On Thursday, February 16, at 6:30 pm in the Main Meeting Room, Willy Vlautin will present a program that combines music and literature. Vlautin will read from his Oregon Book Award-winning novel Lean on Pete as well as play songs which inspired the book.
Otherwise known as The Big Book Sale, The Friends of the Library February book sale is approaching. As always, it will be held at the Benton County Fairgrounds (map) the weekend of February 24 -26th and all profits help support the Library. Here are the times of the sale: Friday, February 24, 5 pm – [...]
Would you like to participate in a community-based book giveaway to promote reading? World Book Night will be here on April 23, but you need to sign up here by Feb. 1. World Book Night is a charity dedicated to the promotion of literacy and the celebration, sharing and enjoyment of reading among teenagers and [...]
All branches of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library will be closed January 16 in observance of the holiday commemorating the late Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his legacy, check out the suggestions below. (To view additional library resources on Dr. King, view a [...]
Last fall the Library and Friends of the Library hosted Visions of Home: a Reading and Discussion with local authors George Estreich, Marjorie Sandor, and Charles Goodrich. It was a fabulous evening with a great discussion and a nice community turnout. Recently we found out that both Marjorie and George are 2012 Oregon Book Award [...]
Recently, Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched an online learning initiative, called MITx, aimed at enhancing the way they offer the online content of their opencourseware classes. MIT expects that MITx will continue to expand, hosting a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to show my appreciation more, so let me start by thanking all of you who read this blog, use library resources, ask us questions, and give us suggestions and inspiration. You are great! Just for fun, here are a sampling of resolutions for 2012 from library staff across [...]
Ereaders have been on our minds lately. We recently held one of our famous ebook drop-in sessions and had a “standing room only” crowd. I bet more than a few of you got an ereader this holiday season. Well, we are planning another ereader extravaganza just for you, this time on Friday January 6th.
Ken Kesey was a graduate of the University of Oregon and a pivotal figure of the 1960s who at one point encouraged everyone to use psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD. This call from the famous author of books such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion is said to have been [...]
I’m reading the slow-to-start, but deeply engrossing new magnum opus by the famed Haruki Murakami titled 1Q84. This dark and bizarre novel is supposedly loosely related to George Orwell’s 1984. Having not read the Orwell classic, I delayed my anticipation to devour the new novel until I could read it.
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