World Book Day celebrations

A big thank you to all who took part in our World Book Day celebrations last Thursday. It went really well, with many of you contributing to either the Book Oscars/Election or writing your own inspirational books on a post-it note and adding it to our own. 125 people voted in the Oscars and it would seem that 'the boy who lived' is still very popular with our readers. Here are the results:

Best Book: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Best Series: Harry Potter
Best Female Author: J.K. Rowling
Best Male Author: A tie between William Shakespeare & Charles Dickens

The World Book Day site has lists of their own 'Writes of Passage' books, available on their website at:
http://www.worldbookday.com/writes-of-passage

Keep a look out for details of World Book Night, which will be on April 23rd 2014. Keep on reading...

The Oscars and books...

Did you all watch the Oscars the other night or take an interest in who/ what won? Quite a few of the films which were up for nomination in various categories this year have been adapted from books (rather than original screenplays). The Library at NC have several of these books on their shelves, including 12 Years A Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street.
We also have plenty of other titles which over the years have been adapted into films. There are all of the Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight and Lord of the Rings series, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Silence of the Lambs, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, 1984, Death of A Salesman and many more. If you've seen the film and think you'd like to read the book, why not pop into one of the Library Centres and ask if we've got it. The 'blurb' books on the side of the blog are also titles which have been adapted and which we hold in the Library.
Don't forget tomorrow (6th March) is World Book Day. Come and celebrate with us or do your own thing to mark the occassion. Happy reading...

World Book Day

It is World Book Day on March 6th and the Library would like you to help us celebrate it. The theme of the day this year is books that have inspired people and so we have created a display which will compliment that. We have some of the Library staff commenting on books which have affected them and we would encourage the students and staff to add to that by popping down any of your suggestions on a post-it note and adding them to our board.
We will also be asking you to vote in our 'Book Oscars', asking for your opinions on the following categories:

• Best Book
• Best Series
• Best Female Author
• Best Male Author

There may be a small chocolate reward for those who take part...
We hope to see you on March 6th to celebrate books and reading across the world.
For more information about World Book Day, visit their website at:

http://www.worldbookday.com/

Updates

We've had a fabulous repsonse this year to both the Reading Journey (over 130 participants) and the Six Book Challenge (over 500 joined so far). Thanks to everyone taking part, we hope you see the rewards of these schemes.
Keep a look out for Library competitions posters which will be appearing soon. We will also be celebrating World Book Day (6th March) and World Book Night (23rd April). Hope you pop into the Library to see what's going on. For more info about these two book celebrations you can go to:

http://www.worldbookday.com/

http://www.worldbooknight.org/

Apologies for disruption

Blog is currently undergoing a make-over. It will be shiny and new in a few weeks, please come back and look at it then. Thank you.

World Book Night Winners

Thank you to all who took part in our World Book Night event. It went really well and we hope it has encouraged some of you to do some more reading for pleasure.

Here are a couple of our students (and lovely Librarian!) with their book prizes.

 

World Book Night 2013 giveaway!

If you visit the libraries at Northampton College today you may find yourself walking away with a free book. There are copies of Alexander McCall Smith's "No.1 Ladies Detective Agency" and Rose Tremain's "The Road Home" free to students who enter the draw and have their name pulled. All three centres are taking part in the giveaway, so pop in and have a gander (see 'Word of the Day') at what it's all about.

Book Quiz Winners

Big well done to all our book quiz winners and thank you to everyone who took part. Don't forget there's still time to enter the photography competition. The deadline is April 19th, so there's still plenty of time over the Easter break to get snapping. Have fun!!

Upcoming events

Keep a look out on the blog, library website or displays around the College. The Library will soon be holding it's:

• Photography competition
• Book Quiz to celebrate World Book Day

If you are interested in entering either of these events, then ask library staff for more information.