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Written on: June 16th, 2010 in Blog Posts
I’ve posted before about my friend Lauren, globetrotter and voracious reader. For the past several weeks, she’s been on location in a very remote and beautiful recovery site in the Vietnamese highlands- battling aerial leeches, exploring temples and VC tunnels, and always reading, reading, reading. No internet or WiFi in this part of the jungle, […]
Written on: June 16th, 2010 in Blog Posts
This short video parody of the iPad commercials currently being shown on TV deftly shows that it’s really public libraries that provide access to the world’s information, not the popular device of the moment:
Written on: June 15th, 2010 in Blog Posts
On June 15th, the Attorney General’s Office will be marking Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Delaware as it continues to make efforts to make awareness and establish policy to protect our elders. The 2010 National Elder Mistreatment Study (click here to read the full study with your library ID and PIN) shows the shocking prevalence […]
Written on: June 14th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Not a huge array of titles to pick from this week- the publishing industry must be starting its summer slump (historically, the New York industry doesn’t go on vacation until August, but hey, it’s been a tough winter) and a lot of the more niche-y titles won’t necessarily immediately get picked up by Delaware libraries, […]
Written on: June 9th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Click on the links below to get lists of new items available from the Delaware Library Catalog in various formats: All New Items New Audio Books New Books New DVDs You can sign up to receive a weekly reminder of new items via email- visit our catalog homepage and go to the “connect with us” […]
Written on: June 8th, 2010 in Blog Posts
The U.S. Army War College recently published this selected bibliography of books and journal articles published within the past 5 years, dealing with the subject of terrorism. The document was made available through the Homeland Security Digital Library, an incredible resource operated by several government and Department of Defense institutions- the HSDL has been a […]
Written on: June 8th, 2010 in Blog Posts
EBSCO’s Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945- the content is licensed from the former publisher of the very popular Chilton’s repair guides, which are a mainstay of most public library reference collections in […]
Written on: June 5th, 2010 in Blog Posts
The publisher Harper Collins made this presentation at the recent Book Expo America, promoting upcoming titles for this fall and winter seasons. These are sure to be books that you are going to hear a lot about over the next few months! I haven’t seen any of these personally as yet, but fingers crossed I […]
Written on: June 2nd, 2010 in Blog Posts
In this blog post from last year, I summarized some findings from a Book Industry Study Group report about book buying habits of the general public, which discussed online impulse buying of popular titles as a significant driver of commerce- with my note that several tools exist to expedite your ability as a consumer to […]
Written on: May 31st, 2010 in Blog Posts
The week before the observance of Memorial Day John Finn, the last living survivor of the 15 men awarded Congressional Medals of Honor for their actions at Pearl Harbor, died at the age of 100. Admiral Chester Nimitz cited Finn for “magnificent courage in the face of almost certain death.” The New York Times published […]
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