Links
READER RESOURCES
American Book Review: Reviews of books published by independent, small and university presses
Boston Globe Book Reviews: Boston Globe’s daily book review section
NY Times Books: Includes daily reviews, links to the Times Sunday Book Review, and all the Times Best Seller Lists
January Magazine: Online magazine that includes reviews of books on many subjects such as bestsellers, science fiction, children’s books and cookbooks. Also has a large crime fiction section. You’ll find reviews and interviews here.
Book Magazine: Popular book review magazine. Site includes online discussion forums.
Great Early Elementary Reads book list: This book list is put out by the Association for Library Service to Children and has some great choices for children who are just learning to read as well as those who are learning to read on their own.
FREE FUN
Audio Books: Can’t find what you want on Listen Up Vermont? Get audiobooks for free from LibriVox a worldwide digital library with more than 4,000 unabridged classics in the public domain, plus drama and poetry. Read by volunteers (you can be one too), they can be played on your computer, MP3 player, cellphone or, burned onto a CD, your car stereo. Other, similar services incude Verkaro and Audio Books for Free
RESEARCH
Vermont DOL: Includes links to other Vermont libraries, State Census data and much more.
Library of Congress: The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. They have more than 126 million items, and over 530 miles of bookshelves. If you can think of it…you’re surely to find it here.
Internet Public Library: Claims to be the first public library of and for the Internet community. You’ll find lots of great links here.
American Library Association: The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world. The association has over 64, 000 members.
18th Century Primary Source Documents through Colonial Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg has a great collection of digital documents from the 18th century. Most of these are specific to Virginia.
Civil War Primary Source Documents from the Civil War Trust: The Civil War Trust is committed to preserving America’s Civil War battlefields and has made a great number of addresses, speeches, records, and correspondence from the period available online.
National Library of Medicine: Has excellent and authoritative resources for medical research. They also link to PUBMED, the National Institute of Health’s database for biomedical literature.
Platt Memorial Library
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Monday: 11 – 7
Wednesday: 2 – 7
Thursday: 2 – 7
Saturday: 9 – 1