Posts Tagged ‘random review’

November at the library

There are lots of interesting free events happening this month at the library, including a classical guitar concert, the monthly Random Review sponsored by the Friends of the Library,  a talk by Oregon hiking guru Bill Sullivan, and a drop in ereading clinic.

NY Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes is coming to our library

We’re getting excited! It’s now only four weeks until we have a series of fantastic events featuring Karl Marlantes, Oregon-born author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War. Mr. Marlantes’ work has been highly praised, eliciting this review from Mark Bowden of the Philadelphia Enquirer: There has never been a more realistic portrait of [...]

Celebrating women, celebrating women’s history

I hate missing a 100-year birthday party and that is what happened on Tuesday, March 8. It was the International Women’s Day Centenary, 1911-2011. There were hundreds of events world-wide and I was unable to attend any of them. However, I had the pleasure of hearing Jo Anne Trow, Emeritus Vice President of Student Affairs [...]

Nothing Random about Random Reviews!

The Friends of the Library do a great job locating presenters for their wildly popular book review series Random Reviews.

Random Reviews Returns

Every 2nd Wednesday of the month at noon in the Corvallis Public Library Main Meeting Room.

Come see Christopher's Random Review!

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: [...]