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 three 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.
Library Policy:
Policy for the Public Use of the Internet
Not only have we lost Bookmobile service due to budget cuts, but the Library community has been informed that the Western Mass. Regional Library will likely be closed at the end of the fiscal year. The impact of this change is not really known at this time. Certain services will not be available and other services will continue in a different manner. If you would like to weigh in on this budget issue, you may contact Rob Maier at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commisssioners at 98 N. Washington St., Suite 401, Boston 02114 (robertmaier@state.ma.us), or our state representatives, Rep.ChristopherDonelan@hou.state.ma.us or stephenbrewer@state.ma.us.
Last month we received the unfortunate news that the Bookmobile would no longer be bringing deposits of books, videos and audios to our library. The budget of the Regional Library has been cut too deeply to continue this service to small libraries throughout the Western Region of Massachusetts. Of the 101 libraries in Western Mass., 80 have populations below 1,900. This service will be missed by many. We will still continue to get delivery once a week, which will bring Inter Library Loan materials, but the pleasure of a rotating collection will no longer be available.
The Picturing America Project
Currently an exhibit of reproductions of American artworks is being shown at the library through the Picturing America Project, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association. Mass Humanities has created a pre-planned exhibit of 9 sets of the images, each on a theme, which uses 8 or 9 images and is accompanied by a handout/brochure with reading suggestions and internet research references suitable for family audiences. Come by and see these gorgeous images!
Some of the "Picturing America" images on exhibit now
On July 9th, the Trustees hosted an open house for Lonsdale Hickler. Lon has been on the Board of Trustees for 6 consecutive terms - 18 years.
l. to r. front: Ginny Fellows, Lonsdale Hickler; back: Calvin Fellows, Freddie Fellows, Oliver Fellows, Betsy Lochhead, Mary Williamson, David Young, Lisa VanderStelt, Matt Hickler, Nancy Hickler, Anne Miner, Janet Alden, Marion Cook
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."
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.
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.
Jim McRae tries out one of the new ukuleles
Now that the economy is keeping us closer to home, remember that the Library can help by making books, magazines, videos and audios available at no cost to you. Massachusetts libraries collaborate across the state making just about anything available to you through Inter Library loan.
The Library has a watt meter available for loan. This will measure how much energy your appliances use daily or weekly by doing some simple calculations. There's also a recliner and a digital camera to lend!
New Acquisitions:
New books include: Privileges by J. Dee, Drink This: Wine Made Simple by D. Grumdahl, Magnificent Bastards by R. Hall, Secrets of Eden by C. Bohjalian, Alice I Have Been by M. Benjamin, Bloodroot by A. Greene, Death at the Alma Mater by G. Malliet, Just Kids by P. Smith, Pops: a Life of Louis Armstrong by T. Teachout, To Much Happiness by A. Munro, New Complete Book of Food by C. Rinzler, Almost Moon by A. Sebold.
New Children's Books include: 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.
New DVDs include: Bucket List, Adam, Time Traveler's Wife, Michael Jackson: This Is It!, The Burning Plain, The Boys Are Back, and A Serious Man.
New CDs include: Miles from India - Miles Davis, Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Performing This Week - Jeff Beck, and Easy Come, Easy Go - Marianne Faithful.
New magazines include: Mother Earth News, Art New England and Writers' Digest.
Other recent CDs, DVDs and books:
CDs: 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: Julie and Julia, Night in the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Gran Torino, Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Proposal, Nothing Like the Holidays, Whatever Works, Up, Angels and Demons, Away We Go, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, #1 Ladies Detective Agency, Mad Men Season 2, Management, He's Just Not That Into You, City of Ember, Taken, Inkheart, New in Town, The producers, Centennial, West Side Story, Boston Legal 5 Seasons, Midsomer Murders Set 10, 11, 12, Doubt, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Mad Men Season 1, Last Chance Harvey, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Last Waltz, Twilight, Australia, Bottle Shock, Foyle's War Set 3, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, City of Ember, All of Me, Milk, The Secret Life of Bees, Nights in Rodanthe, Ghost Town, Dark Knight, Kung Fu Panda, Mama Mia!, Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Live at the Troubadour, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Wall-E, Young @ Heart filmed in Northampton, Cutthroat Island, Dan in Real Life, Porco Rosso, Nim's Island, John Adams, The Adventures of Indiana Jones, Charlie Wilson's War, August Rush, Jane Austen Book Club, Juno, Golden Compass, Hairspray, Six Feet Under Series, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, 27 Dresses, Nausicaa, Firefly the Complete series, Kiki's Delivery Service, National Treasure II, The Water Horse, Free Spirits (Renaissance community in Warwick and surrounding towns), Walk Hard, Sweeny Todd, The Kite Runner, Once, Becoming Jane, Across the Universe, No Country for Old Men, Darjeeling Limited, Atonement, Enchanted, Bourne Ultimatum, I Am Legend, and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.
