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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 […]
Written on: August 17th, 2010 in Blog Posts
The new version of the Delaware Library Online Catalog will go live this weekend and will introduce a number of exciting and useful new features. One drawback of our old online catalog was a user’s inability to keep permanent lists in their online account. It was possible to make a list during the particular session, […]
Written on: August 16th, 2010 in Blog Posts
No, this is not a Lost reference. An article today in Wired online reminds us that August 16th would be the birthday of Hugo Gernsback, the publisher who invented the term science fiction and made it part of the literary landscape through his pulp magazines Amazing Stories and Wonder Stories. This year’s awards will be […]
Written on: August 15th, 2010 in Blog Posts
This week’s reviews in the Sunday Review of Books include a number of recent additions to the collections in Delaware’s libraries: Three Stations, by Martin Cruz Smith is the newest Arkady Renko mystery, and will be available soon. Per Patterson’s I Curse the River of Time The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Petegree Everything, […]
Written on: August 11th, 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 We also just added a fine selection of e-audiobooks, and converted our existing ebook collection to be truly downloadable. Click on the links for new […]
Written on: August 10th, 2010 in Blog Posts
This morning’s New York Times included the obituary of Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic who died this week at the age of 62 after a long struggle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Judt wrote according to his own maxim: “A well-organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, […]
Written on: August 9th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Featured reviews from this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review include: Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Life in the Void, by Mary Roach, whose “unflinching eye for repellent details” has made her a well-known and lively populizer of science. Here, Roach takes on space travel and the quest to develop the technology to […]
Written on: August 6th, 2010 in Blog Posts
You may have used the NoveList readers’ advisory website in the past to help you select titles and authors of interest, find out more about your favorite writers, develop a presentation for a reading group or a class. If you haven’t- it’s well worth exploring. Recently, the NoveList interface was been substantially revised and update. […]
Written on: August 4th, 2010 in Blog Posts
We’re very happy to announce a new service from the Delaware Library Catalog and NetLibrary, our favorite E-Audiobooks and Ebook provider. While many patrons enjoy our downloadable digital audio books, we’ve carried a smaller line of ebooks for some time. Up until today, these titles have only been available for online viewing. In response to […]
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