Sir Paul McCartney, co-writer with John Lennon of some of the most iconic music of the rock era, has been named as the third recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The Beatles vocalist and guitarist will perform at the award ceremony in the White House on June 2nd. The Gershwin Prize [...]
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Patrons of the Palos Verdes Library District can search the collections of more than 10,000 libraries locally and worldwide with their home computers, laptops or iPhones. Through the WorldCat database PVLD is an active participant in Interlibrary Loan, a process by which libraries share their resources with one another. Requests are accepted for materials that are not found in PVLD’s catalog. Interlibrary [...]
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users rejoice, you can now download MP3 audiobooks from OverDrive directly to your device. OverDrive Media Incorporated recently released the free OverDrive Media Console for iPhone audiobook app on the App Store. Download it here. Once the app is on your iPhone you can visit PVLD’s OverDrive link: http://ebooks.pvld.org/, login [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
According to a Danish study of brain response to religious figures, preconceived notions of authority and trustworthiness may allow certain individuals to gain influence over others. The lead researcher speculates that brain regions may be deactivated in a similar way in response to doctors, parents, and politicians. The researchers studied the response of subjects to prayer [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Want to search for your ancestors’ birth, marriage, and death records online? Are you inquisitive about their military service or what vessel they were a passenger on when they emigrated to the United States? You may be able to find the answers to these and other questions by searching the library’s two subscription databases: Ancestry Library and Heritage Quest [...]
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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