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Written on: July 7th, 2009 by: 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 for easier reading), or download or embed it to your own website.
Written on: July 6th, 2009 by: 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, along with his lifelong mission of helping children in distress, Mitchell will always be remembered as a history-maker in our state.
Mitchell gave a lengthy 1997 interview about his life and accomplishments to the University of Delaware. He was also featured in the Delaware Humanities Forum documentary on the 1968 National Guard occupation of Wilmington, A Dream Deferred.
Written on: July 6th, 2009 by: 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 America’s postwar economic and foreign policy history:
You can also read interviews with McNamara at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library’s website, or watch some videos of interviews on YouTube
Written on: July 6th, 2009 by: 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.
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2007 DE |
2007 National average |
2007 National best |
|
| Library visits per capita | 37 | 36 | 30 | 26 | 22 | 21 | 5.64 | 4.91 | 7.63 |
| Reference transactions per capita | 45 | 47 | 47 | 45 | 42 | 44 | .66 | 1.00 | 1.72 |
| Circulation per 1,000 population | 29 | 29 | 30 | 28 | 11 | 11 | 9.97 | 7.42 | 15.89 |
| Total collection expenditures per capita | 34 | 28 | 25 | 25 | 29 | 27 | 4.17 | 4.59 | 9.70 |
| Print materials per capita | 46 | 43 | 41 | 39 | 36 | 37 | 2.45 | 2.78 | 5.48 |
| Audio materials per 1,000 population | 37 | 37 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 34 | 18.50 | 157.19 | 339.25 |
| Video materials per 1,000 population | 37 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 27 | 159.39 | 158.67 | 377.57 |
| Total paid FTE per 25,000 population | 50 | 51 | 42 | 39 | 40 | 42 | 9.60 | 12.38 | 21.11 |
| Paid FTE librarians per 25,000 population | 43 | 44 | 41 | 39 | 36 | 32 | 3.79 | 4.04 | 9.12 |
| Per capita total operating income | 37 | 38 | 32 | 27 | 24 | 31 | 32.48 | 37.66 | 74.68 |
| Per capita state operating income | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3.99 | 2.52 | 21.37 |
| Per capita local operating income | 39 | 38 | 35 | 33 | 33 | 35 | 25.11 | 31.68 | 72.46 |
| Public Internet terminals per 5,000 population | 51 | 47 | 49 | 47 | 48 | 47 | 2.82 | 3.55 | 7.20 |
On a related note, we are celebrating the fact that the Delaware Library Catalog recorded more then 2 million circulation transactions during the financial year that closed last week. It’s a considerable benchmark, one that we’re very proud of.
Written on: July 6th, 2009 by: in Reviews
The cover feature from this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review was for Methland by Nick Reding, an account of the impact of the methamphetamine epidemic on the small town of Oelwein, Iowa. The reviewer praises the book as an outstanding example of “shoe-leather reporting”- you can read an excerpt here. It could be an interesting accompaniment to the first season of Breaking Bad, which was recently released on DVD and is available through the Delaware Library Catalog. Frank Owen’s No Speed Limit, released in 2007 is another well-reviewed non-fiction account of the scourge, although Owen’s book is more scholarly than journalistic- but equally vivid.
Written on: July 2nd, 2009 by: 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 and a display of British deserters. You can find out more about the history of the Fourth of July at James Heintze’s 4th of July celebrations database. (more…)
Written on: July 1st, 2009 by: in Q & A's
A: If you think that the children are at risk you should contact the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. You can report child abuse or neglect by calling 1-800-292-9582. For more information please visit their website at http://kids.delaware.gov/contact.shtml
If the children are not at risk, but the house might have property maintenance violations, please contact the City of Dover, Department of Inspections and Planning at (302) 736-7010. You do not have to give your name when you make a complaint.
Written on: July 1st, 2009 by: in Q & A's
A: T
he Delaware Attorney General’s Office has a section of their website devoted to the “Check Enforcement Program.” You can download card and poster sized signs stating passing a bad check is a crime. The Attorney Generals Office also has guidelines for accepting checks, a returned checks procedure checklist, and a check complaint form.
http://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/crime/checkenforcement/checkenforcement.shtml
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Written on: June 30th, 2009 by: in News
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 periodicals and journals held both in print and electronically by Delaware libraries
will also simplified through the addition of an A-Z periodicals interface. You can view the A-Z interface here– although you will need a Delaware Library Card to view the content.
If you have a Delaware Library Catalog account, you can check out some of the new (and some of the old) databases at these links:
If you’re interested in using some of our subscription resources for homeschooling or supporting your child’s schoolwork, some of the databases that are available to younger patrons include:
Within the next few weeks, we will also be able to restore home access to Accessible Archives, a treasure trove of genealogical records and historical American newspapers- you can currently access this from any public library computer.
Written on: June 30th, 2009 by: in News
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 databases:
“provide translated articles about common medical conditions and procedures in an easy-to-understand manner. In addition to keyword searching, this suite of databases offers an interactive body map that assists the user in locating full text articles about health-related topics for all areas of the body.
All of the evidence-based content included in Multilingual Health Databases is written by experienced medical writers and independently reviewed by medically-credentialed experts. The articles in MHD are reviewed and updated on a regular basis to reflect the most recent information and research available.”
Consumer Health Complete will be available in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish from July 1st. Not, of course, as a substitute for professional medical services.
Click on the links to see the resources in each of the languages (and English). You’ll need your Delaware Library Catalog library card if you aren’t in a Delaware public library:
Consumer Health Complete- English
Consumer Health Information – Chinese, Traditional
Consumer Health Information – Russian
Consumer Health Information – Spanish
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