Top Websites

The White House Blog Organization: Executive Office of the President (EOP) Daily articles about what is happening at the White House. Many of the articles include videos. There are also facts about the White House and the Presidents. Silk Road Project Organization: Silk Road Project, Inc. “The Silk Road, a vast network of trade routes, [...]

Kids WebFeat Updated

Since moving to WebFeat Express model we have had the ability to see how much use the the Kids WebFeat was getting.  Unfortunate, usage was very low.  After talking with a number of YPL staff and Tina in WOW we came to the following conclusions: Teens were not using this site – they go directly to [...]

How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read & Write

An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal was post April 20 by author Steven Johnson who outlines a future with more books, more distractions — and the end of reading alone. Read the article.  A side note just in case you or your patrons are looking at buying a Kindle. the author talks about using [...]

Top Websites

Hoot Endangered Species Map Organization: Walden Media, LLCClick on your state to learn about its endangered species. This interactive map also shows the locations of the different biomes in the country. Justice Talking: Rats, Rights and Research: A Debate on Animal Rights Organization: University of Pennsylvania”For 4000 years, a legal wall has separated humans from [...]

Gale Celebrates Earth Day

In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, Gale is offering free resources on its completely updated Environmental Resource Web site http://www.galeschools.com/environment/. Browse the activities page http://www.galeschools.com/environment/activities.htm to learn more about endangered species, biomes, tips on “going green,” lesson plans and more, or download a free  bookmark, poster or screensaver.   Tools and resources are [...]

Did You Know?

Did you know patrons can have III notices sent to more than email address?  It is possible to add a second email address to the patron record now.  Sending to multiple emails can be done with the syntax of [email][,][email].  There can be no space in between the email addresses and a comma must be [...]

NetLibrary Now Offers MP3 Audio Books

Netlibrary now has MP3 format available for eaudio books.  Attached is a list  of titles for adults and Children/YA. There are 746 titles for adults and 69 titles for children and/or YA. These titles will work on iPods formatted with a Windows computer.  They are still working on MAC computers and hope to launch this summer [...]

Step-up to the Plate @ Your Library

This baseball season, the Virtual Library is promoting the ALA program – “Step-up to the Plate @ your library” on The Librarian’s Brain. The program is built around baseball and this year’s theme for the questions is diversity.  Using databases and websites, patrons answer 4 questions in their age group about baseball and submit their answers [...]

Resume Writing

After reading the article Downturn Puts New Stresses on Libraries  this week in The New York Times I thought today would be a good time to remind staff about a couple of online resources we have which could help patrons looking for jobs. Resume Maker - this “database” allows patrons to write their resume and store it [...]

Did you know?

Some of Gale’s Literature databases are now cross searchable? Go to any Gale Literature product – like Literature Resource center.  Click on the “Change Databases” link in the upper right hand corner. Scroll down about half to the “cross-searchable” section. One of the links is: Literature Criticism Online, Something About the Author Online  Apr 2009 [...]

NetLibrary’s new Media Center

NetLibrary tries again with their new interface for finding eaudio books, downloading and transferring them.  I just tried it on Vista computer and it went very smoothly.  I was able to download an eaudio book and listen to it. A big improvement over the first try with the software in January.  Patrons can get the [...]

Nevada Nuclear Energy

Leo passed along the following link pertaining to Nevada nucluar energy.  We will be adding it to our Las Vegas and Nevada InfoGuide next week. EM News Flash Articles: http://www.nv.doe.gov/emprograms/environment/public/emupdate.aspx