Oswego Public Library

On behalf of the Oswego Public Library Board of Trustees and the staff, we would like to thank everyone who voted May 15th and supported the services provided by our library.  We look forward to continue providing the community with excellent service and programs in our new fiscal year.  Thank you!

Carol Ferlito, Director

Zero Dollar Books lists the Amazon titles available as free downloads for your Kindle at any given time.  Just stop by ctrlq.org/amazon/ebooks/  You can add its search bar to your web browser by clicking on any of the browser icons next to the site title.

Keep on Learning @ the Library

Over the past year, the Library has experienced an upswing of activity and it isn’t just about books.  The Library has been 1 of 50 New York libraries to offer local community members an opportunity to acquire and expand computer and digital media skills.  Funding for a Public Computing Center came from a federal economic stimulus grant that will end this September.

Since July 2011, the Library’s Public Computing Center has offered 214 class sessions that have included Introduction to Computers, Internet Basics, Microsoft Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, and Excel. In addition, the center has provided assistance to job hunters in creating resumes and cover letters and completing job applications.  The Library has had over 1,463 people take advantage of the classes and one-on-one assistance.

eMedia Library/Overdrive 

For individuals who feel they just can’t get away to the library, we offer the opportunity to download e-books and audio books through our eMedia Library.  This program, started last year, is a joint effort with other libraries in the North Country Library System (composed  of Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson & St. Lawrence Counties) to provide individuals with access to downloadable materials for their computer or other portable device.  All someone needs is a current NCLS library card, free from the Oswego Public Library, and they can access over 1100 titles ...right at their fingertips. Over 290 Oswego Library card holders  have taken advantage of Overdrive and according to NCLS, they have circulated over 16,000 downloads to NCLS patrons since going live one year ago.

See the entire Newsletter at www.oswegopubliclibrary.org/newsletters/Newsletter.pdf

We continue to add Blu-ray discs to our collection of videos here at the Oswego Public Library.  All of these Blu-rays are also available on DVD from the Library.  If the movie isn't on the shelf, we will put your name on a list for it and contact you when it has been returned.  Just ask us or go online to www.northcountrylibraries.org and log in with your library card number and your PIN to put any item on Hold (Reserve).

Our paperbacks all check out for four weeks and the Mystery and Science Fiction sections have a new home at the end of the Magazines.  The Science Fiction paperbacks are all on the last low shelfs on the left as you walk through our main reading room from the East 2nd Street entrance.

NEWLY ADDED SCIENCE FICTION PAPERBACKS

Join the Friends of the Library to hear a review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.  The review will be presented by Laura Suchnicki and light refreshments will be served.  Everyone is invited to join us for a look at this fascinating title. 

Noon to 1 PM in the Erik & Emily Cole Community Room at the Oswego Public Library, 120 E. 2nd St.

If you check out eBooks through the Oswego Public Library or any other public library, please consider taking a short survey at http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/e-book-borrowers

Haven't checked out any eBooks from us yet, stop by the eMedia Library and give it a try.

Everyone in Oswego County with a public library card can download both eBooks and Audio Books for free. Get out your public library card and visit overdrive.ncls.org

     Would you like to have some fun on a computer?  Why should the kids have all the fun?  

Computers can be for more than just work. Join Digital Media Club for adults and learn computer skills to entertain yourself in your leisure time. Learn to create digital photos and art, and to express yourself creatively in other ways on a computer. 

Learn about and use fun websites, and work on individual creative projects in a comfortable and supportive environment.  Instructor Jessica Galvin will show you how you can hav