The Second Floor Librarians

For the most part, I’m stuck in town all summer. This is more or less self-inflicted, so I can’t complain too much. However, I still occasionally get the childish why-can’t-I-go feeling when I see cars with camping gear heading over the bridge out of town.

Have you taken a look at our Books page lately? You’ll find the link on the red bar across the library’s homepage. You may have noticed that we have updated the image on the top of the page, and added links to reading guides for ebooks, fiction, and nonfiction.

I grew up in a climate slightly rainier than Corvallis, so I  learned to appreciate sunny days! Because of this, I always feel guilty staying inside when the weather is nice – it just feels wrong.  So normally I would feel bad enjoying a great book on the couch in June, but since the weather [...]

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.

Well, it’s late in the afternoon here in the second floor librarians’ work room. We’re getting close to the end of the day (for those of us who aren’t working the evening shift tonight), and it shows. We need a blog post! But there’s some serious writer’s block going on. We’re not quite up to [...]

Avast me hearties! September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. To celebrate, here are some great books on pirates, including two written by the men who started ITLAPD (one is on the left).

I love to look at our collection statistics.  Which books did go out?  Which did not?  Although I love to ponder these numbers as insights into the collective psyche of  Benton County, the statistics can sometimes be misleading. 

Here’s a fun post for the long weekend. Today I was alerted to this page on the AbeBooks.com website: The Weird Book Room. It features such gems as “Know how to clip a poodle” (photo on the left). Now, as a good librarian, I see nothing wrong with dog grooming books – indeed, they are [...]