New To The Library Catalog

Friday, November 12, 2010

New to the Library Catalog

We have made a few changes to our library catalog:

• Login to your library account by using a Username instead of a library barcode number
• Rate books and other materials on a five star scale
• Create lists to save titles across catalog sessions
• Save searches across catalog sessions

For more information about these new additions, please click here.
We hope you enjoy these new features!

Chester County Library System. CCLS Loves Books Blog. 19 November 2012. 19 November 2012 <http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/Catalog%20Tips>.

National Book Award Winners

Thursday, November 15, 2012

National Book Award Winners

The winners of the 2012 National Book Awards were announced last night. Here are the winners in the adult categories:

Fiction
The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Nonfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Poetry
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry

Chester County Library System. CCLS Loves Books Blog. 19 November 2012. 19 November 2012 <http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/national-book-award-winners.html>.

New To The New York Times Best Seller List

Monday, November 19, 2012

New to the New York Times Best Seller List

Here are the new titles on the New York Times Best Seller List for November 18, 2012:

Fiction
The Sins of the Mother by Danielle Steel
A Winter Dream by Richard Paul Evans
Iced by Karen Marie Moning
The Giving Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

Nonfiction
Bruce by Peter A. Carlin
The Generals by Thomas E. Ricks
A Gift of Hope by Danielle Steel
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
The Last Lion (v.3) by William Manchester and Paul Reid

Chester County Library System. CCLS Loves Books Blog. 19 November 2012. 19 November 2012 <http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/>.

Avon Grove Library Loves Books

New to the New York Times Best Seller List

Here are the new titles on the New York Times Best Seller List for November 11, 2012:

Fiction
The Racketeer by John Grisham
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury
Angels at the Table by Debbie Macomber
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith

Nonfiction
Rod by Rod Stewart
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander
Makeup to Breakup by Peter Criss
Why I Left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith

 Works Cited

Chester County Library System. CCLS Loves Books Blog. 12 November 2012. 12 November 2012 <http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/>.

NOOKS Have Arrived!!!

CCLS eReaders are available for check out!

The NOOKs have arrived and are ready for you to check out today!

Visit your local library and be one of the first to check out a NOOK preloaded with popular eBook titles. Each local library has seven different genre based NOOKs. You can choose from a NOOK withmystery, fiction, romance, science fiction/fantasy/horror, thrillers,non-fiction or biography titles. You may search the library catalog and see the titles available on each themed NOOK. They can be checked out for three weeks.

CCLS Loves Books Blog Spot. January 2011. 20 January 2011 <http://cclslovesbooks.blogspot.com/>.

Storytimes at Avon Grove Library 2012

Caldecott Medal Books 2011

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

2011 Medal Winner

The 2011 Caldecott Medal winner is  A Sick Day for Amos McGee , illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead. A Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing. 

In this tender tale of reciprocity and friendship, zookeeper Amos McGee gets the sniffles and receives a surprise visit from his caring animal friends. Erin Stead’s delicate woodblock prints and fine pencil work complement Philip Stead’s understated, spare and humorous text to create a well-paced, gentle and satisfying book, perfect for sharing with friends.

“Endearing, expressive characterization in spare illustrations rendered in muted tones distinguish this timeless picture book.  It’s a great day for Amos McGee!” said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Judy Zuckerman. 

2011 Honor Books

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave , illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.  

Collier’s arrestingly beautiful artistic interpretation of Hill’s poetic text reveals Dave the potter’s artistic process while also conveying the dignified triumph of his humanity in the face of oppression. Lush, earth-toned, multimedia collages are illuminated in soft, ethereal light that focuses the eye on the subject of each spread.

Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein, published by Candlewick Press.

Stein’s hilarious story presents Little Chicken and her long-suffering Papa, who just wants to get through a bedtime story without his daughter’s metafictive disruptions. Exuberant artwork shifts media and style, taking readers into three fairy tales, culminating in Little Chicken’s “Bedtime for Papa,” but truly delivering a story for all. 

For more information, please visit: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal