We’re close to the end of the year, the time when we come up with our “Best of” lists. Here’s a list of winners from Kirkus Reviews (one of my favorite review sources) KIRKUS PRIZE WINNERS 2014 The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize […]
2014 National Book Award Finalists Named Oct 15, 2014 The National Book Foundation has revealed the finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. The fiction shortlist includes 2014 “5 Under 35” honoree Phil Klay, along with two-time National Book Award finalist and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Marilynne […]
Once again it’s the Women’s National Book Association for National Reading Group Month. Every October, the WNBA supplies a list of Great Group Reads—and this list could not come at a better time of year for many book-group leaders. This is the month when many of us are beginning to plot out the reading paths for […]
The National Book Foundation has announced its longlists for the November National Book Award. CEFLS libraries scored BIG in the Adult Fiction category: all titles listed are either owned by CEFLS libraries or are on order at CEFLS– Alameddine, Rabih An unnecesssary woman Antopol, Molly The unAmericans Darnielle, John Wolf in white van Doerr, Anthony […]
Why the Public Library Beats Amazon—for Now As E-Book Subscription Services Grow Their Catalogs, the Age-Old Institution Trumps All By Geoffrey A. Fowler Updated Aug. 12, 2014 1:46 p.m. ET Amazon, Scribd and Oyster now sell all-you-can-eat ebook subscriptions. But Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler found a free alternative with a much better digital […]
Take a look at this for a chance to be part of CEF’s exciting event: Help us bring the splendors of Catherine the Great’s court to the North Country! https://adirondackgives.org/campaigns/bring-internationally-bestselling-author-eva-stachniak-north-country/
I recently discovered ZINIO, a digital magazine subscription company offering a huge array of both complete issues of current magazines as well as individual articles. Zinio refers to itself as “the world’s largest newsstand with 5,500+ titles and top rated apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, PCs and Windows 8.” Indeed, the number of periodicals available is […]
I recently took a look at some numbers of our ever-growing e-book collection here at CEFLS. What I found was interesting and revealing. We currently have almost 1100 titles, and have spent nearly $27,000 on our collection. We’ve built the collection with help from grants, local organizations, individual donations, member library contributions and some funding […]
The PEN shortlists were announced recently. I searched our online system to see how many in each category our libraries own–YAY for us, we are making a good number of them available to our readers. My first task was to find out what “PEN” stands for: it’s an acronym for poets, playwrights, essayists and novelist, and […]
I’m sure there’s some connection between my fascination with statistics and my decades of cataloging–I like to study circulation trends and numbers of collections. Lately I’ve been taking a close look at our e-book collection and have had some surprises. We’ve been developing our collection based mostly on economics, and that has limited what we’ve […]
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