Linette's One Minute Book Review

Our Young Adult librarian, Linette Ivanovitch, reviews Ghost Medicine by Andrew Smith.

Molly's One Minute Book Review

Reference Librarian Molly reviews the James Beard award winning book "Fat" by Jennifer Mclagen in this installment of our One Minute Book Reviews.

Anna's One Minute Book Review

We have another Young Adult book review, this time coming from Anna Doyle, one of our pages here at the library. She reviews "Un Lun Dun" by China Mieville.

Ben's One Minute Book Review

Today, yours truly reviews a book of technology essays by Cory Doctorow. To get a free copy of this book go to his website. We also have it here at the library, of course.

Dana's One Minute Book Review

For the second installment of our one minute book reviews we turn to Dana, who splits his time between the Children and Young Adult desks reviewing another Young Adult book, "Skate" by Michael Harmon.

Joyce's One Minute Book Review

This is the first in our series of One Minute Book reviews. We're going to be featuring one each day this week to celebrate National Library Week, and then continue featuring them from time to time in the future. Our PR expert Joyce is up first with a review of Robin Brande's Young Adult novel "Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature."

The More You Know

To help our patrons use our new Self Checkout machines, I made a quick tutorial video. So, if you want to learn something while watching me make a fool of myself, this video is for you.

The Truth Behind Facebook

The hottest social network out there is definitely Facebook. In honor of teen tech week, here are some Facebook parodies. Enjoy!

Blast From the (Library) Past

Check out this amazing post-apocalyptic video to teach kids about the library. I like that the female lead is known as "Ms. Bookcart." This is just the first in a series of videos that were apparently shown in Mississippi on the Public Broadcast network there.



courtesy of boing boing.

Hamilton's Duel as You've Never Heard it

In conjunction with the Alexander Hamilton: The Man who Made Modern America exhibit here at the library I thought I'd share this video describing the duel between Hamilton and Burr as its never been described before. The re-enactment stars one of my favorite actors, Michael Cera.

I found this through librarian.net. I like everything about this video, definitely not safe for work.

Read a Book

Posted Jul 12, 2007

This bizarre PSA, reportedly airing on BET, exhorts young black men to "read a fuckin' book, nigga."

EDIT - Viacom removed the video from YouTube, so here's the new link.

YouTube And Libraries

YouTube has a huge number of library related videos...here are a few that caught my eye.