New weekly e-newsletter brings new library material to you!

Want to find out each week about the very newest in books, audio and video that the library has to offer? We're providing this new service through a California non-profit called WOWbrary. Sign up on the WOWbrary website to receive a fully formatted e-newsletter each Saturday featuring everything that has arrived in our collection over the past week, with links directly into our library catalog.

New arrivals are divided into categories (fiction, recreation, home and garden, ourdoors and nature, personal growth, young people, etc.), with top choices overall and in each category displayed by Amazon sales rank. You can see Amazon reveiws by clicking on the "Reviews" button, or place a hold in our catalog by clicking the "borrow" button or just by clicking on the title.

We're please to offer what we expect to be a very popular readers advisory service -- please sign up now!

NC LIVE announces new resources

NC LIVE has announced its resource line-up for the next three years. The changes will take place on January 1, 2009.

One of the new additions: the very popular EBSCO Auto Repair Reference Center (requires library card login). Availability of this database through NC LIVE will save the library $4,700 per year.

Nice, apparently, really is different than good

A headline in the American Library Association's electronic newsletter informs us:

"Mean librarian salaries up 2% in 2008"

Godfather says...

If you're watching the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, get oscar mike to the library and check out Evan Wright's book, or Hitman 2's autobiography.

No country for anyone

Production on the film version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is underway. Filming locations: post-Katrina New Orleans, Mount St. Helens and Pittsburgh. You get the picture.

The Gateway to Randolph County

News & Record columnist Jeri Rowe profiles our own Warren Dixon, who's currently absorbed with devising new nicknames for the Gate City. What started the brouhaha was Jeri's comment in a recent column referring to Asheboro as "the Triad's Mayberry," which Warren did not think was apt.

Warren is chair of the Liberty Library Board of Trustees, a member of the Randolph Public Library Board of Trustees, the prime mover behind the library's annual celebration of local writers, and, of course, an author himself. He's dogging Greensboro in his capacity as a columnist for The Courier-Tribune, or maybe because he just wants to dog Greensboro.

This isn't Warren's first brush with the News & Record. Some years ago, a reporter from the newspaper painted Liberty residents in an unflattering light in a story about a train wreck in town. Warren's response in the Courier blazed off the page to the degree that we proposed renaming the Randolph/Guilford County line.... "the Warren Dixon line."

Self-published best seller

NPR talks with author Brunonia Barry, whose self-published The Lace Reader has become a best seller.