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

Gathering all things "ghostly" for the Halloween season we bring out and display the classics and popular stories like "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson , "The Shining" by Stephen King , Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book" , and  "Heart-Shaped Box" by Joe Hill . If you are looking to listen to a classic ghost story, login to Duxbury Free Library's (or your own library) subscription to Hoopla, which will offer you a number of "ghostly options", such as, "Ghost Stories" by Charles Dickens , "The Legends of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving , or  "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury . Are you registered with Duxbury Free Library? You also have access to audiobooks in all of the Massachusetts networks, such as, the Sails Network, which has collated a number of great audios for the season "Stories So Good, They're Scary"  .  If your select...

One of my favorite things working in circulation is seeing one of you walk in the library and finding a must read selection on the shelves. At times we feel like confetti should fall from the ceiling when someone is lucky enough to enter in the library and find one of the most popular selections is on our "Lucky Star" display. Duxbury library prides itself on purchasing multiple copies of popular reads based on Duxbury patron requests. Our selectors monitor the reports and will place an additional order for a book if there are a number of Duxbury patrons in the hold queue waiting for available copies. Our "Lucky Star" copies do not get circulated in the hold queue and cannot be renewed so often you will be surprised to see a book you have been on hold for available on this shelf.  "Lucky Star" books are created when the books have a lot of holds (some even before they are released from the publisher.) Recently books people have cheered when they ha...