The Second Floor Librarians

I watched a Werner Herzog documentary the other night titled Cave of Forgotten Dreams.  This amazing documentary gives unprecedented access to Chauvet Cave, a cave in France discovered in late 1994, which contains the oldest known cave paintings in the world.

I’m reading the slow-to-start, but deeply engrossing new magnum opus by the famed Haruki Murakami titled 1Q84.  This dark and bizarre novel is supposedly loosely related to George Orwell’s 1984.  Having not read the Orwell classic, I delayed my anticipation to devour the new  novel until I could read it.

I asked some of the Adult Services Librarians to share their favorite books from 2011.  The list that follows is an interesting and eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction and includes some titles that are new to me and maybe to you as well.  Happy reading!

Our recent list of staff picks have been posted!  Click here to get to the link on our website.  You can always find the list by clicking on our Books link on the library homepage.

School is out this week and it seems like lots of  folks are getting ready to leave town.  If you’re anything like me, you might find preparing for a vacation pretty exhausting.  Wouldn’t it be great to have a personal assistant to help with the packing, pet sitting arrangements, last minute trips to the store [...]

Do you find it hard to wait for book that has a holds list? Here’s a suggestion: book pairings. I’ll tell you what I mean.

Thanks to the OSU librarians for sharing some of their favorite books with us:

If you’ve been to the library in the last week, you may have noticed that we have something different in the new books area.

Ok, so I am a little late with posting our staff picks this month.  I blame February.  It is too short and always throws me off.   And don’t get me started about Leap Year…  Anyway, in case you did not know, we post Staff Picks on our website each month at http://www.thebestlibrary.net/joomla/content/view/212/165/ You can also [...]

If you could pick one book that you really enjoyed this year, what would it be? Here’s a list of some of our favorites published in 2009. It’s a bit of a random assortment, but it’s all good, just like the second floor librarians.