January 2022

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THE HUB NEWSLETTER

WELCOME TO THE JANUARY 2022 ISSUE

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness (...)" - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

HAPPY NEW YEAR
2022

BATTLE OF 1^st LINES!

You can't judge a book by its cover but can you judge a book by its first line?

We will pit great 1^st lines against each other and ask you to vote for your favorite. Watch the morning announcements.

BY THE FIGURES

@ UR LIBRARY

Here are some numbers we collected for the last semester. 

The annual Reading Miles Challenge:

• 302,000 miles read

Popular titles in print:

• The Bleach Manga Series (741.5 KUB)
• One Piece Manga Series

• 1984 by George Orwell (F ORW)

• Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters (NF, 616.89 WAT)
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (F GRE)
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman (F SHU)
  
  

Number of print book checkouts: 

• 601

Top Grade Level Borrowers:

• 1^st place: Grade 8 with 184 checkouts!
• 2^nd place: Grade 9 with 108
• 3^rd place: Faculty/Staff with 54
• 4^th place: Grade 10 with 53
• 5^th place: Grade 12 with 36
• 6^th place: Grade 11 with 24

Sora e-platform: 

• In our collection: 259 ebooks and 26 audiobooks
• Number of checkouts: 59
• Most Popular title: One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManaus

SHARE YOUR READING

Tell us what you've been reading. Fill out this short form and let us know if we can share your reviews with our community. 

LITBITS

Here are small bits of literary news...

January 20 @ 9pm (Paris Time) - The Guardian Live  (£7 plus £0.81 booking fee) 

Susanna Clarke: Winner of the 2021 Women's prize for Fiction for Piranesi. You can find the book in the US library.

From the Guardian:

The novel's titular character lives in a vast house that contains the ocean. He spends his days wandering the endless halls and documenting his discoveries and thoughts, and it is through this otherworldly examination of isolation that Clarke explores profound questions about freedom.

Piranesi is Clarke's second novel, following the widely acclaimed Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which Neil Gaiman described as "unquestionably" the finest English fantasy novel of the last 70 years. On awarding the Women's prize to Piranesi, Bernardine Evaristo, chair of the judging panel, said that Clarke had "created a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human."

Clarke will talk to Nesrine Malik, Guardian columnist and Women's prize judge, about her inspirations for the novel, and how a quiet story of isolation published during the pandemic became fascinatingly relevant to our own lives.

BITS & PIECES

Location

Building 6, Room 6108,

at the top of the Coulson Commons stairway

Hours

May change due to Covid restrictions

Monday-Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 

Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.


Telephone

QUICKLINKS

• The Hub! Library Website
  
• Newsletters Archives
• American Library In Paris
• Room to Read - Paris Chapter 

Right: Mr. Mario Chioini, MLIS, MS-US Librarian, mchioini@asparis.fr

Left: Ms. Maria Colina, MS-US Library Assistant, uslibrary@asparis.fr

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