Digital Maine Library ~ Popular Magazines

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I think it’s time to explore the Digital Maine Library a bit more. Scrolling down the homepage of the Digital Maine Library, I see Popular Magazines.  The blurb leads me to think that I will be able to browse through a magazine, not just access an article I might be looking for. Clicking on the link takes me to a new page.  Scanning the page, I see many of the links I’m used to seeing – a Search Bar, an Advanced button, the title of the page, as well as Topic Finder  and  Top Searches.  Below the Search Bar, there …

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The Oscars In Libraries!

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Because of one of Scott’s previous blog posts, he was contacted by Brandi Scardilli, of Information Today, Inc., about how Gardiner Public Library, among other libraries, promote Oscar nominations, and winners. Click on the link to read the entire blog! The Oscars At The Library    

New Items ~ February 2019

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FICTION Alice isn’t dead by Joseph Fink.  A female big-rig driver crisscrosses America searching for signs of the wife everyone else thinks is dead. The angel in the glass by Alys Clare.  A physician-sleuth in the year 1604 uncovers dark secrets in his small Devon village in this historical mystery. Bad news travels fast by Maureen Milliken.  When an Appalachian Trail hiker becomes lost in the woods of Maine, then is found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of the town of Redimere, Maine. The boy by Tami Hoag.  Nick Fourcade and Annie …

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Children’s Events ~ February 2018

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Just letting you know some of the upcoming events in the Children’s Room for the month of February. Ms. Jenn and the Nutrition Detectives will visit twice this month  ~ Tuesday, Feb. 5th and Friday, Feb. 22nd We will have a story, songs and a craft at 10:00am for preschoolers. Maine’s Amazing Mammals presented by LC Bates Museum on Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 10:00am during school vacation week. Art @ the Library on Tuesday, Feb. 12th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. We will be making Valentines. Story Time & Crafts every Tuesday at 10:00 am. Babies Love Toddlers on Fridays …

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New Items ~ January 2019

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FICTION The Adults by Caroline Hulse.  A couple (now separated), plus their daughter, plus their NEW partners, all go on an epic Christmas vacation together.  What could go wrong? Bitter orange by Claire Fuller.  Whiffs of Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Charlotte Bronte as an upstairs neighbor becomes obsessed with her downstairs neighbor. The clockmaker’s daughter by Kate Morton.  The story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations set in England from the 1860s until the present day. The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash.  An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the …

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