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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: Vanilla : the cultural history of the world’s most popular flavor and fragrance A history of […]
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 […]
Written on: August 13th, 2009 in News, Reviews
You can admit it, it’s OK— it used to be so much easier to buy from Amazon or Barnes and Noble than to go to the library to pick up that book you’d heard about or seen a great review for. A lot of people are thinking twice about that now! It’s been the case […]
Written on: August 11th, 2009 in News
In Lewes, it looks like a little High School assigned reading catch-up is taking place! The giver, by Lois Lowry To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee Heat lightning, by John Sandford Look again, by Lisa Scottoline The whole truth, by David Baldacci Further on down the coast, however, Bethany Beach and area residents have […]
Written on: August 11th, 2009 in News
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
Written on: August 10th, 2009 in News
Today’s Sunday New York Times Book Review led with an article about a couple of books related to this year’s 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, including The Road to Woodstock, by Michael Lang, one the organizers of the event. You can read lengthy excerpts here at the publisher’s website. There’s a wealth of other […]
Written on: August 8th, 2009 in News
Community Colleges are “no longer America’s best-kept secret”, according to Delaware’s own Jill Biden in this essay at Forbes.com. Dr. Biden taught for 16 years in our own Delaware Technical and Community College, and is well qualified to talk about the tremendous advantages these institutions have in their flexibility, ability to accommodate the needs of […]
Written on: August 7th, 2009 in News
Some number-crunching for the weekend- FY2009 ran from July 2008 to June 2009, and we saw good increases in key indicators for the us of the Kent and Sussex County public libraries as well as the Delaware Techs and other academic members of the Delaware Library Catalog consortium: FY 2009 Circulation FY 2008 FY 2009 […]
Written on: August 7th, 2009 in News
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