New MSCC retention commitments agreed

Thanks to York County Community College, Norway Memorial Library, and Unity College for agreeing to retain more than 100 titles on behalf of the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative. These titles will be retained for a minimum of 15 years and ensure they remain accessible to Maine library users.  Maine Shared Collections libraries have agreed to retain approximately 1.4 million titles.

New top ten on-demand records

These were the top 10 viewed MaineCat on-demand records (includes links to HathiTrust, print-on-demand request service, and where available Google Books) for February 22, 2016 to March 22, 2016:

  1. Istorīi︠a︡ russkoĭ pedagoīi by P F Kapterev
  2. The story of the family of John Clough of Salisbury, Massachusetts by Eva A Speare

  3. Early sea-presses by Howard M. Chaplin, Bruce Rogers, Pforzheimer Bruce Roger Collection (Library of Congress)

  4. Seth Blodgett (of Brooksville, Maine) 1747-1817; his ancestors and his descendants by Grace M. Grindle Limeburner

  5. Trecentale Bodleianum: a memorial volume for the three hundredth anniversary of the public funeral of Sir Thomas Bodley, March 29, 1613 by Thomas Bodley, March 29, 1613
  6. Istorīi︠a︡ russkoĭ pedagoīi by M I Demkov
  7. Fundamentals of structural analysis by AA Jakkula and Henson K. Stephenson

  8. My threescore years and ten: an autobiography by Thomas Ball

  9. Education reform, or, the necessity of a national system of education by Thomas Syse, Sir.

  10. Public education in the United States, a study and interpretation of American educational history; an introductory textbook dealing with the larger problems of present-day education in the light of their historical development by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley