Information Resources

Dunbar Free Library CATALOG Find out what materials we own, place your own holds, see what you have checked out and when it's due and now, most of the time you can renew them yourself!!!

Mango Languages Call the library for the prefix to add to your library card to use it! Instruction at multiple levels of Italian, French, Russian, Hindi, Irish, Hebrew, South/Central American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu, Farsi, Levantine Arabic, and a few others I can't recall at the moment! There's even instruction for English as a Second Language in most of the above and some others as well, like Polish or Cantonese Chinese. Call (863-2172) or e-mail (dunbarfreelib@comcast.net) the library so we can verify your library card and tell you the prefix you need to add to it, so you can get started on your second language (or your 6th!) today! And RIGHT NOW, because the New Pirates of the Carribean movie is coming out

The New Hampshire Downloadable consortium: our source for downloadable audiobooks and eBooks. Compatible with most MP3 players, iPods, Nooks, Kobos, iPads, and the KINDLE!!!. Downloadable tutorial: they give you instructions on how to use the system. Call (863-2172) or e-mail (dunbarfreelib@comcast.net) the library to get what you need to be able to log in. Here's a video from OVERDRIVE that shows the Kindle download process. The website doesn't look exactly like the NH Downloadable site, but it's close enough.

The New Hampshire State Library- Website of the State library- provides many resources for information.

State Library Catalog- (NHU-PAC) Lets you search what items are available at the state library, area libraries and the Dunbar Free Library.

State Library Reference Databases- Online databases for periodicals, journals, newspapers, and more. Many articles are available in full-text. Most are available for use from your home computer: give us a call or drop in to find out how. User names and passwords can be obtained at the circulation desk or call 863-2172.

New Hampshire Library Trustee Association The New Hampshire Library Trustees Association educates library trustees to be knowledgeable and effective in order to serve, improve and promote New Hampshire public libraries, and advocates the right of free access to information for every person.

State of New Hampshire- Official website of New Hampshire State.

The Town of Grantham- Official website of the Town of Grantham- provides information about the planning board, building permits, zoning and town related issues. Also has the form you need to use the great space at Town Hall!

New Hampshire sights and travel

The Official Website of the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development

Why to the leaves change? look at the Official Fall Foliage section of New England Travel:

Yankee Magazine Travel Guide

Museums- Passes with various conditions available to patrons at the circulation desk

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (formerly the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium) Concord, NH

The Fells, Newbury, NH

Museum of New Hampshire History Concord, NH

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum Warner, NH

VINS Vermont Institute of Natural Science, at several locations: the closest is in Quechee Vermont.

The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH

Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, VT

Squam Lakes Nature Center, Holderness, NH

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Museum of Science, Boston, MA

These passes can be reserved for certain dates, different passes have different rules.

Link of the ?week? Month? year?

Want to bring the ho-hum world of science education alive? Check out Science of Everyday Life , , a free online resource from 3M and Discovery Education that offers family activities and interactive tools designed to encourage exploration and engagement with science for kids in grades K-8.

Story time websites further down!

"Ask Dr. Math" for any and all of your math questions--try it! Kindergarten through college.

Here's another: about talking to your kids www.talkingwithkids.org/index.htm

Two Story time links:

http://www.storylineonline.net : Listen to some of your favorite actors read great children's books! The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Foundation brings you Storyline Online. It's an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG member actors reading children's books aloud. Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp : StoryPlace, an interactive web site, provides children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. StoryPlace currently consists of two libraries, the Preschool Library and Elementary Library.

"Copyright laws are complicated, whether you're trying to copyright something you've created or determine whether you can use someone else's work. Our Publication of the Week, "Copyright Basics," can help you sort it all out. Link to this brochure from our homepage "

Nursing home ratings
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have recently created an online tool to help people compare nursing homes. This tool uses a five-star rating system and ranks only nursing homes that are certified to participate in Medicare or Medicaid and provide a level of care considered “skilled.” The ratings are based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures....
PCLS Senior Services Blog, Dec. 19

The Bad Credit Hotel

Gail Junion-Metz -- School Library Journal, 4/21/2010 8:43:00 AM

www.controlyourcredit.gov

More and more teens are getting and using credit cards, and most of them don’t know the first thing about how they work. Checking them into the Bad Credit Hotel is a sure way for them to learn all about credit scores, what it takes to maintain good credit, and how to get help if their credit is already not the best. The object of this cool and somewhat creepy online game, created by the U.S. Treasury, is to gather enough clues and credit knowledge to get to room 850 and unlock the safe found inside.

Start by making sure that you can see the whole screen (as shown in the picture above). Next, check out the instructions on how to play and use your mouse. To begin the game, click on one of the two “Play the Game” links, then just explore the hotel, read books, dial the telephone, and click on random objects.

Along the way, you’ll collect clues that you can add to your “Inventory” (found at the top left of the screen). These clues will help you open the safe when you reach room 850. If you need some help finding the clues, click on the “Hints” link at the top of the page. A must-see site!