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Book Banter: The Poisonwood Bible

Please join us for lively book banter on Monday, January 28, at 7:00 in Meeting Room One! We will be discussing Barbara Kingsolver‘s award-winning novel The Poisonwood Bible.

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. — excerpted from kingsolver.com

Copies of The Poisonwood Bible are available at the Circulation Desk or you may bring your own.

 

Software Upgrade & You

We are upgrading our public computers at Bristol Main and F.N. Manross Memorial Wednesday through Friday and they will not be available to you. The computer lab at Bristol Main will also be closed. We apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this will cause you.  Questions? Please call the Reference Desk at 860-584-7787 x2017.

WiFi remains available at both libraries.

 

Library Hours For New Year’s

In observance of New Year’s, the Bristol Public Library System will close on Monday, December 31 at noon and will remain closed until Wednesday, January 2.

While we’re closed, you may still drop off items in our book drops or use the library catalogs to place holds, check your library card, or renew items. The library’s databases, downloadable audiobooks, and eBooks will also remain accessible with your library card while we’re closed. The library catalog and databases can be accessed through our website bristollib.com.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
– Tennyson, “In Memoriam“

 

Library Hours for Christmas

In observance of Christmas, the Bristol Public Library System will close on Monday, December 24 at noon and will remain closed until Wednesday, December 26.

While we’re closed, you may still drop off items in our book drops or use the library catalogs to place holds, check your library card, or renew items. The library’s databases, downloadable audiobooks, and eBooks will also remain accessible with your library card while we’re closed. The library catalog and databases can be accessed through our website bristollib.com.

 

Come, See Our Beautiful Trees!

Come in and see all the beautiful decorations donated by local businesses and civic organizations for the Friends’ Festival of Trees. There are some really great trees on display this year and they’ll only be here for a few more weeks so come enjoy them while you can!

Don’t forget to check out our previous Festivals’ Flickr photo sets!

 

Crunch Time: End-of-Term Help for Students

As the semester begins to draw to a close, your library can be a great research resource for those school projects and papers looming on the horizon! In addition to the great new online learning tools we added to our website this fall, we also want to remind you of our older-but-no-less awesome tools. For example, if you’re a high school or college student, did you know you can research your papers anytime, anywhere with Salem Press Online?

Salem Press Online provides full 24/7 online access to its high quality reference works — search through the databases to access information about milestone documents, great lives and great works, as well as medical treatments and  health conditions. (Professor prefers print? Non-circulating print versions of these works can be found in our reference collection during regular library hours).

To access Salem Press Online, visit our website, bristollib.com. Or click the icons shown below. If you are outside the library, you will need to sign in with your valid 14-digit Bristol library card number.  Simply click the “remote access” button at the bottom of the Salem Press “Welcome” page, as shown below:

Then enter you library card in the blank:

What’s available to Bristol patrons through Salem Press Online? Lots!

Salem Press Health

• Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• Infectious Diseases & Conditions
• Magill’s Medical Guide
• Psychology and Mental Health
• Salem Health: Cancer

Salem Press History

• Encyclopedia of American Immigration
• Great Athletes
• Great Events from History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453
• Great Events from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
• Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions
• Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 c.e.
• Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages
• Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
• Milestone Documents in African American History
• Milestone Documents in World History
• Milestone Documents of American Leaders
• Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century
• Survey of American Industry & Careers
• The Twenties in America
• The Thirties in America
• The Forties in America
• The Fifties in America
• The Sixties in America
• The Seventies in America

Salem Press Literature

• Critical Insights: John Steinbeck
• Critical Insights: Mark Twain
• Critical Insights: Stephen King
• Critical Insights: The Catcher in the Rye
• Critical Insights: The Great Gatsby
• Critical Insights: The Red Badge of Courage
• Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
• Critical Insights: To Kill a Mockingbird
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction
• Critical Survey of Poetry: American Poets
• Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish, & Commonwealth Poets
• Critical Survey of Poetry: European Poets
• Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets
• Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays
• Critical Survey of Poetry: Cumulative Indexes
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction: British, Irish & Commonwealth Writers
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Topical Essays
• Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Cumulative Indexes

Salem Press Science

• Applied Science
• Earth Science: Earth’s Surface and History
• Earth Science: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Revised Edition
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming
• The Solar System

Questions? Concerns? Confusion? Contact us at 860-584-7787 x2017.