You may notice Molly and Justine working away in the teen room. They’re working on a big project to Genrefy the fiction collection. What does this mean? How will it make browsing different? Let’s talk about it! When you go into a bookstore, you’ll often find books sorted by genre. You’ll find a “Mystery” section… Read more What is “genrefying” and why are we doing it?
Collections
Goodbye Overdrive, Hello Libby!
Overdrive, the company, is a vendor we use for downloadable library materials. Together with all the public libraries in the state of New Hampshire, we are able to purchase and lease shared content to offer a wide variety of downloadable ebooks, audio books, and magazines. Overdrive, the app, is going away. Libby, the new app… Read more Goodbye Overdrive, Hello Libby!
Newport Nuggets…. 1829 Identity Crisis
Learn A Language
Do you want to learn the language of the country your visiting? Do you want to improve your English skills? You can now do so with your home computer and your library card. Mango includes courses for the world’s most popular and widely used languages, and also provides multiple English As a Second Language courses.… Read more Learn A Language
Newport Nuggets… gems from the RFL archives
Introducing a new RFL blog: treasures from our collection of scrapbooks! Scrap books, first known as commonplace books in the 1600’s, have always been a way for people to collect meaningful materials. Scrap booking became a popular hobby in the United States around 1825, and remained so into the early part of the 2oth century.… Read more Newport Nuggets… gems from the RFL archives
