Forests and Mountains

Spring in the North Country brings flowers, peepers, and a new evening discussion & lecture series from the Berlin Public Library and the White Mountains Community College's Fortier Library.

Forests and Mountains: Living and Working in the North Country.




Copies of the books are available at both the Berlin Public Library and WMCC Library. Light refreshments will be served.


This event is funded, in part, by the NH Humanities
Council, with additional funding from the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation – North County Region.

Hear the Story behind the Story

For our next discussion, we will be reading Archer Mayor's Open Season, the first book in the Joe Gunther detective series, set in Brattleboro Vermont.
Join the group and be a part of the discussion when we talk with the author by phone!

The discussion will be on Thursday, January 12 , 2011, around noon in Room 208 at the White Mountains Community College. Bring your lunch!

Copies of the book (print and audio) are available in the library.

Winter Break Library Schedule

Now hear this!

Think you don't have time to read? Yes, you do!

The WMCC Fortier Library has, for your listening pleasure, a collection of audio books on cassette and cd. They're perfect for long commutes!

Just ask a member of the library staff to see the "audio book" binders for lists of titles and authors.

If we don't have a title you're interested in, let us know and we'll request it through interlibrary loan. We can order books in print or audio format once they've been published for 6 months.

Thanksgiving holiday

The White Mountains Community College and the Fortier Library will be closed for Thanksgiving from Thursday, November 24 through the weekend.

Have a safe & happy holiday!

Wintry story time

On Wednesday, December 7th at 6 p.m., the Fortier Library will be getting creative with our children's winter/holiday themed story time and story hour. Children of all ages are welcome!

Winterdance

Since 1973, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has challenged humans and dogs through some of the roughest terrain on Earth.

Read author Gary Paulsen's gripping account of the race in Winterdance, his memoir of the over 1100 mile journey.

Join the lunchtime discussion group on Thursday, December 8 at noon-ish in room 122. Copies of the book are available in the library. Bring your lunch!

In honor of Veterans Day, the WMCC Fortier Library, along with the rest of the college, will be closed November 11th through 13th.

Landscape of a memoir...

The final book in the 2011 White Mountains Community College/Berlin Public Library fall book discussion series is This House of Sky by Ivan Doig. Scholar Emily Archer will begin the discussion at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 16 at the WMCC Fortier Library. Copies of the book are available at both the Berlin Public Library and WMCC Library.

"Doig's beautifully rendered, inspiring story of growing up in western Montana. It's a powerful tale of place, familial bonds and perseverance..." longitudebooks.com

This event is funded, in part, by the NH Humanities Council, with additional funding from the Tillotson Foundation.

Beyond Brown Paper: Industrial Explorers

An opening reception for “Industrial Explorers,” an exhibit on Research and Development at Brown Company from 1915-1968 will be held on Wednesday, October 26^th at the White Mountains Community College Library from 4 to 6 P.M. The exhibit is on loan from Plymouth State University’s Museum of the White Mountains. It is made up of photographs from the University’s Beyond Brown Paper collection and explores the origins and history of the innovative Brown Company Research and Development Group. Linda Upham-Bornstein researched and wrote the accompanying text.

The exhibit will be on display at the White Mountains Community College Library until January 9, 2012.

For more information on the exhibit, please call Katie Doherty at 752-1113 x 3086, and for more information on the collection, click on this link: Industrial Explorers.

It's alive!

In the spirit of the season, the WMCC lunchtime book discussion group is bringing to life the Gothic classic, Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

In the almost 200 years since its original publication in 1818, this well-known story has been reworked and transformed for the theater, film, television, and many a Halloween costume. Written as a cautionary tale about the ethics of science, and also against man's inhumanity to man, the themes in Frankenstein, still apply in the modern world.

Copies are available in the WMCC library, in book and audio formats. Read it and join us on Thursday, November 3, around noon, in Room 122. Bring your lunch!

Sula

The next White Mountains Community College/Berlin Public Library evening book discussion will be on Wednesday, October 19 at 7 p.m. at the WMCC Library, when Holly Perrault will delve into the novel Sula by Toni Morrison.

"In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women, friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women...

Copies of the book are available for loan at the Berlin Public Library and WMCC Fortier Library.

This event is funded, in part, by the NH Humanities Council with additional funding from the Tillotson Foundation.

New Library Hours

Hard to believe Fall is here already, at least the Fall semester anyway.

This year the WMCC's Fortier Library hours are slightly different:

Monday-Thursday: 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Friday: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you'd like to contact us, for any reason, please call 603-752-1113 x 3087.

Lunchtime Book Discussion

On Thursday, October 6, join us at the WMCC Fortier Library, around noontime, when we will be meeting to discuss Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

First published in 1960, this Pulitzer Prize winning novel has become a modern classic, addressing issues of race, gender roles, rape, integrity, and heroism.

Copies--audio and print--are available to borrow in the library.

Frankly My Dear...

Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer prizewinning novel Gone with the Wind is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2011.

On Thursday, August 25th, the lunchtime book discussion group will be meeting at noon in the WMCC Library to discuss this work of historical fiction that has itself become a piece of American history.

If you've seen the movie, or already read the book, join us as we travel back in time, to Scarlett O'Hara's Old South.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Starting off the White Mountains Community College/Berlin Public Library's 2011 fall lecture/discussion series on Wednesday, August 24, at 7 p.m., is One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.

