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Women’s History Month

By Adult Services on March 6, 2013 in Adults, Books and Authors, Research and Resources, Richard

March is Women’s History Month. The Sunnyvale Public Library joins other libraries in paying tribute to women. Our collection contains quite a few books to satisfy your curiosity about this topic. Perhaps the following will be your next read:

Women’s world : a timeline of women in history / Irene Franck & David Brownstone

100 most important women of the 20th century / [author Kevin Markey ; project editor Lorraine Glennon.]

The 100 most influential women of all time : a ranking past and present / Deborah G. Felder

Herstory : women who changed the world / edited by Ruth Ashby and Deborah Gore Ohrn ; introduction by Gloria Steinem

The power of style : the women who defined the art of living well / by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins

Women’s firsts / Caroline Zilboorg, editor ; Susan B. Gall, managing editor ; foreword by Christine Todd Whitman

Well-behaved women seldom make history / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

33 things every girl should know about women’s history : from suffragettes to skirt lengths to the E.R.A. / edited by Tonya Bolden

A few good women : America’s military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Women from the ankle down : the story of shoes and how they define us / Rachelle Bergstein

From out of the shadows : Mexican women in twentieth-century America / Vicki L. Ruiz

The forgotten Desert Mothers : sayings, lives, and stories of early Christian women / Laura Swan

For information at a national level, please visit the Women’s History Month website.

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Music? How Delightful!

By Adult Services on December 11, 2012 in Adults, Music and Art, Richard

Have you ever wondered about the background of a piece or music, or its composer? Or what other music is similar, or which composers, or other bands that play music like that? Much of that can be found using the Internet now, but the library has some resources that will take you in-depth into this field.

Our premier encyclopedia for music is:

The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians / edited by Stanley Sadie ; executive editor, John Tyrrell

There are also these companion sets:

The Encyclopedia of popular music / compiled & edited by Colin Larkin

The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments / edited by Stanley Sadie

For other genres and popular styles, we also have these marvelous books:

The A to X of alternative music / Steve Taylor

The electronic musician’s dictionary / Craig Anderton

The Routledge guide to music technology / edited by Thom Holmes

Songwriters : a biographical dictionary with discographies / by Nigel Harrison

Now to take a trip through some musical landscapes.

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New Readers in the eReader Petting Zoo

By Adult Services on November 12, 2012 in eBooks and eReaders, Richard

Across from the Information and Circulation desk, you will find the eReader Petting Zoo, where you can touch and test the devices available on the market. We have updated and added to the readers, so that now we have the following six:

Kindle Paperwhite New!

Kindle Keyboard

Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight New!

Nook Simple Touch

Sony Reader WiFi

Kobo Mini

The library also has books about how to use some of the eReaders above. If you search for the terms “kindle” or “nook” in the catalog, you will find several books about how to use the devices.

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Celebrating the Renaissance

By Adult Services on October 8, 2012 in Adults, Books and Authors, Richard

Early European history is celebrated in California with the Renaissance Faire, begun in California and now found throughout the country. The season is almost over for this year, but there are a couple of weekends left in northern California at both the Northern California Renaissance Faire and the Folsom Renaissance Faire.

Before going to the fair, you might want to brush up on your Elizabethan history, or even earlier, to appreciate even more in the re-creations at the faire. The library has a number of works to help you with this.

General histories about the period:

The story of the world. Volume 2, The Middle ages, from the fall of Rome to the rise of the Renaissance : history for the classical child / by Susan Wise Bauer, illustrated by Jeff West

The Renaissance : a short history / Paul Johnson

Or works about specific people or cultures:

Galileo’s muse : Renaissance mathematics and the arts / Mark A. Peterson

The house of wisdom : how Arabic science saved ancient knowledge and gave us the Renaissance / Jim Al-Khalili

The Tudors : the complete story of England’s most notorious dynasty / G.J. Meyer

The Elizabethans / A.N. Wilson

And, of course, Shakespeare:

Shakespeare’s London : a guide to Elizabethan London / Julie Ferris

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Enjoying Nature in the First Person – Camping and Backpacking!

By Adult Services on August 13, 2012 in Adults, Books and Authors, Children, Cooking and Food, Richard

It is nearing the end of summer and school will be starting very soon, but there is still time to get in one more longer trip to the mountains or beaches, or deserts, or just about any climate you would want. This is California, and we have it all within a few hours of travel.