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Last week was mental illness awareness week. Our friends over at the Nami Camden County set up this wonderful display in our library (featuring some books on mental illness our collection has as well). To learn more about mental illness and how you can help a loved one in your life that is living with mental illness please feel free to check out their website http://www.naminj.org/
AUTHOR OF THE DAY:
R.L. Stine
Born on this day, October 8th in 1943, Author R.L. Stine is famous for writing Goosebumps, the best-selling horror series for kids. He also created the successful Fear Street series.
Stine launched his first horror book series for young adults,Fear Street, in 1989. Described as “where your worst nightmares lives,” the series explored the dark misadventures of students at Shadyside High School. Fear Street grew to include roughly 100 novels, eventually selling more than 80 million copies.
In 1992, Stine started taking younger readers on their own thrill ride with the Goosebumps series. These books, which he produced through his wife Jane’s Parachute Press book-packaging company, targeted the tween market. The first title, Welcome to Dead House, was quickly followed by more novels. At one point, Stine was writing one or two books each month. Each title featured the trademark elements of the series: Page-turning plots and daring cliffhangers at the end of each chapter.
Goosebumps soon became a literary phenomenon. The books became best sellers in the United States and abroad, and were eventually translated in 16 different languages.Goosebumps was turned into a television series, as well. The tremendous popularity of the series turned Stine into one of the most successful children’s writers of all time, drawing comparisons between Stine and adult horror writer Stephen King.
As the 1990s came to a close, Goosebumps fever began to fade. Stine launched a new series in 2000, Nightmare Room, with each title featuring an online component. In 2004, he mixed humor and horror in Who Let the Ghosts Out?, the first book in the Mostly Ghostly series.
Stine continues to branch out into new directions, writing about common student fears in 2011’s It’s the First Day of School … Forever! and exploring the vampire craze in 2010'sBitten.
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Sadly banned books week has come and gone... BUT it will be back next year and these books are still available for checkout at our library (and possible yours as well)
The development of antimalarial drugs is fascinating – it is often driven by war and conquest. When human beings got busy trying to kill each other (during the era of colonial expansion, WWII, the Vietnam War), they often found themselves face to face with an even deadlier foe.
Check out my animation that explores this incredible history.
Read more about the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Some Things Your Local Librarians Would Like You To Know
It is not a stupid question. Even if it is a stupid question, we have been thoroughly trained to answer your question without judgement or second-guessing. Besides, we’re mostly just glad you’re not asking us about the noise the printer is making again.
There are probably (at least) two desks in the library. One is where you check out books and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Circulation Clerk.” These people can answer your questions about damaged or missing books, fines, and how many forms of identification we’ll need if you want to get a library card but your mailing address is in Taiwan. The other one is closer to the books and computers and is mostly staffed by people wearing nametags that say “Librarian.” These people can answer your questions about spider extermination, how to rent property to the United States Postal Service, and the number of tropical island nations in which you could theoretically establish the first United States Embassy. We would love to answer these questions for you. It would be a nice change from the printer.
We probably own a 3D printer by now. 3D printers, are cool, right? Please, please come use our 3D printer, it’s so lonely.
We spent a lot of money to hire this woodworker to come and teach a class at the library which you can attend for free. You will probably be the only person between the ages of ten and fifty in attendance, but your presence will fill the librarian with an unnameable joy. They will float back to their manager in a daze. “A young person came to my program,” they will say. You will have made their entire job worthwhile.
Every time you ask us for a book, movie, or music recommendation, a baby librarian gets their first cardigan.
Somewhere in the library, there is a form. If you fill out this form with your name and library card number and the details of the thing you are looking for, we will find you the thing. Sometimes the answer is “the thing is in Great Britain and they will not send it to us,” but more often the thing will just appear on hold for you, and one day you will pick up a copy of that out-of-print book you never thought you would read and maybe you will say, “Wow, the library is amazing,” and the librarian’s heart will glow.
Please bring back book #2. The rest of its series misses it very much.
Five dollars is not a large library fine. Believe me, before I started working in libraries, I too wondered how someone could sleep at night, knowing they owed money to the library. When we laugh as you sheepishly apologize for your $2.50 in overdue fees, we are not mocking you, we are thinking of the ten people we sent to debt collection already today.
