You can now search our catalog from home, you can renew your books, reserve a book to be picked up at the library, Rate & Review books you’ve read, see if you have fines . Your log in is the same one you use for Overdrive.

The link to the catalog is on the right hand side of this page. We hope you will explore it and enjoy this new feature offered by our library.

I am the kind of person who hates when they change website designs, sometimes they are for the better and I just need to get used to it, although I will grumble about it the entire time. So when they changed the Library2Go site I wasn’t sure what to think, however I have now looked around the new site and have to say I love the changes! They have made it much more user friendly; the one update I am loving is the ease of adding books to your wishlist you just click the little ribbon and it is added, so easy! Also removing books from wishlist is infinitely better, before you had to click remove then it would refresh the page and you would have to scroll to find where on your list you were, now you click on the ribbon, click yes remove from wishlist and you are still right where you were on the page so much better and more user friendly than it was before.

I also like the new search interface it gives you many more options in searching, when you click on the menu button you will see all your format options, click your format, then you have many options for searching by, subject, format, publisher and ratings just to name a few. I myself enjoy the ratings tab you can search only for books that are 5 star and see what books have low ratings to see if you agree.

The your account tab is much better now too you don’t have to page back everytime you click on different landings the other options are still available on the side bar which is very easy to use with larger fonts and is much more user friendly than it was before.

All in all I myself am very happy with the updates to the Library2Go website and I hope you will all go and play around with it and let me know what you think.

National Library Week 2013

Communities matter @ your library: celebrate National Library Week April 14-20

(New Rockford,ND) –This week, the Eddy-New Rockford Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers. 

Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, campuses or schools, libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work and study.  Libraries are trusted places where everyone in the community can gather to reconnect and reengage with each other to enrich and shape the community and address local issues.

Librarians work with elected officials, small business owners, students and the public at large to discover what their communities needs are and meet them.  Whether through offering e-books and technology classes, materials for English-language learners, programs for job seekers or those to support early literacy, librarians listen to the community they serve, and they respond.

The Eddy-New Rockford library serves Eddy County by providing new bestseller, downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, one on one computer classes, wireless internet access, public use computers, a place for meetings, GED classes, and much more.

“Service to the community has always been the focus of the library,” said Susie Sharp, Librarian “While this aspect has never changed, libraries have grown and evolved in how they provide for the needs of every member of their community.”

The Eddy-New Rockford Library is celebrating National Library Week by having a week long Chocolate Extravaganza come in every day for a different chocolate dessert and samples of Lindt Chocolate which you can order all week.

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. 

For more information, visit the Eddy-New Rockford Library at 10 8^th St. N. call 947-5540 or see the library’s Web site at http://www.newrockfordndlibrary.com/ or our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/NewRockfordPublicLibrary Libraries hours are Monday 2-8 Tues.-Fri. 11-6.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson: March Bookclub Pick

Our library bookclub was chosen to receive advance copies of this book from the publisher but we didn’t expect a 500+ page book so that was off-putting right away for some but once I got past the first 100 pages it was a fast read, some didn’t make it that far and gave up, some finished and liked it almost as much as I did and others finished and only found it a 3 or less star read. Our average Star Rating for this book was 3.5 so still pretty good. Our Library bookclub would like to thank the publisher Little Brown for choosing us to receive an advanced copy of this book. The review below is from our Librarian.

This book started out slow for me the first 100 pages I was confused then all of a sudden I couldn’t put this book down and I think it took me as long to read the last 400 pages as it did to read the first 100. There are times this book is confusing and I can see how people would give up on it but I am really glad I had to read this for bookclub so I didn’t give up after my usual 50-100 pages because that is when it gets good!

I really liked Ursula in all her different “lives”. She didn’t always make the wisest decisions but that is the crux of this book it is the different paths your life can take, if you do this then this is how your life will go and if you turn the other way and change that decision then this is what could happen. I also liked the family story we get to know the Todd’s is so many different ways because of the different decisions made by Ursula, and how her decisions affect what happens to others. I also got a kick out of Aunt Izzie she was a fun character.

The storyline’s about England during WWII are amazing you really get a feel of what it was like while the bombs are going off, the dust and dirt and coming around a corner to find a familiar street totally unrecognizable, when she was working as a relief worker helping find and identify the victims were heartbreaking and had such a real feel.  Ursula never really has very good taste in men no matter if it is a husband, lover or passing dalliance, I felt she was actually her happiest when she was living on her own.(Well most of the time, there is the gas incident).

As Ursula goes through life again and again she does have hazy memories more a déjà vu at times, other times just a feeling of dread, and sometime a straight up knowing of what will happen if certain events take place, yes I’m looking at you Bridget please don’t go to the fair! (Or her let’s kill Hitler phase) But she never fully realizes what is happening or why she sees the things she does or feels what she does about certain events. Each of her “lives” is varied some she dies young, some she has a husband and children, some she lives out a longer life and some of her “deaths” will shock you when the repeats start you almost feel like you are the one having déjà vu. I will say though that some of the stories start and it’s almost suspenseful as you wait to see how she dies this time.

I actually liked that the author didn’t fully explain what was happening to Ursula, be it reincarnation, déjà vu, past life or whatever you think it may be. I also am left wondering if her mother Sylvie wasn’t going through a similar “life”.

This book is one that I think will stay with you long after you read it, I am done now but still thinking of Ursula. I would recommend hanging in there if the first 100 pages are getting you down because once you get over that hump then it will really grab you! Kate Atkinson has written a fascinating, unique book that I think is deserving of all the buzz it is getting, just know this is very different than the Jackson Brodie series.

4 stars

New books this week are:

In adult fiction:

Ghost on Black Mountain by Ann Hite

The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley

The Art Forger: A Novel by Barbara Shapiro

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls

The Tudor Secret (The Spymaster Chronicles #1) by C.W. Gortner

In Audio CD:

Beautiful Ruins by, Jess Walter

In Fantasy:

Iron Druid Chronicles Volume 1 – Hounded, Hexed, & Hammered (The Iron Druid Chronicles #1-3) by Kevin Hearne

In adult non-fiction:

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

In Young Adult:

My One Square Inch of Alaska by Sharon Short

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

In middle grade non-fiction:

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin

The Library will be closed today please be safe out there!