Events Calendar

  • Thu 3/22/2012: Workshop: CCBC Best Books 2012
  • Wed 3/28/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm
  • Thu 4/12/2012: NAC Meeting 10:00am
  • Thu 4/26/2012: Workshop:
  • Wed 5/23/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm

What’s on Badgerlink?(Part 2)

By Noreen Fish, Information Services, La Crosse Public Library

Literature and Reading Resources

When thirty high school students descend on your library at once, all needing literary criticism for an Arthur Miller play, point them to Literary Reference Center, in the EBSCO Database List, on the Badgerlink home page.  You can also find biographies and

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Book Review Blogs

by Marcia Sarnowski

At our recent Library Assistants’ workshop, one of the attendees made the following comment:  “Patrons want book reviews, or help finding “a good book’…how can staff members give reviews on so many books when we don’t have time to read every book in the library?”

One suggestion might be to create some

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Mysteries to please the palate

by Mary Dunn

Are you looking for some light, tasty mysteries? Here’s a few to please your palate. And as an added bonus, recipes are included.

Albert, Susan Wittig – Spanish Dagger. (2008) Berkley. 9780425220887. $7.99.

Between the herb shop, tearoom, catering business, and paper making class, China Bayles has her work

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