The View From Circulation - What's Trending, Unique, & Informational

Plymouth and Thanksgiving Hosting out of town family and friends, in need of an alternative to Black Friday shopping or ready for post-turkey entertainment?  Come to the library to check out Museum Passes for discounts, Boston guidebooks , entertaining reads that will bring our local history and cultures to life. You can browse our "Recommended Read " section for a selection from popular and our favorite books, try out a new game, or bring home a movie. Children can check out our games, puzzles,  kits  and assortment of DVDs that will bring hours of entertainment. Share with your guests these books with a local flavor: Duxbury "Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm" by Erin Byers Murry, Duxbury Past and Present ,as well as many more historical books about our region. Massachusetts Settings by Popular Massachusetts Authors "The Boston Girl" by Anita Diamond "Caleb's Crossing" by Geraldi...

"Fall Feast", "Best of Holiday Cookies", "Awesome Gift Guides", "2018 Sneak Peak" in decorating  -- these are the latest covers of some of the most popular magazines.   One of my favorite things is browsing magazines in waiting areas. Engrossed in the latest celebrity gossip or "best of" shopping recommendations and so many different magazines to leaf through I often don't mind that an appointment is delayed. Whether waiting for an appointment, picking kids up, or just enjoying a quiet moment, it is nice when you have a stack of magazines to leaf through. In the grocery line you are enticed by the covers of a variety of magazines. With new ideas, recipes, celebrity news, we often spend money on that spontaneous purchase, and how many of us receive too many subscriptions of magazines in the mail and have stacks that never get read? Going on a trip?  We purchase magazines to browse on the plane or train and take up valuable ...

Browsing Hoopla today for my next audiobook to listen to while I walk I saw the "marquee" 51st CMA  Awards 2017 Winners .  Interest piqued, I clicked on it and received a wonderful surprise that showed the availability for download of many of the award winning artists and albums. With a simple click on the album (and a Duxbury Library Card) you can borrow and listen to these CMA award winning Country singers. Limited to 8 "borrows" a month in Hoopla, I also looked to the availability of these albums in our "in library" cd collection.   Kudos to our staff who orders new books, movies, and cds - I found the winners also in our "in library" collection. Come in and check them all out. We are now open on Sundays from 1 - 5 pm.   Hope to see you on the other side of the circulation desk!   

One of the wonderful things about working behind the Duxbury Library Circulation desk is hearing patron's recommendations.  Never wanting to miss a good book, I place the recommended read on hold and often take home a lot of wonderful choices. Finding "too many books, too little time",  I will try to take a block of time and read the first pages in each book  to see if I  "Don't want to put it down" .   My current stack to review. I visit  Goodreads.com  to find recommendations or ratings to weed my list. With no formula for why a book grabs my attention and one is never finished, I search out reviews and recommendations.   How much focused time I have to read in one sitting and how many books I've recently read in a particular genre often determine whether or not I stick with a book.   One way to get through more books is to read one and listen to another. Recently, I found an audiobook on Hoopla from an author whose books a...