City Chicks

The Beaverton City Council recently passed an ordinance allowing residents to have chickens in their backyards. The Library has a growing collection of titles on raising chickens in an urban setting. Selecting specific breeds, feeding, caring for and housing information can be found in the titles that we own. The majority of these can be found in 636.6 in the non-fiction section of the collection on the second floor.

Discovery of ancient Biblical texts

The Sisters of Sinai: how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels

By Janet Martin Soskice


Found in the library at call number 225.0922 SOS

This is the remarkable account of two Scottish sisters (Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson) who discovered a biblical text, called a palimpsest, that contained some of the most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. The author, Soskice, does a good job of setting up the background about the identical twin sisters amazing ability to learn foreign (and ancient) languages as they travelled in the middle east during a time when archaeology and science were turning some old and hallowed beliefs about the Bible upside-down. This is a fun and interesting read, as well as an important contribution to history about the role played by Agnes and Margaret in the amazing discovery of this palimpsest.

RV Comparisons

JR Consumer Resources is a consumer group that publishes unbiased RV ratings and reviews on over 64 different RV manufacturers in North America. The information provided is based on independent research and interviews. Included in the books are motorhomes, travel trailers and fifth wheels. We have the 2006-2008 RV Comparison Guide and the 2008-2010 RV Comparison Guide. Both of these titles are located in the Reference Collection on the Consumer Information Index Table.

Non Fiction that Reads Like Fiction

If you primarily read Fiction there is a whole world of unexplored books for you in the library. There are many books in Non Fiction section that read like Fiction are fascinating page turners.





Interested? Check out this list to get you started.





Non Fiction that Reads like Fiction

Hardback Books / Qualitiy Reprints

There's something important about the lasting quality of a hardback book to libraries. I'm fascinated by how many decent quality hardback reproductions of out of print books have popped onto the market.

We like way it holds up if tossed in a bag or pack, and stands up well on a shelf. It's cover is able to be covered with a slip cover and cleaned off if it gets dirt on it. But you may have noticed that new books bookstores often sell paperbacks of classics rather than the more expensive hardbacks. A copy of Moby Dick must be strong enough to circulate many times and hold up in all kinds of weather, and paperbacks usually spell trouble in that realm.

Hundreds of thousands of classics are in the public domain and can be read on screens, bought widely in paperback, but if you want a new hardback title like that, note that several publishers are doing a good job reissuing good looking hardbacks.

These are imprints of printing publishers that are that are bringing back out of print or public domain

*** (hint on how to make the following links work, flip the search by index to Publisher once you click thru on them, and then limit them by book on the left limiter)
Nabu Press

Bibliolife

Wildside

Wilder

1st World Library
These can be paperbacks and hardbacks
Kessenger

These companies redo the book rather than reprint it, and they are very high quality

Modern Library

Everyman's Library

Library of America

Unconventional Wisdom

Do you like to think outside the box? If so, here is a list of titles compiled by librarians across the country on "Unconventional Wisdom"

Unconventional Wisdom booklist

Access Science

Did you know...

McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology is available online?

Current science news and video clips are just a few clicks away and available 24/7 through your WCCLS library card.

Go to www.wccls.org/online_resources scroll to the Science & Technology link in the left hand column. Next click on AccessScience.

Don't let questions about the Periodic Table or Geological Time Scale keep you up at night.

Alcohol consumption - statistics

Have you ever wondered how much Alcohol people consume? Or have you ever needed to do market research on something else?

Library resources

Identify the lead "voices" in an industry with National Trade and Professional Associations and Special Issues.

Special Issues is an affordable database (the library is a subscriber - so come in and use it) is used to pinpoint some of the most authoritative places (websites, magazines) to begin for trends and current practices in any technology or trade. Special Issues tracks salary surveys, lists of top businesses, and websites or trade journals that really care about the specific area you are supposed to research for your business. Assistance by a librarian at Beaverton City Library is necessary to use it for free.
Business and Company Resource Center is a one-stop search database for doing business research. There's a Datamonitor report in Business Source Complete entitled:Alcoholic Drinks Industry Profile: United States; May2010, p1, 38p

Other for fee services may be helpful too, such as Euromonitor,

Wine Institute http://www.wineinstitute.org/resources/statistics

The Beer Institute http://www.beerinstitute.org/statistics.asp?bid=198

Analyst reports (especially year end or initiation of coverage ) on companies like Molson/Coors, Budweiser, Miller/SAB, Diageo Annual reports from these same brewers, etc.

Industry publications - some are linked here http://www.winepros.org/aftertaste/links_info-biz.htm
The Beaverton City Library carries S&P Industry Surveys which also has some data on the alcohol market.

World Book Encyclopedia Online

You are probably familiar with World Book Encyclopedia--did you know that you can use your library card and logon to five different versions of World Book!

r•World Book Discover  Multimedia reference with text-to-speech capabilities, automated translation into 14 languages, life skills activities, and more for older students reading below grade level.

•World Book Online For Kids For young public library patrons. Offers easy-to-read articles and a wealth of engaging multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, and activities.

•World Book Online Info Finder Contains content and features designed for school-aged patrons' homework and research needs.

•World Book Online Reference Center For advanced researchers and information seekers. Features thousands of e-books, tens of thousands of articles, and hundreds of thousands of primary source documents and features developed especially for public library patrons

•Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos Spanish language version for elementary and middle grades, or beginning Spanish students.

National Park Service Web Site

nps.gov
Check out this well-designed web site if you want to find a park by state, name, activity or topic. 
Activity includes everything from auto touring to wildlife viewing. The site also has information on scenic rivers, national heritage sites, memorials, monuments, historic sites, seashores, etc. so the topic search covers from American Presidents to Wildflowers. Other information on nps.gov includes news, events, photos and multimedia presentations and information for teachers and kids.

These 2010 travel books just in...

Eyewitness Travel: San Francisco & Northern California









Eyewitness Travel: Switzerland










Eyewitness Travel: New England

Once in Golconda

Occasionally a deep vein will appear in history, out of which bright personalities and their drives are reflected and magnified in the gaze of historians and journalists. One such place was New York's business society in the 1920's. Award-winning writer John Brooks writes of a time not unlike the present; doubtless few readers of Once in Golconda will fail to miss the similarities. The vast wealth inside the New York Stock exchange was territory for insiders whose missteps led them into speculative darkness, ever fewer options awaiting at each turn. His writing is succinct and colorful--masterful. He keeps one mesmerized by the descriptions of such men, specifically Richard Whitney, on track to a convergence of ambition and panic we all know as the great crash of 1929. This book appeals to anyone eager to refract recent readings on the recession, willing to examine a loss of inheritance at several angles, and inclined to see that everything connects.

Westside Economic Alliance

One of the better listings for Business Links in this region is found at


http://www.westside-alliance.org/