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Posted: Saturday, April 21, 2012 1:00 am
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Updated: 10:01 am, Sat Apr 21, 2012.
Each newsletter is aimed at a different audience
or reading level: Kids' Books will feature picture books, chapter books,
and fiction and nonfiction books for children from birth through
elementary ages. Teen Scene will showcase books, both fiction and
nonfiction, of interest for middle and high school students (or older
readers who still enjoy young adult literature). Fiction A to Z will
include titles from a wide range of genres from the adult fiction
collection, including, but not limited to, fantasy, historical fiction,
inspirational fiction, literary fiction, mystery, science fiction and
romance. These three are monthly newsletters.
Readable Nonfiction and Home, Garden, and DIY
will be bi-monthly publications; Readable Nonfiction, a genre which has
gained popularity in the last few years, refers to nonfiction that reads
like fiction (it isn't the stuff you were forced to endure in school,
it isn't a textbook, it isn't instructional, but is interesting and
engaging - think "Freakonomics," by Steven D. Levitt, or "For All the
Tea in China," by Sarah Rose), and will run the gamut from psychology to
travelogues. Home, Garden, and DIY will call on our wonderful
collections on how to build sheds and decks, how to make the most of
container gardening, how to redo the wiring in the bathroom and install
new counters in the kitchen, and even how to make gluten-free cupcakes.
Library users of any age can access any of these
titles, and each newsletter will feature a mix of new titles and
tried-and-true favorites. No library card is necessary for library
website visitors and patrons to subscribe to any of the different
subject and genre newsletters for all ages. List topics are published on
a regular basis, and include about 10 titles. Patrons can subscribe to
have any of the available newsletters emailed directly to their inboxes,
or patrons can subscribe via RSS. Even those library patrons without
email addresses can take advantage of the lists by viewing them online,
either at the library or from any Internet access point.
All of the titles featured in our newsletters are
books or other resources we have on our shelves - they are available
for you to check out or place on hold. Subscribers with library cards
can link directly to the library catalog from the lists and place a hold
immediately. Should you need help placing a hold, call the information
desk at (509) 338-3254.
Newsletters will also include reminders about
upcoming library events. Special events such as the visit and book
signing by local author and Washington State University professor Dirk
Schulze-Makuch (5:30 p.m. Tuesday), or regularly occurring events such
as preschool storytimes (10:30 a.m. Thursdays) or Good Yarns (noon on
Fridays).
Fiction A to Z and Readable Nonfiction are now
available via the library's website. The next newsletter will be Kids'
Books, which will come out April 24.
Visit Neill Public Library in person or online at www.neill-lib.org to sign up for NextReads Newsletters.
Sarah Morrison is the adult services librarian at Neill Public Library.
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