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Written on: September 1st, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
Delaware icon and artist Jack Lewis was recently awarded the prestigious Order of the First State by Delaware Governor Jack Markell. In a statement, the Governor noted the importance of the artist’s work to Delaware’s artistic and cultural life:
“It was my great pleasure to be able to bestow this distinction upon such a deserving person, who spent so many years in Delaware sharing his wonderful gifts with his fellow Delawareans and encouraging them to appreciate the beauty of the world around them,” said Governor Jack Markell.
A notable work by Lewis can also be seen at the Bridgeville Library. We wrote about the work and the artist last year in a story when the library opened at its new site- a project which included cutting away the Lewis mural from the wall at its old site and transporting and installing it in its new home. Here’s a repost of the article from last year:
Bridgeville’s library is closed until early August to move to its beautiful new location- where the library will enjoy greatly enlarged and modernized facilities thanks to the outstanding efforts of its board, friends, and leadership, and the support of the county and state. The spectacular new library is scheduled to reopen in early-mid August, and during the closure, the Sussex County Bookmobile will continue to service the old site on Thursdays and Fridays between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. until August 10th.
Division of Libraries staff recently visited the new library just in time to see the installation of the incredible Jack Lewis mural that was such an outstanding feature of the old library. Jack Lewis, now 97 years old, is a Baltimore-born artist who started painting murals during the New Deal while he served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Delaware- he was assigned to document the mosquito control work of the CCC in the salt marshes around Lewes, Magnolia, and Leipsic.
After serving in the Pacific during WWII, Lewis made his home in Bridgeville and became a renowned teacher and beloved figure in the community, painting many murals in and about the town, including the homage to children’s books for the old library.
You can read an article about the artist’s career here, and a longer Washington Post article here with your Delaware Library Catalog card number and PIN.
Lewis is represented by Dover’s Raubacher Gallery, which has an online exhibit of available work by the artist – click here to view the gallery.
The Delaware Library Catalog has a number of books and videos by and about Jack Lewis, including the Delaware Humanities Forum documentary “If you Lived Here You Would Be Home By Now”
Written on: August 31st, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
Until I read this story quite recently I had no idea that our very own Dover Public Library may be the final resting place of Patty Cannon- the notorious kidnapper and serial killer, who died in a Georgetown prison in 1829 after a murderous career of kidnapping formerly enslaved people and selling them in nearby slave states.
You can read more about Cannon’s deeds in her biography The Monster’s Handsome Face, or in a number of other books on the subject.
Written on: August 24th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
Title and author recommendations are an increasingly important part of commercial media retailers, and in the new Delaware Library Catalog, we’re very happy to be able to introduce simplified access to recommendations, book club and classroom resources from NoveList Select.
NoveList Select includes series listings, author and title recommendations, and a variety of classroom and book group resources, along with critical essays and other material.
NoveList has always provided reliable, high-quality reader advisory resources produced by professional writers and librarians, rather than by automated algorithms like most commercial sites and other services. We hope you’ll find it useful.
Written on: August 23rd, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
Written on: August 18th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
Delaware flags fly at half-mast this week in honor of former Delaware Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt. You can read an online obituary in the Wall Street Journal
A 1998 biography of Governor Tribbitt by Delaware historian Roger Martin is available from your library. Click here to view availability or place a hold.
The Delaware Public Archives also holds a number of collections related to the Tribbitt administration.
Written on: August 17th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
The new version of the Delaware Library Online Catalog will go live this weekend and will introduce a number of exciting and useful new features.
One drawback of our old online catalog was a user’s inability to keep permanent lists in their online account. It was possible to make a list during the particular session, but these were not recorded in the user’s account. The new online catalog finally allows users to make multiple lists- which are kept privately in the user’s login. Here’s a 3-minute tutorial about how to set up and maintain permanent lists in the new online catalog:
A number of uses spring to mind almost immediately: creating, and sharing suggestion lists for book groups (especially since the new online catalog will include expanded reader advisory content); recording the books that you check out from the library; creating class reading lists- whether you’re a teacher or a student- and for your learning journey, lists of favorite books that inspire you! What will YOU use your lists for?
Written on: August 16th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
No, this is not a Lost reference. An article today in Wired online reminds us that August 16th would be the birthday of Hugo Gernsback, the publisher who invented the term science fiction and made it part of the literary landscape through his pulp magazines Amazing Stories and Wonder Stories.
This year’s awards will be announced on September 5th. Nominees include some of the very best in the genre this year:
You can read the full list of nominees at the Hugo Awards website.
Written on: August 15th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
This week’s reviews in the Sunday Review of Books include a number of recent additions to the collections in Delaware’s libraries:
Written on: August 11th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
Click on the links below to get lists of new items available from the Delaware Library Catalog in various formats:
We also just added a fine selection of e-audiobooks, and converted our existing ebook collection to be truly downloadable. Click on the links for new titles in these collections:
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” section in the lower left of the page and click on “other new item feeds”- enter your email address, look for a verification email, and you’ll receive a reminder when new item links are posted.
Written on: August 10th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts
This morning’s New York Times included the obituary of Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic who died this week at the age of 62 after a long struggle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Judt wrote according to his own maxim: “A well-organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves” and his works were often provocative and often controversial.
You can explore his writings in a recent collection of his essays, Reappraisals: reflections on the fogotten 20th Century, or in his massively important history of Europe since 1945, Postwar. His most recent work Ill Fares the Land will be available from the Delaware Library Catalog in September.
Click here for other articles by Judt from Delaware library subscription magazines and databases.
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