Check Out a Myriad of New Magazines in Library’s Collection
by Roseann Dies, Librarian
The Meadville Public Library has added more than forty new magazines to the periodical collection. A few of the titles include Bead & Button, Creative Crafter, Crochet Fantasy, and Memory Makers for craft lovers while gardening enthusiasts might enjoy checking out American Gardener and Country Gardens.
For our patrons who love to cook (or just love to eat), then Everyday Food, Food & Wine, and Gourmet should not be missed. Shoppers, please check out Lucky! For those interested in recreation and leisure activities, be sure to take a look at Backyard Living, Boating World, Flying, and Motorcyclist.
These and more new magazines are on display on the main floor of the library.
New magazines in the Children’s Room are American Baby, Discovery Girls, Junior Baseball, Young Dancer, and Young Rider.
The following new titles have been added to the reference collection:
Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound edited by Frank Hoffman (who just happens to be a librarian) is a two volume set that covers the history of recorded sound. The entries range from short definitions to lengthy essays and cover Thomas Edison’s disc to the MP3 player.
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson contains 1300 entries about actors and directors of which 300 are new additions to the 1994 edition.
United States Holidays and Observances: By Date, Jurisdiction, and Subject authored by Steve Rajtar covers not only the United States but American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Fifty-one essays and more than 90 maps tell the story of how each of the fifty states became a part our nation in the new reference work titled The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States.
Library patrons who are interested in ebooks, may want to look at what is available through Access PA. To view the available titles please go to the Power Library site. From there click on Find a Book and then–net Library. There are 8,926 ebooks available and range from the classics of literature to more recent titles. The Help menu is quite detailed and should answer any questions that users may have about the NetLibrary site. One interesting feature is the ebook of the month. The selection for May is Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. It was published in January 2005 by Harvard Business School Press.