Still looking for the perfect Halloween costume?? Don’t despair! Come visit the Reference Room and you can see all kinds of costume books, including one of my favorites ... our 1892 Masquerade and Carnival: their customs and costumes. As it says in the introduction: “Among the most pleasing forms of entertainment are those festivities which require the adoption of masquerade…

Stop by the reference room, and you can see a gorgeous new reference book: The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera by Peggy Alrich and Wesley Higgins. According to their publisher, Cornell University Press:

“The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera…

I know summer is over, the beach basket is gone for the season, the puzzles have been put away to allow room for more research and homework, but I just needed to make one more little film as a tribute to our summer puzzle season. You can take a look at the mini film by clicking on

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Why? For being the ONLY CLAMS library to have a novel on the shelf by the new winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ... Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio! I’m sure many libraries will be ordering what is available in English soon, but it is wonderful to know one library was already ready with at…

Of course, we didn’t just have authors here this week, we also had a Rock Band. Early Release Day was Tuesday, and we had a great group of potential rock stars visiting. You can see some of the photos on our flickr page. You can even see a VERY…

Thanks to generous support from the Falmouth Public Library Trustees, community members enjoyed a lively Death & Dessert program this past Wednesday featuring three Massachusetts writers of suspense novels. The author panel consisted of Gary Braver from Boston, whose sixth suspense novel is Skin Deep; hometown favorite Peter Abrahams with 20 published novels to his name, whose latest book is…

One of the pleasures of the Reference Desk is that we get to see new titles just before they go out to our readers. So what’s on today’s cart that looks interesting? Here are some titles that you might want to check out:

Best New American Voices: Fresh Fiction From the Top Writing Programs (which you’ll find in…

If you see a few extra news agencies in town today, it could be because they are interviewing Osamu Shimomura, one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He won “for the discovery and development of a brightly glowing protein first seen in jellyfish, work that has helped scientists study how cancer cells spread.” According to the

Here is a list of the titles we talked about yesterday on The Point with Mindy Todd. If you missed the show you can always listen to the podcast online. Our point of departure yesterday was Cape Cod authors. Are you a Cape Cod author and we didn’t mention you?…

Yes, Melanie and I were back chatting with Mindy this morning about Cape Cod authors, and I promise to post all our titles just as soon as I can. A big thanks to Bikeman’s sister for calling in with the exact dates of the reading! Missed the show this morning? You can listen to the rebroadcast at 7:30 this evening…

Are you paying too much for food?  ---and gas?  Do you use food stamps? Do you wonder what the future holds for the rent you are paying—or that you charge?  Are you a Social Security beneficiary?  If any of these categories (as well as many others) fits you, then the Consumer Price Index (CPI) might have some fascination for you.…

Our East Falmouth Branch Librarian, Meg Borden, sent some branch news for today’s blog. “On display at the East Falmouth Branch Library are four paintings by Claudia Smith-Jacobs, local artist and painting instructor.  In addition there are two prints of cranberry harvests that she has donated to our library. Please visit during regular library hours through the…