Pioneer Library System

1. Job Announcement : Moore Public Library Manager
(Moore/Check this out!)

... both citizens and visitors alike.  Moore, deeply rooted in state history, is a fast-growing and upward-moving city boasting the third largest school system in the state, with a current population ...

2. August 2010 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... in this strange town. Together, they discover their places among a town of shadow and light, learning about themselves, their history, and the beauty surrounding them.   Memory by Philippe ...

3. Library Day at the Museum
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

... through Sept. 12.  You can learn all about the wonderful food and its history. The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is located at 2401 Chautauqua Ave on the South side of the University ...

4. 2010 Summer Reading Programs
(Pioneer Library System/Summer Reading Programs)

... and is permanently part of the Oklahoma History Center collection. This program is sponsored by the  Oklahoma Arts Council and Pioneer Library System. Limit: 25 - Registration required. All programs ...

5. June 2010 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... stones".) These were very interesting reads with compelling personalities and fascinating history and science.  It was extremely interesting to realize that the religious implications of ...

6. Personal History Month
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

One of the most popular genres of writing in the United States today is the memoir. Memoir, some times called personal history, is like an autobiography, a story of your life told by you, except that ...

7. Adult Graphic Novel Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... in some literature courses. Watchmen follows the lives of a group of crime fighters, Crimebusters, during the 1940’s and 1960’s in an alternate history of America. The heroes of the story ...

8. Panel discusses Falcon at OU Law Center
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

... 2009, and is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History, translator of Cervantes's The Dialogue of the Dogs (both from Melville House), and editor of A Raft of Books: ...

9. February 2010 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... book, call unassumingly The Book of Basketball.  It is a recounting of basketball's history and greatest players, heavily biased (Simmons is an unaplologetic Celtics fan, although perhaps any basketball ...

10. Visual Literacy, Picturing America Program to tour PLS communities
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

The Pioneer Library System is sponsoring a touring program to its three-county community offering an entertaining look at America’s history through its art, as well as an opportunity to learn how ...

11. Smart Investing Reading List
(SmartInvesting/Resources)

... This workshop will focus on ways to protect your assets—from your identity and credit history to your home and its contents.    The cure for money madness: break your bad money ...

12. December 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... words like pleetsya and pyatsa); the druidic song-forms that structure the book and the harpist who is trying to compose a song about the Dancer; the multilayered, hidden history of the peoples of the ...

13. New downloads are here!
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... while. Luckily for you, your hometown library has some new books and videos available for download. Below is a small sample of the new and newly acquired OverDrive titles. Whether you want history, fiction, ...

14. November 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... for anyone interested in Colonial American History and the Salem witch trials.   Semi-Homemade Money Saving Meals by Sandra Lee Staff Reviewer: Alice Fielding Genre: Non-fiction If ...

15. Author/historian to speak at OU
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

... An Intimate Portrait”.   A reception will follow in Beaird Lounge. The event is free and open to the public. The Bennett-Harwood Professor  of history at Goucher College, ...

16. New October OverDrive Titles!
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... letters ostensibly penned to the culinary sage, Raskin reveals a relationship history plagued by infidelity, jealousy, and betrayal.       Reason for God: Belief in an Age of God, ...

17. PLS Presents: Children's Fable Podcast
(Pioneer Library System/PLS Presents...)

According to Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory–476 c.e., Aesop lived in the sixth century b.c.e (before common era). If the biography written about him is even partially true, ...

18. October 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... history professor with a military background has his own internal battles to contend with which helps to keep the story moving along, saving it from the domain of scientific press release. The writing ...

19. First batch of Fall downloadables ready
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... We Trust offers a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named "the world's ...

20. September 2009 Staff Book Review
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... a scathing history of American treatment of Indians. But, Birchfield, a Choctaw himself, doesn't leave any group out of his ridicule - even Choctaws. Field of Honor is frequently hilarious, and Birchfield's ...

21. New Titles for a New School Year
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... to an island in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are ancient history. (EPUB)       Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour: From one ...

22. About the Town of Tecumseh
(Frequently Asked Questions/Tecumseh)

Tecumseh, Oklahoma offers its population of 6,667 the friendliness of a small town just minutes away from the city.  The town is located just 40 miles east of Oklahoma City along Interstate 40 and ...

23. Library Day at the Museum
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

On Saturday, June 27, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will team up with local libraries to offer “Library Day” at the museum. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the museum will offer ...

24. Administrative Goals 2009-2010
(Frequently Asked Questions/Board of Trustees)

... a central point of coordination for system program scheduling. Collections Study and develop plans for local history and genealogy services. Analyze work flow for receiving and processing new ...

25. Communicating the Future: PLS Goals 2009 - 2012
(Frequently Asked Questions/Board of Trustees)

... and the promotion of book discussion kits and literature collections.   Community Resources Develop partnerships and plans for local history and genealogy collections and services. Develop ...

26. 2008 - 2009 PLS Accomplishments
(Frequently Asked Questions/Board of Trustees)

... of community materials, programs and the Virtual Library. A Local History and Genealogy Services Librarian is on staff and is forming partnerships with community local history and genealogy groups ...

