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Featured Events

It's the eReader Extravaganza!

Are you interested in learning how to download library ebooks but missed our recent program?  Have no fear!  The library will soon be hosting an eReader Extravaganza including an eReader display and how-to programs. 
 
From Monday, February 6 through Wednesday, February 15, we'll be offering visitors an opportunity to experience a variety of eReaders including the iPad, Nook, Nook Touch, Kindle Fire, Kobo and Sony Reader.  These interactive times will vary, so contact the Reference Department at 610-446-3082 x201 before stopping by.  

Want to learn a new language?

 If you're interested in learning a new language try Mango Languages today! With your Delaware County Library System card you can log in and start the free lessons any time from any computer. 
 
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.
 
 Have a smarthphone? Try the app (search for Mango in the App Store or scan the QR Code).
Staff Picks

If You're Feeling Sinister

  Whimsy and preciousness are an integral part of If You're Feeling Sinister, along with clever wit and gentle, intricate arrangements -- a wonderful blend of the Smiths and Simon & Garfunkel, to be reductive. Even if it's firmly within the college, bed-sit tradition, and is unabashedly retrogressive, that gives Sinister a special, timeless character that's enhanced by Stuart Murdoch's wonderful, lively songwriting. Blessed with an impish sense of humor, a sly turn of phrase, and an alluringly fey voice, he gives this record a real sense of backbone, in that its humor is far more biting than the music appears and the music is far more substantial that it initially seems. Sinister plays like a great forgotten album, couched in '80s indie, '90s attitude, and '60s folk-pop. 

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Republic, Lost

Republic, Lost : How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign, trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature.  With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system.  

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