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Computer Class: Ebsco Database

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · City Library, Computer Classes, Events, Main Branch, Technology

Database Computer Class: come learn about the depth of research tools available to library patrons online Monday August 23rd at 6:30 PM.

Being There Together is Enough.

May 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, News

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Light the first light of evening
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.
This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:
Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, [...]

Cheap travel ideas

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Main Branch

If the thought of heightened security measures and full body scans at airports isn’t enough to put you off air travel, how about the news report this week that Spirit airlines is going to start charging for carry-on bags? As if they don’t already charge too much. Will the larger airlines be far behind?
Still intrigued [...]

Learn Create Share @ Your Library during Teen Tech Week 2010

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · City Library, Events, Main Branch, Teens

Learn Create Share at Your Library March 7 – 13! Libraries are chock-full of tech toys like CDs, DVDs and video games, and they’re a great place to get connected to homework help, research resources, gaming, music, the Web and more. Stop by the Manchester City Library or visit our Web site during Teen Tech [...]

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Library to Host Free Financial Aid Program

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Teens

Overview of Financial Aid
January 14, 2010 – 7:00 p.m.
This event will take place at the Manchester City Library’s auditorium and will feature Jodi Abad of the University of New Hampshire Financial Aid Office.
Jodi Abad is the Associate Director of Financial Aid at UNH-Manchester. Her work focuses on the many ways to fund higher education including [...]

New Music for May

May 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · City Library, Main Branch, News, Teens

This month I’d like to feature some new music that the library has purchased and added to the collections. The music is new to the collections-not necessarily music that was published recently. So here is a partial listing and I hope that you enjoy the music collections here at the Manchester City Library.

No Line [...]

Gatsby Revisited

March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Book Group, City Library

I recently re-read The Great Gatsby. It was chosen by the National Endowment of the Arts as “the big read” for 2009 and my book club and I decided to take a trip down memory lane. Since Gatsby was never my favorite book, I vowed to look at it with an open mind. And what [...]

10 Ideas how the library can get you into the Holiday Spirit

December 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Main Branch, Movies, News, Teens

Now that Thanksgiving is over, the Christmas season is upon us with a vengeance. If you’re like me and find the traffic jams, the holiday music in every store, the mammoth “Toys R Us” flyers a little annoying try a different take on the season. Here’s how the library can help…and you don’t need to [...]

Open Sources (or F/OSS)

August 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments · City Library, News, Technology

Early last week we had a gathering of librarians visit the library to discuss and share information on open sources for use on computers. We called the meeting the “Open Source Roundtable” but most folks would recognize our subject by the acronym: F/OSS; free/open source software. We were able to communicate and see [...]

The CQ Researcher

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · City Library, News, Research Tip of the Week

Hello everyone! This is your roving reference librarian coming to you from the reference desk. Now I consider getting information to “my public” to be my main job responsibility and so I think that a natural extension to this is to share this information electronically, too. So every week I hope to share with [...]