Putting the Spotlight on Magazines

Did you know that the Liberal Memorial Library has almost 100 magazines for you to peruse? –Most monthly, some quarterly, a few weekly and some bi-monthly.

The magazines run the gamut from entertainment, sports, home and garden, fitness, money/finance, news
food/cooking, men’s and women’s interests. There are also magazines for kids and young adults.

Current magazines can’t be checked out. You can only read them at the Library. However, we have back issues from as far back as a year to six months ago and you can check those issues out.

And if there’s an article you’re looking for in a magazine we don’t carry, we can probably get the article for you through interlibrary loan. We probably can’t get you the magazine but we can probably get you the article. So come down to the Library and I’m sure there’s a magazine for you.

Here’s a list of magazines that the Library carries:
AARP Membership (American Association of Retired Persons)
AARP News Bulletin
AARP the Magazine
American Girl
Americas (Spanish Edition)
Architectual Digest
Arizona Highways
Automobile
Babybug
Better Homes & Gardens
Boys Life
Car & Driver
ChickaDEE
Christianity Today
Cobblestone (Discover American History)
Consumer Reports
Cosmopolitan en Espanol
Country
Country Living
Country Woman
Crafts n Things
Cycle World
Discovery Girls
Ebony
Family Circle
Fortune
Fortune 500
Girls Life
Glamour
Golf Digest
Good Housekeeping
GQ Gentlemens Quarterly
Highlights for Children
Horticulture Magazine
Hot Rod
House Beautiful
In Style
Jack & Jill
Jet
Kids Discover
Ladies Home Journal
Latina Magazine
Martha Stewart Living
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Society Membership
National Parks
National Wildlife
National Wildlife Federation Conservation Newsletter
New Yorker, The
Oil & Gas Journal
Outdoor Life
People en Espanol
People Weekly
Poder Hispanic
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
Prevention
Psychology Today
Publishers Weekly
Quilter's Newsletter
Ranger Rick
Readers Digest
Real Simple
Redbook
Reunions Magazine
Reunions Workbook
Rolling Stone
Saturday Evening Post
School Library Journal
Scientific American Magazine
Series Made Simple
Shape
Sports Illustrated
Sound & Vision
Southern Living
Southwest Art
Sunset Magazine
Taste of Home
Texas Highways
Time Magazine
Travel & Leisure
True West
True West Source Book
TV y Novelas
Unconventional Oil & Gas Report
Vanidades Continental
Vanity Fair
Vogue
Western Horseman

Now if you’re into the electronic age and don’t need the feel of paper flipping between your fingers then we have something for you. As explained in last week’s column, there is Zinio. It’s an electronic newsstand in which you can borrow and read magazines right on your tablet or computer. And you can keep them forever!

It’s a free service which patrons can access through the Library’s website at www.lmlibrary.org. Click on the Zinio link, choose a magazine, set up a couple passwords and you’re ready to read on a computer or tablet.

There's a wide selection of magazines on Zinio, including several that the Library does not carry.

Just remember, you need a Liberal Memorial Library card to use the service.

Here are some FAQs for using Zinio:
* You will need to create two accounts to use Zinio for Libraries. One account for the library portal where you can check out magazines for free and another account with zinio.com (or via the Zinio app on your mobile device) to read magazines and manage your library online.

* Both accounts must use the same email address in order to synch properly. If you create a Library Portal account using a different email address than your existing Zinio.com account, you can edit your Zinio.com account to change your email address on record to match
.
* Please be aware – You can only check out magazines for free via the Library portal. If you subscribe to any magazine directly through Zinio.com or the Zinio app – you will be charged for it.

* Zinio.com and the Zinio app offer “Free Samples” but these are not free magazines from the Library. If you choose to partake of any of these “Free Samples” you will be asked to pay for them after a certain number of issues.
Zinio.com may send you emails offering you the opportunity to pay for a subscription to a magazine that you receive through the Library portal. You do not have to pay for any magazine that you checked out through the Library portal.

For more information or any questions or any questions about our magazine collection or Zinio, come down or call the Library. We’ll be happy to help you out!