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Written on: September 25th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Here’s a first draft of a user guide to the new online catalog. It features instructions on how to search, use the enhanced features of the catalog, and view your checkouts and holds through the account management features:
Written on: September 20th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Over the next few months, the Delaware Humanities Forum will be presenting a book discussion series reflecting the history of labor and industry in Delaware. Events take place at Dover’s Wesley College Sept. 30, Oct. 20 and Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. Set around the theme “hard at work”, the events will include scholarly discussion, […]
Written on: September 9th, 2010 in Blog Posts
As we’ve welcomed New Castle County library patrons to the Delaware Library Catalog over the past week, we’ve been hearing from a lot of them by email, blog comment, and other sources, expressing various concerns and questions. The new online catalog is a very dramatic departure for our Northern cousins (it’s also new to Kent […]
Written on: September 4th, 2010 in Blog Posts
As part of the move to the new online library catalog, it’s also been possible to simplify users’ access to the subscription databases and research tools offered to all Delaware public library users. Your public library has long been about more than books, music and movies- you can access thousands of online magazines, scientific journals, […]
Written on: September 3rd, 2010 in Blog Posts
The Delaware Division of Libraries recently purchased a number of downloadable ebooks for small business owners and entrepreneurs. With the recent addition of New Castle County libraries to the catalog, these items are now available statewide! Here’s the full list of books in the collection. Click on the ebook icon (at the head of this […]
Written on: September 1st, 2010 in Blog Posts
Delaware icon and artist Jack Lewis was recently awarded the prestigious Order of the First State by Delaware Governor Jack Markell. In a statement, the Governor noted the importance of the artist’s work to Delaware’s artistic and cultural life: “It was my great pleasure to be able to bestow this distinction upon such a deserving […]
Written on: August 31st, 2010 in Blog Posts
Until I read this story quite recently I had no idea that our very own Dover Public Library may be the final resting place of Patty Cannon- the notorious kidnapper and serial killer, who died in a Georgetown prison in 1829 after a murderous career of kidnapping formerly enslaved people and selling them in nearby […]
Written on: August 24th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Title and author recommendations are an increasingly important part of commercial media retailers, and in the new Delaware Library Catalog, we’re very happy to be able to introduce simplified access to recommendations, book club and classroom resources from NoveList Select. NoveList Select includes series listings, author and title recommendations, and a variety of classroom and […]
Written on: August 23rd, 2010 in Blog Posts
Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell is a searing and unflinching look at the author’s friendship with the author Caroline Knapp, and Caldwell’s account of Knapp’s tragic early death from lung cancer. You Lost Me There by Rosencrans Baldwin is a novel about the unreliability of memory, in which a scientist re-examines […]
Written on: August 18th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Delaware flags fly at half-mast this week in honor of former Delaware Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt. You can read an online obituary in the Wall Street Journal A 1998 biography of Governor Tribbitt by Delaware historian Roger Martin is available from your library. Click here to view availability or place a hold. The Delaware Public […]
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