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New Netbooks Are Here!

We've known it for a long time! The library's laptops were old, slow and frustrating. Trying to search on the World Wide Web was near impossible and waiting for the computer to recognize a USB drive could take forever. But no more! Last Thursday, the library started circulating 15 new netbook computers. These computers are slimmer, lighter, faster and just plain cute! Each computer uses Vista as the operating system and has Microsoft Office 2007 installed. The only thing these computers can't do is play a CD or DVD. For that capability, you'll have to use one of our older laptops. So, yes, to answer your question, we still have the older laptops; we'll just use these when we run out of the netbooks. So please stop by the library's circulation desk and check out a new netbook. We think you'll find them a vast improvement. Have fun and enjoy!

Just in time for Thanksgiving break

If you're nosey like me and like to read about the details of other people's lives, you're in luck! This list of new books includes all kinds of memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies--not to mention books about writing memoir: Family Bible Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora RĂ©sistance: A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry The Time and Place That Gave Me Life Hapa Girl: A Memoir Circus Queen & Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline Things I've Been Silent About: Memories The Glass Castle: A Memoir The Middle Place (written by a relative of a PVCC instructor, by the way) Big Russ and Me: Father and Son, Lessons of Life Me of Little Faith Will’s Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery The Urban Hermit: A Memoir Labor

Book Lovers Unite This Friday, November 20th

The Book Club will meet this Friday, November 20th, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Jessup Library. We will continue our discussion of A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines. Please join us as we explore this novel more thoroughly. See you Friday at 1 p.m. There will be refreshments! Linda Cahill

Just a Reminder...

The semester is slowly winding down, and people are busy finishing papers and studying for upcoming exams. The library is filled to the brim; most seats are taken during the day, and the computers are constantly in use. A previous post outlined the library's computer policy and to whom priority is given when people are waiting. We feel it is important to restate the policy here. According to the library's Policies and Services Web page, the following groups are given priority (in this order) when computers are in demand: Currently-enrolled students, faculty and staff using the computer for research or coursework; Currently-enrolled students, faculty and staff using the computer for research not relating to coursework; Community members using the computer for research. If all the computers are busy, keep in mind that you do have options. You may always check out a laptop (for use in the library); the laptops print to Xerox #2. If you're in a hurry (and don't want to wa