Library passes to Asian Art museum

The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, is the current exhibit at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. Through an arrangement with the Museum, the Albany Library has been using special funds to purchase 2 family passes good for admission to the museum for 2 adults and all children under 12. Sign-ups are taken a month+ in [...]

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President 2.0

It’s been reported that President Obama won’t have to give up his trusty BlackBerry entirely, as he originally feared.  Beyond that, he seems intent on being the first truly tech-savvy president, building on the interactive methods that helped win him the presidency in the first place. No sooner had he been sworn in than the [...]

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Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road was critically acclaimed when it came out in 1962 but not a big seller. Now that the novel has made it to the big screen–with Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio in the lead roles, no less–it’s on the bestseller list.
Whether the book is better than the movie is a matter of opinion. But [...]

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Surge in library use

 
SURGE IN LIBRARY USAGE CONTINUES TO GENERATE INTEREST

 
CHICAGO – As Americans flock to libraries in record numbers, the media continues to highlight the critical role libraries play during economic hard times. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Public Information Office’s (PIO) has spent the past few months educating the media about the increase in visits at [...]

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