The Second Floor Librarians

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

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One of the fun things about working at the library is telling a patron about something we’ve got and seeing them get all excited, because they didn’t know we have it.
This often happens when we tell people about the library’s subscription to Morningstar, a reputable investment research product. Because we subscribe to Morningstar, you don’t [...]

Check out our ever expanding online resources through LibGuides.

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Worm-Inspired Superglueby Rachel Ehrenberg
Week of August 16,
2009
Material may one day paste together bones in the body…
To access the full article

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We have a nice collection of local and regional history books at the library.

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We are excited to introduce to you the new subscription resources (i.e. we pay, you benefit) that the library is now providing access to starting today, July 1st.

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