Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 11:33am
I was looking at a blog post from Overdrive – our vendor for the Digital Media Catalog – the other day on audio book narrators. That got me to thinking about how important the narrator can be to an audio book. A great narrator can make a less than stellar book better while a terrible narrator can make a well written book terrible.
One source for suggestions is our Better in Audio list. These are titles that are improved by listening. Several of my favorites are children’s/YA titles:
Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 11:07am
During the heat emergency this summer, branches opened at 10 AM Monday-Friday. Regular hours resume for all branch locations on Tuesday, September 8. Regular hours are listed on each branch page as well as the main locations page.
Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 12:00am
HCPL's Book Bites column appears monthly in Houston Family Magazine. Each column features suggested books for toddlers through teens. Get the new list every month in the magazine, available at all of our branches. Previous columns.
Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 11:05am
In their recent article, “100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About ,” Wired magazine has a list of technologies that adults grew up with that today’s kids may never experience. The list includes everything from audio-visual entertainment (VHS tapes and 8 tracks) to computers, gadgets, and everything else. The list includes several things library related. Do you remember these? I've made a couple of my own comments in brackets below.
The below images are of the construction site for the new Kingwood Branch Library. In the past month, additional sheathing has been added to the building. The new facility is scheduled for completion in late 2009.
Kingwood staff has put together a composit image showing the building sites and surrounding streets.
Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 12:00am
HCPL's Book Bites column appears monthly in Houston Family Magazine. Each column features suggested books for toddlers through teens. Get the new list every month in the magazine, available at all of our branches. Previous columns.
This month our selections are customer reviews from this 2009 Summer Reading Program.
Submitted by Grace Lillevig on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:07am
Are you planning a trip to the beach and looking for something to read? Take some inspiration from NPR. NPR asked their book-loving listeners to pick their best beach reads in a Best Beach Books Ever poll. The top pick, not surprisingly, is the Harry Potter series. The top five books are:
Welcome to a preview of our redesign. As you can probably tell, we've made some changes, but hopefully they are not too drastic. Some of the major changes are:
