Latest, Greatest Playaways!

This summer 26 new Playways have been added to the Ritz Library's growing audio book collection. Easy, portable and simple to use, Playaways are about the size of an old-fashioned audio cassette, but instead of having to insert 10 cassettes while listening to a book on tape, the entire book is contained on one device.  Run on batteries, Playaways weigh next to nothing and fit easily in a back pocket. Any standard headphones fit the jack.  Besides the devices themselves, the Ritz Library provides you with batteries, headphones and even an audio cable for your car if you do not have one.  


This year's Playaway selections are:


Hour Game by David Baldacci
The Sentinel by Jeremy Bishop
Sex on the Brain by Dr. Daniel Amen
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
A Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
The Dab of Dickens, The Touch of Twain, The Shade of Shakespeare by Professor Elliot Engel
The Great Poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Zen of Social Media Marketing by Shama H. Kabani
InSideOut Coaching by Joe Ehrmann
There's Nothing in This Book that I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone
The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Disciplined Dreaming by Josh Linkner
Lucky or Smart? Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life by Bo Peabody
Why People Don't Heal and How They Can by Caroline Myss
Leadership is an Art by Max Depree
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
I'd Rather Be in Charge by Caroline Beers
The Onion : Our Dumb World


Stop by the library to see our full collection of Playaways and take one out today!

Summer time and the database choices are growing!

The Ritz recently added seven new databases to its menu of electronic resources. All are basically periodical databases, containing articles from magazines, newspapers and journals, although some have ebooks as well. Use the links below to try them out and give us your feedback

• Applied Science & Technology Full Text
  Articles on all aspects of applied science from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1992
• Education Full Text
  Full text of articles from over 350 journals from 1996 on. Features cross-referenced names of educational tests
• Energy & Power Source
  Contains energy industry articles, benchmarks, & best practices selected from trade and industry publications.
• Entrepreneurial Studies Source
• Articles from more than 125 key periodicals. Also contains 135 reference books & over 600 videos
• Humanities Full Text
• Full-text articles from over 330 journals published as far back as 1910.
• LGBT Life with FullText
• Articles from 130 of the most important LGBT periodicals, as well as more than 170 ebooks  
• Social Sciences FullText 
• Articles from over 330 journals & magazines covering all aspects of the social sciences

ebrary goes Android!!

One of the Ritz Library's most popular databases, ebrary, which offers books in electronic format, is now accessible on both Apple handheld devices and Android devices!! 


Use it to search for books for an assignment you're working on, or simply to find something to read for leisure. You can also download books to your mobile device for a limited period of time - just like borrowing a book from the library!

The app for Apple users (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) is available through the app store/itunes. 


Information for Android/Smartphone users is available at this link.