Tag: Southern Tier Library System

New Streaming Videos Added To The STLS Digital Catalog!

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, today there are new streaming video titles available in the STLS Digital Catalog. You can check them out and stream them to your smartphone or tablet by simply installing the OverDrive Media Console app. And of course, you can check out free e-books and audio books too! I’ll be posting a separate list of new e-books and audio books that have been added to the STLS Digital Catalog today too shortly.

Have a great day!

And please pass the word on about the availability of the free streaming videos anyone can watch for free courtesy of our library and other libraries within the Southern Tier Library System.

Linda R.

Streaming Videos:

Title:                                                                        Creator/Director/Star:

95 Miles to Go(Documentary)                                T. Caltabiano  & Ray Romano

Accidental Hero: Room 408                                     Steve Rosen,

Adopted                                                                       Pauly Shore

Anansi and the Talking Melon                                  Eric A. Kimmell, Janet Stevens,

Changing Seasons: The Earth                                  Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Company Men                                                     Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones

The Education of Charlie Banks                                Jesse Eisenberg & Jason Ritter

Flight For Survival                                                      Martin Cray

Found Memories (Film Movement)                          Julia Murat, Lisa Fávero

If Only I Were…                                                            Carl Sommer, Kennon James

The Iron Lady                                                                Meryl Streep

Jack Goes Boating                                                          Philip Seymour Hoffman

Killing Them Softly                                                         Brad Pitt

The King’s Speech                                                           Colin Firth, H. B. Carter, G.Rush

Library                                                                              Sarah Stewart, David Small,

Little Fish                                                                         Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving

Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (Film Movement)  Sandra Oh, Ric Young,

Looking for Fidel                                                                 Oliver Stone, Fidel Castro

The Republic of Love (Film Movement)                          Bruce Greenwood, Emilia Fox, Deepa Mehta

A River of Waste (Documentary)                                      Don McCorkell

Sarah’s Key                                                                           Kristin Scott Thomas

Twilight Children (Documentary)                                     Marie Vidal-Michel

The Violin (Film Movement)                                             Don Ángel Tavira, Dagoberto

Yosemite: Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Devils Postpile

Sorry about the spacing above — here’s a link to a PDF version of the same list which has the proper, non-Word Press changed, spacing:

Newly Added Streaming Videos March 25, 2014

And the link below brings up our streaming video poster should anyone wish to print it off and/or share it!

OverDrive Streaming Video Poster

Have a great day!

Linda R.

Email Services Available From The Southeast Steuben County Library

Linda Reimer

Did you know that the library offers patrons the option to be notified by email when a requested book or other item, otherwise known as an item that is on hold, comes in to fill their request?

And did you further know that the library offers patrons the option to be notified by email three days before their library materials are due that their checked out library items will be due in three days — so that patrons can renew those titles by telephoning the library or if they prefer self-service through StarCat*?

It is true!

All you have to do to obtain library email services is tell a library staff member you want to sign up and then give them your email address!

And after you do that…

You will receive an email notification any time a book, DVD, audio book or other requested library item is ready for you to pick up at the library.

And you will receive notification three days before your library items are due – reminding you that they will be due in three days  — which will give you the opportunity to renew those items before they are due, either online or by calling or visiting the library, or simply to return the items to the library before they are due.

Just a quick FYI regarding library email services! If you’d like to turn on the library email services option for your library account just let us know!

Linda R.

*StarCat: If you’re not familiar with the term “StarCat” – here’s a short definition! StarCat is the online library catalog of physical materials for all member libraries of the Southern Tier Library System. And if you access StarCat you can search for books, audio books, DVDs and other library materials you’d like to read, watch or listen to and you can request them. You can also log into your library account and see what items you have checked out, see what items you have previously checked out (after you choose select that option) and renew your books. 

StarCat & The STLS Digital Catalog – What’s The Difference?

Linda Reimer

I had a patron ask me a question this week that I’d never been asked before! She asked me what the difference was between StarCat and The STLS Digital Catalog.

I thought that was an excellent question! That question is one that those of us who work in library land know the answer to; and we know the answer to the question to the extent that it would not ever occur to us to even mention the differences in to patrons in person, on Facebook or on our library tech blog!

So that was an excellent question!

And the answer to the question: “What is the difference between StarCat and the STLS Digital Catalog?” is that StarCat is the catalog of physical library materials and The STLS Digital Catalog is the catalog of digital library materials.