27. June 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... marriage to join the Sisters of Charity or will she marry her own beloved? Beverly Swerling is a skilled amateur historian and her love of history shows through in the artful, addictive story that she ...

28. May 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... will be a final confrontation with evil. Katinka is a young, pretty and gifted historian who is hired by expatriate Russians in contemporary London to track down a lost family history.  How she ...

29. New Audio Books for May
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

... Called Paddington by Michael Bond Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck 50 Harbor Street by Debbie Macomber Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Here are a few of the new titles that patrons have ...

30. April 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... a very interesting, amusing and easy to read book packed with fascinating tidbits of literary history. You may not have read the book, but you can still enjoy reading about the dedication! Outtakes ...

31. Video downloads @ your library
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

... (or classroom), and with library card in hand, you can access everything from Ancient Egypt to Modern Medicine - and everything in between. Whether your interests are art, history, literature, politics, ...

32. March 2009 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... who is trying to compose a song about the Dancer; the mulitlayered, hidden history of the peoples of the galaxy; and the curious position of the planet Jehovah, the transportation hub and, in curious ways, ...

33. Teen Reads for Black History Month
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

February is celebrated as Black History Month. According to an article in NEA Today, published in February 2008. It is reported that Black History Month was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1926 through ...

34. February Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... to the tragic American teenager named Oscar. The book is written in creative and fast-paced prose, peppered with Spanglish phrases and footnotes to keep the reader informed of necessary Dominican history ...

35. PLS Annual Report 2008
(Frequently Asked Questions/Board of Trustees)

... to the joy of reading and information for lifelong learning. Blanchard In 1983, Blanchard librarian Janie Kimbrough offered a fact sheet about the library and its history: Established in 1961. ...

36. Studying for classes just got easier
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

It’s late in the evening your child brings you the following homework questions for help, x + 23 = 2x + 45 ... Can you still solve for x? You are studying for your World History test – but you need ...

37. November 2008 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... a time line of the history of voting rights in the United States, information about political parties and a list of Internet resources. Reading works together such as Vote! helps to begin an important ...

38. Contributing to History
(Pioneer Library System/Press Releases)

The Pioneer Library System has collected historical photos which they are inviting the public to help identify and explain. The photos are from each of the branch library hometown in Cleveland, McClain ...

39. Today's Public Library
(Pioneer Library System/From the Director)

... information, education, cultural and community history, humanitarian ideals, and community pride... Click here to visit the Norman Transcript Online and read the entire article by Anne Masters.  ...

40. October Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... do so he must cash in his "assets" and host the biggest slave auction in American History. Although promising not to sell Emma, money, desperation and greed causes him to lose sight of his humanity ...

41. How do I have a teen book discussion?
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... Bryce Loski.     The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country ...

42. August 2008 Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... history, and even space travel.  Grab a nice cool drink, a chair in the shade, one of these books and relax as summer ends. Charlie "Bird" Parker novels by John Connolly  ...

43. PLS Presents : Declaration of Independence
(Pioneer Library System/PLS Presents...)

According to the article Declaration of Independence - located in the The Reader's Companion to American History, by Eric Foner (located by using SIRS Researcher):     On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry ...

44. July Staff Book Reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

...  Genre: Adult Historical Fiction Staff Reviewer: Theresa Jaye Dickson, Associate Director, Planning and Operations This is a history in novel form (not as grand as the work of EL Doctorow, but ...

45. May 2008 staff book reviews
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... the author's accounts of the book's travels are fiction. But, her research and knowledge of Jewish history make the stories seem entirely plausible. CSI fans will enjoy the science that goes into ...

46. March is Women's History Month
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

The public celebration of women's history in this country began in 1978 as "Women's History Week" in Sonoma County, California. In 1981, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Representative Barbara ...

47. February is Library Lover's Month
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... save it. Library: an unquiet history by Matthew Battles Battles shows how throughout history libraries have been places of controversy and change. Much like today, libraries of the past had ...

48. How do I log in to a library database?
(Frequently Asked Questions/General)

... 7 Directions 1. Click Start and select Settings, then Control Panel. 2. Double-click Internet Options. 3. Click the General tab. 4. Click Delete under the Browsing History section. ...

49. What do you consider "popular" books and authors?
(Frequently Asked Questions/Reader Services)

... Michener, James Series Audience Adventures of the Baily School Kids Children Series Alaskan Quest Adult Series Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Children Series American Girl History Mysteries Children ...

50. Science Resource Center
(Web Links / Research Databases)

Science database that provides full-text resources for science-related research in the following areas: Earth Science, Science and Technology, History of Science, Science as Inquiry, Life Science, Space ...

51. Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition
(Web Links / Research Databases)

... biographies, history, science, women, civics and more. ...

52. Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition
(Web Links / Research Databases)

... on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more. ...

53. Bibliography of Native North Americans
(Web Links / Research Databases)

A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, ...

54. Dawes Final Rolls Index Online
(Web Links / Research Databases)

Provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society, and officially known as The Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory. Lists individuals who chose to enroll ...

55. Oklahoma Crossroads
(Web Links / Research Databases)

Consists of selected digital collections of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries spanning more than 100 years of rich, vibrant history. These collections include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, ...