The Monroe County Library System's eBook collection is now compatible with the Amazon Kindle. Library patrons can download popular and classic eBooks to their Kindle or any mobile device running the free Kindle application such as iPhone, iPad and Android. To get started, patrons can visit www.libraryweb.org and click the "download" tab.
The Monroe County Library System is launching a Very Important Places pass program. A partnership allows libraries to circulate discount passes for the Memorial Art Gallery, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the Genesee Country Village and Museum, Geva Theatre Center and the George Eastman House.
In the present days, four wizard teenage friends are in high school and their leader Caleb Danvers is close to his 18th birthday, a time to ascend.
The Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County will hold its annual giant used-book sale Thursday through Sunday in Kate Gleason Auditorium at the Bausch & Lomb Public Library Building, 115 South Ave. Thousands of books are sorted by category and range in price from 25 cents to $1. All proceeds support the Rochester Public Library.
...Grant amount: $70,200. Burlington County Library System, Westampton, NJ Burlington County L...Grant amount: $99,000. Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, IN The Monroe ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A Southern Indiana library is taking steps to restrict computer use and reduce clashes in response to rising numbers of altercations that have required calling police. Arrests at the Monroe County Public Library in downtown Bloomington have tripled in the past six years, as have the number of reported assaults, The Herald-Times reported. The number of people considered "trespassers" rose from one in 2006 to 14 in the last year, according to Bloomington Police Department data. Library director Sara Laughlin said the library tries to be a safe and welcoming place for everyone who ends up there - including the smokers, the drinkers and the enraged.
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks threatened Wednesday to pull county funding away from the Monroe County Library System after a television news investigation revealed pornography was being downloaded in the Central Library in plain view of children. As WHEC-10 found in their recent investigation, Internet users aged 17 and older can openly access and view graphic materials such as pornography in the Central Library, all while in the presence of children," Brooks' letter to library Director Paula Smith said. "In one horrifying instance, a probationer previously arrested for child endangerment was found to be viewing questionable material on the second floor - and in proximity to the children's section of the library.
Michael J. Starnes, 35, and Shanna C. Starnes, 32, both of 1 Short St., are accused of stealing more than $7,000 worth of movies, electronic games and other media from the Monroe County Library System. Investigators with the Rochester Office of Public Integrity and Rochester Police Department have charged them with first-degree scheming to defraud and fourth-degree grand larceny.
Some of them were old friends, including two by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison ("The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved") and "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier. The top contender was new to me but it sounds like fun: "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell is a children's book "about two male penguins parenting an egg from a mixed-sex penguin couple," according to an ALA press release. I checked the Monroe County Library Web site and four of our five branches have it, all copies checked in, waiting to be read. Whenever I hear of an attempt to ban a book I wonder if the would-be banners have ever met a kid, or have entirely forgotten what it was like to be a kid. Don't they know that forbidding something increases its allure exponentially? And why do they think that re...
Its graphics were playful and its attitude bright. "Divorced in One Dakota Day" blared one headline, beneath it the floating words "Morning!" "Noon!" and "Night!" It also had rather more serious stories: "Scientists Now Know Positively That There Are Thirsty People on Mars" (that's thirsty, not thirty). We're at a bizarre moment in history," writes [Nicholson Baker], "when you can have the real thing for considerably less than it would cost to buy a set of crummy black-and-white snapshots of it that you can't read without the help of a machine. Here in the 21st century, in Key West, the question of what to do with old newspapers continues to vex. The Key West Citizen keeps a bound collection that spans its 130-year history but regrettably is incomplete. In conjunction with The Citizen...
... whole sets of them, although the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library each o...In conjunction with The Citizen, the Monroe County Library keeps a collection of the newspaper...
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