The Public Library on Wise Bread!

The blog Wise Bread: Living Large on a Small Budget is a daily stop on my list of blogs. Wise Bread offers articles and links to help you budget, save money and find great deals. (They offer a Best Deals on a daily basis, which are links to free and greatly reduced pricing on products. I love seeing what is available!)

What excited me was the article called Free Databases and Manuals at Public Libraries. The author mentions Auto Repair, Home Repair and the Homework Help that is available through manuals and other books at her local library. In this economy, libraries are getting plenty of great PR and it is nice to see an article that looks at something besides our DVDs and books.

In addition to books about home and auto repair, the Randolph Public Library offers online access to databases and programs that you can use from home. Randquest.org is the library's portal for all of our amazing online resources.

All you need is a library card!

Here are just a few of the online resources YOU can use from home:

• Auto Repair Reference Center (over 250,000 drawings and step-by-step photos)
• Resume Maker (create a resume, get interview tips and salary tools)
• EbscoHost Full-Text magazine articles (full text from over 3,100 magazines and journals)
• Learning Express Library (practice tests and tutorials for high school, college and careers)
• PBS Video Collection (over 250 PBS programs to watch)

You can find tons more (yes, tons is a technical term) at Randquest.org. All free. if you need help navigating, call us or stop by for a tour of the library online resources.

Thanks for reading.

Job-Hunting Links

Thanks to Pam Freeze, Coordinator of HRD Programs at Randolph Community College for being the guest speaker at our Job-Hunting workshop.



The next workshop will be held on Monday, March 9 at 10:30 am. Call us at 33-431-3811 for more information.



During the session on February 23, Pam spoke about online resources that are available to job-hunters. All are available for free and are just a small sampling of what you can find available through RCC and at the Library's online portal, Randquest.org:

• RCC Library Employment & Career site. Click on the link for America's Career Infonet--learn about occupation and career information; labor market information and resources; and other job-related demographics.
• College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC.org) Career Center--click on the link for Career Key to take a short test about your interests to discover interests and a possible new career!
• Indeed.com--Google's answer to the job search engine. Search for open positions based on keyword and geographic location. Sign up for daily Google alerts based on specific searches
  

Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

There have been a lot of posts in the blog-o-sphere over the past few days about the passing of novelist Kurt Vonnegut. He is best known for his 1969 work, Slaughterhouse-Five. You can check out more of his works here.

Many of the blogs have been very thoughtful and well written. Here are some of my favorites:

Kurt Vonnegut from LibraryCrunch
RIP Kurt Vonnegut from Librarian In Black
Kurt Vonnegut from New York Times
Listen: Kurt Vonnegut is Unstuck in Time from Gizmodo
Kurt Vonndegut, 1922-2007 from MOG

Thanks for reading,

George