November Happenings

Readers, please forgive the lack of November posts.  It has turned into a busy month.  Let me give you an update of what has been happening around the library.

• History Day research is getting serious.  Reference staff have been making a lot of referrals to the History Day wiki.  The wiki has both primary and secondary online sources as well as an explanation of the differences between.
• The PCL Reader's Advisory has been expanded to include Juvenile & Young Adult Series titles.  I also reorganized the Adult Series page to find items easier.  Keep watching for more authors, titles, and reading lists to be added.
• Have you noticed the new travel guide titles?  PCL has purchased guides for some new areas from a wider range of publishers including Cadogan, Lonely Planet, Rick Steves, National Geographic, and Eyewitness Travel.

• New volumes have been added to the reference collection including Britannica's Dynamic Earth 3 volume series, the Princeton Field Guide to dinosaurs and the 6 volume Magill's Medical Guide.  Watch for the arrival of the 12 volume forth edition of Masterplots & the 2011 World Book Encyclopedia being published in December.

 Did you know?... According to US Dept. of Agriculture statistics, an estimated 9 million turkeys were raised in Pennsylvania in 2009.  This places PA 8th in the nation and this accounts for about 3.6 of the total turkeys raised in the US.