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Turtlesingers at Galloway library
On Monday, July 9, the Galloway Township branch of the Atlantic County Library System featured live turtle encounters as part of the Libraries Rock! Summer Reading Program.
How to Protect Your Library With Medieval Book Curses
Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse.
Finding a Book in Your Library
We’ve all been there. You download a book, can’t wait to read it, open WORDsearch and then…you can’t find it. Today’s Quick Tip will give you some information to help …
How to Sell Your Book to Libraries
Some authors have success selling their books to libraries in addition to selling on Amazon or directly to their local bookstores.
How I mourned my sister through the books she left behind
But in Emily's library, I also saw a life well lived.
How to be a book with Human Library
A lot of thought goes into choosing the living, breathing, reminiscing tomes that constitute a Human Library
How to Create Your Own Set
Be sure and read our previous Quick Tip – How to Find Sets in Your Library. Sets are a useful feature of WORDsearch. Why are some books sets? Most sets are found in the Commentaries category,…
Take Note: Sometimes The Simplest Habit Can Remind Us How To Progress
How a simple scrap of paper in a storied library unlocks powers we already have but often forget.
How To Use The OverDrive App
Just because the Library is closed doesn’t mean you won’t have access to a vast number of great FREE books until we reopen. With the OverDrive app, you can choose from thousands of eBooks and eAudi…
Tech Tips to Encourage Reluctant Readers
From street lit resources to free, web-based libraries, digital tools to spark a love of reading and other tips from three experts.
What Color is Your Library?
We both live among hundreds of books. There are books in our personal spaces and books in our work spaces, books in our cars and in our purses; books on kitchen counters and books propped up…
A Guide to Drake's Library
If you're not up on what Drake's reading, it's too late.
Why Dr. Seuss Is Worth Defending
Banishing him from library shelves is a slippery slope.
Only YOU Can Decide What We Read For Book Club
At the library’s book clubs, we’re fortunate that generally, the books we read earn widespread approval from our readers. While our selections don’t always get a Siskel and Ebertian two thum…
How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
According to old stereotypes, it shouldn’t work—serious librarians should want nothing to do with the raucous, pulp world of comics—and for a long time it didn’t.
10 Home Library Design Ideas for Literature Lovers
Set the mood for your next book, whether it's a thrilling mystery or lighthearted tale, with 10 beautiful home library design ideas for literature lovers.
How To Read OverDrive Library Books On An E-Reader
Once it gets all set up, OverDrive is one of the most handy resources out there for book lovers with a huge offering of e-readers, audio books, no late fees and more.
A Bookish Parent’s Guide to Baby’s First Library
I'm a librarian and lifelong book lover. I'm also about to have my first kid. While other soon-to-be-parents are obsessing over strollers, car seats, and cribs, I'm putting just as much care into Baby
Why Graphic Novels Belong in All of Our Libraries
Our oldest daughter, Thea, has been in intense reading intervention since she was in Kindergarten. This creative, vivacious, book-loving child just could not seem to find the right words wh…
The Nose Knows: A Perfumer Captures the Scent of a Library
To book lovers like us, the smell of leather-bound tomes or fresh paperbacks can be utterly seductive. Ever wish you could bottle that mysterious library scent, the aroma of rummaging through the stac
Five Great Things Libraries Are Doing With Old Books
Library book sales (and their descendants, such as Better World Books) are a great institution, but they’re not the only thing libraries can do—or help their patrons do—with obsolete titles besides the dumpster. Here are five creative reuses from real libraries.