Books: Stones to Schools by Mortenson, U is for Undertow by Grafton, Pirate Latitudes by Crichton, Half Broke Horses by Walls, Her Fearful Symmetry by Niffenegger, The Professional by Parker, An Echo in the Bone by Gabaldon, Hard Ball by Paretsky, The Price of Malice by Mayor, Why Health Matters by Weil, Traveling With Pomegranates by Kidd, The Hidden Man by Ellis, No Time to Wave Good-bye by Mitchard, Day After Night by Diamant, Last Song by Sparks, Dragons by Connelly, True Blue by Baldacci, The Lacuna by Kingsolver, The Lost Art of Gratitude by McCall-Smith, True Compass by Kennedy, South of Broad by Conroy, A Tale of Applebeck Orchard by Albert, Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes by Hertzberg, Healing of America by Reid, Inherent Vice by Pynchon, Lost Symbol by Brown, The Slippery Year by Gideon, Strength in What Remains by Kidder, That Old Cape Magic by Russo, Desert by LeClezio, Julie and Julia by Powell, 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth now by Barnes-Davies, Rain Gods by Burke, Get Real by Westlake, Knock Out by Coulter, The Girl Who Played With Fire by Larsson, Best Friends Forever by Weiner, Book of God and Physics by Joven, Case of the Missing Servant by Hall, These Are My Rivers, poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Fact of a Doorframe, poetry by Adrienne Rich , additions to the Audrey Greenwald book collection, Favorites by Waters, A Reliable Wife by Goolrick, Losing Mum and Pup by Buckley, Go With Me by Freeman, Scarecrow by Connelly, Laura Rider's Masterpeice by Hamilton, Woods Burner by Pipkin, The Way Home by Pelecanos, The Increment by Ignatius, Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox, Early Spring by Seidl, Family Man by Lipman, Fatally Flaky by Mott-Davidson, Forgotten Garden by Morton, The Help by Stockett, Wormwood by Albert, Frogs and Toads of No. Am. by Elliot, Birdsong by the Season by Kroodsma, Curse of the Pogo Stick by Cotterill, Death of a Witch by Beaton, Teatime for the Traditionally Built by McCall-Smith, First Family by Baldacci, Not Becoming my Mother by Reichl, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Bradley, Lowboy by Wray, Prayers for Sale by Dallas, After You've Gone by Lent, The Alexander Cipher by Adams, Believers by Heller, The Cream Puff Murder by Fluke, E-Bay Business for Dummies, Evidence by Oliver, Glister by Burnside, Handle With Care by Picoult, Jesus Interrupted by Ehrman, Long Time Comin by Thomas, Private Patient by James, School on Heart's Content Road by Chute, The Shack by Young, Women by Boyle, The Associate by Grisham, Broken Open by Lesser, Broken Shore by Temple, Dingley Falls by Malone, Eat This Not That by Zinczenko, Heart and Soul by Binchy, Listen to the Wind by Mortenson, Lost Witness by Ellis, Made From Scratch by Woginrich, Rule Against Murder by Penny, Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, Team of Rivals by Goodwin, The Memory of Running by McLarty, Brass Verdict by Connelly, Anarchy and Old Dogs by Cotterill, The Hour I First Believed by Lamb, A Mercy by Morrison, Netherland by O'Neill, Scarpetta by Cornwell, Annie Leibovitz at Work, The Catch by Mayor, Contagious by Sigler, The Wordy Shipmates by Vowell, Twenty Years, Twenty Hikes by Mt. Grace Land Trust, Alex and Me by Pepperberg, Casting Spells by Bretton, Other by Guterson, Fragile Lives by Adams, Dewey the Small Town Library Cat by Myron, Bedside Baccalaurate by Rubel, Disco for the Dead by Cotterill, Divine Justice by Baldacci, Ghost at Work by Hart, Letter to My Daughter by Angelou, Spoonful of Poison by Beaton, Tale of Briar Bank by Albert, Thirty-three Teeth by Cotterill, How to Cook Everything by Bittman, The World According to Bertie by McCall-Smith, Tribute by Roberts, American Savior by Merullo, Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by McCall-Smith, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Larsson, Given Day by Lehane, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution by Friedman, Lucky One by Sparks, One Fifth Avenue by Bushnell, Burn Out by Muller, Just Breathe by Wiggs, Nation by Pratchett, Testimony by Shreve, Wesley the Owl by O'Brien, Cosmicomics by Calvino, Hannah's Dream by Hammond, Brisingr by Paolini, Anathem by Stephenson, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Theroux, Mercedes Coffin by F. Kellerman, Off Season by Siddons, Inverted World by Priest, Little Book by Selden, Arrival by S. Tan, At First Sight by Cannell, Mine all Mine by Davies, Metzger's Dog by Perry, People of the Whale by Hogan, Breaking Dawn by Meyer, Coroner's Lunch by Cotterill, Moscow Rules by Silva, Rough Justice by Higgins, Tale of Edgar Sawtell by Wrobleski, The Thin Place by Davis, Mountain Park by Ducharme, Sunshine by McKinley, All New Square Foot Gardening, Soul of a Horse, August Moon, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Peterson's Field Guide to the Ferns, Stokes Field Guide to Birds Eastern Region, Suddenly, Vernal Pools - Natural History and Conservation, Winter Study by Barr, Unaccustomed Earth by Lahiri, The Whole Truth by Baldacci, Careful use of Compliments by McCall Smith, Soloist by Lopez, Miracle at Speedy Motors by McCall Smith, Ladies of Liberty by Roberts, Hold Tight by Coben, Miracle at Speedy Motors by McCall Smith, Where Are You Now? by Clark, Change of Heart by Picoult, How Doctors Think by Groopman, In Defense of Food by Pollan, Appeal by Grisham, Memo to the President-Elect by Albright, The Secret Between Us by Delinsky, Body Surfing by Shreve, New Earth by Tolle, Kissing Christmas Good-bye by Beaton, Mister Pip by Jones, and Fowl Weather by Tarte.
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