Family Craft Night with the Royals

Craft night was a complete success; everyone had a wonderful time. Big thanks to the Royals for participating!

How the Library Changed My Life

This contest is for female patrons whose businesses were helped by using the library. To enter, simply submit your story (700 words) about how the library has helped to make your business a success.

Woman's Day magazine editors will select the winning entries, that will be featured in the March 2008 issue of Woman's Day.

ALA is collecting the stories until May 10. Go to this web link for details:

http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/sponsorship/womansdaymagazine/smallbus.htm

Books in the Public Domain

I was looking up some information on what materials are included in the public domain when I came across the article "How to Determine Whether a Work is in the Public Domain." Written by a professor of law at the University of Arizona, the article is a clear and concise explanation of the process; moreover, it is a reference for some of the more famous or familiar works both in and out of the public domain.
Within the article, there is also a link to a a listing of over 25,000 books available on the Web, called The Online Books Page. It includes materials from the Google Print Library project as well as individuals' efforts at digitization. It's quite an accomplishment and definitely worth examining.
I added it to my link list for future investigation.

Spring Forward!

Though we may not be able to start our spring planting until the middle of May (I always used Mother's Day as my green light), I'm already paging through gardening catalogs, ordering seeds, constructing complicated planting schedules, and looking through all the gardening and landscaping books the library purchased last year. So here's my list.

Adams - Art of Garden Photography
Alexander - Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook
Armitage - Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens
Bartley - Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook
Beck - Best Garden Plants of Pennsylvania
BH&G - Water Gardens, Pools, Streams and Fountains
Christian - Great Decks and Outdoor Living
DiSabato-Aust - Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
Freeman - Spare Time Gardener
HGTV - Curb Appeal
Miracle Grow - Instant Gardens
Miracle Grow - Beautiful Perennials
NH&G - Decks
Ortho - All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, Streams
Ortho - All About Sprinklers and Drip Systems
Ortho - All About Garden Pools and Fountains
Rice - Encyclopedia of Perennials
Smith - P. Allen Smith's Colors for the Garden: Creating Compelling Color Themes
Stanley - Complete Patios and Masonry
Steinberg - American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
Weishan - Victory Garden Companion
Wiley - Shade: Planting Solutions for Shady Gardens

A few of my favorites are P. Allen Smith's Colors for the Garden with its many photographs of fabulously lush gardens; Rosemary Alexander's Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook - not a lot of photos, but packed full of practical information; and DiSabato-Aust's Well-Tended Perennial Garden, an essential reference tool for the care of perennials, newly revised with more full color photos.

SALUD EN ESPANOL

Recently the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania added a new database to POWER Library. Salud en espanol contains all the Spanish language resources previously found within Consumer Health Complete and is a valuable health information resource.

To locate the Salud en espanol, click on the POWER Library icon, and enter your library card number. The database is in the Health/Science category.

Salud en espanol covers reports and studies relating to various issues of health and well-being, diseases, and treatments.