Books for All Generations

The library still buys lots of books to support college studies, as well as books that we wish someone would use for papers, speeches, advanced study, or to just enjoy. We also subscribe to collections of E-Books, at least 50,000 full-text online books that cover all subjects plus the kitchen sink. Seriously, there are even books on plumbing. We're hoping to add more popular fiction and non-fiction, just to read, remember what that's like?



While checking to see if we could find a certain title online, we stumbled upon a site especially for readers who don't think they could ever read a book while sitting in front of the computer. It's called openlibrary.org where you'll find over 1,000,000 scanned books, and information for 21 million others. These books are all in the public domain and cover history, science, literature, journals and diaries, and the most delightful children's books imaginable. The best part? It looks like a book, the pages appear to turn with a click, and you can use the search option to find specific topics within the book. In fact, it IS the book. Amazing, and not only that, many of these documents are so rare that you'd never get to see them if it weren't for sites like this. Besides, it's fun! We've been adding a few links to items of local interest in our online catalog.