Answer to Database Trivia Question # 16

Some of you guessed it right. The correct answer to this question is 'All of the Above.'

The Literature Resource Center and the Contemporary Authors are available from the Osterhout Free Library's web page at http://www.osterhout.lib.pa.us/. In order to access these resources from home, all you need is an access to the Internet and your FREE Luzerne County Library System Card. Our license for the Literature Resources Center is limited to one user at a time and you won't be able to access this source if it is being used by other user. The Contemporary Authors is available through 'POWER Library'. In addition to these two sources, we also have Literary Criticism and Contemporary Authors in print format. You may also find some of the authors listed in the Biography Reference Bank available from the POWER Library.

As always if you have any questions please give us a call at 821-1959.

Internet PC Reservation Self Log on

Osterhout Free Library has a new Self Log On system for the Internet Computers

The advantages of the new system are as follows:

No need to check at the Information Services Desk

Extended Internet time if the other computers are not being used

Reserve the next availalbe computer if all the if all the computers are being used

More control over downloading the docuements on CD or Flash drives

No need to worry about paying for unwanted printouts

Come and check out it out yourself

Database Trivia Question # 16

Please visit us next Monday to check out the correct answer

AuthorFest 2007

AuthorFest will be held on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 1:30 pm at Genetti Best Western. This is a ticketed event presented by the Tudor Bookshop and the Luzerne County Library System. Tickets can be purchased for $16 per ticket at the Osterhout Free Library and it's branches. Ticket includes Viennese Desert Table, a $5 coupon toward the purchase of books at the event and $3 donation to your library. To see the information about the authors, click on the Author Guide.

If you are not interested in attending the program, no problem. You can still contribute to the fundraiser event for your library and win fabulous prizes by buying raffle tickets. Raffle tickets are sold for $2.00 each or 3 for $ 5.00 and can be purchased at the Osterhout Free Library and its branches. Drawing for the raffle will be held on October 21, 2007.

Please don't miss this opportunity to show your support and chance to win the fabulous prizes.

Answer to Database Trivia question # 15

The correct answer is Learning Express Library. To access this database, you can go to http://www.osterhout.lib.pa.us/. Then click on the

icon on the right hand side. Create a username and a password. If you require a home access, your user name should be your library card number. Once you log on click on the Middle School Writing School Improvement. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and then complete the 6 part Writing Course Series. Good Luck!

Visit us again next Monday for a new question.

Barnes and Nobles Bookfair

Support the Osterhout Free Library by purchasing items at the Barnes and Noble Bookfair. The bookfair is scheduled from Sunday, October 28 to Saturday, November 3 at the Barnes and Noble, 421 Arena Hub Plaza. Simply present the Voucher at the cash register at the time of the purchase and a percentage will be donated to the Osterhout Free Library.

Storytimes will be held
Tuesday October 10th at 10 a.m.
and
Thursday November 1st at 6:30 p.m.
at Arena Hub Plaza

Tune Into Heritage at the NEPA Philharmonic Crescendo Family Concert

NEPA Philharmonic in parternship with the Osterhout Free Library presents the Crescendo Family Concert, an outreach effort geared towards getting children exposed to the arts, specifically quality orchestral music, at a young age. The Crescendo Family Concert is an annual three-part event with the theme this year, "Tune Into Heritage". The event consists of an interactive web page, a dozen or so interactive partner stations pertaining to several aspects of our local heritage, and then finally the concert itself. All of these activities were created with the idea of getting children exposed to orchestral music as well as some of our local heritage and cultures.

The Crescendo Family Concert, along with the Tune into Heritage event, will take place at the Scranton Cultural Center Sunday, October 14, 2007. Tune Into Heritage starts at 1 P.M. and the Crescendo Family Concert starts at 2 P.M. Tickets are on sale now! $7.00 for single tickets and $25.00 for a family four pack that includes two adult and two student tickets. For information call 570-341-1568 or visit us online at http://www.nepaphil.org/kids/?PHPSESSID=7b289979532729c96725e768def67b8d

Amnesty Week at the Osterhout Free Library

Are overdue fines stopping you from checking out library items? Are you embarrassed to visit the library because you know you have that long-overdue item sitting on your coffee table? Don’t worry. Here is your chance to regain your borrowing privileges and banish your guilt. During the first week of October, bring all your overdue items to one of the participating Luzerne County Library System locations and we will waive your fines for undamaged returned items…no questions asked. Participating libraries are listed below.

Locations:

Marian Sutherland Kirby Library, Mountain Top - (474-9313)
Mill Memorial Library, Nanticoke - (735-3030)
Plymouth Public Library, Plymouth - (779-4775)
West Pittston Library, West Pittston - (654-9847)
Osterhout Free Library, Wilkes-Barre - (823-0156)
Osterhout Free Library South Branch – (823-5544)
Osterhout Free Library North Branch – (822-4660)
Osterhout Free Library Plains Branch – (824-1862)
Wyoming Free Library, Wyoming - (693-1364)

When: October 1 – October 6

Hours: Please check with individual libraries for their regular hours

Don’t miss this opportunity for a fresh new start

Database Trivia Question # 15

Please visit us next Monday to see the answer.