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Check out the most recent issue at Cedar Mill Reads: up this week: Liz offers an eclectic list from fiction to screwy haiku, with lots of serious thinking with time out for a bit of fun. Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!
Teens – do you have art skills?Here’s your chance to prove it – and win a prize! WCCLS is sponsoring a Teen Summer Reading program artwork contest.
The theme “Make Waves @ Your Library” must be part of the design.
Top prize: a Flip Ultra Camcorder.
Enter between 1/4/10 and 2/26/10.
For more info, visit the library or the library’s website: Teen Central @ CMCL.
Now that the weather is turning cold and wet, are you thinking of drier climes and travel to far away places? Do you want to learn more about the world and its people? Try our new resources for language and geography learning – Mango Languages and A to Z Maps Online.
With Mango Languages, you’ll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation; you’ll learn how to communicate. Twelve language courses, including Spanish, ESL for Spanish speakers, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. Accessible from any Internet connection with your WCCLS library card.
If you’re looking for maps about where you are, where you want to be, or for other research, come into the library and check out our new reference service A to Z Maps Online. A to Z is a great place to start looking for the map you need. Discover USGS topographic maps, historical maps from over four centuries of map making, country and outline maps for the world and much more. You can download maps in PDF format for reuse and reference later. Available from any computer in the library, including your laptop. A to Z Maps Online is only available from inside the libraries. Ask a librarian for details.
Maps are great tools for visualizing our world, both physically and culturally. In honor of last Wednesday’s international GIS Day, one of my friends in the map/GIS community came up with these great maps of where our Thanksgiving food comes from, using GIS and USDA data sets. She’s made comparison maps for three different years to see how production patterns have changed over time. 2007 Dinner Poster.
I’m not surprised that Oregon is a big green bean state, but who knew Wisconsin grew more? Hmmmm…green beans. Is it Thursday yet? Take a look and have fun with maps!
We get new and updated resources in our Reference Collection every week. Check out updated guides to stocks, bonds, legal terms, the US Budget, and 2005 aerial photography of the Willamette River. Look for them near the Adult Services Reference desk, plus some titles have circulating copies available, or are accessible online. Links below:
Title: All about bonds, bond mutual funds, and bond ETFs
Author: Faerber, Esme.
Edition: 3rd ed., Fully rev.
Publisher, Date: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009.
Title: All about options : the easy way to get started
Author: McCafferty, Thomas.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Title: Nolo’s plain-English law dictionary
Call Number: 349.7303
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher, Date: Berkeley, Calif. : Nolo, 2009.
Title: 2005 Willamette River aerial photography with public lands, land trusts and revetments [electronic resource]
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher, Date: [Salem, Or.] : Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
View Online at: http://oregon.gov/OWEB/docs/pubs/WillametteRiver_Atlas_2008.pdf
Title: Updated summary tables, May 2009 : budget of the U.S. Government fiscal year 2010.
Author: United States. Office of Management and Budget.
Publisher, Date: Washington : Executive Office of the President
View Online at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/summary.pdf
Title: New era of responsibility : renewing America’s promise
Author: United States. President (2009- : Obama)
Web Link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/fy2010_new_era/a_new_era_of_responsibility2.pdf
