The Second Floor Librarians

On Monday the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced.  Here are the winners for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biography.  Click here for the full list of winners.

Looking back on the top memoirs and biographies is always interesting, as we see the lives and the themes that captured our attention. If you’re interested, compare it to 2009′s top biographies. But let’s get to the books you voted as the most popular by checking them out with your library cards! Here they are…

Happy new year! The City of Corvallis’ fiscal new year begins July 1st. Before the current fiscal year ends we often run reports on our collections. Using these statistics, I put together a list of the twenty most popular biographies and memoirs for July 2009 – July 2010.

Spring is here (more or less), and for many people, that means baseball. What does baseball have to do with libraries you ask? Well, besides our baseball book, DVD, and video game collections, we have a baseball author talk coming up in May.

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

As we head toward the end of the year, all the “Best of 2009″ lists start coming out. You’ll find all sorts of best books of the year lists online, but here’s something uniquely Corvallis – a list of the memoirs and biographies you thought were best this year. I generated this list by running [...]

Many of the biographies and memoirs in our collection are in the 921 call number, then by the last name of the person the book is about (e.g. 921 Kennedy or 921 Reichl). We also have a new biography section on the main floor of the library, if you want to browse some new books. [...]

We are pleased to welcome Tracy Daugherty, professor of English at Oregon State University to the Corvallis library on Thursday, May 21st at 7 pm. He will be reading from and talking about his latest book, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme. Hiding Man was well-reviewed in the New York Times Book Review; we [...]

Corvallis’ own Tracy Daugherty, professor in the English Department at OSU, has a new book out. It’s called Hiding Man – A Biography of Donald Barthelme, and this past weekend it was featured in the New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. You can also listen to a 15 minute podcast with Tracy Daugherty on the [...]