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Happy blogiversary!

The second floor librarians just noticed that today is exactly one year since we first posted on our blog. And this is the 151st post. How cool is that?!

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What’s New?

Interested in finding out what is new in the library?  Our Classic Catalog can help.  By using the New Items tab you can see what we have just added to the collection as well as titles that will hit the shelves soon.    You can even limit your search to a particular collection like DVDs, CDs,  fiction, nonfiction, audiobooks and more.  Here are the steps: Read the rest of this entry »

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Nothing Random about Random Reviews!

Yatzy by Anders Adermark on flickr

Yatzy by Anders Adermark on flickr

The Friends of the Library do a great job locating presenters for their wildly popular book review series Random Reviews.

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Jerome David Salinger

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American novelist and short story writer J D Salinger, author of The Catcher In The Rye, died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010.   He was 91.

Click here for more biographical information including encyclopedia and news  articles from Biography Resource Center

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Argh! Why does the library have only one copy of that super-popular book?!

Frustration! by basykes, on Flickr

Frustration! by basykes, on Flickr

Why does the library have only one copy of (insert super-popular book title here)?!?

This is a very common question/complaint we get from you, our library users.

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Dear Reader

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Feeling too swamped to read a book these days or just looking for a way to be introduced to new books and authors?  Join our Online Book Clubs. Read the rest of this entry »

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Reading resolutions

I’m not a New Year’s resolutions sort of person. Why bother making them if I know I’m not going to keep them anyway? :) But I have been thinking about my reading habits the last little while, and I think I’m going to make some reading resolutions.

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The Library will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day

Martin Luther King Jr. from the Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
Martin Luther King Jr. from the Library of Congress.
 All branches of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday, January 18th.


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Time for Taxes

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We have started to get questions about tax forms at the library, so this seems like a good time to write about the tax program at CBCPL.

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Las Vegas promotes literacy

LV Skyline by Justin Fain on flickr

LV Skyline by Justin Fain on flickr

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week featured (for the first time) an “eBooks TechZone” with the newest and best in ebook devices. With all the doom and gloom about publishing, reading and literacy in the news, ereading may give reading (and readers) a boost!

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