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Background on the Uighur demonstrations

Written on: July 8th, 2009 in News

Recently overshadowing the tension over the disputed election in Iran is an outburst of ethnic violence in the far-Western Chinese province of Xianjiang, between the native Uighur population and the transplanted Chinese majority Han residents of the capital city of Urumchi. This region’s history as a waystation on the fabled silk route means that there […]


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July New Titles

Written on: July 7th, 2009 in News

This is the first time on our new blog for our weekly new item announcements! 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


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Get Free for free

Written on: July 7th, 2009 in News

FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson In a publishing experiment, Chris Anderson (author of the influential The Long Tail) has made his newest title FREE available in the first of what is to be several digital forms- you can read the entire book for FREE on this blog (switch to slide mode or full screen […]


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Littleton Mitchell

Written on: July 6th, 2009 in News

In a tragic accident today, Delaware’s citizens lost an outstanding contributor to American’s civil rights when Littleton Mitchell died in an automobile collision near his house in Delaware City. From his service as a Tuskegee Airman to his lengthy involvement in civil rights activism in Delaware, including his service as chairman of the Delaware NAACP, […]


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Robert McNamara

Written on: July 6th, 2009 in News

Died today at the age of 93. you can read his obituary in today’s New York Times. There’s an official biography of his tenure as Secretary of Defense at the Department of Defense website. The Delaware Library Catalog has a number of items available for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of McNamara’s contributions to […]


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How’re we doing (nationally)?

Written on: July 6th, 2009 in News

We recently received these rankings from the National Center for Education Statistics’ report, Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 2007, June 2009 The figures in the columns 2002-2007 are Delaware’s ranking of all the U.S. states for the particular categories. Delaware Public Libraries- National Rankings 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2007 DE […]


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Happy 4th of July

Written on: July 2nd, 2009 in News

Most of Delaware’s public libraries will be closed on Friday and Saturday in honor of the 4th of July, although patrons can of course continue to use the online catalog and databases through the weekend. Americans have been celebrating the 4th of July since 1777, when Philadelphia held the first official commemoration with parades, fireworks […]


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New Databases

Written on: June 30th, 2009 in NewsTech

On July 1, Delaware Library Catalog and New Castle County Library users will be seeing some revisions to the line-up of databases available through their libraries. We are adding substantial additions to our current lineup of products from EBSCO, and replacing some other products with comparable new databases from EBSCO. Access to online versions of […]


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New Multilingual Health Databases

Written on: June 30th, 2009 in NewsTech

Stay tuned for the next announcement about the full lineup of revisions and additions to the State of Delaware’s subscription electronic resources for libraries (aka databases), but as a teaser, we are very happy to announce the availability of the EBSCO health database Consumer Health Complete in three language interfaces. According to the creator, these […]


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121 and 40

Written on: June 28th, 2009 in NewsReviews

During this last week, the Delaware legislature voted to amend State anti-discrimination laws to include gay and lesbian Delawareans for the first time. Shortly after the legislation was passed, Delaware Lt. Gov. Matt Denn published a touching blog post about the history of the decade-long attempt to pass this legislation. June 28th also marks the […]


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