The Friends of the William Fogg Library will celebrate Valentine’s Day with their annual bake sale on Monday, February 13, 4:00-8:00, and Tuesday, February 14, 10:00-5:00.  The many customers of this popular event have learned to come early for the best selection.  Don’t miss out!

The Wednesday Evening Book Discussion group just does that!  We meet at 6:30 on the second Wednesday of the month.  Upcoming book selections include:

Wednesday, February 8
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Wednesday, March 14
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
Wednesday, April 11
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Wednesday, May 9
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Some of the titles we’ve read in recent months and years include:  Room, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Tinkers, Let the Great World Spin, Cutting for Stone, and Welcome to the Goon Squad.

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In 2011 we converted from our old catalog, Athena, to a new product called Atriuum.  You’ll notice a completely different look and we hope before long you’ll find it both easier to navigate and full of useful (and fun!) information.

You can take a look by following the link to the left.  (The first thing you’ll notice is that our collection is no longer divided between Adult and Children.  Everything’s in one collection.)  You can log onto your own record by clicking on “My Items” and then logging into your patron information.  To log in you will use your last name and patron ID number (on your card).  Call if you don’t know your number or if you have any problems at all!

You can now both renew and reserve online.   If, after searching for a title you find it’s checked out, scroll down to “Location information ” and there you will find the item’s due date.  Reserve it there.   After reserving, go back to My Items and you will see where you are on the reserve list.

Just a small sampling of the items that have arrived  since November 1, 2011.

FICTION
The Art of Fielding  by Chad Harbach
Best of Me  by Nicholas Sparks
The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Litigators by John Grisham
IQ 84 by Haruki Murakami
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Nanjing Requiem  by Ha Jin
1225  Christmas Tree Lane by Debbie Macomber
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
Double Dexter by Jeffrey Lindsay

NON-FICTION
Gabby:  A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords
Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
In my Time by Dick Cheney
Steve Jobs:  A Biography by Walter Isaacson
Then Again by Diane Keaton
Through my Eyes by Tim Tebow
Whateverland:  Learning to Live Here by Alexis Stewart

DVDs
The Help (2 copies)
The Ides of March
Moneyball (2 copies)
Sarah’s Key
Water for Elephants (2 copies)
Hanna
I Am Number Four
Bridesmaids (2 copies)
Breaking Bad, Season 3
Doc Martin, Season 3
Jane Eyre
Just Go with It
The Lincoln Lawyer
Red Riding Hood

The Fogg Library offers passes to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Science, Strawbery Banke, Historic New England, the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, and the Seacoast Science Center.   Please click here to find out more.

The Fogg Library is a subscriber to a  state-wide program offering downloadable audios and, since November 2010, E-books as well, through Overdrive. Simply go to download.maineinfonet.org and have your library card ready to access a huge selection of audiobooks.

And, thanks to the efforts of Eliot resident Dave Emery, our wireless signal is strong throughout the library.