Let’s Get Digital

Talking Books is making things easier for it’s consumers! Digital Books are here! No more searching for the right cassette, flipping, rewinding, etc. The entire book is on one cartridge, making the casing smaller and less hassle with multiple cassettes. Just insert the digital book into the new player and push play. You’ll love the new player! It’s smaller, less hassle, and double the battery life of the cassette player. Search chapter to chapter instead of fast forwarding and switch between books and the machine automatically knows where you stopped with each one. How much better could it get? Call in or stop by if you would like more information or a demonstration on the digital books and player. Remember, disabilities do not have to be permanent to be eligible for this program. For more information on eligibility check out my earlier post or go to http://10.99.129.248/index.php/talking-books/

5 Ways the Library Makes Back-to-School Easier

Find out what they need to know. We have books that list and/or offer short-lessons on the learning requirements for each grade. Review material from the grade before, or get a head start on this year with books like What Your First Grader Needs to Know and the rest of the Core Knowledge series, the Making the Grade series, or Home Learning Year by Year. You can also search West Virginia’s Content Standards and Objectives by grade to see what local schools require.
Use the internet for free and make low-cost print-outs. All of our branches offer free internet services for you or your child. Children under the age of sixteen will need a parent’s permission and anyone wishing to use the internet needs their library card. Visit school websites, print-out academic calendars, and, once school starts, you can print out reports and other homework assignments for ten-cents a page.
Take advantage of our on-line subscriptions to enhance learning. The library subscribes to several on-line databases and research sites that can help kids and adults alike. Visit the library website to use Kids Search and Student Research Center from EBSCO, Grolier Online and Grolier Online Kids, Searchasaurus and more. You may need to obtain a password from the library.
Get help from a reference librarian or a tutor. If there is a question you just can’t find the answer to, you can ask the reference librarian to research it and they will do their best to find the answer for you. Also, if your child needs some extra help on a regular basis this year you might consider one of the many independent tutors that use the library space.
Research education alternatives. If you are considering homeschooling or private school, you can find out more about those topics at your library, too. Many branches maintain a resource file for local home-schoolers, or you might check out some of the following titles: The Parent’s Guide to Alternatives in Education, How to Pick a Perfect Private School, The Homeschooling Book of Answers, The Homeschooling Handbook, or Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling.

Library Quote

The people who welcome us to the library are idealists who believe that accurate information leads to good decisions and that exposure to the intellectual riches of civilization leads to a better world. The next Abraham Lincoln could be sitting in their library, teaching himself all he needs to know to save the country. While they help us get online, employed and informed, librarians don’t try to sell us anything. Nor do they turn around and broadcast our problems, send us spam, or keep a record of our interests and needs, because no matter how savvy this profession is at navigating the online world, it clings to that old-fashioned value, privacy. (A profession dedicated to privacy in charge of our public computers? That’s brilliant.) They represent the best civic value out there, an army of resourceful workers that can help us compete in the world.”

—Marilyn Johnson, author of This Book Is Overdue! in “U.S. Public Libraries: We Lose Them at Our Peril,” editorial in Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2010

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