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Shelburne Library news We wish you all a very happy, healthy and joyous New Year as we launch 2014 at our library with lots of exciting books and new programs – while at the same time still providing some of our great regular programs and events. We certainly heralded in our first open day with blizzard-like conditions but we were open! By afternoon we had lots and lots of folks dropping in and signing out lots of print books as well as a few patrons with their KOBOs to learn how to load e-books also available through our library website. Children's Programs: Our Story Time will be up and running on Friday, January 10th at 10:30 a.m. and Toddler Time will be starting on Tuesday, January 14th at 10:30 a.m. This will be an exciting start to the New Year for our children with songs, stories and crafts they will enjoy. Lego Club: The news all our youngsters have been waiting for – The first meeting of our LEGO club is on Wednesday, January 22nd from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The club is geared to boys and girls ages 6 to 12 and we will have some older teen volunteers and library staff joining in. We will have a special person helping us to coordinate the program and make it really interesting and exciting. There will be challenges, prizes and games for all the participants. Be sure and register at the library to join in the fun. Focus On Seniors: Another new beginning term for our Focus on Seniors programs, Cathy and Anne will be busy gathering selections for all our patrons at Dufferin Oaks, Shelburne Residence and of course, our Home Outreach program participants. If you know of anyone who would still like to participate in the Home delivery program, please call and we will set that up for you. Now that the weather is a little more wintery and driving and walking are quite difficult, this is one way of having new books or magazines come to your home. This month and it was a short working month for us, we signed out 98 CNIB Daisy Books. We are always happy to support anyone who would like to use these resources. Call 519-925-2168. KOHA 3.8: KOHA might not mean anything to you until you realize that it is the backbone and underpinning of everything that allows us to automatically circulate, catalogue and keep track of our books and our patrons. We have just upgraded to the newest version and it seems to have gone quite seamlessly. However, if you notice any glitches with your accounts please let us know so we can check it out. For you, as a patron searching our OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) you may have noticed a wonderful new feature. For example, if you are looking for J.D. Robb in the search function, you will see all the books we have by this author but if you scroll down further you will see which book comes next in the series and most exciting is the feature that says: If you like this author… you might also like… So now when you have read all of one author's books you actually have some illustrated help online to guide you to another author. Ask us to show you how it works. New Books: We have been very busy the last two weeks selecting the new lineup of books for the winter /spring rollout. We have kept out colleague, Pat Bannister, busy ordering and cataloguing for us. For those of you who are dedicated users of our Talking Books we should have 10 or 15 new titles coming in within the next few weeks. If you use our online catalogue you can just type in TB and the author's name to get a list of all the Talking Books we have by that author. I read several new books during the holidays and really enjoyed Amy Tan's new Book, The Valley of Amazement. It goes deeply into the inner lives of the concubines and Madames in the 1900's. I have read her other books but am amazed at how intense and detailed this book is and the depth of understanding and emotion she portrays throughout the lives of several generations. Another book that I read was Lisa See's, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Again, this is a very emotional and insightful portrayal of the lives of young Chinese women. She makes the individual characters come to life and you can feel the agony and suffering of the young girls at age 6 as she describes the ordeal of having their feet bound. We have her other books, Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy in the library and I have found them equally interesting and insightful. I talked myself into reading some YA novels during the holidays and must admit I found several that I really enjoyed; Rotten by Michael Northrup was one. However, at the same time, I do find the language and the content quite challenging and there are some that really push the limits in terms of appropriate content. That makes the selection process quite difficult -- ensuring that you have books that our young readers will enjoy and find engrossing and treading a fine line between appropriate language and content. New Books added this week. This is not a comprehensive list of all the new books as we try to make it manageable for the column. So please check the New Books List of our on-line catalogue as we had another large number added this week. Fiction: Dust by Patricia Cornwell Moonrise by Cassandra King Ghost medicine by Aimee & David Thurlo Savage love: stories by Douglas Glover The first phone call from heaven by Mitch Albom White fire by Preston & Child The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell A Christmas Hope by Anne Perry Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope Nonfiction: Vanished by Wil S. Hylton Burgoo: food for comfort by Justin Joyce Happy City by Charles Montgomery 200 skills every cook must have by Clara Paul The Great Escape by Ted Barris The Third Rail by Jim Leech & Jacquie McNish The Butler: a witness to history by Wil Haygood Salinger by David Shields Forty Changes by Howard Buffet |
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