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Written on: April 28th, 2009 in News
Governor Markell gave his first speech to a joint session of the Delaware Legislature today. It was a wide-ranging speech, covering the current budget crisis, his proposals for education and health care, and the need to create more efficient state and local government. At the State Library, we certainly took notice of this particular section: […]
Written on: April 28th, 2009 in News
You wanted it! You got it!A number of patrons have asked for a simplified access to the item renewal screen, which formerly has been buried several clicks back in the online catalog. As of this morning, you can more quickly access the item renewal screen by clicking the new “renew items” link on the front […]
Written on: April 23rd, 2009 in News
Written on: April 20th, 2009 in Learning, News
Thompson-Gale is a purveyor of fine subscription databases to academic and public libraries- you may be most aware of them through their Testing and Education Reference Center (TERC) which is accessible through the Delaware Library Catalog and the New Castle County Library Catalog. In honor of National Library Week (and beyond, in fact until May […]
Written on: April 20th, 2009 in News, Reviews
The Library of Congress recently announced the reappointment of Kay Ryan as U.S. Poet Laureate. You canRead the full announcement here… Great news for Kay Ryan and for poetry in America- Ryan’s work is accessible, uncomplicated but still beautifully evocative.Collections of Ryan’s poetry available from the Delaware Library Catalog include Niagara River: Poems and Say […]
Written on: April 16th, 2009 in News
The wait is almost over! The South Coastal Library is re-opening Monday, April 20 at 10:00am. Be sure to check out the library and some books!
Written on: April 9th, 2009 in News
The most recent issues of the business magazine Inc. featured a list of the 30 “must read” books for entrepreneurs and business owners. For your first savvy business decision, check these books out from your local library- instead of buying them: Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki Against the Gods, by Peter Bernstein The Box, […]
Written on: April 3rd, 2009 in News
This slideshow, from the online bookmark reference and collection site miragebookmark.ch, features some of the most spectacular and beautiful libraries and reading rooms in the world. You’ll feel more well-informed just looking at the pictures.
Written on: April 2nd, 2009 in News
We’ve been seeing a lot of mentions about this service recently- you can have a local library location sent to your phone by text message, anywhere in the country. All you need to do is text the word library along with the local ZIP code to 41411, and you will get a text in response […]
Written on: April 1st, 2009 in News
The preceding visualization was for everything entered as a search term in the Delaware Library Catalog- this one specifies subject term searches only.