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Museum and Park Passes
Availability is Just a Click Away
Easton residents may reserve passes for
several area museums. These passes are made
available through the generosity of the Easton Lion’s
Club, Friends of the Library, and other donors. Please
call or stop by either the Main
Library or Branch to reserve your passes in advance,
or make an online reservation by clicking
HERE.
Here are the passes we offer:
To learn more about these passes and guidelines for
use, click HERE.
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National
Women's History Month Celebrating
American Women
Each March is a celebration of the accomplishments
of women throughout American history.
Links
The
National Women's History Project (NWHP) recognizes
and celebrates the diverse and historic accomplishments
of women by providing information, educational
materials and programs.
History.com
is affiliated with the A&E televison channel,
and currently includes a feature in honor of Women's
History Month.
In 1969, a group of women and men of Seneca Falls
created the National
Women's Hall of Fame, believing that the contribution
of American women deserved a permanent home in
the small village where it all began.
Books
A
History of Women in the United States: State-by-State
Reference, edited by Doris Weatherford. R305.40973
HIST 2004
America's
Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates,
and Heroines , by Gail Collins. 305.40973
COLL 2003
Born
For Liberty: A History of Women in America,
by Sara M. Evans. 305.4 EVA
Chronology
of Women Worldwide: People, Places & Events That
Shaped Women's History. R305.409 CHRON 1997
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised
Our Nation, by Cokie Robert. 973.3092 ROBE
2004
I
Dwell In Possibility: Women Build a Nation,1600-1920
, by Donna M. Lucey. 305.40973 LUCE 2001
Ladies
First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second
to None, by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. JUV REF
920.720973 KIMM 2006
Landmarks
of American Women's History, by Page Putnam
Miller. 973.082 MILL 2003
Lighting
the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America,
by Karenna Gore Schiff. 920.720973 SCHI 2006
The
Sea Captain's Wife: a True Story of Love, Race,
and War in the Nineteenth Century, by Martha
Hodes. 306.84 HODES 2006
Women
in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia. R305.409
WOMEN 2004
Women's
Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to
the Present, edited by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen
J. Adler. 305.40973 WOME 2005
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Reference
Guides to Movies Finding
the Right Movies for You or Your Family
Whether it's finding a family-friendly movie, a decent
Sci-Fi movie or drama, you'll find good advice from a
movie guide. Nobody has the time or money to watch
all the past and current releases. The resources
below will help you avoid the "turkeys," and make
movie time a truly enjoyable experience.
Awake In the Dark:
The Best of Roger Ebert . 791.4375 EBER
2006
Roger Ebert's
Movie Yearbook, by Roger Ebert.
R 791.437
EBERT 2007
The A List: The
National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential
Films. 791.4375 CARR 2002
The Animated
Movie Guide, by Jerry Beck.
OVERSIZE 016.4303 BECK 2005
The Best Old
Movies for Families: a Guide to Watching
Together, by Ty Burr. ON ORDER
Great American
Playwrights on the Screen: Critical Guide to Film, TV,
Video, and DVD, by Jerry
Roberts. 791.436 ROBE 2003
The Rough Guide to
Cult Movies. R 791.4375 ROUGH 2004
The Village Voice
Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult
Hits, edited by Dennis Lim. 791.4375
VILL 2007 NEWNONFIC
Who is That?: The
Late Late Viewers Guide to the Old Old Movie
Players, by Warren B. Meyers.
791.43 MEYE 1982
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Loan Period Changes!
New Policies Effective Now
In response to many requests, we have changed loan
periods as follows:
- All items (EXCEPT DVD's and Videos) may be
borrowed for THREE weeks, with one renewal
allowed.
- DVD's and Videos may be borrowed for ONE
week, with one renewal allowed.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Try
out NoveList A
New Online Reader's Advisory
NoveList is an online
Reader’s Advisory Service that is
free with Easton Library cards.* Find
the convenient link to NoveList at the Ames Free
Library Website.
So what can NoveList do for you?
- Help you locate all titles in a series that are of
interest to you.
- Help you find titles based on subject matter
that interests you.
- Give you a list of all books that an author has
written.
