Monday, November 30, 2009
Last Chance to Check Out Children's Books
The Children's Room is preparing to close for their new carpeting. There are still some Children's materials available for check out today. Bluebeary looks very sad that he won't be having any visitors tomorrow but the Children's librarians are hoping they will be able to open again Thursday afternoon. Please call before you come visit if you are planning on coming in Thursday!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving
Monday, November 23, 2009
Multi-tasking
Friday, November 20, 2009
National Book Award Winners Announced!
Poetry:
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
What's Happening?
The Children's Room will be closed for a couple of days during the week of November 30th while the movers and carpet installers are here.
Remember, you can help us out by borrowing 10 books (or more) before the move (the less we have to pack, the better!).
Thursday, November 19, 2009
I am NOT making this up!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Strange Goings On in the Library
Don't Miss Our Free Saturday Matinee!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Fiction Twice-Removed
Amazon's Hot Seller---the Kindle
The Carpeting Project Has Commenced
Friday, November 13, 2009
We Need You! Please borrow 10 children's books!
Library staff are asking for approximately 2,000 cardholders to visit the Children’s Room and checkout ten (or more if you wish!) books before Thanksgiving. If this can happen, we won’t have to pack, box and store all the books! In return, the books checked out will not be due for one month and there will be no fines on any Children’s Room items becoming overdue in December.
The Dover Public Library has over 26,000 cardholders; so if just 10% of our borrowers can help us out by taking 10 books home, we’ll have no books to pack, no boxes to lift, and can provide you with an ample supply of children’s books for your family to read at leisure. Please call the Children’s Room, 516-6052, for more information, and thanks for your help!
Things Librarians Think Are Cool
We have no affiliation with the company that makes these shelves, and this is not an endorsement of the product, we just thought it was a neat idea and you might enjoy seeing it.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Saturday Matinee
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Where Have All the Books gone?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Acupuncture Lecture at the Library
Alice Meattey is an acupuncturist, nationally certified and licensed in both New Hampshire and Maine. She is a graduate of The City College of New York and a 1991 graduate of the New England School of Acupuncture in Newton, Massachusetts. Alice was the chairperson of a group that worked to license acupuncturists in New Hampshire, and she has been a member of the New Hampshire Board of Acupuncture Licensing since 1997. She lives in Dover with her long-haired dachshund, Rudy.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Attention Dog-Lovers
Fans of James Herriot may enjoy Bruce Coston's Ask the Animals. The book covers his years at veterinary school and cases from his practices in Pennsylvania and Virginia. The story of dogs, cats, and their owners are amusing and touching.
Dogtown, a no kill shelter in Utah famous enough to have its own popular television show on the National Geographic channel, now also has a book written about it. Dogtown: tales of rescue, rehabilitation and redemption by Stefan Bechtel highlights some of the desperate, touching cases that have come through their doors. Victims of pet hoarders, war, Katrina, and cruelty all find a loving home at Dogtown. Knightly, the grieving Weimaraner who lost his home and his family when his elderly owners couldn't care for him anymore is a story that you won't soon forget.
I enjoyed all three books, but especially Big Little Life. Trixie is a memorable character, and the depth of the love she and Dean shared is evident in every word. He also captures the charming goofiness that highlights life in any household that has a Golden Retriever in it. I highly recommend listening to this on CD, Dean Koontz narrates which adds an extra dimension.
HELP US PACK!
Friday, November 06, 2009
Rob Pattinson on a Stick
The next day I asked our Teen Librarian about it and she explained one of the teen magazines had published a Rob Pattinson poster and suggested using it for a Halloween mask. She craftily put Rob on a stick and placed him in a book in the Teen Loft. Since then he has mysteriously been moving all around the Teen Loft. She never knows where she will find him next.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Best Books of 2009
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Looking for Some Good Historical Fiction?
Grace's easy life is threatened by the hulking, violent Mr. Blunt, from whom she had stolen a large ruby necklace at the beginning of her career. Will she be betrayed or saved by her vast circle of friends and acquaintances amongst the prostitutes, thieves, fences, and drunkards that inhabit the squalor of London in 1888. The many twists and turns through atmospheric 19th century England make it a very interesting journey to find the answer.
Monday, November 02, 2009
WE'RE MOVING....
...furniture, books, computers!
The library is getting new carpeting beginning mid-November and we need you to help us clear out.
This project may possibly last through mid-December and will inevitably cause some interruptions to our services and some inconvenience to you when some sections of the library are closed. Therefore we will be extending our borrowing periods for various materials in the library as they become inaccessible: we want you to hold on to them as long as possible so we don't have to pack and move them. So that you won't incur fines during the disruptions we will also charge no fines for items from the adult collections from November 16 -28, and no fines for items from the children's section for the month of December. While the Children's Room is being carpeted it will be closed for a few days.