THIS WEEK! Thursday, August 15 | 6:00 pm | Page to Stage: Private Lives ty Noel Coward | tickets free to members when registering
FEATURED EVENTS Thursday, August 22 | 6:00 pm | In Conversation: Jenny Odell with Cathy Park Hong | tickets free to members when registering Thursday, September 5 | 6:30 pm | In Conversation: Tommy Orange with Steve Wasserman
SEMINAR SERIES Tuesday, August 27 | Tuesday, September 3 | Tuesday, September 10 5:30pm - 7:00 pm: | First in a Series of Four Seminars on James Baldwin's Books
Ever wonder what Mechanics’ Institute staff consider required reading on the web? In our spare time, many of us enjoy not only books in all formats, but web-based writings as well. Here are just a few of our go-to blogs and websites:
Taryn, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Librarian
"I admit it, I am a calendar nerd. I’m obsessed with my schedule, I love jotting to-do lists, and I adore journaling. For a long time I tried to accomplish this with...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Rachel Cusk Transit
Henry Green Caught
Angela Thirkell Miss Bunting
Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
Robert Dugoni The trapped girl
Shamini Fl...
Most of us know that books about correct usage of the English language aren’t checked out nearly as frequently as books on cooking, biographies, or mysteries, to name a few. How do publishers get these books to grab your attention so you will read or even buy them? Language books “gotta have a gimmick”. Giving them a compelling, catchy title with an intriguing turn of phrase could help them to fly off the shelves and get checked out. To a degree, then, it’s what’s on the outside that counts....
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February is Black History Month, and here at the Mechanics' Institute Library we want to celebrate by highlighting fiction by authors of color. Come by the second floor during the month of February to check out our display! For those of you participating in the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, this display is also a great opportunity to check off some of the books on that list. Here's the full readers' guide for those of...
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BOOKS
FICTION
R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone
Ruth Gilligan Nine folds make a paper swan
Robert Glancy Please do not disturb
John Metcalf The museum at the end of the world
Chaim Potok...
Are you a new Mechanics’ Institute member? Been here for awhile, but would like to know more about what we offer? To get everyone up to speed on some of the library’s programming, here’s a non-exhaustive overview of some of our most popular services:
Discussion Groups meet on a regular basis: typically either bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly. We currently host member-led book groups (World Literature, Catch-22), librarian-facilitated book groups (Br...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Szilárd Borbély The dispossessed
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Graham Greene The third man
Han Kang Human acts
Thomas Hardy...
BOOKS
FICTION
Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the riots of 'eighty
George Eliot Adam Bede
George Eliot Silas Marner: the weaver of Raveloe
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Ste...
In this age of information overload, the Mechanics’ Institute does much more than just accumulate and lend books and other materials. We support members as they navigate the sea of sources both entertaining and informative. As busy MI members, who has time to sift for the nuggets in a deluge of content, whether it’s the “Best 100 Books of 2016” or 1 million hits from a Google search?
As a community of Mechanics’ Institute members, conversations and shared interests collectively guide...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Aravind Adiga Selection day
Joanna Cannon The trouble with goats & sheep
Michael Chabon Moonglow
Beatrice Colin To capture what we cannot keep
Emily Fridlund...
