Warwick Free Public Library
Warwick Free Public Library
Mondays 10 - 4; Tuesdays 1 - 8; Thursdays 5 - 8; Saturdays 10 - 12:30
Our library is a vital source of information and entertainment. Aside from the latest books, CDs, DVDs and videos, there are Discovery Kits, toys in the Children's Section, free faxing, and copies at $0.10 each! The library subscribes to 22 different magazines and journals. There's free high speed wi-fi for your own laptop, or use one of the five library computers. Through inter-library loan you can get any book, CD or DVD from another library.
Library Catalog:
You can find out if the book, CD, DVD or video you are looking for is in the Warwick Library or any other Central or Western Massachusetts library by clicking here and choosing Warwick (or any other library) from the pull-down menu.
You can now order books on-line through CWMARS and have them delivered to Warwick. This means that you don't have to call this Library and can request any time of the day. Stop by if you need more information on how this works.
Library Policy:
Policy for the Public Use of the Internet
I am looking for some ideas for workshops for the winter months - Are there any types of programs you might be interested in? There are painting workshops and all types of informational programs. Stop by and let me know what you want.
The Library now has several courses on DVD: Major Transitions in Evolution, Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology and Understanding the World's Greatest Structures. Each course has DVDs, course book and transcripts of the lectures.
The Library has been given 3 videos generously donated by the film goers at the Town Hall. Man With a Plan, Vermont is for Lovers and Nosey Parker are all available for loan. They are already very popular.
Stickers for the Town Recycle Center are now available at the Library - $20.00 each along with 2 sizes of trash bags - $2.50 for large $1.50 for small.
If you have any suggestions for new music for the Wallace Music collection, please let me know. The music cds are constantly going out, so I would like to know what else you would like to see added to the collection.
The Library has purchased 2 laptops to accommodate everyone who wants to be online.
Did you know that you can send faxes for free from the library? Buy trash bags and stickers? Access the Internet on your computer or the Library's? Make copies for 10 cents? Borrow a camera or a Kill-a-Watt meter? Play with lots of neat toys? Borrow videos and CDs? Sit in a comfortable chair and read? It's a great place to spend an afternoon.
There are 5,265 library transactions every second world wide.
The Library has purchased a Kindle so that you can try a reader out before you get one of your own. Stop by for a demo.
The Western Mass. Regional Library will continue to operate from the Whately facility, but in a much different format. One other Regional Center will be located in Waltham. We will continue to receive ILL and Delivery but the Bookmobile will not be re-instated. This will remain in place until next fiscal year when the program will be re-evaluated.
The Library is the recipient of a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Assoc. for "We the People Bookshelf". This collection of books range from picture books to comprehensive histories. These books "will give young readers the chance to experience vividly some places, people, and stories in American history and culture."
Have you always wanted to learn how to play a musical instrument? The Library has ordered two ukeleles and videos to go along with them. There are new materials arriving all the time. Stop by and see what's new.
A small Warwickian enjoys the children's section
Jim McRae tries out one of the new ukuleles
Nancy hands over some weekend enjoyment
New Acquisitions:
New books include: Slash and Burn by Cotterill, Forgotten Affairs of Youth by McCall-Smith, Scottish Prisoner by Gabaldon, 11-22-63 by King, Three Day Town by Maron, The Best of Me by Sparks, Christmas Mourning by Maron.
New Children's Books include: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Angleberger, There's Going to be a Baby by Burningham, Ubiquitous by Sidman, Walls Within Walls by Sherry, One Crazy Summer by Williams-Garcia.
Educational Courses: Major Transitions in Evolution, Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology and Understanding the World's Greatest Structures. Each course has DVDs, course book and transcripts of the lectures.
New books on CD include: The Glass Castle by Walls, Beowulf by Heaney, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Paper Airplane by Alison Krause, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Simonson, Cutting for Stone by Verghese, Bossypants by Fey, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloo, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Cleopatra: A Life, Unbroken, Colonel Roosevelt and I Still Dream About You.
New CDs include: Lang Lang - Liszt My Piano Hero, Map of the Floating City - Dolby.
New magazines include: Mother Earth News, Art New England and Writers' Digest.
New DVDs include: Water for Elephants, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Help, Cowboys and Aliens, Sarah's Key, The Debt, The Dolphin's Tail, Midnight in Paris.
