Celebrate the National Libary Week

The Osterhout Free Library has planned FUNFEST to celebrate the National Library Week.
Please come and join us for the refreshments, games, magic shows, contests and prizes.
Date: April 8
Time: 12 p.m. - 2p.m.
Venu: Osterhout Free Library
71 S. Fenaklin Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701
For more information give us a call at 823-0156 ext.:214 or visit our website

Kentucky Derby Gala

Dictionary of American Idioms

Check out new addition to our reference collection:

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

423 SPE

Currently book is on display at the information Services Desk

For Your Information

The information services department now allows patrons to use USB drives and CD’s after they are scanned.

New Local History Books

Recently we have added following books to our local history collection:

Mountain Top Past and Present

R974.8 KUB

History of Hazleton and Area
974.832 KRA

Circulating copy of this book is available in the oversize section

History of West Hazelton

974.832 KRA

Currently these books are on display at the Information Services Desk.

Golf Outing

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club and the Osterhout Free Library, you are invited to participate in Charities Golf Tournament held on Friday, may 19, 2006. The event begins with lunch at 12:00 noon and is followed by a putting contests as well as other activities geared to set the right tone for a great tournament. The gun shot start of 18 holes golf tournament will be at 1 pm. with captain and crew format. Please check out registration information for details.

The "Little Book that Beats the Market" a guide for investing

It's never too early or too late to start investing. In "The Little Book That Beats the Market," Joel Greenblatt, Columbia Business School professor and Hedge Fund manager shows how successful investing can be made easy for investors of any age. Through entertaining anecdotes and practical pearls of wisdom, the book explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and reveals the secrets to buying good companies at bargain prices. With this book as your guide, you'll know exactly where to go and what to do—and it won't even take much time, just a little effort every few months

The Little Book that Beats the Market is availabe FREE of charge from the 'NetLibrary' an online database available from the Osterhout Free Library web page.

In order to read this book online go to www.osterhout.lib.pa.us, click on the POWER LIBRARY icon, enter your Luzerne County Library System card number, click on NetLibrary listed under LITERATURE section and then click on the book jacket on the right hand side. Happy investing !!

ATTENTION TEACHERS February is Black History Month

Celebrate the Black History Month with NoveList, an online database accessible through POWER Library from Osterhout Free Library home page. A list of over 600 African-American authors for adult, children and young adult readers is accessible from the February 2006 home page of NoveList. Readers who are interested in learning more about African-American experiences can search the database using following subject headings :

African-American women detectives
African-American families
African-American men/women relationship etc.

To find a book that contain African-American characters, readers can search for these subject headings using 'Describe A Plot, Guided Boolean or Freehand Boolean and find books that contain African-American characters.

Teachers looking for literature-related activities for Black History Month might want to consult the 'Teaching with Fiction' section of the School Resources tab (from NoveList K-8) for ideas.