ComicsJanuary 2009 Buyer Beware I eagerly snapped up Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison...
Comics
January 2009
Buyer Beware
Comics
January 2009
Buyer Beware
A recent novel in translation has been compared to the writings of Proust. The Elegance of a Hedgehog takes a look at the life of the mind through the lives of some very unusual characters. Want to take a look? Check it out at the Library!
It seems robins are now full time residents of Rhode Island. To find out more about birds check out our avian collections at the Library!
The New York Times recently listed 100 notable books of 2008; here are five of them from the Fiction and Poetry Category:
The Library will be closing at 3 PM on Friday, December 19, due to storm conditions. As of this date, it looks as if we will be open on Saturday and Sunday, unless serious storm conditions persist.
Barrington Library is very pleased to have received a grant from the Champlin Foundations for $10,750 to install new air conditioning for the computer network room at the library. In addition, the Champlin Foundations gave more than $14,000 on behalf of Barrington Library to Ocean State Library Network, to be used to purchase new computers and other computer related hardware for the library.
Movies
December 2008
Art
There’s going to be a major U.S. census taken in 2010. There will be many thousands of of good paying, part time jobs available for census workers in Rhode Island alone.Barrington Library will serve as a testing and training site. For more information, and to check out a sample employment test, go to the library reference desk.