Farewell Nora Ephron
1941 to 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Freeport Authors
FML Librarians Write a Book
Congratulations to librarians, Margaux DelGudiuce and Rose Luna on their new book. Margaux and Rose work full time as school media specialists and are part time librarians at the Freeport Memorial Library.
Make a Big Impact @ Your School Board Meeting was inspired by the authors' experiences speaking at local and national library conferences on the topic of making presentations to school boards and forging relationships with key administrators. It became clear that many librarians are unsure how to create a comprehensive marketing plan, and are simply too busy with their day-to-day tasks to tackle this daunting project.
This book details effective strategies for promoting a library beyond the building level in order to make an impact with the influential individuals who make the key decisions that directly affect the school district and library program.
Make a Big Impact @ Your School Board Meeting was inspired by the authors' experiences speaking at local and national library conferences on the topic of making presentations to school boards and forging relationships with key administrators. It became clear that many librarians are unsure how to create a comprehensive marketing plan, and are simply too busy with their day-to-day tasks to tackle this daunting project.
This book details effective strategies for promoting a library beyond the building level in order to make an impact with the influential individuals who make the key decisions that directly affect the school district and library program.
Book Recommendations
Summer Reading (Fiction)
Beneath the Shadows (2012)
By Sara Foster
When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave
the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone—the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister—is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation. She is desperate for answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace hunts through forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues, and digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot get them away in time.
Beneath the Shadows (2012)
By Sara Foster
When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave
the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone—the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister—is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation. She is desperate for answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace hunts through forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues, and digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot get them away in time.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Book Recommendations
Summer Reading (Fiction)A Library Lover's Mystery Series
Books Can Be Deceiving (2011)
Books Can Be Deceiving (2011)
By Jenn McKinlay
Newly single Lindsey Norris, the director of the Briar Creek Public Library, tries to help her best friend Beth, a children's book author and librarian, prove her innocence when she is accused of murdering her boyfriend Rick, a local celebrity.
Due or Die (2012)
Newly single Lindsey Norris, the director of the Briar Creek Public Library, tries to help her best friend Beth, a children's book author and librarian, prove her innocence when she is accused of murdering her boyfriend Rick, a local celebrity.
Due or Die (2012)
By Jenn McKinlay
When Friends of the Library president Carrie Rushton is accused of murdering her husband, library director Lindsey Norris and the Briar Creek crafternoon club launch their own investigation during a nor'easter that has left the police otherwise occupied.
When Friends of the Library president Carrie Rushton is accused of murdering her husband, library director Lindsey Norris and the Briar Creek crafternoon club launch their own investigation during a nor'easter that has left the police otherwise occupied.
Book Recommendations
Summer Reading (Nonfiction)
World War II History
Hell Above the Earth (2012)
By Stephen Frater
Werner Goering a United States B-17 pilot during World War II for the Mighty 8th Air Force, had a hurdle to overcome - his uncle is Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's second in command. Unbeknown to him, Goering's co-pilot, Jack Rencher had a standing order from J. Edgar Hoover to kill Werner in case they got shot down or if he was trying to commit an act of treason. Jack, a poor boy with a difficult childhood, found Werner to be a soul mate, his only friend in life. The author's research brings this decades old secret, which is profound and deeply personal, to light.
Stalin's General: Georgy Zhukov (2012)
By Geoffrey Roberts
A man of indomitable will and fierce determination, Georgy Zhukov was the Soviet Union’s indispensable commander through every one of the critical turning points of World War II. Drawing on the latest research from recently opened Soviet archives, including the uncensored versions of Zhukov’s own memoirs, Roberts offers a vivid portrait of a man whose tactical brilliance was matched only by the cold-blooded ruthlessness with which he pursued his battlefield objectives.
Hell Above the Earth (2012)
By Stephen Frater
Werner Goering a United States B-17 pilot during World War II for the Mighty 8th Air Force, had a hurdle to overcome - his uncle is Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's second in command. Unbeknown to him, Goering's co-pilot, Jack Rencher had a standing order from J. Edgar Hoover to kill Werner in case they got shot down or if he was trying to commit an act of treason. Jack, a poor boy with a difficult childhood, found Werner to be a soul mate, his only friend in life. The author's research brings this decades old secret, which is profound and deeply personal, to light.
Stalin's General: Georgy Zhukov (2012)
By Geoffrey Roberts
A man of indomitable will and fierce determination, Georgy Zhukov was the Soviet Union’s indispensable commander through every one of the critical turning points of World War II. Drawing on the latest research from recently opened Soviet archives, including the uncensored versions of Zhukov’s own memoirs, Roberts offers a vivid portrait of a man whose tactical brilliance was matched only by the cold-blooded ruthlessness with which he pursued his battlefield objectives.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Digitization Statistics
Long Island Memories Digitization Statistics
Since 2004, the Freeport Memorial Library and the Freeport Historical Society have been scanning and making historical material pertaining to Freeport available online through the Long Island Memories Digitization Project: www.longislandmemories.org
Items Available as of May 2012 for Freeport
4,343 Pictures/Pamphlets
7 Newspapers
50 Years - Village of Freeport Newsletters
Hits for May 2012
28,464 Freeport Leader
13,323 Nassau County Review
8,882 Nassau Post
6,143 Photographs/Pamphlets
4,495 South Side Messenger
3,541 Daily Review of Nassau County
2,990 Queens County Review
1,575 Village of Freeport Newsletters
587 Freeport News
70,000 Total Hits
May 2012
Since 2004, the Freeport Memorial Library and the Freeport Historical Society have been scanning and making historical material pertaining to Freeport available online through the Long Island Memories Digitization Project: www.longislandmemories.org
Items Available as of May 2012 for Freeport
4,343 Pictures/Pamphlets
7 Newspapers
50 Years - Village of Freeport Newsletters
Hits for May 2012
28,464 Freeport Leader
13,323 Nassau County Review
8,882 Nassau Post
6,143 Photographs/Pamphlets
4,495 South Side Messenger
3,541 Daily Review of Nassau County
2,990 Queens County Review
1,575 Village of Freeport Newsletters
587 Freeport News
70,000 Total Hits
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