Jervis Public Library, 613 N. Washington St., is at the moment closed.
Name 315-336-4570, e-mail [email protected], or go surfing to www.jervislibrary.org or www.fb.com/jervispubliclibrary for extra info.
On-line sources
• RBDigital gives audiobooks, magazines, and language observe for these not at school. No ready checklist, no restrict to the variety of gadgets checked out without delay. Use on-line or obtain the free app to your system: midyorkny.rbdigital.com
• Use your library card to entry motion pictures, comics, ebooks, audiobooks, comics, music, and televosion exhibits at no cost on-line through www.hoopladigital.com.
• OverDrive on-line midyork.overdrive.com or by the Libby app provides you entry to audiobooks and ebooks.
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Prime Titles from Lisa Matte
“Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” by Schneier, Bruce (RB Digital audiobook app)
Your mobile phone supplier tracks your location and is aware of who’s with you. Your on-line and in-store buying patterns are recorded, and reveal for those who’re unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and informal buddies. Google is aware of what you’re pondering as a result of it saves your personal searches. Fb can decide your sexual orientation with out you ever mentioning it.
In Information and Goliath, safety professional Bruce Schneier gives one other path, one which values each safety and privateness. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a brand new preface masking the most recent developments, after which exhibits us precisely what we can do to reform authorities surveillance packages, shake up surveillance-based enterprise fashions, and defend our particular person privateness. You’ll by no means have a look at your telephone, your pc, your bank cards, and even your automobile in the identical manner once more.
“A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness (RB Digital audiobook app)
Diana Bishop, a younger scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates together with her main man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
“Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever” by Gavin Edwards (audiobook and e-book by OverDrive/Libby app)
For greater than thirty years, Fred Rogers was a beloved fixture in American houses. Heat and welcoming, he spoke on to youngsters—and their mother and father—in regards to the marvels of the world, the issues that nervous them, and above all, the significance of being themselves. Wearing his cardigan and sneakers, Fred Rogers supplied a healthful message of generosity and love that modified the panorama of tv and formed a era of youngsters.
Wanting again on the historical past of the present and the inventive visionary behind it, popular culture aficionado Gavin Edwards reminds us of the indelible classes and insights that Mister Rogers conveyed—what it means to be a very good individual, to be open-hearted, to be considerate, to be curious, to be compassionate—and why they matter.
Lisa’s Children Nook picks
“Froggy Goes to the Library” (and 22 different Froggy books!) by Jonathan London (RB Digital audiobook app)
When Froggy and Mother and Pollywogilina set out for the library, Froggy brings a wheelbarrow to carry all of the books he plans to borrow. There are such a lot of to select from: Dinosaur books! Books about House Frog! Froggy is so excited that he forgets to make use of his indoor voice.
Nonetheless, readers take pleasure in Froggy’s antics, and so does Miss Otterbottom, the librarian. “Come again soon, Froggy,” she says.
“Mr. Putter and Tabby” early reader sequence (RB Digital audiobook app)
(”Mr. Putter & Tabby Stroll the Canine”) When their neighbor Mrs. Teaberry hurts her foot, Mr. Putter and his advantageous cat, Tabby, volunteer to stroll her canine for per week. They quickly uncover that Zeke isn’t a dream canine in any case. He may even be . . . a nightmare! After three days of Zeke’s tugging, wrapping round timber, and chasing different canine, how will Mr. Putter and Tabby make it by the week?
