Colleges and Careers database...

Are you looking into colleges? Are you considering a career change? Try Testing and Education Reference Center w/Careers. Osterhout Free Library would like to get your opinion about this resource before adding it to our collection. This is a single source solution for testing, education and careers. It includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports programs and more. It also includes Holland Career Assessments tests, occupation requirement data, and resume writing tools and tips.

You can access this database by going to our homepage at http://www.osterhout.lib.pa.us/ and then by clicking on Testing and Education Reference Center link on the right hand side.

This free trial is open to all and is available till December 5, 2008. Please try it yourself, tell your friends and let us know what you think about it by taking a survey. We value your opinion. Please feel free to contact us for more information @ 821-1959.

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Halloween Party at our North Branch

EBSCO adds Research Starters-Business

Research Starters - Business offer students a starting point for their research. By providing comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics, they help students grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for researching it in greater detail. Most articles are around 3,000 words, making them more in-depth than the average text book or encyclopedia entry, yet short enough to be easily digestible.

Each Research Starters -Business article contains: Abstract, keywords, overview, further insights/applications, viewpoints/issues/discourse, terms/concepts, bibliography and suggested reading.

As usuall, if you are tryig to access it from home, go to our library's webpage @ http://www.osterhout.lib.pa.us/,
click on

then click on

and then scroll all the way down to the Research Starters - Business.

If you have any questions please give us a call @ 821-1959

Career Development and Employment

Representatives from Career Development and Employment will be at the Osterhout Free Library to assess and present the candidates in the best way to the hundreds of employers.

Since 1996, over 9,00 graduates have been placed into jobs! You can realize a true competitive advantage by earning a diploma in Medical, Administrative and Computers/I.T. careers.

Please come and take advantage of this opportunity.

Place: Osterhout Free Library
Date: October 23, 2008
Time: 6 pm- 8 pm

For more information or registration give us a call @ 821-1959.

Annual Youth Expo 2008

12th Annual Youth Expo is scheduled on Thursday, October 23rd at 7 PM. The Youth Talent is sponsored by Friends of family Service Association of Wyoming Valley.

All the students from grade 7- 12 are invited to participate in the following categories:
Vocal (solo/ Duo), Alternative Act (solo/duo), Band (Classical/Jazz/Rock/POP), Dance (Solo/Duo), Instrumental (Solo/Duo), Group (vocal, instrumental and dance with three or more individuals).
You may register @ www.liu18.org/yte or by mailing form to Suzanne Youngblood, Plymouth Public Library @ 107 Main Street, Plymouth. The performsers will receive awards and will compete for cash prizes, gift certificates and the opportunity to perform at local venues.
Deadline for entries is October 17, 2008.

There is $ 5 entry fee.

The Dress Rehearsal is scheduled for October 21, 2008.

For more information please call Suzzane Youngblood @779-4775.

Digital Television Transition

Did you know that at midnight on February 17, 2009, all U.S. TV broadcasts will be in digital format? This means that if you receive TV signals via an antenna, you won't be able to watch TV unless you switch to digital TV or get a TV converter.
The federal government has launched the TV Converter Box Coupon Program, to help the families in need. Through this program, you can request for up to two coupons, worth $40 each, for buying a TV converter box. TV converter boxes cost between $50 to $70 and these coupons can be used to pay part of the converter box cost. You will have to pay remaining balance, which may range from $10 to $30.
For more information go to: https://www.dtv2009.gov/To apply for the coupons go to: https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx

Vegetarian Way

Alaine Change, President of the Vegetarian Way, will talk about Senior Citizens' nutrition needs and why vegetarian options can be healthier as one ages.

Place: Osterhout Free Library
Date: October 9, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

For more information or to register for the program give us a call

@

570-821-1959