With StarCat, which you can access via the Library Catalog link on our website found at http://ssclibrary.org/, you can:

  • Request books or other library materials – so if you want to read the latest Susan Mallery novel or watch the new DVD Lincoln you can place a request (also known as a hold!) – all you need is  your library card number and PIN number (your PIN is initially the last four digits of your telephone number).
  • Renew items you have checked out (So you don’t have to run to the library during a very busy day!)
  • Access your library check out history (To see if you checked out a specific title before – so you don’
  • Simply see what items you currently have checked out
  • And see the status of any items you have requested (aka placed on hold)

Here’s a direct link to StarCat if you’d like to check it out!

http://starcat.stls.org/client/default

With the STLS Digital Catalog, which you can also access via our homepage found at http://ssclibrary.org/, you can:

  • Check out e-books
  • Check out digital audio books
  • Check out digital videos
  • Check out digital albums
  • Request e-books, digital audios, videos and albums
  • See what digital items you currently checked out.

And here’s a direct link to The STLS Digital Catalog:

http://stls.lib.overdrive.com/6D66E60E-4731-4EE4-83EB-17D4BA99B797/10/50/en/Default.htm

So in essence, the difference between the two catalogs is that StarCat is for physical items held in the real world that you must visit the library to check out and The STLS Digital Catalog is for digital materials that you can check out to a computer from anywhere you have an Internet connection.

Important Note: You can indeed check out  library e-books, digital audios, videos and albums and download them to a computer. However, with e-books and audio books you can also download titles to a great variety of smartphones and tablets. Basically if you have an Apple or Android app device you can go to your app store and download the OverDrive Media Console app – and then download e-books and MP3 audios through that app and listen to those audios and/or read those e-books on your smartphone or tablet!

If you want to check out a WMA formatted audio – you can do that too! However, you will have to download it to a computer first and then transfer it to an Apple or Android device.

At the present time albums and videos must be listened to or watched on a PC or a handful of portable devices – but may not be watched or listened to on any Android or Apple devices.

If you have questions about which formats in the STLS Digital Catalog can be used to read, listen to and watch titles in the STLS Digital Catalog you can post questions to this blog or check out the OverDrive Device Resources Center found at the following link:

http://www.overdrive.com/drc/

Have a great weekend!

Linda R.

 

 

Weekend Digital Catalog Suggested Reading, Viewing & Listening For The Weekend of March 22-24, 2013

Linda Reimer

If you haven’t checked out the Digital Catalog recently – the platform software has been updated and it has a whole new and more modern look so check it out!

And without further ado here’s the list of suggested listening, reading and viewing digital titles for the weekend.

Albums: Perfect relaxation tunes for the weekend!

Mad Men Music from The TV Series by Various Artists

Digital Audio Download Includes:

1. On The Street Where You Live (Vic Damone)

2. Volare (The McGuire Sisters)

3. Lipstick (David Carbonara)

4. P.S. I Love You (Bobby Vinton)

5. Botch-A-Me (2004 Digital Remaster) (Rosemary Clooney)

6. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (Julie London)

7. Caravan (Instrumental) (1996 Digital Remaster) (Gordon Jenkins)

8. Manhattan (Ella Fitzgerald & The Buddy Bregman Orchestra)

9. I Can Dream, Can’t I? (The Andrews Sisters)

10. Shangri-La (Robert Maxwell)

11. Babylon (David Carbonara)

12. Mad Men Suite (David Carbonara)

13. A Beautiful Mine (Aceyalone & RJD2)

Symphonic Sixties by 101 Strings Orchestra

Digital Audio Download Includes:

1. Stop! In The Name Of Love (101 Strings Orchestra)

2. I Hear A Symphony (101 Strings Orchestra)

3. Mrs. Robinson (101 Strings Orchestra)

4. California Dreamin’ (101 Strings Orchestra)

5. Yesterday (101 Strings Orchestra)

6. Scarborough Fair (101 Strings Orchestra)

7. A Whiter Shade Of Pale (101 Strings Orchestra)

8. My Cherie Amour (101 Strings Orchestra)

9. Up, Up And Away (101 Strings Orchestra)

10. Wichita Lineman (101 Strings Orchestra)

11. Close To You (101 Strings Orchestra)

12. Good Vibrations (101 Strings Orchestra)

13. I Want To Hold Your Hand (101 Strings Orchestra)

14. Hawaii Five-O (101 Strings Orchestra)

15. Baby Elephant Walk (101 Strings Orchestra)

16. Spinning Wheel (101 Strings Orchestra)

17. Eleanor Rigby (101 Strings Orchestra)

18. The Sound Of Silence (101 Strings Orchestra)

19. King Of The Road (101 Strings Orchestra)

20. California Girls (101 Strings Orchestra)

Audio Books: A character study and fun filled romance!

