A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. Joseph Wood Krutch
This is the fifth post in my Blog,What's Up at the Carlsbad Public Library. The first four blog posts covered:
- Welcome--Post I
- The Dewey Decimel System--Post II
- Linking to Book Information; Discovering Library Resources--Post III
- New Mexican Writers--Rudolfo Anaya and Denise Chavez--Post IV
The fifth post will be on some of the facilities and features at the Carlsbad Public Library.
Before we proceed--some Library Rules:
- No smoking, eating or drinking in the library please.
- Keep your cell phones off please.
- Keep your voices down please.
Thank you for being considerate of other library patrons and for helping to take care of your library's valuable resources.
Your passport to using the library's resources is your library card; it is free and can be obtained at the library at the circulation desk , the first thing that you will see as you enter the library. This is also where you will check your library materials out.
Another desk that you will find for your convenience in the library is the information desk, staffed by a person who can help you with your questions. This is also the area to find reference books.
As you walk from the circulation desk to the information, you will notice the library's computers to your left. Please check with
a librarian staff member about the steps for qualifying to use the these computers. A time limit for your use will be in effect in order for the library to share the computers fairly.In many ways libraries like the Carlsbad Public Library are the ideal hosts. Why? Because they have something for everyone who visits. Here are a few categories of items they maintain.
Fiction--stories that, while they aren't true, are so well-written that they touch our hearts and jolly-well seem true. If you search the term "fiction" on the Carlsbad Library database, you will see that the library has 2,896 items. You will also see that fiction breaks down into categories like "Adventure and Adventurers,"(19 entries total), "Africa" (10), "Afro-Americans"(93), and "Albuquerque, NM" (5) etc. I assume that included might be academic studies onThe categories can be very specific and might only have one entry. I find it an interesting place to browse.
Mysteries--on the database, search this and you will find fiction mysteries, true mysteries, juvenile mysteries, and reference books on mysteries etc. (315 items) Remember that you will find overlap and cross references among these categories.Westerns--most everybody beyond toddler-age knows what a western is. The catalog says 66 items which sounds like less than might be in the library, but who am I to argue with a database? Why did "easterns" seem to be as popular as westerns? Being Massachusetts-born, I know that we have exciting things in the east I think.
Science Fiction--(1031 items)
Historical Novels--(85 items)
Romance Stories--(52 items)
Classics--(384 items)
On the main search page is a button for "Have You Read?" It has categories including:
"Best Books for Young Adults"
"Caldecott Award Winners"
"Best Sellers"
"Horror Tales"
"Humor" (One of my favorite categories)
"Newberry Award"
"Classics"
"Hot Topics"
"Land of Enchantment"
"Christian Fiction"
"Staff Favorites"
"Great Lives"
"Historical Fiction"
"Poetry"
and others.
These buttons list all the books in the libraries in southeastern New Mexico that share books on inter-library. Books that are not available in our system may be retrieved from libraries beyond southeastern New Mexico.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary(children's author)
© Bob Hoff, 2006
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