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Written on: June 26th, 2009 in News
The circulation of library items from the Kent and Sussex County continues to rise, with June’s final figures not yet in, suggesting an all-time high for the year as the message continues to be heard that libraries are a tremendous economic and leisure resource when times are hard: Beach community public library circulation is growing […]
Written on: June 23rd, 2009 in News
Last year, the fight to save the Philadelphia libraries was the big news in libraries. As befits that fair city, the campaign was a bare-knuckle street fight, with daily rallies, political maneuvering, and direct action. On Friday, Governor Strickland of Ohio announced a budget that included the elimination of as much as $200 million of […]
Written on: June 23rd, 2009 in News
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 23rd, 2009 in News
A blog that is mostly about books can hardly let the birthday of the typewriter go unremarked!“Christopher Latham Sholes’ machine was not the first typewriter. It wasn’t even the first typewriter to receive a patent. But it was the first typewriter to have actual practical value for the individual, so it became the first machine […]
Written on: June 22nd, 2009 in News, Reviews
This week’s New Yorker magazine includes a lengthy profile of the prolific author Nora Roberts. You can see current issues of the New Yorker, along with hundreds of other popular magazines (including Consumer Reports) online through EBSCO’s MasterFile- log in to the Delaware Library Catalog with your library card and PIN, then select “Research Databases/EBSCO” […]
Written on: June 19th, 2009 in News
In a conversation last week, my coworker Patty reminded me that at least a couple of times a year, everyone should switch over to Route 9 for their commute between New Castle County and Dover. It takes a while longer, and is about 15 miles longer, but it’s still a beautiful change of scenery- and […]
Written on: June 16th, 2009 in News, Reviews
Much of the world is transfixed at this moment by the upheavals following the recent Iranian election, by the apparent paradox of a popular demand for democracy, with women as some of the strongest voices heard, within a fundamentalist, autocratic system. The Iranian regime is justifiably demonized by most Western governments, but the history of […]
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 […]
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