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.

New Features and Content for Science Online

Science Online has recently added new features and content to their database. These updates includes many exciting new features that make Science Online even more accessible and user-friendly for students and researchers. Check out their useful new "Did You Mean...?" feature and other search enhancements. The new easy-to-use conversion calculator, the handy new site map, more than 150 new or newly colored illustrations, and more than 500 new entries on a variety of topics, from artificial intelligence and robotics to hot issues such as climate change will help in all areas of science and nature.

Science Online has been enhanced with several powerful search features that help users navigate the extensive range of material in the database. For example their new "Did You Mean...?" feature suggests another search term ("did you mean...?") when a user's search does not yield results. In addition, users are now able to sort the search results for news articles and Today's Science articles by either relevancy or date from the Science in the News page or the Advanced Search page. Search results for videos can now be filtered for those with closed-captioning only. The new site map easily accessible at the top of the page offers quick navigation to the key browse pages in the database, and the Science Standards link--which allows users to search for science education standards and then find entries in Science Online related to those standards.

Click here to enter Science Online and view these new features.

MP3 Titles from Overdrive now Easy to Find

Want to find only iPod compatible titles from Overdrive. Now you can! Take a look at the ebooks and Audiobooks page off our Databases and Websites page and you will see this icon:

All the titles that are MP3 compatible have all been grouped together under one umbrella and when you click on this link you will be able to see all 96 titles that we currently have access to. More titles will be added in the future so look for them. Each title has a graphical list of compatible devices to make it easy to determine if you have the right device to download that titles. Happy Reading, or Listening as the case may be!

Gale Ready Reference Shelf - Cancelled

The Gale Ready Reference Shelf, electronic product has been removed from our Databases and Websites page. Gale's Ready Reference Shelf , as you may or may not know, is an amalgam of classic Gale print directories such as Encyclopedia of Associations, Directories in Print, Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, etc. in database form. The interface for the product was clunky at best (its been around for ages) but Ready Reference is still highly valued by reference librarians around the country, and perhaps that is the problem. It was not particularly patron friendly and customers had a hard time using it. As a result we have opted to cancel the electronic product and only retain 4 of the basic titles in print. Those titles are :
Encyclopedia of Associations - National
Encyclopedia of Associations - International
Encyclopedia of Associations - Regional, State, and Local
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media

NEW MP3 Audiobooks have Arrived!

If you have not checked out Overdrive in a while, now is the time! We have just added NEW titles to our OverDrive collection that are compatible with your MP3 players. You can transfer these titles to an iPod®, an iPhone™, an iPod Touch as well as a CD or MP3 player.

Below is a list of the new titles that were added at the beginning of March 09.

Happy listening!


Bloodlist (unabridged)
Effective Writing for Business, College, and Life (unabridged)
The Bonesetter's Daughter (unabridged)
The Attractor Factor (unabridged)
Deadly Housewives (unabridged)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (unabridged)
Maximizing Your Money (unabridged)
100 Ways To Bring Out Your Best (unabridged)
Wine Appreciation (unabridged)
Dreams (unabridged)
A More Perfect Union (unabridged)
Nailing the Job Interview (unabridged)
Blackman’s Coffin (unabridged)
The Metamorphosis (unabridged)
Death Is a Cabaret (unabridged)
The House at Pooh Corner (unabridged)
Retiring Right (unabridged)
Shades of Blue (unabridged)
I Am Potential (unabridged)
The Now Habit (unabridged)
Name Withheld (unabridged)
Winnie-the-Pooh (unabridged)
Healthy Eating (unabridged)
Edge of Evil (unabridged)

New Brilliance titles added to OverDrive Digital Catalog

Check out these new titles added to OverDrive since the beginning of January 2009!

The 13th Juror
16 Lighthouse Road
204 Rosewood Lane
311 Pelican Court
44 Cranberry Point
50 Harbor Street
8 Sandpiper Way
An Abundance of Katherines
Amazing Grace
Autumn Lover
Betrayal
Blood Brothers
Blood Tide
Bloodline
Born in Ice
Born in Shame
Cave of the Dark Wind
Celebration
China Lake
Crosscut
Dale Brown’s Retribution
Darkfall
Desert Rain
The Devil Who Tamed Her
The Dirty Secrets Club
Dragon Harper
Dragon’s Fire
Dragonsblood
Dragonsdawn
Escape from the Carnivale
Fast Track
The Fifth Profession
Forbidden
Forget Me Not
Gentle Rogue
Hard Evidence
The Hearing
The Hollow
Honor Thyself
The House of Thunder
Jericho Point
L.A. Outlaws
Laguna Heat
The League of Night and Fog
Light in Shadow
Listen to Your Heart
Looking for Alaska
Lost and Found
Love Me Forever
Love Only Once
Lover in the Rough
The Magic of You
The Marriage Game
Marriage Most Scandalous
Mask Market
Midnight in Death
Mission Canyon
Morrigan’s Cross
Murder at Ford’s Theatre
Murder at the Opera
Murder at The Washington Tribune
Murder at Union Station
Murder in Foggy Bottom
Murder on K Street
Nimisha’s Ship
No Choice But Seduction
The Oath
Odd Hours
Pandora’s Daughter
Pegasus in Space
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
Phantoms
Plain Jane
The President’s House
The Pursuit
Remember Summer
The Renegades of Pern
Say You Love Me
Sealed with a Kiss
The Second Chair
Shadow Command
Smoke in Mirrors
Soft Focus
Tender Rebel
Terminal
To the Ends of the Earth
Truth or Dare
Twenty Wishes
Twilight Eyes
Untamed
Up Close and Personal
Vegas Heat
Vegas Rich
Vegas Sunrise
The Vig
The Voice of the Night
What You Wish For
Where Angels Go
A Woman Without Lies
Yesterday