#library collection

[intothestacks]

Sent in my list of proposed books to get for the library, based primarily on what the kids have asked for using the book request sheets I set up.

The general gist of the list is:

Books teaching you how to draw

Books teaching you how to speak other languages (I got one on Korean, one on how to write in Chinese, and one that teaches phrases in different languages)

The two newest Dog Man books (3 copies of each)

Three new Babysitter's Club comics

Three new Babysitter's Little Sister comics

Some Science Comics books on animals

Bluey books

Pokemon books

Some R.L. Stine books

2 books on flags

Sports books (Hockey, Soccer, and Basketball)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid's newest book (x3)

The newst Wings of Fire graphic novel

The Wild Robot sequels

Some books featuring Muslim characters and/or authors

A bunch of Haunted Canada because our copies are disintegrating from being so well-loved

A book on chess

Cookbooks

Minecraft books

Joke books

Some books on how to handle anxiety (as per a Grade 4's request)

I had a budget of $3,000 and I fiddled with the books on the list until I got it to $2994.59. lol

[banffcentrelibraryandarchives]

Artists’ Book Display for the week of October 28th, 2019

West of the fifth meridian by Janet Cardiff- Montreal : La revue Numero, 1991

1990 Aids Treatment Project by Giorno Poetry Systems

Saint-Just Vigilantes by Ian Hamilton Finlay- Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989

untitled by Jack Pierson- San Francisco : Jack Hanley Gallery, 1992

54 Old Houses : mostly from Farms in the Thornhill, Toronto area by Thoreau MacDonald, 1964

[osceolalibrary]

Some of Our Top 5 in 2019

Are you surprised to see what made our collection’s Top 5 most borrowed items list in these categories in 2019? Check them out for yourself to see if they’re worth the hype! 

Read more to find the titles in our collection.

Books

Unsolved by James Patterson and David Ellis

Redemption by David Baldacci

The Cornwalls Are Gone by James Patterson

The Chef by James Patterson

The 13-Minute Murder by James Patterson

Kids Books

All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson

Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors

Ben Franklin’s in My Bathroom! by Candace Fleming

Cosmic Commandos by Christopher Eliopulos

Breakout by Kate Messner

DVDs

Black Panther

Deadpool 2

Ready Player One

The Greatest Showman

Ocean’s 8

[harvardfineartslib]

Come see a sampling of our Special Collections at the Fine Arts Library. We’re thrilled to share these collections with you at our annual Open House. You’ll see that we have more than just art books, and we’ll be showcasing facsimiles, scrolls, artists’ books, postcards, photographs, and much more. Meet the librarians, ask them questions, and enjoy some refreshments. Here’s a sneak preview of some of the items we’ll be presenting.

Open House: September 18, 2-5pm *Open to the Harvard ID holders.

While you’re at the Fine Arts Library, don’t forget to check out our exhibition, “Camera Woman Along the Medieval Pilgrimage Roads.”

[divinum-pacis]

The All-Holy Theotokos was about to go to the Mount of Olives to pray. 3) Praying to the Lord God she said, “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; let the archangel Michael come, so that he may tell me about the punishments and about the things in heaven and on the earth and below the earth.” As soon as she spoke, Michael, the commander-in-chief, came down with the angels of the east and the west and angels of the south and the north, and they saluted the Highly Favored One and said to her...

[intothestacks]

Cool Board Games for Your Library

Virulence: An Infectious Card Game

Age Range: 8+ Number of Players: 2-5 Type: Card Skills Taught: Strategic Thinking, Biology, Science

A quick and simple card game focused on viruses infecting a host cell - and how they assemble and replicate inside that host cell.

Why it’d be good for a library collection: 

Educational

Small storage space

Family-friendly

Simple gameplay

Cheap

Could be used in programming (it's best played with 4-5 people)

[intothestacks]

Cool Board Games for Your Library

Ecosystem: Coral Reef

Age Range: 8+ Number of Players: 1-6 Type: Card Skills Taught: Strategic Thinking, Biology, Science

Dive deep to build your own ecological network in Ecosystem: Coral Reef, a card-drafting game of marine competition. Players choose, pass, and arrange cards representing a diversity of organisms found in the Great Barrier Reef, including coral, clownfish, sea turtles, and sharks.

Why it’d be good for a library collection:

Educational

Small storage space

Playable by various ages

Can be used for programming

Variable player size

[intothestacks]

Cool Board Games for Your Library

Yamslam

Age Range: 8+ Number of Players: 2-4 Type: Dice Skills Taught: Strategic Thinking, Math, Addition

A strategy game involving dice (similar to Yahtzee but not quite the same).

Why it’d be good for a library collection: 

Educational

Small storage

Simple gameplay

Literacy not needed

Family-friendly