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What You’re Searching for- July Edition

Written on: August 5th, 2009 in News

Vampires and Michael Jackson remain topics of great interest. Click on the image to see the full-size version on the Wordle.net site.


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Benchmark for the Delaware Library Catalog

Written on: August 4th, 2009 in News

I think that we should give this one to ourselves anyway, but if not for the closure of Bridgeville for part of the month, July circulation for the DLC would have exceeded 200,000 transactions- it was actually 199,343 including renewals etc., which is a continuing upward trend for the year as would be expected during […]


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Return with honor

Written on: August 4th, 2009 in News

Earlier this week, the remains of Navy Caption Michael Scott Speicher were recovered in Iraq and returned to the United States, Speicher was the first casualty of the 1991 Gulf War, a Navy pilot who was shot down on a combat mission and whose remains were concealed by the Iraqi desert until locals informed U.S. […]


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What Delaware is Reading

Written on: August 3rd, 2009 in News

This is a list of last week’s top 5 most checked out titles from the Delaware Library Catalog. Naruto edges Patterson FTW!! Naruto. Vol. 15, Naruto’s Ninja Handbook The 8th confession First family The associate Swimsuit : a novel


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New Month, New Items

Written on: August 3rd, 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 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” […]


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Happy Birthday J.K. Rowling!

Written on: July 31st, 2009 in News

Daniel Radcliffe singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to J.K. Rowling This recent story has a lot of interesting facts about Rowling and the people and places that inspired Harry Potter.


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Library Patrons in the News

Written on: July 30th, 2009 in News

Here are two stories from current news that caught our eye. A Pennsylvania libraries rather (*ahem) unusual response to an enthusiastic young patron was featured in the new “Nailed ’em!” anti-crime feature on Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Report. And a happier story from Scotland about a record-breaking patron at the Stranraer Public Library. Louise Brown has […]


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Meet me at the Fair!

Written on: July 29th, 2009 in News

The Delaware State Fair, that is! The Delaware State Fair has been packing in the crowds for 90 years, and in these times of household economies and “staycations”, a day at the fair makes as much sense now as did in 1920- you can see some great photographs from the Hagley Library of the early […]


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New eBooks in the Delaware Library Catalog

Written on: July 22nd, 2009 in News

The catalog recently received a number of eBooks- or more specifically eEncyclopedias (harder to pronounce, but sounds exciting!) Library users can access them through the catalog or through the following links: Humanities and Social Sciences Encyclopedias Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion Encyclopedia of Religion Reference Guide to World Literature Encyclopedia of World Biography, with Vol […]


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Online News Faces Changes

Written on: July 22nd, 2009 in News

I read this article last week, and began to wonder how it would change how people get their news. In summary, the suggestion by the Financial Times editor was that newspapers are not going to either want to or be able to continue to give away the news for free. A controversial statement, to be […]


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