Originally written in 1967, this highly acclaimed story, first written in Spanish and translated into 37 languages, tells the story of seven generations through turbulent times.

Copies of the book are available for loan at both the WMCC library and the Berlin Public Library.

This event is funded, in part, by the NH Humanities Council.

Fall Evening Book Discussion Series

This fall, the White Mountains Community College and Berlin Public Library, with funding from the New Hampshire Humanities Council present Family Albums, a series of four lecture series/book discussions.

• August 24: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez


• Scholar: Craig Doherty


• September 21: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler


• Scholar: Suzanne Brown


• October 19: Sula by Toni Morrison, Scholar


• Scholar: Holly Perrault


• November 16: This House of Sky by Ivan Doig


• Scholar: Emily Archer

All discussions are on Wednesdays, at 7 p.m. at the WMCC Fortier Library. Refreshments will be served.

Copies of the books are available at both libraries. Call WMCC at 752-1113 x 3087, or BPL at 752-5210 with questions.

ProQuest Upgrade

ProQuest, one of the Fortier Library's amazing research databases, has a new look, and a new way to find the resources you need. This search engine retrieves reliable articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, and dissertations. Thousands of journals are available in full-text.

Login to ProQuest through the library's homepage, either directly or through the Multidatabase link. From off-campus, use the EasyLogin portal. Ask a member of the library staff for help!

EBSCO to go!

EBSCOhost is now available for use with mobile devices!

To access EBSCOhost using your mobile device, go to the WMCC library's Databases page and click on EBSCOhost, then EBSCOhost Mobile.

EBSCO's new iPhone app is free, and offers the convenience and rich functionality that enable users to:

• Choose which databases to search


• Limit results to full text or peer reviewed


• Sort by relevance or date


• Retrieve full text results in HTML and/or PDF formats
  


• Save results for offline access at a later date


• Email results to self or others


• View cover flow display of results
  

To use with an iPhone or iPod Touch go to the WMCC Library Databases page, click on EBSCOhost, then Search All Databases and click on the Application link at the bottom of the EBSCOhost screen and follow the instructions.

Printing Prices

Community members, please note: Due to increased costs, black printing is 10 cents per side. Color copies are still 25 cents per page.

Please see a member of the library staff with any questions, and to pay for prints.

Summer Hours

Help Wanted

The Fortier Library is looking for work study-eligible students to work part-time. If you are currently a WMCC student and qualify for work study (check with the Financial Aid Department), stop by the library to talk with Katie or Denise about availability.

Positions are open for the summer and for the 2012 academic year. In order to work during the summer students must be taking at least 6 credit hours.

You can't go home again

For 20 years, American-born author Bill Bryson traveled the world, and wrote funny stories about it until he settled in England.

Back in the United States, he wrote a weekly British newspaper column with his humorous observations about the changes that have taken place since he lived here last. Those articles have been assembled into the book I'm a Stranger Here Myself.

Join us on Thursday, May 12 around noontime in the library.

The library has copies of the book and audio available for checkout.

Library Program for Kids

White Mountains Community College's Fortier Library is now hosting a semi-monthly story hour along with crafts and healthy snacks targeted mostly to pre-school age children.

Please join us in the library on Wednesday March 9th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The next story hour is on Wednesday, April 6th.

Stark Decency

Read Allen Koop's real life account of the WWII German prisoner of war camp in Stark, New Hampshire, Stark Decency and the remarkable stories of the people involved. Copies of the book are available for loan in the WMCC Library.

The discussion will be on Wednesday, April 6, around noon, in the WMCC Fortier Library. Bring your lunch!

Spring Break Hours

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Jamie Ford's debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet intertwines first love, racism, patriotism, family dynamics, cultural differences, and American history.

Bring your lunch to our March 9th discussion, meeting around noontime.

Copies of the book, including audio, are available in the library.

The Maine Woods Discussion rescheduled

The Northern Forest Series discussion of Thoreau's The Maine Woods led by Craig Doherty, with funding from the New Hampshire Humanities Council, is rescheduled for Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 7 p.m. at White Mountains Community College Fortier Library

Copies of the book are available at WMCC Fortier Library

Visit the Northern Forest at WMCC

The Northern Forest Center's National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Ways of the Woods exhibit will be open to the college community and the public at White Mountains Community College until April.

To accompany the exhibit, WMCC's Fortier Library and Berlin Public Library will host a Northern Forest series with three book discussions and one talk, thanks to funding from the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

The schedule:

The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau on February 2, 2011 led by Craig Doherty

Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher on March 2, 2011 led by Craig Doherty

The Northern Forest edited by David Dobbs and Richard Ober on March 30, 2011 led by Michael Wilson, Senior Program Director of the Northern Forest Center

And, on April 13, 2011, Rebecca Rule will give her talk, Cross Cut

All of these events will take place at WMCC Fortier Library on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

Band of Brothers

In 1942, E Company was created as an elite rifle company for the U.S. Army. The group of citizen soldiers, 140 men, and their seven officers, saw action throughout WWII, and were present at Normandy and also at Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers tells the stories behind the historical facts, of the men and their battles.

We will be discussing Band of Brothers at the College's lunchtime book discussion group on Thursday, February 3rd around noon. We have copies of the book to lend in print and on audio. Bring your lunch!