Showing posts with label new books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new books. Show all posts
Thursday, January 7, 2016

New Books of 2016

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The new year offers exciting new stories that we can't wait to get our hands on.  Check out these book lists and tell us which books ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

More Graphic Novels from MLC

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The Mississippi Library Commission's graphic novel collection is growing.  Stop by MLC to check out these new titles and many more! ...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

New Graphic Novels at MLC

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The Mississippi Library Commission just received a huge book haul and we wanted to showcase some of our new graphic novels.  Be sure to sto...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Library Science Collection

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Are you a current MLIS (Master's of Library and Information Science/Studies) student, or a library worker that would like to brush up on...
Friday, January 10, 2014

New Books - Dogs of Courage

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Do you love dogs? If you do, our new book Dogs of Courage: The Heroism and Heart of Working Dogs Around the World is a great pick. This i...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

New Books - Epistolophilia

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Did you know that books at the Mississippi Library Commission are available for check out to the general public? Simply bring in your curr...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Seeing Is Reading

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Remember learning how to read? Cast your memory back to first grade: sounding out letters and forming them into words--C+A+T = CAT.  It wa...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

This Book is Grrreat!!

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We have recently acquired The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch by Marty Gitlin and Topher Ellis and have since be...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Don't You Make Me Repeat It: Just Eat It

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A few days ago, I was flipping through one of our new Reference books, They Eat That? I was fixated: caught between tittering at the unmen...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

A First Time for Everything

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We get so many new books here that I often have a hard time deciding which ones I want to dive into first! This week I chose Robertson's...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

A Hunger for Books, A Passion for Libraries

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Kira-Kira . Did you read it? (If you haven't, we have it here at MLC , ready and waiting!) It came out back in 2004 and subsequently won...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Things My Grandma Does

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In a small study done in Texas back in 2005, a middle-school librarian found that 76% of students were usually swayed by cover art and 70% w...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

How About Some Coffee, Bingo, And A Little Bog

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Our new reference books sit directly opposite the reference desk. I have been tempted by Holy Bingo, the Lingo of Eden, Jumpin' Jehosoph...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Death

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I've been merrily whistling that tune to myself ever since I ran across one of our books on the new non-fiction display: The Whole Death...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Go Ask Beatrice Sparks.

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One of the new books I mentioned last week was Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds by Melissa Katsoulis. After browsin...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

New Titles in the Reference Collection

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This blog post originally appeared 10/2/2007. Here are some of the newer titles we've received in the Reference department: The Book...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

I'll Have Some Codswallop With A Heaping Side Of Meat

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Getting new Reference books is a little like Christmas morning.  The Historical Encyclopedia of American Business , while an excellent tome,...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

From the New Book Shelf.

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As I was passing our New Book shelf a moment ago, a couple of books caught my eye. Then another. And another! And thus, a blog post was born...
Friday, August 14, 2009

57 Varieties, And One Of Them Is... Kumquat?

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I am a ketchup fiend. When I was a kid, I wanted to put it on everything: french fries, beans, cornbread, you name it. I'll even admit t...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Life is Like a Box of Etiquette Guides

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A few days ago, the reference department got a shipment of new treasures. Included was Debrett's A-Z of Modern Manners , a perfectly fab...