Other recent CDs, DVDs and books:
CDs: The Harrow and the Harvest by Gillian Welch, Mi Bossa Nova by Carmen Cuesta, 21 by Adele, King of Limbs by Radioihead, Rave on Buddy Holly by Var. artists, Love Peace Ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro, City of Refuge by Abigail Washburn, La Noise - Neil Young, Nashville - Simon Burke, Greatest Hits - Fats Waller, Bert & I On Stage - Marshall Dodge, My World 2.0 - Justin Bieber, A Year Without Rain - Selena Gomez, Dreamland - Madeline Peyroux, The River in Reverse - Elvis Costello and Alan Toussaint, Songs of the Grateful Dead - Jesse McReynolds, You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples, Clapton - Eric Clapton, Radio Disney Jams 12, Camp Rock 2 : The Final Jam, Leave Your Sleep - Natalie Merchant, Emotion and Commotion - Jeff Beck, VOCABuLaries - Bobby McFerrin, Miles from India - Miles Davis, Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Performing This Week - Jeff Beck, Easy Come, Easy Go - Marianne Faithful, Electric Arguments by Paul McCartney & Youth, Music for 18 Musicians by Reich, Please Don't Eat the Fiddleheads by Darrow, Head Hunters by Hancock, The Works by Brooke, Day After Tomorrow by Joan Baez, Two Men with the Blues by Marsalis and Nelson, Keep it Simple by Van Morrison, Harps and Angels by Randy Newman, Experience 101 for children by Sweet Honey in the Rock.
DVDs: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Cars 2, Water For Elephants, I Am Number 4, Arrested Development - The Complete Series, Rango, Gnomeo and Juliet, Lincoln Lawyer, Blazing Saddles 30th Anniversary, Back To The Future Trilogy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Where the Rivers Flow North, Foyle's War set 5 & 6, American Grafitti, Clockwork Orange, True Grit, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Just Go With It, Man With a Plan, Vermont is for Lovers, Nosey Parker, Black Swan, Inside Job, Coco Before Chanel, The King's Speech, The Power of Myth, Megamind, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Downton Abbey, Secretariat, Stardust, The Social Network, The Town, Despicable Me, Legend of the Guardians, Imax: Under the Sea, A Fish Called Wanda, Tremors, Grownups, Charlie St. Cloud, Ramona and Beezus, Toy Story 3, and How to Train Your Dragon, Glee: Season 1, Mad Men: Season 3, Avatar, Twilight: New Moon, The Blind Side, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Ponyo, Where the Wild Things Are, The Informant, Up in the Air, Bucket List, Adam, Time Traveler's Wife, Michael Jackson: This Is It!, The Burning Plain, The Boys Are Back, A Serious Man, Julie and Julia, Night in the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Children's Books: The Baby in the Hat, Lucy and the Bully, Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem, Cool Collage, Taj Mahal, One, Last Night, There's Nothing to on Mars, and Welcome to the Zoo.
Books: Bear Down, Bear North by Moustakis, City of Whispers by Muller, Tag Man by Mayor, V is for Vengeance by Grafton, Taker by Katsu, We Meant Well by Van Buren, Flowering Judas by Haddam, Rebecca by DuMaurier, Bulls Island by Frank, Burnt Mountain by Siddons, Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Cotterill, Ringer, by Wiprud, One Summer by Baldacci, Game of Thrones series by Martin, Maine by Sullivan, Now you see her by Patterson, Heat wave by Thayer, Bayou Trilogy by Woodrell, I Am Number 4 by Lore, The Power of 6 by Lore, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin by Trillin, Rodin's Debutante by Just, Sanctus by Toyne, Unlikely Friendships by Holland, One Dog Night by Rosenfelt, A Trick of the Light by Penny, How the States Got Their Shapes by Stein, The Bone Garden by Gerritsen, The People's Pharmacy by Graedon, Tough Customer by Brown, Dance With Dragons by Martin, Double Death on the Black Isle by Scott, Emperor of All Maladies by Mukherjee, Fall From Pride by Harper, Feast Day of Fools by Burke, Flash and Bones by Reichs, Lost Memory of Skin by Banks, Nightwoods by Frazier, Northwest Angle by Krueger, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Orlean, Shock Wave by Sandford, Son of Stone by Woods, Surrogate by Carver, Wrong Man Running by Hruska, Reamde by Stephenson, Night Strangers by Bohjalian, Touch by Wallace, Affair by Child
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