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Read Lou Pray's Gardening and Home book picks

Go to Current News page for these and other reviews.

Morningstar Investment Research Center now online.

ebooks for Kindles - New!

You can now get books on your Kindle for free through the Lopez Library's Overdrive subscription. With the click of a button, have books delivered to your Kindle device or other mobile reading device.

New! LiveMocha, Web-based Foreign Language program, 35 languages!

Click to register and begin using! Livemocha is the world's largest online language learning community, offering online language courses in 35 languages to more than 9 million members from 195 countries around the world. Using native speakers and social networking tools, in addition to coursework, this service offers the perks of feedback for both oral and written foreign language chat.

En Español

Live Mocha - Aprende Inglés en línea con Livemocha. Descubre la forma social de aprender Inglés. ¡La mejor parte es que es gratis! A más de 12 millones de personas les encanta nuestro forma simple y efectiva para aprender Inglés. Escoge un curso de Livemocha para desarrollar tus habilidades en el nuevo idioma. Cada lección incluye ejercicios de escritura, lectura y pronunciación. Tenemos cursos para cada nivel. Nuestras lecciones te ayudaran a aprender Inglés mas rápido y tener la soltura para hablar con los hablantes nativos.

Lopez Library featured in magazine publications

• American Library Association's "I LOVE LIBRARIES" publication this month. Click here to read article.

• Lopez Library is a "star library for the 3rd year in a row. Read the article in the November 2011 Library Journal.

New Resource for Grant Writing Success!

eCivis is the leading online provider of federal, state, and foundation grant information and grants management tools for local governments and nonprofits. These entities can rely on eCivis to identify appropriate grants, submit competitive applications, and efficiently manage awards while reducing their administrative costs. eCivis also provides grant writing, peer review, training, and technical assistance services to ensure that customers are positioned to submit successful applications. Take a video tour now: Grants Network: Research - Learn how to locate a grant to fit your program and get a quick snapshot to see if you want to pursue it. Reporting and Tracking - provides snapshots of all your grants activities, generate reports, get automatic notification of grants in your particular area of interest, even those that do not exist yet. Knowledgebase - Learn tricks of the trade from author of Grant Writing for Dummies, grow your organization by growing your knowledge base with online on-demand courses and Grants University. Call Lou or Judy to start your search. 468-2265.

New at your library

Tumble Books Library. eBooks for eKids! The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.

NoveList Select and NoveList Plus. A reading advisory service to help you find new book recommendations, reviews, title and author readalikes, and series information, links to realted newsletters from NextReads, table of contents, book excerpts, author bios, book jacket and cover images, reader ratings from GoodReads, and other national and international book reviews.

New Arrivals at Your Library

• New DVDs. Check this list for newly cataloged DVDs.

• New Books. Check this list for newly cataloged books.

• Learn how to browse, check-out and download digital books and more! Click here to go to the Overdrive Help (Recommended for first time users.) If you already have accessed your Overdrive account, go directly to the Overdrive. Go to "My Account," choose "Lopez Library" from the drop down menu, then enter you library card number (14 digits, no spaces, no dashes).

• OneClickDigital - Browse, search for authors, titles, or genres of more downloadable eBooks. Click in the upper right corner to create a new account and start listening to great stories!

• Enhanced version of Consumer Reports now online! Log in with your 14-digit library card number.

• NEW! Ancestry.com - Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history web site. Other genealogy databases here.

• Musical Instrument Check-Out Program - check out a violin, keyboard, ukulele, recorder, cello, clarinet, french horn or guitar!

• The library has five e-reading devices to check-out (Kindles and Nook). Save the arm strain and try these new electronic readers that have dozens of books on a little 10 oz. wireless reading device. Consider for your next long plane trip or if the weight of regular books is a factor for you.
  

• Free Wi-Fi available in the library building, parking lot and grounds, 24/7.
  

• Home sick? Call the library for a free home delivery. We'll delivery specific items or pull together something we think you'd like.

• What is Lopez Reading? Based on Reservations and Holds at Lopez Library, this is the current list for November 29, 2012

What's Happening @ the Library?

Money Smart Week at the Lopez Island Library

Money Smart Week is just around the corner. Are you ready? During April 23-27, organizations around the country will be educating individuals on a variety of personal finance topics. Lopez Library has several classes scheduled this year and the public is welcome. Topics for the whole family! Go to the "Current News" page for details.

A night of verse, in honor of National Poetry Month

Thursday, April 25 - 7:00 pm

The Lopez Library and SHARK REEF literary magazine (sharkreef.org) delights in the co-sponsoring this upcoming poetry reading. Local poets Ande Finley and Gayle Kaune will read along with two SHARK REEF poetry co-editors, Tom Aslin and Gary Thompson. Gather round the fireplace for this inspring event.

Art in the Library

• Return to Camelot by Tamara Shane

• Cabinet Exhibit: Stained Glass by Martha Garcia

• In the Quiet Room: Quilts by Edi Blomberg and Candy Reiter Midkiff

Go to Art in the Library page

Lou's News & Reviews

Listen to snippets of audiobooks and relevent library news. Go to Current News & Reviews for Director Lou Pray's latest commentary.

Upcoming LIFRC Workshops

Lopez Library collaborates with the Lopez Island Family Resource Center to bring you year around Employment and Life Skills Workshops. Go to the Business Page for class descriptions and registration form.

Beginning Excel Workshop

Two Thursdays, March 21st & 28th, 2:00-5:00pm

Go the the "Business" page for details.

Intermediate Excel Workshop

Two Mondays, March 21st & 28th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Go to the "Business" page for details.