The Second Floor Librarians

Ok, so I am a little late with posting our staff picks this month.  I blame February.  It is too short and always throws me off.   And don’t get me started about Leap Year…  Anyway, in case you did not know, we post Staff Picks on our website each month at
http://www.thebestlibrary.net/joomla/content/view/212/165/
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What made America?  What makes us?  These were questions explored by a fantastic program that aired on PBS last night.  If you missed it you can view it for free at their website.

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AFC Bournemouth – Fans 3 by Lucy Boynton on flickr

…We hope you are because there is a lot to be excited about! Library2Go will be the home of our ebooks.

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You now have access to more streaming music!

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For any of us who are learning or have learned another language – we all know that not being understood because of bad pronunciation can be really frustrating.
I’m happy to tell you that our online language learning program, Mango Languages, now offers a way to improve your pronunciation, with its new voice comparison feature!

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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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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.

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Ever find yourself looking for the next book in a series?  With some authors it is fairly easy.  With Sue Grafton for example, you can be fairly sure that B is for Burglary comes before C is for Corpse.   With other authors it can be fairly challenging, and sometimes even the date is not helpful [...]

You may have noticed a small change on the red bar at the top of our homepage recently.

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With the help of a grant from the Oregon State Library Board Corvallis-Benton County Public Library will be able to make Ebooks available from our Library2Go website.  Around 5000 titles will be available initially in March 2010 with more titles to be added later.

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