We really don’t care why you’re checking out Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe you have a specifically-themed ironic bachelorette party to plan. Maybe you’re working on a thesis paper about mainstream media’s depiction of female sexuality. Maybe you just got curious. We will give you the benefit of the doubt.
Whatever you’re smoking in the family restroom, please stop.
Somewhere on the library’s website, buried under “Links” or “Research” or “On-line Resources,” is a page that a librarian spent a month’s worth of work on. It contains many links to websites you thought everyone knew about, and one to a page that you could never have imagined existed that perfectly solves a problem you never expected to be resolved.
Imagine the kind of person who would think to themselves, “Library school sounds like a thing I should do.” For the most part, you are imagining the kind of person who is now a librarian. We want very much to help you, but we’re not entirely sure how to do that unless you ask. You are not bothering us. Please, come and say hi.
Our Lucy Booth for Library Card Sign-up Month! The librarian is in! Come say hello!
This is absolutely fantastic!
He understands
Photo-a-Day Challenge Day Seven: A book you’d never part with
Asking a person who works in a library to choose just ONE is impossible. Personally, these are the books that have stuck with me long after I’ve read them. AND they are still on my shelf to this day. So tumblr... what is the one (or few) book you will never part with? Don’t forget to snap a photo and use the tag #chplnj to let us know.
The Paste books crew pooled together our own horror favorites for the first installment of Required Reading, a Paste-curated reading list of our favorite book genres. We’ve all got different favorites, so we’d love to hear yours in the comments section below. Oh—and sleep tight in the next few months.
Are you ready for some spooky reads? With this list I think that we are! ... Or maybe not... can you leave the light on please?
Guess who’s back from maternity leave and sniffing all the new books!
Welcome back!
Photo-a-Day Challenge Day Six: Bookshelf #shelfie
Sure we are not in the photo, BUT our reserve shelf has enough je ne sais quoi to make up for our absence (look at all those good books waiting for our patrons). Instead, why don’t you take a shelfie? Just snap one of yourself next to your favorite selection of tomes! Don’t forget to tag us #chplnj so we can see your shelfie!
the Violet Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
Oh MY! <3 What wonderful art!
Photo-a-Day Challenge Day Five: Cover Art
You should never judge a book by it’s cover... Unless the cover is illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft then you know it’s going to be good. Each of these covers we find absolutely gorgeous, Kinuko Y. Craft is an amazing artist! Not only that but the insides are pretty fantastic as well! Take a photo of your favorite cover art, and don’t forget to let us know what it is by using the tag #chplnj
Photo-a-Day Challenge Day Three: Own, but never read
Certainly this is a case of so many books so little time. (Especially when you work in a library, there is so much temptation!) Do have a book that you’ve never read? Let us know by taking a picture of your ‘here but forgotten’ tome, and use the tag #chplnj. Now If you would excuse us we’ve got quite a bit of reading to do.
Photo-a-Day Challenge Day Three: Bookmark “A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever.”- Martin Farquhar Tupper
These few bookmarks did not want to leave our books and decided that they want to live in our library too. What bookmark are you using? Let us know by posting a photo of your own along with the tag #chplnj.
LIST OF THE WEEK: TWENTY BANNED BOOKS Celebrate your intellectual freedom. Read a banned book. Learn more about each book here: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Looking for Alaska, I Hunt Killers, Eleanor & Park, Gossip Girl, The Hunger Games, TTYL, 13 Reasons Why, The Giver, Speak, Hold Still, Whale Talk, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Twenty Boy Summer, Boy Meets Boy, Living Dead Girl, Fallen Angels, Vampire Academy, The Supernaturalist, A Wrinkle In Time. For more fun lists and all things YA lit, visit our website, follow us here and on Twitter, and subscribe to our weekly newsletter!
Oh goodness look at all these offenders!
Photo-a-Day Challenge Day Two: Favorite reading spot. It may look empty now... HOWEVER! This is one of our patrons’ favorite reading spots, these chairs are hardly ever empty. (Personally, my favorite spot you can see out the window! The outside benches are great on sunny days.) What’s your favorite spot? Let us know by taking a photo of your own.
