You Are Where You Sit!

Seating Choice in a Library Tells A Lot About a Person

Ask a dozen students about their favorite study spot in the Tunxis Library, and you’re likely to get a dozen different answers.  Where you study depends on what you want to get done.  Some people need to meet in a study room with their group for a project, others need complete quiet, some have to hide out from their families,  researchers need the online environment, … and then there are those who just love a comfy chair and a quiet, cozy library.

Here’s some “Quietness Ratings” for the Tunxis Library study areas (rated 1-5)
1= super quiet       5=noisy

1st Floor tables: 4-5
1st Floor soft seating: 4-5
1st Floor study carrels: 2-3
1st Floor computer area: 2-3
1st Floor group study rooms: 5

<Shhh! Quiet zone on 2nd Floor>

2nd Floor tables: 2-3
2nd Floor soft seating: 1-2
2nd floor study carrels: 1
2nd floor computer area: 1-2
2nd floor group study rooms: 5

Why No Food or Disposable Drink Cups in the Library?

What’s Up with That???

Believe us, we’d love to let you order a pizza, munch on potato chips, and swig a coke in the Library, but the fact is:

• Food smells bad
• Even nice people are messy
• Food crumbs and wrappers attract mice and insects
• People lick their fingers and then use the computer keyboards
• Disposable cups are either not disposed of properly—or are tossed half-full into the trash receptacles leaving sticky spatters on tables and down the front of the trash containers.

We know this because we lived it in the “former Library.”
That’s why we had Pages Café designed just for you right outside the Library!

We’re keeping the new buildings clean.

• If you need to eat while you work, set yourself up in the lobby of Pages Café. You can eat and drink there, and it can be pretty quiet most times.

• If you connect drinking coffee or tea to studying, buy the $2  Tunxis Library spill-proof mug and make yourself at home anywhere in the Library.

Thank you!

Are Dictionaries Becoming Obsolete?

The question asked is “Do we need dictionaries in the age of Google?” I say yes, but then again, I’m the type of person who reads dictionaries for fun!
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Welcome to our new and returning students and faculty

All of us at the library would like to extend our welcome to you.  Come and say hi and meet or catch up with your Tunxis Librarians.  Take a look at some of our new displays.  Get a library card.  Scope out your new favorite study spot-quiet or not.  We’re glad to see you!

In honor of the 19th Amendment

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States became effective on this date in 192o, guaranteeing women the right to vote all across the country.  In honor of that fact I give you these women offering their interpretations of the classic “We Can Do It” women’s empowerment poster. Check out the littlest woman’s inborn sense of female strength!

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Another book to movie adaptation is in theaters this summer.  The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger stars Rachel McAdams as Claire  and Eric Bana as Henry, the couple both united and torn apart by the vagaries of Henry’s genetic propensity for appearing and disappearing throughout their lives together, past, present and future.
The trailer makes the movie look sumptuously romantic.  As always, read the book first!

In theaters now: Julie and Julia

Julie Powell’s gamble of blogging her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking has certainly paid off, with her memoir now the impetus for the new movie, Julie and Julia. And who wouldn’t want to be portrayed by the cute Amy Adams?

Get the book at the Tunxis Library!  Check availability now.

Watch the movie trailer.

Library Hours for the dog days of August

Now that Summer classes are ending our new hours will be:

August 10-28th, 2009

Mondays-Thursdays 8am-5pm
Fridays 8am-4pm
Closed Saturday

Brainy Beach Reads?

One thing I will say for the NPR crowd… they’re a brainy bunch!  So when NPR listeners were asked to name the 100 Best Beach Books Ever they rose to the occasion with some new and old favorites of the decidedly non-trashy variety.  Good news is, we have most of these titles here at the Tunxis Library.  And, we don’t even mind a little sand when you bring them back.

Photo credit: Lorello

New Fiction Arrivals

A list of new novels ready to check out.

• Execution Dock by Anne Perry
• The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
• The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan
• Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
• The Pain Nurse by Jon Talton
• The Returning by Ann Tatlock
• Natural Elements by Richard Mason
• Three Weeks To Say Goodbye by C. J. Box
• Foreign Tongues: A Novel of Life & Love in Paris by Vanina Marsot
• The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
• Starvation Lake: A Mystery by Bryan Gruley
• Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn
• The Warderd Man by Peter V. Brett
• Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
• An Accidental Light by Elizabeth Diamond
• The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts
• Secret Son by Laila Lalami
• Life Is Short But Wide by J. California Cooper
• Corner Shop by Roopa Farooki
• Wandering Stars by Sholem Aleichem