Added to the Art and Architecture Page:

• ArtBabble — This site developed by the Indianapolis Museum of Art shares high-quality art videos from its museum partners.
• Institute of Contemporary Art — Boston’s museum of modern art

NextReads E-Mail Newsletters — Our NextReads service has added two new newsletters. New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers and New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers include the top 15 titles in each category along with the short description provided by the New York Times. Both will be distributed to subscribers weekly, and are sent out on Wednesdays.

Subscribing to the New York Times Bestseller lists is as easy as subscribing to any of the other NextReads newsletters. No library card is necessary, only an email address. Newsletters link directly to our library catalog, so subscribers can easily place a request for a title.

We now have twenty-five NextReads newsletters on various topics and genres, including Biography and Memoir, Fantasy, Tween Reads, Mystery, Nature and Science, and Audiobooks.If you’d prefer to just check these out online, you’ll find the current and back issues of all the NextReads newsletters here: NextReads Newsletters

Subscribe to NextReads E-Mail Newsletters — See the list of newsletters, preview and sign up

Signs of Spring

What does spring mean to you — baseball, field and track, gardening?

Check out this online exhibit with old and new pictures of spring in Massachusetts, featuring images from NOBLE member libraries and from the statewide Digital Commonwealth.

Added to the Science and Math Page :

• Understanding Science: How Science Really Works — The mission of this site is “to provide a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works.” It is produced by the UC Museum of Paleontology of the University of California at Berkeley, funded by the National Science Foundation.
• Scitable — “Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students.”
• Science News — News from the New Scientist journal
• Yahoo Science News — A collection of science news stories, videos and slideshows
• ScienceNOW — Science news from Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Science and Technology News — “News about science and technology, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.”

• H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) — Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Swine Flu — Local information from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Flu Outbreak — Timeline, news articles, video and links from Channel 7 News website