- Provide lists of “read alikes” to
help you find new authors.
- Display book jackets and sample
pages of the book.
- Provide book reviews and reading guides.
*Home access is available only to patrons with
Easton Library cards. Library access is free to all
visitors!
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Book Lovers of Easton
Shows Airing Soon
Tune in to Channel 9 in Easton for Book Lovers of
Easton Cable TV Show
Monday, March 12th, at 8PM
Leo
Landry, Children's Author and Anita Silvey,
Author
of 500 Great Books
for Teens, professor at Simmons
College, and noted expert in children's literature
discuss publishing trends, how successful authors
write for children and get published, what children like,
and the effect of the Internet and TV, and other
topics.
Monday, March 19th, at 8PM
Wayne
Potash, Singer and songwriter entertains and
discusses his music, work with young children, and
sources of his inspiration.
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Reference Books
Valuable and Unique Resources
Although libraries such as ours are embracing a
wide variety of online databases and resources,
we will continue to offer both print and
electronic resources for many years to come.
Printed reference books contain facts compiled
from many sources and are organized for quick and
easy use. They include encyclopedias; dictionaries;
yearbooks; almanacs and handbooks; biographies;
atlases; and indexes.
Below is a small sampling of unique and
sometimes unusual reference books available at the
Library.
History of the
Internet: a Chronology, 1843 to the Present. This
book provides historical background
of the various developments which led to the Internet
as we know it today. R 004.678 HIST
Gale Encyclopedia
of the Unusual and Unexplained
by Brad Steiger. This source will satisfy the interest
among students for information on topics relating to
magic, witchcraft, the supernatural and other
mysterious phenomena. R 130.3 STEI 2003
The Encyclopedia
of Science and Religion
addresses the interactions, contradictions, and
tensions between science and religion, both
historically and in contemporary life.
R 291.175 ENCY
How to be a Perfect
Stranger: the Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook
.
A handy source when you are about to attend an
unfamiliar wedding or other life-cycle event within a
faith, or if you are simply going to be a guest at a
particular religion's worship service.
R
291.380973 HOW 2003
Encyclopedia of
Money, by Larry Allen.
Alphabetically arranged entries cover the many forms
that money has assumed throughout history and
people's attitudes about money. Did you know
(probably not..) that large stone wheels called fei
serve as currency on the island of Yap? R 332.403
ALLEN 1999
The Value of a
Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States.
Theater Tickets in 1877 would cost
somewhere in the range of $.40 to $1.50. This is a
book about what things have cost, and how much
money people have have made in order to buy them.
R 338.52 DERKS 1999
Failed Technology:
True Stories of Technological Disaster. Entries
include the Ford Pinto, Hindenburg,
Love Canal, MGM Grand Hotel Fire, Three Mile Island
reactor, and of course,
the infamous Titanic. JUV REF 620.20 FREI
CD's, Superglue,
and Salsa: How Everyday Products are Made,
provides information on the invention,
manufacturing, and
future uses of thirty common high-interest products.
JUV REF 670 CDS. Also see How Products are
Made: an Illustrated Guide to Product
Manufacturing.
R 670 HOW (1994-02 7 vols.)
The Rough Guide to
Cult Fiction. Wikipedia defines cult fiction
as "books that tend to attract a cult following including
banned books, transgressive fiction, controversial
books, erotic literature and genre fiction." You can find
lists of these books here. R823.009 ROUGH
2005
Great
Misadventures: Bad Ideas That Led to Big Disasters
, by Peggy Saari. Tells of adventures gone
wrong, such as Alexander the Great's trek across the
Gedrosia Desert that cost the lives of hundreds of
men, women and children or the fatal attempts to
climb Mount Everest in 1996. R JUV 904 GREA (1999,
4 Vols.)
Susan B. Anthony
Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's
Landmarks, by Lynn Sherr. A travel guide
through towns, cities, and states, packed with facts
about the role women have played in shaping U.S.
history. R 973.082 SHERR
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Thanks for reading our newsletter. If there are
events or services you would like to see profiled in
the future, email or stop by and let us know.
Contact us at info@amesfree
library.org
Sincerely,
Ames Free Library Staff
info@amesfreelibrary.org
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