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The Library Book Discussion Group meets the third Tuesday of each month. In April we'll be talking about Alexander McCall Smith's Kalahari Typing School For Men. Our book for May is Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees. The book group welcomes everyone to join us to chat or just listen in while we discuss some great reads.
Sara Rath chatted with us about Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages and her other books and new work on Tuesday October 9th. Everyone enjoyed listening to Sara's responses to our questions and learning more about her just finished second novel and current research project on the spiritualist . If you'd like to learn about Sara, her works and where she'll be teaching or visiting next, visit her website at http://www.sararath.com . Thank you Sara !
Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Take a look at the video of her initial reaction and a subsequent interview captured by BBC TV- brilliant! Doris Lessing Video
Book discussion group readers and other avid book collectors should go and check out Library Thing. This amazing online tool lets you catalog your own books, see the most popular authors among all readers and find out what readers of the same books have in common...
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What are we doing now?
Librarians and Libraries are busy! And lively. With online tools and the digitization of information, libraries have taken on a whole raft of new, animated roles. Here in Boscobel we are learning about Library 2.0 and beginning to add those tools and services (such as this Wiki's resources).
Curious about we do behind the counter with your books on a day to day basis? Why we are sometimes glued to the checkout computer? What all those teens and kids on the PC's are up to? Twitter is a social networking site that lets users share brief updates as they go about their day to day routine. Yes, this sounds odd at first but its a way of staying in touch with friends and interesting folks everywhere; it's an online version of "hearing it through the grapevine".
Each Twitter update is called a "tweet". Our tweets will appear in the yellow box
below (our "tweeter"?), so you can read what the team at your library has been doing today. If you Twitter too, let us know and we'll add you to follow.
[10/6/2007: PLEASE NOTE: This is a test! We were having a problem with tweets from other users creeping into our update, so: if you see something that doesn't look right, call us and let us know,608-375-5723 thanks!]
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