Research App for your Mobile Device

Interested in doing research from your iPhone?
You can download the EBSCOhost App from iTunes and search the library's largest journal database on your handheld device!

This following is the easiest way to access this collection of newspapers, journals, and magazines from your mobile device. Please remember, it must be set up from an on-campus computer and you must have your device with you.

1. From an on-campus computer go to: http://search.ebscohost.com/
2. Scroll down to the last option, ebscohost mobile, and click on that link.

3. Choose the last option "Ebscohost iPhone and Android applications". This will prompt you to enter your email address to get a link and an authentication code. EBSCO will send a code to your email address.

4. Then open the email from EBSCO on your device! The email will provide you with two steps – 1.) links to download the app and 2.) an authentication key to click or tap on. This will bring you directly into the application. Please do this within 24 hours or it will expire.

You are now good to go for nine months after which you will have to get a new authentication key. Please do not hesitate to ask for help in setting up your device or using this collection.

Thanksgiving Break

The library will close Saturday Nov. 19 at noon and reopen Monday Nov. 28th at 5 p.m.

Come by now to get an audiobook for your drive home or a paperback for the plane!

New Fiction

Here are some of the new fiction titles available in the library

Year of Wonders, Brooks

Room, Donoghue

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, McCall Smith

Atonement, McEwan

Raisins and Almonds, Greenwood (AUDIO)

Be A Critical Information Consumer!

We all need to practice our critical research skills, whether we are writing a paper or buying a car. We can get masses of information easily, so one of the skills we most need to develop is that of evaluating the source of the information.

Here is an example of a situation in which a consumer needs to evaluate the source of the medical information.

Perhaps you have seen ads on television that address the nutritional value of High Fructose Corn Syrup:

http://www.cornsugar.com/video-gallery/

These ads encourage the consumption of HFCS and refer viewers to cornsugar.com for more information. It is important to note that this site is produced by the Corn Refiners Association. While this does not make the information on their website incorrect, it does make it important to check other nutritional studies and articles, since you can be certain that the Corn Refiners will be presenting a case that is in the best interest of their business. Perhaps the National Library of Medicine or the Center for Disease Control might have some information that could help you answer this nutritional question?

Always make sure you know the source of your information; and always come and ask at the library if you want more information on any topic!

New Non-Fiction

These two titles go well together, although their topics are quite different!

The Social Animal: a story of love, character and achievement by David Brooks

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

both are on display in the Periodicals Room of the library.

New Novels

These new novels are displayed on the New Books shelves in the Periodicals Room.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Room by Emma Donoghue

Parents' Weekend

Special hours for the weekend:

Friday: Library closed in the evening for Parent Reception
Saturday: Library open
Sunday: Library closed
Halloween Monday: Library opened from 5pm-10pm

Welcome Back! and New Roles

Mrs. McCarthy has returned (part-time) to the library from her maternity leave.
Ms Massoth will serve as Acting Head Librarian for this academic year.
Either librarian would be happy to help you or your class with a research project!

Book Sale in North Andover

Stevens Memorial Library is having its Book Sale from Friday May 13-Sunday May 15.
Donations of used books will be accepted at the library at any time.

If you haven't been to the library in town you will be amazed at what it has to offer!

345 Main St, North Andover.

New Blu-Ray and DVD

New on Blu-Ray

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, starring Nicholas Cage
The Clash of the Titans
Saving Private Ryan
The Usual Suspects

New on DVD

Toy Story 3
Saving Private Ryan
Winters Bone
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Secretariat
Its Kind of a Funny Story

Local Book Sales

On April 9th two local organizations will be selling used books; a great opportunity to get summer reading at discount prices!

Trinitarian Congregational Church in North Andover

and

Newburyport Public Library in Newburyport

Last Snow Storm

As we prepare for what will hopefully be the last snow storm of the season, you might want to come to the library to get something to read, watch or listen to.

Some new items to consider:

"Vermeer: master of light" DVD narrated by Meryl Streep
Emmy award winner from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

"The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy
audiobook on CD read by Anton Lesser, unabridged, 10 CDs

"The Aztecs, the Conquistadors and the Making of Mexican Culture" by Peter Koch

Local Booksigning

http://www.concordbookshop.com/event/friday-march-11th-4-pm-holly-thompson-orchards

During break some of you in the Concord MA area might enjoy a young adult author reading from her book, "Orchards"
Holly Thompson will be at the Concord Bookshop on March 11th at 4pm.

Luce Library already owns some of her work, much of which is set in Japan.

Music in the Library

Please come to the library from 6-8pm this Friday, March 4th, to hear live music and enjoy the student art show in the adjacent Lehman Gallery.

New Fiction

6 Novels in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward

Shutout by Brendan Halpin (young adult)

Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol by Jim Krieg (young adult)

Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami

The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent (set in colonial MA)

Juliet by Anne Fortier

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco Stork (young adult)

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (young adult)

Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed

Captive Queen by Alison Weir (about Eleanor of Aquitatine)

New Non-Fiction

Lives Like a Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds by Lyndall Gordon

Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East by Roger Ford

Charlie Chan: the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history by Yunte Huang

God is Not One: the eight rival religions that run the world and why their differences matter by Stephen Prothero

Why Mahler? how one man and ten symphonies changed our world by Norman Lebrecht

The Hundred Year Diet: America's voracious appetite for losing weight by Susan Yager

Raising Cain: the wild and rauciys story of Johnny Winter by Mary Lou Sullivan

A Presidency in Peril: the inside story of Obama's promise, Wall Street's power, and the struggle to control our economic future by Robert Kuttner

Nobody Turn Me Around: a people's history of the 1963 march on Washington by Charles Euchner

Save the Date

The library is looking forward to being the host of
Senior Arts Night, Friday March 4th.
More details to come.

library materials in many formats!

The following new library materials are on display in the periodicals room on the first floor of the library.

Teach Yourself Spanish (book and CD)

Teach Yourself French (book and CD)

The Freedom Trail: Boston (book and Maps)

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner (book on CD)

Happy to be Nappy by Bell Hooks (children's book)

Claude Monet by Stuart Kallen

Technology through the Ages: Prehistory and the Classical Period

Technology through the Ages: Medieval Period and the Renaissance

Medieval Lives: Nun

Eye on Art: Pottery by Phyllis Raybin Emert

The Future of Islam by John Esposito

Loon: a Marine story by Jack McLean (signed copy)

Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry

Vampire Haiku by Ryan Mecum

New Year, New Library Materials

Heist Society by Ally Carter (book on CD)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (book on CD)

Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon (book on CD)

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (book on CD)

Things I Know About Love by Kate Le Vann

Under A Red Sky: memoir of a childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

The Cardturner by Louis Sachar

The Space Between Trees by Katie Williams

Should Vaccinations be Manditory?

Diet and Nutrition by Katie Dicker