Find Your Roots

Family History Workshop

 

 

Genealogy specialists will give a free workshop

this Saturday, February 22nd, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.

*Bring a pen or laptop*

 

-sponsored by the Taos Public Library and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-

for more information, call (505) 688-9899

Will You Be My Valentine?

Valentine’s Day is coming up and you know how much parents, family and friends love to receive special valentine crafts made from the heart.  Join us for Valentine Craft Making on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at the Taos Public Library Community Room from 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.

 

This event is FREE for children of all ages.  Children under 9 must be accompanied by an adult.   Materials and examples will be provided, just bring your imagination.  Come and have some creative fun!!  For more information call Judy at 737-2598 or via e-mail at jesquibel@taosgov.com.

 

 





Digging for a Good Book?



I've compiled a partial list of new, noteworthy (fiction) bestsellers which the Taos Public Library has added in the New Year.

• Booker Prize winner for 2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton.
• Pulitzer Prize for fiction: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson.
• Fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being, and Alice McDermott's Someone,                            (winners of the critics prize announced in March)

Other bestsellers include:

• Harvest by Jim Crace.
• Sycamore Row by John Grisham.
• The first phone call from heaven by Mitch Albom.
• The gods of guilt : a novel by Michael Connelly.
• Cross my heart by James Patterson.
• Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley
• The invention of wings by Sue Monk Kidd.
• The signature of all things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

*We've also added many new mysteries, too numerous to mention here.

Plus Mary Oliver's latest, Dog Songs.

Did you know that you can put any of these books on hold from the comfort of your home (with wireless), from your account, found on our website- www.taoslibrary.org
If you have any questions on how to access your account online, please ask for assistance at the reference desk or give us a call.

Happy New Year! Get Re-Acquainted with Taos Public Library

Here, at the Taos Public Library, at the beginning of a new year, we have much to offer. We are busy processing newly released, bestseller books, movies and documentaries, books on cds, e-books, and e-audio books. In the next few days, I will post a list of our new items, some of which are on must read lists for 2013, and up and coming releases for 2014.

Don't forget, we still offer public computers whether you have a library card or not, and wireless for those with laptops, ipads, etc.

The children's library still offers story and craft time every Thursday, from 10:30 to 11:30 am.

Come check out (literally) some inspiring titles from this month's display: Top Ten Resolutions.

Can't find a book you'd like to read? Is our catalog proving to be more than you can handle? Please ask us for assistance.

Need a book recommendation? Check out the monthly "staff pics" board. Our tastes run the gamut, from obscure fiction from the 1800s, to lesser known bestsellers, classics, fiction, and non-fiction.

Support your local library! Read your next favorite book, in 2014!

Know Your Library #5 December 2013: Special Edition

GIVE YOUR CHILD THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT----

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A LIBRARY CARD!

      Start ‘em right! The very best favor you can do for your children is to get them their OWN library card. Even if s(h)e can’t read yet, children as young as five can be started off on a lifetime of the love of reading.

     The Taos Library has an excellent Children’s Library, under the fervent direction of Annette Montoya, who will be happy to guide parents, teachers, grandparents, in getting kids started with books.

     While this newsletter has been going through the Dewey Decimal System, beginning with the 100s in past months, this time we’re doing a special survey of books for children of all ages. Since, of course, there are several thousand books in all categories, we can only give a glimpse.

In the Spirit of the Upcoming Holidays: Events at the Children's Library & Taos Plaza

     

  

Everyone has heard the tale of “Beauty and the Beast” or “Bella y la Bestia”. Dr. Lucille Gallegos-Jaramillo (Dr. G.) has again taken the liberty of telling her version of this story.  The story will be told bilingually (Spanish and English).  Come and meet Belle (Bella), the Prince (el Principe) and “the Beast” (la Bestia) on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 10:30 AM.  The story book reading and special craft will be held at the Taos Children’s Library and is offered FREE for audiences of all ages.  

KNOW YOUR LIBRARY #4

       A service of the Taos Public Library

  written by Joanne Forman

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We’re up to the 300s in our survey of the books in the Taos Public Library: Social Sciences.

 November brings the holiday of Veterans’ Day—which was

Originally Armistice Day; remembering November 11, 1918, when Germany and the allied powers halted the senseless slaughter that had left millions dead.

     Like all wars, especially the horrendous wars of the 20^th century, the sorry story gave rise to some of the great novels: Ernest Hemingway’s A FAREWELL TO ARMS,  e.e. cummings THE ENORMOUS ROOM,  Dalton Trumbo’s JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, to name just a few.

     But probably the most brilliant and poignant of them all was by the German Erich Maria Remarque: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. This story of a small group of German soldiers is universal: they’re kids—none of them is yet twenty years old, and, if they cannot at the beginning articulate it, they know well they’ve been hoodwinked, robbed, swindled.

Here is all the misery of the insane trench war—starvation, disease, unspeakable wounds, boredom relieved only by terror.

     Toward the end of the book, Remarque shows well why this novel was one of the first banned by Hitler:

     “It’s queer, when one thinks about it,” goes on Kropp, “we are here to protect our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who is in the right?”

…..”Then what exactly is the war for?

…..”Every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous…”

,,,,,almost all of us are simple folk. And in France, too, the majority of men are labourers, workmen or poor clerks. Now just why would a French blacksmith or a French shoemaker want to attack us? No, it is merely the rulers….

…..”There are other people back behind there who profit by war……”