Blog entries - March 2012

NeW Book Wednesday!

Heather — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:00:00 +0100

New Books for the week of March 14th through March 21st. (pdf)

and New Books for the week of March 21st through March 28th (pdf)

Please contact us to put any of these titles on reserve (hold)

382-4131 or library@daytonwa.net

Get Email Notification now with Koha!

Heather — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:36:42 +0100

Columbia County Rural Library District now provides email notification for various notices. The default notifications are:

Advanced three-day notification prior to when an item is due.
Overdue notification when an item is 10, 30, and 180 days overdue plus a letter will also be sent when an item is 30 and 180 days overdue.
Holds filled notification lets you know there is an item awaiting pickup at the library.

We've had a lot of questions lately about how to renew your items in the OPAC, or the online library system.

Please note, you can renew materials from the library catalog:

Go to the Library Catalog
Click the "Log In" option in the upper right hand corner
Log in with your 14-digit card number and your last name (all lowercase).
On your account page, to the right, there is an option to “Renew.”

From there, you can:<...

Why aren't there more ebooks?

Heather — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:38:53 +0100

eBooks are a hot commodity. With many having received an e-reader of some kind as a gift over the holidays, the library community is seeing a massive jump in the number of requests for ebook services. Our own Washington Anytime Library (via Overdrive) has seen an unprecedented number of checkouts and holds since the holiday, and it shows no sign of letting off.

In the meantime, we're seeing patrons a tad dismayed by increased wait times and also that they can't find certain books in th...

DVDs for 8 Mar 2012

Heather — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:02:53 +0100

Entertainment:

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holocaust
In the Heat of the Night
Lilies of the Field
Masada
Stagecoach
The Pelican Brief
The Rainmaker

Teen books for 8 Mar 2012

Heather — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:49:51 +0100

Fiction:

Cold Train Coming (Barkdull)
Warrior (Davis)

Non-Fiction:

Dealing with Stress
Dolley Madison
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Johnny Appleseed
Muhammad Ali
P.T. Barnum
Sharpen Your Debate and Speech Writing Skills
Sharpen Your Essay Writing Skills
Sharpen Your Good Grammar Skills

Adult books for 8 Mar 2012

Heather — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:31:23 +0100

Fiction:

The Awakening (Chopin)
Sonoma Rose (Ciaverini)
Cinnamon Roll Murder (Fluke)
Midnight Falcon (Gemmell)
Home Front (Hannah)
Chasing the Sun (Peterson)
Lone Wolf (Picoult)

Non-Fiction:

Amigumi World
As Always, Julia
Asian Tofu
Book of Majors
Dictionary of Religions and Secular Faiths
Getting Financial Aid
Healthy Heart for Life
Josephus: The Complete Works
Outlaw Platoon
People of the First Crusade
Quilts from the House of Tula Pink
Sounding the Trumpet
Stable Smarts
The ...

DVDs for 3 Mar 2012

Heather — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:17:17 +0100

DVD, General Collection:

A Town Like Alice
An American in Paris
Easter Parade
GiGi
Johnny
Last Flight Out
Meet Me In St. Louis
Rust
Standing Firm
The Client
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Hiding Place

DVD, Children's

Gnomeo and Juliet
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Puss in Boots
Ramona and Beezus

Blu-Ray:

Annie Hall
Puss in Boots

Audiobooks for 3 Mar 2012

Heather — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:14:45 +0100

CD Fiction:

Left For Dead (Jance)

CD Non-Fiction:

Seal Team Six

Playaway Fiction:

Feast Day of Fools (Burke)
The Race (Cussler & Scott)
The Prague Cemetery (Eco)
The Scottish Prisoner (Gabaldon)
Shock Wave (Sandford)

Adult books for 3 Mar 2012

Heather — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:12:32 +0100

Fiction:

Ring (Baxter)
Look Away Beulah Land (Coleman)
A Perfect Blood (Harrison)
Sunrise on the Ballery (Hart)
Defending Jacob (Landay)
Chasing the Sun (Peterson)
The Holy Thief (Ryan)
The Family Business (Weber)

Graphic Novels:

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (Calero)