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Digital Bookmobile Coming to Salem Church Wednesday, September 28!

LibraryPoint Blog, Teen Blog

09/28/2011 - 12:50pm

To celebrate the launch of our new OverDrive Web site, overdrive.librarypoint.org, we'll be getting a visit from OverDrive's Digital Bookmobile on Wednesday, September 28, from 12-6pm, at Salem Church Branch.

OverDrive Digital Bookmobile

The Digital Bookmobile's gadget gallery—featuring an iPod touch®, Android™ tablet, NOOK™, Sony® Reader™, BlackBerry®, Windows® Phone, and more—will help visitors discover portable devices that are compatible with the library’s download service from OverDrive. Interactive learning stations will give readers of all ages an opportunity to search the library’s collection, use supported mobile devices, and sample eBooks.

OverDrive Digital Bookmobile

Through our OverDrive web site, library card holders can check out and download eBooks anytime, anywhere.

Once downloaded, digital titles can be enjoyed on a computer or transferred to supported mobile devices. (Kindle support now available!) At the end of the lending period, titles will automatically expire and are returned to the digital collection.

There are never late fees or damaged items!

Take advantage of all of our download services 24/7 by visiting our eBooks & eAudio page.

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Awkward Family Photos by Mike Bender and Doug Chernack

Beth Solka, Families Sure Are Funny, Family, LibraryPoint Blog, Photography -- humor, Shelf Life Blog, Families

09/28/2011 - 8:58am

Awkward Family Photos by Mike Bender and Doug Chernack

A few weeks ago a friend of mine told me about Awkward Family Photos. This is a collection of photos that I would probably have burned if I had some of these for my family. However, these families bravely submitted them for the world to see.

Sometimes the reason for the awkward moment hits you in the face, but then there are others that you really have to look carefully at the picture and what is happening in the background to figure out what is funny about the photo. When I realized what is “special” about the photo I felt stupid for not noticing it right away.

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Angela Critics, Circus, LibraryPoint Blog, Shelf Life Blog, Fantasy

09/27/2011 - 3:30am

Come one, come all! Wander the Cloud Maze. Delight in the Ice Garden. Ride the amazing Carousel. Have your fortune told. Marvel at the tattooed contortionist. Enjoy the magical creation that is The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern! Only open from dusk to dawn, with every visible surface colored black, white and gray, this amazing venue truly lives up to its proper name, Le Cirque des Rêves or The Circus of Dreams.

The circus was created to serve as a forum for a magical competition to which young magicians Celia and Marco were bound by their teachers while still children. But just as the circus tents spread outward in a series of spiraling circles, so too does the circus’s impact on the people drawn into its orbit. As Celia and Marco fall in love, not realizing that the game is in fact a duel in which only one can be left standing, the circus takes on a life of its own.

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