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Wednesday February 1, 2012 DEADLINE for poetry submissions! First Wednesdays Series and Farmers Night Special! An Evening of George Gershwin with Michael Arnowitt Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:30pm at the Vermont State House. In this performance lecture, pianist Michael Arnowitt explores the music and era of American composer George Gershwin and performs an American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue, among other compositions. This First Wednesdays program is presented in conjunction with the Farmers Night Concert Series at the Vermont State House. Sponsors: Vermont Department of Libraries and Pomerleau Real Estate for the talk and Cabot Creamery for Farmers Night. Please note that the location is at the Vermont State House. Book recommendations from KHL staff and patrons, January 2012 ~Reading recommendations if you like Stieg Larsson. Current art exhibits: Found and Forgotten, photos by Gwen Roolf, 1st floor People, various 2D works by Glen Hutcheson, 2nd floor Tax assistance Central Vermont Community Action Council will be providing tax assistance on Monday evenings, 4 - 8pm beginning Monday January 30th. Please do not call the library with questions. Please call 1-800-846-9506 or (802) 728-9506. 2012 schedule Universal CLASS - Learn something new today! Recorded Books' Universal Class is an educational service providing high quality online courses for patrons (generally high-school age and older) interested in the lifelong pursuit of knowledge. Patrons register online, participate in the classes online at their own pace, correspond with instructors online and have up to six months to complete an individual class. Class content covers a wide range, from hobbies (arts and crafts, dog training, photography) to job skills (writing improvement, medical billing, computer programming, domestic violence counseling) to education and test prepapration (writing for children, general science, Algebra, Homeschooling Strategies) - and much more, FREE! ~ANNOUNCEMENT- Our apologies: E-books and digital downloads will be available starting March 1st. General info about audio and ebook downloads, and a few free sources. |
Great Magazine Giveaway! Wednesday January 25-Saturday January 28, 2012 We're giving away hundreds of previous issues of magazines from the Kellogg-Hubbard collection. Come to the Great Magazine Giveaway!! Decoupage, anyone? Please do not bring in your own magazines. We're trying to save on recycling costs. Thank you! PoemCity 2012 Call for Submissions / Vermont Poetry Calendar Deadline: February 1, 2012 The Kellogg Hubbard Library and Montpelier Alive will reprise PoemCity 2012 (formerly known as POETRY Alive!) with a text display and expanded programming for National Poetry Month in Montpelier, VT. If you are a Vermonter who would like to submit your work for consideration, please adhere to the these PoemCity 2012 guidelines: Rug Raffle! Drawing February 29, 2012.  We have a beautiful 4x6 rug made in India which was donated by Global Gifts. Drawing is February 29, 2012. Tickets are $2 apiece, 6 for $10 and 15 for $20. The rug is on display in the front lobby. Upcoming programs, programs programs!! Adult Library, Children's Library. |
| Local Community Lunches, Soup Kitchens & Food Shelves ~New Materials Adult library January 2012 Children's and YA January 2012 ~CHECK YOUR OWN ACCOUNT ONLINE- go to OUR catalog, click on My Info (fourth icon from the right) type in your entire patron barcode number from the back of your patron card, and type in YOUR LAST NAME for "password." You can see what you have checked out, when it's due, if there are any fines, and what you have on hold. (Please CALL 223-3338 - no e-mails - to place new holds or renew materials.) ~Vermont Constitution audio Thanks to staff member Gwen Roolf the library now has an audio version (cd) of the Vermont Constitution. It's about 50 minutes long, and each track is about 1 minute long. It can be played in a regular CD player, or on a computer. When played on a computer, each track will display a title of the sections read on that track. ~PERIODICALS Here is a list of periodicals currently available at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Back issues may be checked out for one week. We keep approximately two years of monthly periodicals, and six months of weekly periodicals. Come in and browse! ~HUGE NEWS about VOL: with your patron barcode you have access to the Vermont Online Library, and as part of the Gale PowerSearch upgrade, many of the Gale databases in Vermont Online Library now offer free audio of articles as a downloadable MP3 file. Audio is offered as an option along with emailing or downloading the text file. These options appear in a small box on the right side of the individual article. (Please note that if an article is represented in the database by a citation only, not full text, the audio version will be only the citation, not the complete article.) In addition to the audio in the PowerSearch databases, Gale can translate the text version (not audio) into several languages.  ~ANNOUNCEMENT- Our apologies: Downloadable audios and ebooks will not be available on the KHL web site temporarily until a replacement solution is found. We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope to have a viable alternative in place in the near future. Please feel free to contact the library 223-3338, with any questions or concerns. Thank you for your patience. ~NOT A PATRON OF KELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARY? Even if you don't have a library card, there are many resources you can access at KHL!
~LINKS OF INTEREST: PDF ebooks at Kellogg-Hubbard! Kellogg-Hubbard has new releases of classics on cd from Tantor Media. The cd sets contain the book in pdf format to be downloaded to an ereader! Go to our catalog, type in ebook, and click keyword to get a list of titles available as ebooks. See our Audiovisual materials downloads page for more sources. Languages, learn and practice for FREE-
BBC Dimensions Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.BBC Dimensions Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Chegg- textbook rentals Common Sense Media (Thank-you to Green Montain Access for this tip.) Craft in America Search our online card catalog by typing in crafts and click keyword. Or search by specific craft, such as knitting. Google Art Project - Explore museums from around the world; discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels. Google Cheat Sheet- a quick list of some of tools to help refine and improve your internet searching. iTunes U - a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours. MIT OpenCourseWare The Pew Research Center Teach Me Tech TED Today in History Tour the Sistine Chapel Twofoods- food nutrition comparison Vermont Advocacy Resource Toolkit Write the Book podcast Local Authors on Write The Book #100 (6/21/10) A Discussion With Four Emerging Writers- Anne Trooper-Holbrooke, Coleen Kearon, Benjamin Malcolm, and Susan Ritz Local Community Lunches, Soup Kitchens & Food Shelves ~So you want to start a business? This collection consists of the "VERMONT Small Business Resource" magazine plus 6 handouts from the Vermont Small Business Development Center and Vermont Women's Business Center. Handouts include: Introduction -- Getting started -- Regulations -- Getting approved -- Small business training network -- Contracting opportunities -- Disaster recovery -- Advocacy -- Other sources of assistance -- Lender listing -- Websites of interest. It includes a 44 step checklist for the "Process of starting a business", from registration at the Secretary of State office to the rules for signs in Vermont. Community Business Connections is a joint project of the Vermont Secretary of State's Office, the U.S. Small Business Administration (Vermont District), and the Vermont Small Business Development Center. The goal is to consolidate all the resources needed to start or expand your business in one easy-to-access location. To find more books about small business, go to our catalog, type "small business", and click "subject". ~Job Hunter's Sourcebook Job hunting is becoming more and more complex in today's competitive job market. Internet websites and classified ads are no longer the surest route to employment. The Library's latest edition of the Job Hunter's Sourcebook is designed to help you in your job search. Here's how it works: Under each type of employment (auto mechanic, caterer, computer programmer, etc.), you will find references to sources of help-wanted ads specific to your career, employer directories and networking lists, job referral services, online job sources and services, trade shows, journals, professional associations and more. While the book must be used in the library, you are welcome to make photocopies of needed pages. The library staff will be happy to help you use the references you find to further your search and land the job you want.
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