Friday, April 29, 2011

Congratulations to the Mark Twain 2010-2011 Winners!



Congratulations 
to the winners 
of the
 2010-2011 MASL Readers Awards!


Mark Twain (Grades 4-6)
1st Place: Stolen Children, by Peg Kehret. Dutton.
2nd Place: Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Simon & Shuster.
3rd Place: Go Big or Go Home, by Will Hobbs. Harper Collins.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Check Out an E-book Today!

Little Dixie Regional Libraries is proud to present Overdrive, our brand new service that allows our patrons to download e-books from our website. 

All you need is an internet connection and a library card
With hundreds of popular fiction and nonfiction titles to choose from, this new collection is guaranteed to have something for everyone.

Check out these Romance E-books today:
“Against the Law” Kat Martin (2011) At thirty-two Dev is "mostly retired" from Raines Investigations, content to run operations from his home. But Dev has never been able to say no to a beautiful woman, so when Lark Delaney comes to him for help, the former U.S. Army Ranger gets back in the game.

“A Creed in Stone Creek” by Linda Lael Miller (2011) When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch

“Harvest Moon” by Robyn Carr (2011) Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate

“Call Me Irresistible” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2011) Lucy is the daughter of a former president of the United States. Meg is the offspring of legends. One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible—Ted—the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it and is determined to save her friend from a mess of heartache.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Download an E-Book Today from Your Local Library

Little Dixie Regional Libraries is proud to present Overdrive, our brand new service that allows our patrons to download e-books from our website. 
All you need is an internet connection and a library card. 
With hundreds of popular fiction and nonfiction titles to choose from, this new collection is guaranteed to have something for everyone. 

Check out some of these great titles:
“Minding Frankie” by Maeve Binchy (2011) When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. 

“Learning to Swim” by Sara J. Henry (2011) When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into the lake, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her. With twists and turns, the reader is taken on the swim as real as if you were really there with her.

“Night Vision” by Randy Wayne White (2011) A lot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited mostly by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial corporation that wants to develop the property, and he's prepared to do whatever it takes to clear the residents out. He just can't figure out what to do about the teenage girl, the one the laborers believe has some sort of a psychic gift.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Congratulations to the Truman 2010-2011 Winners!


Congratulations to the winners of the 2010-2011 MASL Readers Awards!


Truman (Grades 6-8)
1st Place: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Scholastic Press
2nd Place: Gone, by Michael Grant. HarperTeen.
3rd Place: Jump the Cracks, by Stacy DeKeyser. Flux.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Little Dixie Reading Group - "Bel Canto"

"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
April 21, 2011 @ 5:15pm

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots. 



Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Congratulations to the Gateway 2010-2011 Winners!


Congratulations to the winners of the 2010-2011 MASL Readers Awards!

Gateway Award Winners (Grades 9-12)
1st Place: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Scholastic Press.
2nd Place: Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
3rd Place: Wake, by Lisa McMann. Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Publishers.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Genealogy: Marriage Records


Did you know that Little Dixie Regional Libraries has a database of local Randolph County marriage announcements? 

Slowly but surely, all of the marriage announcements are being cataloged into this easily searchable database. 

Wonder how it works? 
Click on this link:

Find Marriage
Find Marriage
SURNAME
GROOM and BRIDE
MAIDEN
MARRIED
NOTES
MMI
MCA
      
While this form is not searchable, clicking on the link takes you to the searchable form

Once you've put in a searchable term in the form, click Search. The results show which newspaper the marriage announcement appeared and the date it appeared in. In many cases, the actual date of the marriage is included as well.

Countless hours of volunteers have made this resource possible to genealogists with family in this area.

For more information, please contact Little Dixie Regional Libraries. Happy hunting! 

Friday, April 15, 2011

What's @ the Movies is in your Library

Sometimes the book is better than the movie. 

Join us as we discover the books behind some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters…new and old. 

All of the books featured here can be found 

Book: Water For Elephants” by Sara Gruen (2006)
A circus tent set up near his nursing home leads Jacob Janlowski to recall his experience when he worked for a traveling circus in the 1930's. Hired as a vet to care for the animals, Jacob is challenged by Rosie, a non-cooperative elephant. He involves himself in thelives of t he performers and the workers of the circus.






Movie:
Water For Elephants
Releases in Theaters April 15, 2011. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christopher Waltz, and Hal Holbrook, “Water for Elephants” tells the story of a veterinary student, who abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.


