New Information Centers from Gale

eBrary is providing free “Information Centers” which contain eBooks, vetted websites, fact sheets and promotional materials such as posters with a searchable interface so you can search across all the content within the information center. You can also create your own free account. Creating your account gives you the ability to: Make bookmarks and page [...]

Cyber Bullying

With Cyber Bullying in the news again, the Virtual Library decided to add a new Hot Topic under Popular Hot Topics. We have three databases which cover the subject very well as well a great free resource from Gale. Cyber Cadets also teaches younger children Internet Safety. We don’t have too much in line of [...]

New Federal Register 2.0 Web Site

The FR 2.0 web site is similar to a daily web newspaper, with a clear layout and new tools to guide readers to the most popular topics and relevant documents. The site has been added to the library’s del.icio.us account.

New InfoGuide – Economic Resources

Steve Baskin has created a great resource guide for the hot topic – Economic Resources. This guide is full of great resources for patrons about foreclosures, finding work, money issues, local services which can help and help for seniors.  We are starting to use a new format for the InfoGuides which will be known as [...]

Flu InfoGuide

Today we launched a new InfoGuide call Flu and other Seasonal Aliments. This guide provide quick access to very informative resources for you and your patrons. We hope you don’t need to use it!

Readers Advisory Tool – Read Alikes – need input

I ran across this site: Literature Map http://www.literature-map.com What it does is list authors SIMILAR to the author you’re looking at, and shows how similar by how close they’re located on the map. This tool doesn’t do anything else. But, it might be useful when you’re stumped for read alikes. Put in the author’s name FIRST NAME FIRST! (eg: [...]

InfoGuide of the Week – Explore the Unknown

This is a new InfoGuide for the Library’s new Diversity group celebration in October.  Besides the library collections and databases, it contains a host of Digital Collections, websites and our very own Electronic Voice Phenomena. EVPs are recordings of voice or voice-like sounds that are not audible to the human ear. The EVPs where recorded by [...]

InfoGuide of the Week – GLBT

This new addition to our Cultural Diversity section of the InfoGuides provides links to library materials, databases and websites for information on the GLBT community and others affected by discrimination due to identity orientation.

InfoGuide of the Week

Small Business is now called Business Information.  We have a combination of business and small business information on this guide so we decided that Business Information reflects the content of the guide better.  You will still find databases for searching out businesses, websites to help patrons get their startup going or improve an exisiting business. [...]