By: Helen Kosowski
After the Labor Day holiday weekend, regular hours at the library will resume Tuesday, Sept. 5, as follows: Monday through Thursday, 1 to 9 p.m.; Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The children’s summer reading program will end Sept. 9. I hope everyone had a great summer filled with reading wonderful books.
The library has been participating in the Libraries 2000 program, which is administered by the New Jersey State Library and funded by the state. This program enabled the library to join the information age through the purchase of computers and dedicated access to the Internet. Also, under the auspices of the state library, New Jersey become the first state to make available the Spanish language database, INFORME, in its public libraries.
Now the state library is offering two new services. The first is access to the EBSCO electronic databases, which covers economics, history, psychology, current events, education and much more.
These four databases are available to all public, school and academic libraries in the state:
?Masterfile Elite – More than 1,200 full-text periodicals.
?MAS Ultra – Tailored to high school. Full text for more than 570 magazines and 430 pamphlets, a database of more than 1,000 original historical documents, Magill book reviews and maps.
?Middle Search Plus – For middle schools. Full text for 100 magazines and more than 300 pamphlets, Encyclopedia of animals, maps and more.
?Primary Search – For primary schools, 71 full-text periodicals, The World Almanac of the USA, The World Almanac for Kids and more.
These databases also may be accessed from your home or office, but you need to come to the library for instructions and a password. There is no cost.
The second free service is NoveList, an electronic readers advisory resource made available through a partnership between the state library and EBSCO Publishing. This user-friendly database allows readers to search for books by author, title or key words.
The NoveList service provides
?Access to more than 90,000 titles with extensive subject and key word access.
?Descriptions and full text review for more than 40,000 books.
?Adult fiction reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal and Kirkus since 1996.
?Access to children’s and young adult titles.
?Links to author home pages and related fiction Web sites.
Please stop by the library and check out this new service.?
Recent acquisitions?
"Easy Prey" by John Sandford.
"Empty Chair" by Jeff Deaver.
"He Shall Thunder in the Sky" by Elizabeth Peters.
"Horse Heaven" by Jane Smiley.
"The Red Rose Girls" by Alice Carter.
"Irish Gold" by Andrew Greeley.
"Rogue Planet" by Greg Bear.
"The Search" by Iris Johansen.
"The Vineyard" by Barbara Delinsky.
"Midnight in Ruby Bayou" by Elizabeth Lowell.
"Standoff" by Sandra Brown.
"Wedding" by Danielle Steel.
"Hot 6" by Janet Evanovich.
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier.
"In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson.
"All About Roses" from Ortho Books.
"Flags of Our Fathers" by James Bradley.
"Oprah Winfrey Speaks" by Janet Lowe.
"The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan.
"Eating Well for Optimum Health" by Andrew Weil.
"The Second Brain: The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct" by Michael D. Gershon.
"Antiques Roadshow Primer" by Carol Prisant.
"Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader" by Joey Anuff and Gary Wolf.
"Martin Johnson Headell" by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
"Mary Cassatt: A Life" by Nancy Mowel Mathews.
"Stickley Style" by David Cathers.
"The Artist and the Camera: Degas to Picasso" by Dorothy Kosinski.
"Robert Gwathmey" by Michael Kammen.
"Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema" by Jodi Hauptman.
"American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation" by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor.
"From Dawn to Decadence" by Jacques Barzun.
"The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust" by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin.
"It’s Not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins.
"Training a Tiger: A Father’s Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life" by Earl Woods with Pete McDaniel.
"From This Day Forward" by Cokie and Steve Roberts.
"Tamara de Lainpicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence" by Laura Claridge.
"Certain Prey" by John Sandford (audio).
"Fugitive Pigeon" by Donald Westlake (audio).
"Hearts in Atlantis’ by Stephen King (audio).
