A while back, we had a nice exchange with one of our Twitter friends, John Bergquist (@johnflurry). He posted a link to a Huffington Post article with pictures of amazing libraries around the world. Readers have been voting on their favorites, and at the moment, the top library is the Long Room in the Trinity [...]
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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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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Starting Monday, December 14th, and running through December 24th, the Corvallis library will be open 10-6 only. (All of the branches will have their normal hours.)
This is because the Corvallis library’s boiler is being replaced, and the building will be cold! There will be no heat, so if you’re planning to visit us during this [...]
That’s an attention-getting statistic, isn’t it? I was surprised to find this out myself, when putting together our Banned Books Week display for the second floor.
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After a recent stint of living in Dijon, France I got to know my local library there and inevitably compared it to our own CBCPL. Dijon is a city of 150,000, so it isn’t really fair to compare the two systems, but just for fun I will anyway.
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On Monday, the Corvallis Gazette-Times asked us for the 10 books that were checked out the most often between 01/01/2009 and 06/15/2009. We ran some reports for them, and I thought I’d share the results with you here as well.
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Some of you may have been puzzled lately… there are lots of new books coming out in July that aren’t in our catalog, so you can’t put holds on them. You might be wondering – are we not ordering the latest Stieg Larrson novel, The Girl Who Played With Fire?
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This is a great video. It’s part of a campaign from the New York Public Library, which is currently facing $57 million in budget cuts.
How does it apply to us here in Corvallis/Benton Co.? It’s a great reminder of the value of libraries in our community. There’s also some nice shots of NYPL (a library [...]
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