Thursday, April 14, 2011

Little Dixie Regional Libraries Board Meeting

The Little Dixie Regional Libraries Board Meeting will occur on Thursday, April 14th. 
For more information on the topics on the agenda, please contact the library.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Outreach Deliveries

Little Dixie Regional Libraries is proud to offer Outreach services to members of the Randolph and Monroe communities. Outreach services are always free of charge and available to anyone who has a physical problem getting to the library. Books and other materials are delivered by the delivery van or through mail.


If you are interested in learning more about Outreach services available through your local library or would like to sign up, please contact Rachael at the Moberly Public Library.

The next Outreach Delivery will occur 
on April 12th & 13th, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Little Dixie Reading Group - "Bel Canto"

"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
April 21, 2011 @ 5:15pm

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots. 



Everyone is welcome to join in a lively literary discussion of books from today and yesterday. Library book discussions will be in the Moberly Library Board Room.

For more information, please contact Melissa Poth at the Moberly Library

Check out our website (http://www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us/) to reserve this book today!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Truman and Treats

"Compound
by S.A. Bodeen
April 11th-15th

What: 2010-2011 Truman Reader Award Nominees & Treats

Who: Middle School Students
When: 3:30-5:00 pm daily for 1 straight week




Join us each evening for a middle school read-aloud hour (and a half). Each day for 5 straight days, we will read one chosen Truman Reader Award Nominee. And we'll provide the treats! See the Little Dixie Regional Libraries website Calendar or Facebook for more information.

Summary: Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they’ve become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. No amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, only his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary—and their sanity—Eli can’t help but wonder if he’d rather take his chances outside. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe—really?


Thursday, April 7, 2011

What's @ The Movies is in YOUR Library

Sometimes the book is better than the movie. Join us as we discover the books behind some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters…new and old. 

All of the books featured here can be found at

Book: “Horton Hears a Who” by Dr. Seuss (1954)
A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist.

Movie: “Horton Hears a Who” Released in theaters on March 14, 2008. Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett and Seth Rogen, “Horton” tells the story of an Elephant who struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists. Based on the beloved children’s book by Dr. Seuss. 

Monday, April 4, 2011

Search Our Catalog!

Search our Catalog from home! 

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and search! 

New content is added every day as well as new locations on materials. 

Place a hold, find a book...your one stop shop!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

What's @ the Movies is in your Library





Sometimes the book is better than the movie.

Join us as we discover the books behind some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters…new and old. 

All of the books featured here can be found at your local Little Dixie Regional Library!






Book: “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (2009)

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.



Movie: “The Help” Releases in Theaters: August12, 2011. Starring Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Sissy Spacek, “The Help” is a reflection at what happens when three friends, who were never meant to be friends, break away from the bonds placed upon them by society in the 1960. 



Saturday, April 2, 2011

Truman and Treats

"Compound
by S.A. Bodeen
April 11th-15th

What: 2010-2011 Truman Reader Award Nominees & Treats

Who: Middle School Students
When: 3:30-5:00 pm daily for 1 straight week




Join us each evening for a middle school read-aloud hour (and a half). Each day for 5 straight days, we will read one chosen Truman Reader Award Nominee. And we'll provide the treats! See the Little Dixie Regional Libraries website Calendar or Facebook for more information.

Summary: Eli and his family have lived in the underground Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone, and they’ve become accustomed to their new life. Accustomed, but not happy. No amount of luxury can stifle the dull routine of living in the same place, with only his two sisters, only his father and mother, doing the same thing day after day after day. As problems with their carefully planned existence threaten to destroy their sanctuary—and their sanity—Eli can’t help but wonder if he’d rather take his chances outside. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. But are they safe—really?

Friday, April 1, 2011

Online Chilton's Manuals

With rising economic costs these days, more and more people are choosing to do repairs to their vehicles themselves. What could be better than having Chilton's auto manuals at your fingertips, for free, ONLINE, from your local library?  Chilton's Manuals are updated almost daily, easily searchable, with almost any make, model, or year of automobile.


Little Dixie Regional Libraries offers free access to the online Chilton's auto manuals through our website to any patron with a library card. 

Interested in logging in and checking out Chilton's?

Follow these easy steps and you'll be on your way to fixing and maintaining your vehicle today!

2. On the top menu bar, click on Online Databases
3. In the drop down menu, click Automotive
4. Click on the green Chilton's Library Automotive Logo
5. Enter your library card number...This should be the 10-digit number found on the back of your card starting with 920.......
6. Click Proceed
7. Voila! There you are! Your in Chilton's Automotive Repair

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the library for help.