Information Services
The library has a wonderful, diverse collection of materials available to our patrons – Books, E-books, Magazines, Entertainment and Instructional DVDs and Videos, Music CDs, and Audiobooks.
In addition, we offer the following services: Lectures, Fitness Classes, Book Discussion Groups, Fax and Copy Machines, Access to Online Databases, Computers for Patron Use, Wireless Internet Access.
Looking for something and can’t find it? See our Information Services Librarians! They are more than happy to assist you, and have access to a variety of resources. Need something that is not in our library? We will be happy to Interlibrary Loan it for you.
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Sep 2010
Escape to another world or time with a classic science fiction movie!
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
27
Aug 2010
Thanks to all our Adult Summer Reading Club participants and all who attended our wrap-up party!
Books that readers especially enjoyed include:
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
World Without End by Ken Follett
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
20
Aug 2010
Enjoy Eat, Pray, Love? Find other accounts of women’s travels abroad, courtesy of NoveList Plus.
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy by Rachel Cusk
That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story by Marlena de Blasi
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris
My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean
Expat: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad by Christina Henry de Tessan
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick, and Christina Henry De Tessan
12
Aug 2010
The longlist of finalists for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award covers modern business issues, including management, finance, and economics. Selected titles include:
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam Haslett
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington fought to Save the Financial System From Crisis–and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
2
Aug 2010
Your Cold Spring Harbor Library card now gives you access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks for adults, teens, and children!
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27
Jul 2010
The 13 books on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 have been announced.
Titles that the library owns include:
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
February by Lisa Moore
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The winner will be announced on October 12th.
