It’s been almost a year since I shared my top 10 reasons why I love the library. And the more time I spend at the library, the more I like it! Here are five more reasons why I love the library.
5. By picking up CDs that BrownThumbPapa reserved, I got to learn more about his very eclectic taste in music. His latest selections?
The Legend of Johnny Cash
George Clinton and his Gangsters of Love
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables,Dead Kennedys
Tonight, Franz Ferdinand
The Very Best of Aretha Franklin—The 60s
How’s that for an unusual songlist?
4. You can go online, look at what’s new each month, and reserve it before it even hits the shelves. Yes, I had to wait a while for Good Eats: The Early Years, but I got to read it for free.
3. The events are great! The main library recently hosted Laura Numeroff, author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, for a reading of her latest book and a kids' question and answer session.
2. Did I mention how cool the library staff is? They’re even on Facebook and Twitter. We found out about the Laura Numeroff party from the library’s Facebook page. And two staff members have written a book about the Alkali Flat area in Sacramento (our oldest residential neighborhood).
And the Number One Reason? (click to enlarge)
The Book Bulletin e-newsletter. I just signed up for several of these—here’s the description off their website.
As library staff and book-lovers ourselves, we know how much we appreciate book recommendations from trusted sources. That's why we've developed the Book Bulletin - to help you find books you'll enjoy. Subscribe to categories of interest and on a regular basis you'll receive e-mail notification of new titles in those categories, as well as titles of interest that may be often overlooked.
I think I'll be maxing out my reserve list at the library this summer. How about you?
Looks kind of like my musical taste. Here at work we have a laptop with music loaded and mixed to play randomly. It goes from Motorhead to Toni bennet, Rancid to Johnny Cash, Rick James to the Carpenters, and Alice Cooper to Neil Diamond among others. Of course today I'm working alone so there will be no Carpenters or Neil Diamond just metal, punk, country, rap, and funk. In fact Johnny Cash's "Big River" is playing right now.
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I've been going to the library almost every week returning and picked reserved books up. I've been also using my state's inter library loan system to get Everything I Want to Do is Illegal by Joe Salatin (great book too, just might have to buy it used).
ReplyDeleteI love the CDs too. Many of those from the library stacks have made it to my iTunes playlist.
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