Oregon Book Award Finalists Announced

Oregon has so many great writers and the Oregon Book Awards are a great way to discover new writers and new works. The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature. The 2011 list of finalists has been announced and you can click http://www.literary-arts.org/index.php?article=963 to see the full list for each genre. The library owns most of these titles and you can click http://wccls.org to search the catalog.

Current Magazine Alerts Emailed To You!

Did you know that you can receive an email alert when new issues of your favorite magazines in our Popular Magazine database are available for reading? Here's how:

1. Click on "Magazines" from our list of Online Resources.

2. Click on "Popular Magazines."

3. Click on "Browse Publications" and search for magazines that are of interest to you.

4. When you open the record for a magazine, check to see that there is full text coverage of the magazine. For example, you will see something that looks like this: Full-text coverage: Feb 1, 1996 - Current.

5. If there is full text coverage, then click on the RSS feed button in the upper righthand corner of the page.

The RSS symbol looks like this:

6. Then you will be able to enter your email address to have alerts about new articles from that magazine emailed to you when available.

7. You will receive email alerts about new articles in your inbox and will be able to log in to the database to access them.

Our magazine database contains many popular magazines, such as Sunset, Time, National Geographic, just to name a few. This is a great way to make use of this great library resource. If you have questions, please call the Beaverton Library Reference line at 503-526-2577 for assistance.

New Federal Dietary Guidelines Released

You may have heard that the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly released the new 2010 dietary guidelines last week. If you would like to take a look at the full text of the 2010 guidelines, click the link below:

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines

Happy healthy eating!

Mango Languages

Are you interested in learning a new language or just brushing-up on a language studied long ago? Mango Languages, available 24/7 from our website, is an interactive program that allows you to track your progress on learning a new language. Using real-life situations and conversations to teach the language, Mango Languages allows you to listen and repeat material, teaching you not only individual words and phrases, but also how they are used in practical situations and conversations. Among the languages included in this program are Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese and over 20 additional languages. Also included for non-English speakers are courses in English for speakers of French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Vietnamese and others. Give it a try!

Fill in the Blanks

It's Black history month and, if you are like me, your African-American history education is far from complete. Here are a few titles that will shed some light, and help fill in a few of the missing pieces.

Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, chronicles the "great migration" of African-Americans out of the Jim Crow South into the unknown Northern states, only to find that they have not left racism behind.



Waiting in Line at the Drugstore and Other Writings of James Thomas Jackson is a beautiful collection of essays and reflections by Jackson, that give insight into his struggles as a black man in America from the 1930s through the 1970s. Despite his difficulties, Mr. Jackson manages to retain his joie de vivre.








"You cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small, clear image of the past." Jan Struther

Wicked Plants

Did a character in your book die from a poisonous plant? Wonder if that hyacinth blossom really is that toxic? Amy Stewart's book Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities is a "fact-filled, A–Z compendium of nature’s worst offenders offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants." (Carol Haggas, Booklist)

Call number: 581.65 STE (adult non-fiction)

What is Syndicated content?

Have you subscribed to WCCLS's RSS feed to have new titles delivered to your desktop?

Wondering what is?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a simple way to distribute information from websites. It allows you to receive information from your favorite websites to one area, your RSS reader.

To get started download an RSS reader (which is available from numerous sites on the Internet). Some are free and some are fee based. Here is a quick list of a few. Once you have the RSS reader loaded you can now subscribe to feeds wherever you see the orange RSS image .

To subscribe to an RSS feed simply click on the button and copy the url (web address) that appears and paste it into your RSS reader.

An alternate method is to click and drag the RSS icon, and drop it into the RSS address/URL field on your reader site. The method you use will depend on the RSS reader you have.

Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS New Title list from WCCLS!