America’s News Available Online

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

American News Sentinel

  • America’s News: Search current and archived coverage of issues, events, people, government, sports and more with the largest collection of full-text U.S. newspapers. Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate and other sections. (Clicking the link will will prompt remote patrons to enter their library card number in order to access information).

    Papers for MA that are included (including the Sentinel):

      Berkshire Eagle, The 12/31/2003-Current Pittsfield Newspapers

      Boston Examiner 10/03/2008-Current Boston Web-Only Sources

      Boston Herald 07/26/1991-Current Boston Newspapers

      Cape Cod Chronicle, The 01/18/2001-Current Chatham Newspapers

      Cape Cod Times 11/01/1998-Current Falmouth Newspapers

      Daily Hampshire Gazette 01/03/1994-Current Northampton Newspapers

      Daily News of Newburyport, The 07/30/2008-Current Newburyport Newspapers

      Eagle-Tribune, The 06/11/2008-Current Lawrence Newspapers

      Enterprise, The 07/05/2000-Current Brockton Newspapers

      Gloucester Daily Times 07/13/2008-Current Gloucester Newspapers

      Groton Landmark 09/18/2001-Current Groton Newspapers

      Herald News, The 04/30/2000-Current Fall River Newspapers

      Milford Daily News, The 09/18/2005-Current Milford Newspapers

      Nantucket Independent, The 03/02/2005-Current Nantucket Newspapers

      North Adams Transcript 11/25/2003-Current North Adams Newspapers

      Patriot Ledger, The 07/01/2000-Current Quincy Newspapers

      Pepperell Free Press 09/18/2001-Current Pepperell Newspapers

      Public Spirit, The 09/18/2001-Current Ayer Newspapers

      Recorder, The 03/05/1997-Current Greenfield Newspapers

      Republican, The 06/13/1988-Current Springfield Newspapers

      Salem News, The 07/17/2008-Current Beverly Newspapers

      Sentinel & Enterprise 09/14/2001-Current Fitchburg Newspapers

      Sentinel, The 07/26/2007-Current Marion Newspapers

      Shirley Oracle 09/18/2001-Current Shirley Newspapers

      Shrewsbury Chronicle 08/04/2005-Current Shrewsbury Newspapers

      Springfield Examiner 01/14/2011-Current Springfield Web-Only Sources

      Sun Chronicle, The 11/14/2006-Current Attleboro Newspapers

      Sun, The 10/14/2001-Current Lowell Newspapers

      Taunton Daily Gazette 05/01/2000-Current Taunton Newspapers

      Townsend Times 09/18/2001-Current Townsend Newspapers

      Valley Advocate 09/26/1996-Current Easthampton Newspapers

      Valley Dispatch, The 10/12/2004-Current Dracut Newspapers

      Waltham News Tribune 03/26/2001-Current Waltham Newspapers

      Worcester Telegram & Gazette 01/01/1989-Current

  • Women Sharing Words | December Meeting

    Thursday, December 1st, 2011

    We welcome all to join Women Sharing Words on December 16th, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at the Elizabeth Taber Library to share a cup of tea, our writing, our thoughts, and to consider new possibilities for women in the community and at the library.

    Traditionally women have been listeners and readers but not speakers and writers. This can change. Whatever you write, and you would like to share, bring it along the fourth Friday of the month. Or, there might be something written that you have found to inspire you deeply, bring that along too.

    Our name is Women Sharing Words, which is exactly what we do. The history of women writing is long and deep. Too many of us have had to wait. Please come, join together with other women, enjoy a cup of tea, and good company, the fourth Friday of the month at the Elizabeth Taber Library.

    Please contact the library, 508-748-1252 with any questions.

    Women sharing words december 2011 | Women's Writing Group | Elizabeth Taber Library

    How to Download Books to Your MP3 Player with Overdrive

    Thursday, November 17th, 2011

    Use the SAILS Network to download free library books to your iPhone, iPad, iTouch or other MP3 device, follow the simple instructions below.

    >Overdrive Instructions | SAILS INC for an UPDATED version of using Overdrive with MP3 devices

    Or visit the iTunes Store and download the App.

    Lethal, Sandra Brown | A Book Review

    Thursday, October 13th, 2011

    When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that “sick” man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won’t be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

    But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can’t be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it — at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

    How to Check Out Library Books to Your Kindle

    Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

    You may now use your Elizabeth Taber Library card to check books out of the SAILS network and have them delivered to your Kindle!

    Visit http://sails.lib.overdrive.com and look for the Kindle icon on the right hand column.

    Note: You will need to sign into Overdrive with your SAILS library card and you will need to have registered your Kindle with Amazon.

    SAILS Library Network iBistro | Use Your Library Card with the Kindle

    I made this easy to follow video tutorial for some extra help.

    The staff at the library are delighted to introduce this technology to our patrons! Please let us know if you need any help or have questions.

    Book Review: Caleb’s Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks

    Monday, September 26th, 2011

    Amazon.com Review
    Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011:
    When Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks came to live on Martha’s Vineyard in 2006, she ran across a map by the island’s native Wampanoag people that marked the birthplace of Caleb, first Native American to graduate of Harvard College–in 1665. Her curiosity piqued, she unearthed and fleshed out his thin history, immersing herself in the records of his tribe, of the white families that settled the island in the 1640s, and 17th-century Harvard. In Caleb’s Crossing, Brooks offers a compelling answer to the riddle of how–in an era that considered him an intellectually impaired savage–he left the island to compete with the sons of the Puritanical elite. She relates his story through the impassioned voice of the daughter of the island’s Calvinist minister, a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Bethia Mayfield meets Caleb at twelve, and their mutual affinity for nature and knowledge evolves into a clandestine, lifelong bond. Bethia’s father soon realizes Caleb’s genius for letters and prepares him for study at Harvard, while Bethia travels to Cambridge under much less auspicious circumstances. This window on early academia fascinates, but the book breathes most thrillingly in the island’s salt-stung air, and in the end, its questions of the power and cost of knowledge resound most profoundly not in Harvard’s halls, but in the fire of a Wampanoag medicine man. –Mari Malcolm

    A Book Review: Great House, by Nicole Krauss

    Monday, September 19th, 2011

    From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This stunning work showcases Krauss’s consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis. Much like in Krauss’s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.
    Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

    Have you read the book? Did you enjoy it or others by Nichole Krauss?

    Annual Book Sale

    Thursday, July 21st, 2011

    Elizabeth Taber Library Book Sale | August 2011 | Marion MA

    Children’s 2011 Summer Events

    Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

    Summer 2011 Events for Children | Elizabeth Taber Library

    Summer Volunteers Needed

    Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

    Summer Volunteers | Elizabeth Taber Library