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February 1, 2024

Let’s ReThink School Libraries to Improve Reading

January 23, 2024

2024 ALA Award-Winners List + FREE Award-Book Pane + Chance to Win

December 21, 2023

Flexible Tech: ALEX Anywhere, Anytime & Share Your Book Love

December 18, 2023

Awesome Picture Book Reads for 2023-24

International Children’s Book Day is on April 2nd. If we didn’t already have a good enough excuse to read children’s books, this day is for sure one!
December 13, 2023

A Tech-Savvy Library: Transforming Your Services through Automation

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Visitor Management Done Right.

Track, manage, and report on all visitor activity at your facilities.

Manage Textbooks and Other Assets

Take control of your text books through Alexandria.

March 28, 2016

Hot New Titles for Your Library

Based on holds ratios and ordering of libraries nationwide, here are some hot new titles to know and recommend to your patrons. This week’s most in-demand book is New York Times bestselling author Karen Robard’s romantic suspense novel Darkness. It’s the tale of a brilliant ornithologist on a research trip […]
August 19, 2015

BOOK REVIEW: THE WINNER’S CURSE

Guest Post by Mia Seventeen-year-old Kestrel lives in an empire where adulthood offers only two choices: get married or join the military. Her father, a general, expects her to choose the latter path, while certain eligible young men hope for the former. Kestrel desires neither. One day while wandering the […]
June 16, 2015

Book Review: Escape Reality with Candy and the Creepy Creatures of Abarat

In Clive Barker’s Abarat, readers meet 16-year-old Candy Quackenbush, a small-town girl with an alcoholic father and weak-willed mother. Candy knows there are more interesting places out there and longs for something weird. When Candy meets the John brothers, a creature with 1 body and 8 heads, she brings the […]