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February 8, 2013

Wii U Games Now Available at McGraw

The Helen McGraw Branch has added Wii U games to their video game collection. If you’ve purchased Nintendo’s newest system, check out these games today!* Batman: Arkham City Call of Duty: Black Ops II Darksiders II Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two FIFA Soccer 13 Madden NFL 13 Mass Effect 3 NBA 2k13 New […]

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February 7, 2013

Date Changed for Internet Search Class

The Internet search class that was scheduled for February 11th has been changed to February 25th. Here are the details. Hope to see you there! Would you like to learn the power-searching techniques librarians know?  Make Google sit up and beg?  Extract information from the invisible web where Google doesn’t go?  Attend this workshop, get […]

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February 6, 2013

New DVDs & Blu-rays – February 2013

Here’s a quick list of the new Blu-ray and DVD movies and television shows you can find on the shelves this month. If you want to place any of these discs on hold, please call the library at 336-6060 (McGraw) or 336-6062 (Evans). Blu-ray Beasts of the Southern Wild End of Watch Hit & Run […]

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February 4, 2013

Evans Branch Yarn Club – March Project

The Pauline Evans Branch Yarn Club will be collecting handmade blankets to donate to the at Rochester General Hospital.  “The Child Life Program at Rochester General Hospital seeks to make the hospital experience a positive one for our pediatric patients.” (from Child Life Program website) Guidelines for Blankets: Suggested size of approximately 3 x 4 […]

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February 4, 2013

Learn to Search the Internet Like a Pro

Would you like to learn the power-searching techniques librarians know?  Make Google sit up and beg?  Extract information from the invisible web where Google doesn’t go?  Attend this workshop, get more reliable search results, and move to the top of the Internet food chain.  Join us Monday, February 25, 2013 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 […]

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February 1, 2013

New Teen Books – Week of Jan 28th

, Kim Harrington New student Jade uncovers a murder mystery when she moves into a house haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, mean girl who ruled Jade’s high school. New Avengers, Volume 3, Brian Michael Bendis Norman Osborn escapes to create a force drawn from a variety of evil sources, including new Dark Avengers, […]

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January 29, 2013

Classic Book Discussion – January & February Selection

Come on in to either branch  and pick up a copy of  Bleak House by Charles Dickens and join us on Thursday, January 31 at 3:00 p.m. to discuss the first half of this classic.  We will be discussing the second half on Thursday, February 28,  also at 3:00 p.m.

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January 29, 2013

Alzheimer’s Series at Evans Branch

The Rochester & Finger Lakes Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Neighbor Next Door program will be presenting an Alzheimer’s Series at the Pauline Evans branch, 45  Cooper Road on the first Tuesday of each month starting at 7:00 p.m. February 5    –    Meaningful Activities March 5          –     Legal/Financial Issues April 2          […]

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January 28, 2013

2013 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

Today is one of the most exciting days of the year for children’s & teen librarians and anyone else who loves literature for young people! At the Midwinter conference in Seattle, ALA (American Library Association) announced the top books for children and teens, including the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz medals. Newbery winner […]

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January 24, 2013

New Adult Books for January 2013

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Arsenic and Old Puzzles Parnell Hall When two deaths are tied to elderberry wine poisonings, the Puzzle Lady investigates suspicions that a killer is imitating the famous Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace and finds a host of illogical clues in a case that […]

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