Healthcare.gov Marketplace

On Thursday we had our last watch party for the Healthcare.gov Marketplace, which was a demonstration of website itself. But don’t worry if you missed the series of webinars about the Healthcare.gov Marketplace and the Affordable Care Act. All of the sessions are archived at http://www.kslib.info/calendar/archives.html along with slides from the presentations. For more information about libraries and the Affordable Care Act, including helpful links to various government agencies, visit www.kslib.info/aca.

Interlibrary Loan

You might have noticed that our Interlibrary Loan procedures have changed a bit in the last couple of weeks. Instead of requesting loans from other libraries online through our library catalog, now patrons go to a separate catalog at http://ill.lmlibrary.org or http://illverso.lmlibrary.org depending on preference.

The switch over isn’t quite complete yet, but soon we hope our patrons will be able to login to this new catalog using their Liberal Memorial Library card number and password. For the time being however, patrons can browse and place Interlibrary loan requests but cannot login or track them and will just have to fill in their information (name, library card number, and phone number) again with each request. For the older interface, http://illverso.lmlibrary.org, if a patron just hits enter at the login screen without typing in anything, they can browse and place Interlibrary loans.

As always, patrons can still log in to our own library catalog, http://catalog.lmlibrary.org, using their library card number and password. Once logged in, they can use it to search for and place holds on library items, renew their checked out items, search the databases, including magazine, health, and encyclopedia databases, check the status of their account, and update their contact information. The same library card number and password can be used to access the library’s patron computers and to use the Self-Check station.

Database Spotlight

There are quite a few useful and informative databases included in the statewide collection, (http://www.kslib.info/librarians/eor.html), made available to all Kansas residents free of charge by the State Library of Kansas and by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. One of most useful is the Auto Repair Reference Center.

The Auto Repair Reference Center (ARRC) is a collection of automobile repair reference information that contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles.

You can select your model of car by simply filling in the year, make, and model drop-downs.

You’ll then find step-by-step, repair-oriented information for all areas of your vehicle, technical service bulletins and recall information on your vehicle, electrical wiring diagrams, and a full list of specifications for your vehicle. You’ll be able to determine the time it takes to do a repair and estimate the cost of the repair, and for the advanced DIYer, there is diagnostic troubleshooting based on symptoms and ODBII codes.