Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Job Opening @ Dover Public Library




WANTED: LIBRARY ASSISTANT
for Circulation Desks on Sunday afternoons

Hours to include 4.5 hours on most Sunday afternoons from September through May, plus occasional, infrequent subbing at circulation desks during weekdays year-round.

We are seeking to hire a person with customer service background and familiarity with basic computer technology. Library work experience is desired, but the successful candidate must at least have a strong history of using public or academic libraries as a customer and a deep-seated love of reading.

Duties include checking library materials in and out, registering new borrowers, providing readers’ advisory service and guidance in locating library materials, assisting patrons in the use of computers, printers, the Internet and digital media, and acting as a Passport Acceptance Agent. 

Hourly rate is $13.08
Position starts mid-January 2017
Application deadline is Tuesday, January 5, 2017

City of Dover job applications and the full job vacancy announcement are available at:

Applications, job descriptions, and vacancy announcements are also available at the front entrance of City Hall. Completed applications may be dropped off at the City Manager’s office, emailed to jobs@dover.nh.gov or mailed to:

EMPLOYMENT
City Manager’s Office
288 Central Avenue
Dover, NH 03820

Happy Holidays to All!

The Library will be closed Saturday, Sunday,and Monday 12/24--12/26 for the Christmas holiday. 

Don't worry about running low on library materials, you can download books, audiobooks and magazines from NH Downloadable Books or movies, audiobooks, books, and music from Hoopla while we are closed.

Monday, December 19, 2016

2016 Librarians’ Choice Is Now Available

We are proud to present the 2016 Librarians’ Choice; our favorite books of the year. We hope you enjoy them!


Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, vol. 1: The Crucible by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
A Taste for Nightshade
by Martine Bailey
The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Regan Barnhill
How To Set A Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell
The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Stargazer’s Sister by Carrie Brown
Tumbledown Manor by Helen Brown
Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
The Course of Love by Alain De Botton
American Housewife by Helen Ellis
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Paladin’s Odyssey by Bruce Fottler
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Helig
Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
The Fireman by Joe Hill
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg
The Language of Sisters by Cathy Lamb
The Children's Home by Charles Lambert
The Children by Ann Leary
Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre
Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! vol. 1 by Kate Leth
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
The Assistants by Camille Perri
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
Saga Vol. 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
Flight Patterns by Karen White
Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon

Non-Fiction

The Holistic Home by Laura Benko
National Geographic  Rarely Seen by Susan Hitchcock
They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Hold Still by Sally Mann
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
Hamilton: the revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
 


 

Friday, December 16, 2016

Get Free Books, Music and Movies Without Getting Cold!

It's shaping up to be a brutal New England winter. I didn't want to go outside today, and I don't want to go out tomorrow.  If you feel the same way, I have a suggestion as to how you can keep entertained when your library books, music and movies run out.
Sign up for a free account at Hoopla with your Dover Public Library card. 
Hoopla offers over 280,000 music albums, 145,000 eBooks, 37,000 audiobooks, and 12,000 movies and TV shows that you can stream or download instantly!
A free hoopla app is available for many Android, iOS and Kindle devices. Use the app to watch, listen to or read any hoopla titles.

You can also play titles on your computer. To play titles using Internet Explorer or Safari, you'll need to install the free Widevine plugin on your web browser.
You can watch hoopla movies and TV shows on your TV with the hoopla iOS or Android app and Apple TV or Chromecast devices. Or you can connect your device to your television using an HDMI adapter. 

You may borrow 8 items per month.
Most movie and TV content is available for 3 days (a very small number of movie titles are available for 2 days).
Music albums are available for 7 days,
Audiobooks are available for 21 days.


eBooks are available for 21 days.

Borrowed titles will be automatically returned when lending period is over.

Friday, December 09, 2016

December is a Busy Month @ Your Library

There are quite a few fun things going on at the Library this weekend!

 




Thursday, December 01, 2016

Looking for unique Dover gifts?


Start your Christmas shopping at the Library. We offer an assortment of gifts unique to Dover.



Dover Public Library Bookbag. The latest design of our popular bookbags has a zippered pocket inside, handy for keys and library cards, as well as a pocket on the front of the bag. $15.00

Birds Eye View of Dover 1888, a poster sized map from the Friends of the Library.$5.00

Library Notepaper  $7.00

The Port of Dover: Two Centuries of Shipping on the Cochecho by Robert Whitehouse and Cathleen Beaudoin. $25.00

Factory on Fire! Cocheco Mill Blaze of 1907 Revealed DVD. $20.00

The Great Blaze: A Look Back at Dover's Deadly Mill Fire DVD. 12.95

Tri-Cities Memories
photo book by Foster's Daily Democrat $39.50



Dover Jigsaw Puzzle $20.00

Come on in and see what else we have to offer!