Love is in the Air at the Library

The Friends of the Dover Public Library are pleased to present a delightful program entitled, "Love is in the Air: Love Songs from the Sublime to the Ridiculous" on Tuesday, February 18th at 7pm in the library's Lecture Hall. The concert will feature Broadway songs of love, sung by Steven Dascoulias, Linette Miles, and Katie Gall, accompanied by pianist Kathy Fink.

Songs will include such standards as "Some Enchanted Evening" and "A Cockeyed Optimist", as well as more modern selections including "Taylor the Latte Boy" and "Winner Takes it All". These actor/singers have been audience favorites in the seacoast area for many years, presenting at various venues including the Rochester Opera House, Seacoast Repertory Theater, Hackmatack Playhouse and more. Kathy Fink, pianist, has been a renowned music teacher, director, and performer in the seacoast area for 40 years. In the spirit of Valentine's Day, please join us for this romantic and entertaining musical evening. 

Big Change Coming to NH Downloadable books

On March 2, NH Downloadable Books will no longer automatically check out  holds on eBooks and audiobooks to you. Please read this information from the NH State Library so you will not miss out on any of your holds.

Upcoming Change to How Patrons Receive Books on Hold

For the past few years, eBooks and audiobooks placed on hold have been automatically checked out when they became available -- provided the user had fewer than three items currently checked out. This is changing on March 2, 2020.

Items will no longer be automatically checked out to patons' digital accounts. Instead, the user will receive an email OR Libby app notification on their reading device (phone, tablet) about the available hold.

Users will have two (2) days to take action on that hold. The action can either be:

• Manually checking out the hold within two (2) days.
• Deliver it later -- Allowing the patron to assign a suspension period while maintaining their old on the waiting list.

If no action is taken by the patron, there is a one-time courtesy hold suspension of seven (7) days. If no action is taken the second time, the hold will be cancelled for that patron and the item will move to the next person waiting for the title. 

We will continue to share information as we learn more about the new feature from the vendor.

Do You Know Where Your DNA is?

Tuesday, February 11 at 7:00 PM

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DNA IS?
The genetic future is now.  It is very likely that some commercial, medical research or governmental entity has either your DNA sample or your genetic information.  And, you don’t know it and may not even know that they have collected and stored it.  Do You Know Where Your DNA Is?  takes you through the current state of forensic DNA technology, genetic genealogy, familial searching and wrongful convictions based on post-conviction DNA testing among the many and varied uses of genetic information.  So … come and find out why you need to be careful to whom you are related genetically.

Albert E. (Buzz) Scherr is a professor of law at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, New Hampshire and Chair of its International Criminal Law & Justice program.
As a lawyer, he has been litigating forensic DNA issues in state and federal courts for 25 years and continues to advocate for reforms in the use of forensic DNA evidence in the NH legislature and elsewhere.
As a scholar, Professor Scherr was the principal investigator on a two–year NIH grant to study genetics, police investigation and constitutional privacy. the basis for a Georgia Law Review article, “Genetic Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: Unregulated Surreptitious DNA Harvesting.”
Professor Scherr also created, co–designed & taught a national model, NIH–funded Summer Faculty Institute at Dartmouth College for nine years that educated undergraduate faculty from around the country in the ethical, legal and social issues of the Human Genome Project.

He has lectured to judges, attorneys, educators and others regionally and nationally on a variety of genetics, law and privacy issues and consults regularly with prosecutors and defense lawyers.
He is the author of the newest amendment to the NH Constitution which grants those in NH a constitutional right to information privacy and has worked closely with allies to move forward privacy legislation in the NH legislature.
Professor Scherr was a member of the ACLU’s national Board of Directors for seven years and Chair of its Patents & Civil Liberties policy committee.  He also was president of the ACLU-NH for five and a half years.

2020 Reading Challenge: About a Musician

Ever wonder what the life of a rock star is like? If you have a love for music or are curious what life is like on the road, then these books might be music to your ears.

Fiction 

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
An ambitious young rapper pours her frustrations into a song only to find herself at the center of a viral controversy that forces her to become the menace that her public reputation has portrayed her to be. 

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
Cesar and Nestor Castillo--two very different Cuban brothers--recall their heyday in 1950s New York, when they led an orchestra, were known as "the Mambo Kings," and appeared on the "I Love Lucy" show.

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
Sent to America at age nine with nothing but an old guitar, Frankie Presto achieves success on the mid-twentieth-century music scene before becoming overburdened by his ability to affect people's futures through his music.

Nonfiction

Just Kids by Patti Smith
Singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.

Chronicles by Bob Dylan
An autobiographical portrait of the acclaimed musical performer recounting personal and professional experiences.

Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll.

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
The guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trio Sleater-Kinney presents a candid and deeply personal assessment of life in the rock-and-roll industry that reveals her struggles with rock's double standards and her codevelopment of the comedy "Portlandia."

Life by Keith Richards
The lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones offers a no-holds-barred account of his life, from a youth obsessed with Chuck Berry to his formation of the Stones and their subsequent stardom, as well his problems with drugs, his relationships, his estrangement from Mick Jagger, bandmate Brian Jones' death and more.

Me, the Mob, and the Music by Tommy James
The singer of such hits as "Mony Mony" and "I Think We're Alone Now" tells the wild and entertaining true story of his career and his complex relationship with Morris Levy, the legendary "godfather" of the music business.







Want to participate in Dover Public Library's 2020 Reading Challenge? Download the form here!

Libby App Notifications are Not Working.

Important information from the NH State Library if you use the Libby app to download eBooks.

Due to a current (1.30.2020) glitch with app notifications in the Libby app, I recommend turning off app-based notifications and receiving email notifications. If you have previously turned on app notifications, please follow these instructions to turn off Libby app notifications and receive email notifications again.

Note that this only pertains to users who are actively using the Libby app to read, listen, or place holds.

On your phone or tablet settings and navigate to Notifications.

Locate the Libby app and turn off notifications.

Open the Libby app and tap on the small Libby “head” in the upper-right corner of the screen to access settings.

Tap on “Manage Notifications.”

Tap on “Receive Email Notifications.”

Enter your email address.

 

If you like Flavia, try Peregrine Twitten!

If you’re a fan of Alan Bradley’s “Flavia de Luce” mystery series, now up to 10 books, you should certainly check out the new “Constable Twitten” mysteries by Lynne Truss while you’re awaiting Flavia #11.

Also set in England during the same time post-war period as the Flavia books, the two “Twittens” are “A Shot in the Dark” and “The Man Who Got Away”. Definitely read them in order. Set in the 1950s seaside town of Brighton, the novels feature the workings of a particularly inept British constabulary whose detectives, except Twitten of course, are especially oblivious about in-your-face clues and scheming criminals right under their noses.

It’s the books’ language and wit that sets these mysteries apart, and makes me liken them to Bradley’s Flavia. Lynne Truss is the author of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” the fabulous grammar book that became a bestseller. (And if an author can make a book about syntax a chart-topper, just think what she can do with a plot-twisted mystery!)

The Constable Twitten books are droll and eccentric, with plenty of tongue-in-cheek ingenuity amidst the murder plot. The police station’s charlady (cleaning lady) Mrs. Groynes is among the best masterminds I’ve ever seen. Try a Twitten!