The Second Floor Librarians

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The Beatles by Dunechaser on flickr With all the news about the remastered CDs and Rock Band, why not read-up on the Fab-four!  

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

We mourn the passing of Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

The Second Floor Librarians hope you have an enjoyable day with family and friends this July 4th! To get you in the spirit of Independence day, check out a few gems from the Library of Congress American Memory Project:

Here’s a plug for one of our second floor librarians. If you have a free lunch hour (12pm – 1pm) next Wednesday, May 13th, come to the Main Meeting Room in the Corvallis library. Christopher will be doing this month’s Random Review. He’s going to be talking about Andrew Pham’s book The Eaves of Heaven: [...]

This Friday evening I’ll be at the library for the Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology event with Matt Love, editor of the book and the publisher of Nestucca Spit Press. The event should be fun – along with readings from the book by Matt Love, Kathleen Dean Moore and Andrew Rodman, there will [...]

Tom McClintock’s history of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library has been a long time coming. He was asked to do the project for the library’s 1999 Centennial, but it ended up taking 10 years to complete.

Here is our very own History of Benton County by David D. Fagan in ebook form! We have a paper copy in reference and an all name index in the library too. This title is a go-to standard for local history.

The Oregon State Library released the Oregon 150 Booklist yesterday, to celebrate Oregon’s sesquicentennial. (I am such a pro at spelling that word by now.)