time during the three years prior to the date of purchase.
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Written on: August 25th, 2009 in News
Click on the links below to get lists of new items available from the Delaware Library Catalog in various formats:
Written on: August 24th, 2009 in Q & A's
A: In New Castle County: http://www.nccde.org/parcelview/
Enter an address to find the sales history for the property. Once a property is selected you can also see recent sales in the subdivision.
Kent and Sussex County do not publish sale or transfer information on their websites.
The News Journal maintains a database of property sales in all three counties: http://php.delawareonline.com/real/
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Written on: August 24th, 2009 in Reviews
Await Your Reply, the new novel by Dan Chaon, author of You Remind Me of Me, is published tomorrow by Ballantine. It was reviewed by Janet Maslin last week in the New York Times, and oddly enough, I had read it a few days before as a review copy.
One of the perks of being a librarian, and certainly a perk of attending conferences such as the American Library Association annual conference, is that you get galleys and review copies of forthcoming titles from various publishers- they hope that you will talk them up to your patrons, order extra copies for your library, and generally do some marketing for them, and with some titles it’s an absolute pleasure to do that, almost a duty! Last year, for example, I received a galley of Neal Stephenson’s new novel Anathem, and spent the next few months busily pressing it into the hands of bemused friends.
This year I was impressed by the newest memoir from Mary Karr, Lit, which is scheduled for a November release, Jonathon Troppers This is Where I Leave You, which was released two weeks ago and is well worth reading, and Brom’s Child Thief, a dark and gothic reimagining of the Peter Pan story which also is released tomorrow, and is definitely not for children.
Written on: August 23rd, 2009 in Learning Journeys
The next session of Learning Journeys will be held at the Woodlawn Library in Wilmington on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. We hope you can join us!
Our most recent session was held at the Lewes Public Library for the Delaware Pen Women’s Conference earlier in August. Kathy and I were delighted to be part of this event, and to have a guest speaker join us for our program – Victor Letonoff is a local artist and is a Lewes City Councilman. Earlier in the summer, Chrys Dudbridge, library director, arranged for Kathy and me to visit Victor in his studio to see his amazing notebooks. Victor’s notebooks span his adult lifespan and include sketches, conversations, water colors, all sorts of experiences. Victor shared his notebooks during our session, and the participants were as excited as we are about them. One participant said that she had “tears in her eyes” and said the notebooks should be digitized and shared through the internet so that everyone can see them. We will explore partnering with the Division of the Arts to develop a virtual exhibit.
Victor’s notebooks show the progression of creative ideas to final product and are the epitome of our crusade to encourage everyone to track their learning, ideas, and inspirations. As we say in our program, geniuses keep journals. Whether nurturing an artistic or scientific or writing or other type of talent, geniuses keep a notebook of some sort to collect their ideas and discoveries in order to shape and build on them. We are all geniuses, we just need to get organized!
We hope to see you and hear about your learning journey at our next Learning Journeys program!
Written on: August 20th, 2009 in Reviews
I was going to try and wait until midnight to post this, but I was tired and am going on vacation tomorrow. The horror writer H.P Lovecraft was born today, Aug. 20, in 1890. He’s best known for his densely written tales of supernatural terror, originally published in pulp magazines like Weird Tales, featuring a bizarre cosmology of unimaginably alien elder gods patiently waiting millenia for our destruction, so terrifying that mere mortals are driven insane upon catching a glimpse of them. Lovecraft practically invented the tentacle as a horror motif, for goodness’ sake!
The Delaware Library Catalog has a number of collections of Lovecraft’s work, along with work inspired by his stories- “lovecraftian” being a sort of genre to itself in horror and speculative fiction.
You can read most of his short work online at the “MIskatonic University” website. Warning- this website has been a work in progress since the earliest days of the world-wide web in 1997, a sign of the depth of enthusiasm that the writers fans have for him. “the Color out of Space” is a great example of his non-Cthulhu mythos work. Another good online resource for his work is the hplovecraft.com website
Written on: August 20th, 2009 in Reviews
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Written on: August 19th, 2009 in News
School may be (mostly) out at the Wesley College and Delaware Technical and Community College libraries, but students are still reading and preparing for the upcoming semester!
Here are last week’s most popular titles at our academic library partners:
Written on: August 19th, 2009 in News, Reviews
Judging a book by its cover is not recommended (although everyone does it)- but this chart from sci-fi and fantasy publisher Orbit is funny and fascinating nevertheless:
I guess they don’t call the genre “swords and sorcery” for nothing. It looks like 2008 was not a good year for unicorn fans- maybe next year!
Written on: August 17th, 2009 in News
Best-selling children’s author M.T. Anderson is coming to Delaware on Monday, September 14, and he better be ready for some challenging geography questions from his elementary school-aged readers.
Anderson’s upcoming book, Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware, features a highly fictionalized version of the First State in which the intrepid hero and his pals discover a hidden mountain range in exotic and mysterious lands near Ogletown. (There’s also something about Delaware being “cut off from the civilized world for untold years.”)
“We’re expecting a lively Q & A session,” said Annie Norman, director of Delaware Division of Libraries, which is sponsoring Anderson’s appearance. “M.T. Anderson is one of the most popular writers for children and young adults. This will be a great opportunity for young readers to learn more about his work, hear how he develops his ideas, and find out why he picked Delaware as the setting for this book!”
“Off the Page: An Afternoon with M.T. Anderson” will be held at the Trabant University Center Theatre on Main Street in Newark, at 4:30 p.m. Anderson’s presentation will include remarks, a Q&A session, and book signing.
M.T. Anderson is the author of Whales on Stilts; The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, which won the National Book Award; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves, which is a 2009 Printz Honor Book; The Game of Sunken Places; Burger Wuss; Thirsty; and Feed, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adults. He lives in Vermont and Boston, Massachusetts.
Anderson’s appearance is sponsored by Delaware Division of Libraries, Delaware Center for the Book in collaboration with the Education Resource Center (a division of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education), the IRA Student Literacy Council of UD, the Reading Council of Northern Delaware, and the Delaware School Library Media Association.
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