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Librarian’s New Book: The Internet Can Improve Your Life
Leave it to Crowell Public Library librarian Irene McDermott to write a book about the most useful online resources for practically everything you need.
When reference librarian Irene McDermott isn’t helping patrons at the , she’s guiding others through the vast lands of information in other ways, as in her new book, The Internet Book of Life: Use the Web to Grow Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier.
For the book, McDermott reworked the most family-friendly columns she has written for Searcher magazine, a journal aimed at librarians, for the past 14 years in which she describes useful websites for librarians and patrons. She sees the book as "a kind of travel guide to the web for busy, working families. … As the country climbs out of recession, my comprehensive guide to free Web services should be very useful.”
Check out McDermott’s Patch blog posts about helpful online resources here.
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Aiming to help individuals and families answer important questions, make better decisions and live fuller, happier lives, McDermott recommends various high-quality, free online resources like websites, blogs, online tools and mobile apps along with practical tips and advice on how to use them.
“Throughout, my emphasis is on real-life goals, dilemmas, and challenges—from matters of personal finance and money saving tips, to parenting, relationships and relationship advice, health and medicine, healthy living, careers, travel, hobbies, pets, home improvement, and more,” McDermott told Patch.
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The Internet Book of Life… is McDermott’s second book, the first being The Librarian's Internet Survival Guide: Strategies for the High-tech Reference Desk, which came out in second edition in 2006.
Meet McDermott and pick up a copy of The Internet Book of Life: Use the Web to Grow Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier at a .
The Internet Book of Life: Use the Web to Grow Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier is being carried at two local vendors: Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena and on Lake Ave. in Altadena. It is also available on Amazon.com in print or as an ebook and The Crowell Public Library has two copies available for checkout.
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