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Written on: June 16th, 2009 in News
June 16th will always be Bloomsday- the day on which Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses ate, drank and adventured around Dublin. Libraries and literature lovers around the world celebrate Bloomsday by recreating or reading about events from Bloom’s hyperactive day. If you can’t make it to Dublin to reenact Bloom’s peregrinations in […]
Written on: June 16th, 2009 in News
This striking, WPA-inspired image was featured in the March 1933 issue of Publishers Weekly, at the height of the Great Depression. The NPR blog recently published this story about the issue, showing a remarkable resemblance in reader preferences, library use, and the publishing industry between then and today. Escapist romances, gripping adventure tales, and broad […]
Written on: June 12th, 2009 in News
I’m a fan of nifty news-tracking tools, especially ones that have a strong visual component. Snapstream.com is a service that aggregates all the transcripts of network TV shows and allows users to search for specific keywords or phrases, and graphs the results. The graph above shows how often the word “libraries” was mentioned on network […]
Written on: June 12th, 2009 in News
Look out for this Public Service Announcement on local TV as Summer Library Reading Program (SLRP) events and activities take over Delaware’s public libraries for the summer! SLRP is more than just a tremendously fun summer program for kids- it also provides a vital link to continuing literacy development through the school break and avoiding […]
Written on: June 11th, 2009 in News
Recipe for a best-seller: A young vampire decides to leave the seminary in order to fight in a Delaware regiment during the Civil War. He’s injured, then falls in love with his nurse. And she’s telepathic! Get me that James Patterson on the phone!
Written on: June 10th, 2009 in News
The Delaware Division of Libraries tweets some of the interesting virtual reference questions it receives (they get far too many to post them all!).http://twitter.com/askalibrarian Other Delaware Libraries tweet news and events. Check them out!http://twitter.com/MiltonLibrary http://twitter.com/Selbyville_Lib http://twitter.com/gtowndelibrary
Written on: June 9th, 2009 in News, Reviews
We’ve blogged several times (here and here, for instance) about how Delaware Library patrons can write their own reviews and have their reviews display in the online catalog. We recently implemented a categorization feature in Library Thing reviews- you can now check a box if you want your review to be featured in a specific […]
Written on: June 8th, 2009 in News, Reviews
Delaware’s Lieutenant Governor blogged about summer reading today. You can read the original posting here. Matt’s post is a “list for grown-ups”, featuring books that he has read recently and enjoyed: So Brave Young and Handsome, andPeace Like a River, Leif EngerThrillers by George PelecanosParting the Waters, Taylor BranchThe Road, by Cormac McCarthy As he […]
Written on: June 8th, 2009 in News, Reviews
This week’s installment of one of our regular features: Click on the links below to get lists of new items available from the DLC in various formats: All New ItemsNew Audio BooksNew BooksNew DVDs
Written on: June 2nd, 2009 in News
Books? Check. DVDs? Check. Newspapers? Check. Computer games? Check. Everyone expects that libraries will of course collect all manner of physical media- it’s how we began and still at the core of the practical expression of the library mission. Up until the last decade or so, almost the entirety of human-created and human-collected information was […]