New Gale Virtual Reference Library Titles Added

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) takes research to the next level by delivering great reference print titles, that you as patrons rely on, but in a database format. Just imagine having many multi-volume sets, with no torn pages and all volumes available, right at the convenience of your computer screen. That is the benefit of how e-books work, and now 11 new titles, (which are listed below), have been added to our catalog. Check them out when you get time!

Gale Library of Daily Life: Civil War

Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery

American Men and Women of Science

Gale Encyclopedia of US History

Gale Encyclopedia of World History

Who's Who Among African Americans

Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions

Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health

Everyday Finance: Economics, Personal Money Management & Entrepreneurship

National Directory of Non-profit Organizations

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Statistics for April are GREAT!

If you have ever wondered how much our paid for databases are used, I have would like to shed some light on that question. I don't know what was going on in the month of April, but our usage for certain databses was really good. Below are some statistics of our databases for the month of April 2009.

Digital Sanborn Maps - we had 157 visitors and 759 images that were accessed

Learning Express Library's Learn-a-Test- 528 sessions took place

Tutor.com - servered 520 students in April

NetLibrary - there were 1,342 ebooks accessed from them in April

Overdrive- 1300 ebooks were downloaded in April form Overdrive

Mango Languages- 487 sessions took place

World Book Online- 942 sessions took place and there were 1,457 searches that happened

Reference USA- we had 2,250 logins, 5,302 searches, and 88,774 records either printed or downloaded - WOW!

Heritage Quest Online- 10,977 searches were performed and 34,495 documents were accessed!

These are just a few of the examples of how our customers are using our online products. With your help and promotion those numbers could grow even larger. Often time customers don't even know what we have to offer unless you tell them. So, if you want to know more information about a specific product don't hesitate to ask.

Tutor.com to Offer Services for Job Hunt

This article appeared in Library Journal on 4/1/2009:

As the economic downturn persists and layoffs continue nationwide, patrons are flocking to their local libraries, seeking help with the job search. To serve those needs, Tutor.com will go beyond its traditional role of serving mostly high school and college students by debuting Adult Learning Center.
According to the company, the service, scheduled for release in summer 2009, will include one-on-one tutoring with patrons to help them come up with "résumé strategies" and write cover letters. There will also be a proofreading component called ProofPoint, modeled after an existing Tutor.com service offered to high school students, as well as a SkillsCenter Resource Library to help users identify "vetted resources that provide résumé guidelines, job search guidance, and networking tips including how to use online resources and social media."

Mango Languages Has a New Look

If you have not noticed already Mango Languages has changed the look of their page. It has been customized for our library and it makes it very clear what languages are offered. Each language has a blurb about the country as well as a picture of their country flag. The orange/yellow dot indicates that there are 100 lessons for that language.
Also remember the really great feature of the translator. This is very helpful when trying to translate a word from one language to another.