Holiday programming at the Library

Holiday Celebrations

Christmas is only a few short days away. I hope everyone is ready, with presents wrapped and stashed away somewhere they won’t be discovered.

We’ve all been enjoying the holidays at the library. There was a Bell Ensemble from the First United Methodist Church on December 3rd who played traditional and holiday music. The Redskin Singers came together and gave us a performance on December 12th, and we had our annual gingerbread house building event on December 14th, where children were invited to the library to test their artistic skills by decorating gingerbread houses. Santa even visited us during evening story time on December 17th.

 

Noon Year Eve Party

Children of all ages are welcome to our first ever Noon Year’s Eve Party. If you can't stay up until midnight, don't worry, because all through the day on New Year's Eve it's midnight somewhere. This year we’re going to celebrate the New Year during the noon hour. On December 31st from 11:00 - 12:30, we'll be celebrating the New Year with activities, crafts, music, games, a story, and fun.

Database spotlight

Did you know that you can search the state sponsored databases from within the library catalog and use it access magazines and journals (such as Consumer Reports)?

Suppose you wanted to find a new dishwasher in time for the big holiday get together aftermath but didn’t know which to buy. You could

1. login to our library catalog (http://catalog.lmlibrary.org) using your library card number and password
2. go to advanced search
3. under "Enter Search Terms" type in a search term “consumer reports” and change the drop down from “All Headings” to “Journal Title”
4. click on “Add Another Search Term” and type in “dishwashers”
5. on the right side of the screen under “Choose Resources”, uncheck Swiftnet (searches items within the library), and check “Magazines, Journals, Newspapers & Books” (searches online databases)
6. finally click “Search” on the upper right of the screen.

The first result in the list is “Dishwashers” from the Consumer Reports Buying Guide, publication date 2014. If you click on the blue underlined title, you will see information about the consumer reports article and you can click on “PDF Full Text” to see the full article.