Among The Missing by Morag Joss: A pregnant woman, believed killed in a bridge accident in the Scottish Highlands, seizes her chance to disappear from her uncaring husband. Determined to safeguard her baby’s future and reinvent herself, she befriends illegal immigrant Silva, whose husband Stefan and daughter Anna, as she alone knows, have died in her place. As the bridge is rebuilt, the two women build a precarious existence in a makeshift home by the river. While Silva waits for Stefan and Anna’s return and the pregnant woman awaits the birth of her child, they are helped by the boatman, Ron, whose devotion to them masks his guilt for a past disaster for which he must atone.

Each of them having crossed some bridge in retreat from the world, each seeking an ever-elusive peace of mind and struggling with displacement and grief, together the three exiles conjure an unstable mix of trust and distrust, compounded by love and jealousy, both parental and sexual. With the discovery of Stefan’s and Anna’s bodies in the river, the tension in their uneasy triangle mounts inexorably and unbearably. With the birth of the new baby only days, then hours away, it finally breaks.

Love In A Nutshell by Janet Evanovich: Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she’s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene’s Harbor, Michigan. Kate’s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into Culhane’s business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust her. And she is falling hard for her boss. Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kate’s family home, and keep a killer from closing in…all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another? Filled with humor, heart, and loveable characters, Love in a Nutshell is delicious fun.

E-Books:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.

Headhunters by Jo Nesbo: With Headhunters, Jo Nesbø has crafted a funny, dark, and twisted caper story worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers. FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM MAGNOLIA PICTURES.

Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II–and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.

Mystic Island, Nikki O’Connor Series Book 1 by Jan Evan Whitford: Looking for mystery, romance, humor and a category-5 hurricane? Nikki O’Connor, an attractive single mom – who also happens to be an intelligent and resourceful environmental cop-competes with a U.S. Presidential candidate in the search for a valuable letter FDR sent to Hitler back in 1945. During her quest, she encounters lobster rustlers, passionate romance, betrayal, murder, a catastrophic hurricane, self-awareness and plenty of laughs.

Silent Fall, Sanders Brothers Series, Book 2 by Barbara Freethy: Dylan Sanders is attending a wedding in the mountains when his trip takes a terrible turn. A former lover appears out of nowhere, demands a private conversation, and lures him into the woods, then leaves him there, drugged and disoriented. The next morning, the woman has disappeared, and Dylan is accused of her murder.

Catherine Hilliard, a beautiful psychi haunted by her own dark past, is reluctant to offer up her cryptic visions to help skeptical Dylan figure out what’s going on, but she can’t leave her best friend’s brother-in-law on his own … or deny the powerful, inexplicable connection between them.

It soon becomes clear that a wily and ruthless mastermind has targeted both of them, with a motive that’s very personal. Soon their race to expose the truth is no longer about staying out of jail but about staying alive …

E-Books for Children: Some new adventures just for kids!

The Emerald Atlas, The Books of Beginning Series, Book 1 by John Stephens: Called “A new Narnia for the tween set” by the New York Times and perfect for fans of the His Dark Materials series, The Emerald Atlas brims with humor and action as it charts Kate, Michael, and Emma’s extraordinary adventures through an unforgettable, enchanted world.

These three siblings have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.

Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.

Until now.

Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world…a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And–if an ancient prophesy is correct–what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right. (Ages 8 and up).

Lexie by Audrey Couloumbis: Ten-year-old Lexie used to love going to the shore. For as long as she can remember, she’s spent every summer there with her parents, eating hamburgers, swimming in the ocean, and combing the beach for treasure. This summer is going to be different though. Lexie’s Mom and Daddy are divorced, and for the first time Mom won’t be there. To make matters worse, Daddy has a surprise–his new girlfriend, Vicky, and her two sons are coming to stay with them for a week! Now Lexie has to share her house with perky Vicky, Vicky’s moody teenage son Ben, and messy three-year-old Harris. The little beach house just doesn’t seem big enough for so many people. Is there still room for Lexie?

In a voice that’s sharp, funny, and sincere, Newbery Honor-winning author Audrey Couloumbis tells the story of a girl discovering that if you pay attention, sometimes you can find treasure in the most unlikely places. (Ages 8 and up)

Sky Lights, A Tale of Magic, Mystery and Mayhem by Barclay Baker: When characters from a well-loved book appear in the real world, Jack is confused. Fact and fiction can’t mix. Can they?

His sister’s chance remark on Facebook sparks a chain of events that sucks them into a plot involving celestial travel, blood-thirsty pirates seeking revenge, a brilliant scientist who performs miracles, a man-eating crocodile under investigation, and a life and death kidnapping situation.

Add a touch of fairy dust and the merest trace of gunpowder for an explosive mix that will have you turning the pages so fast, sparks will fly.

That’s Sky Lights.

Videos: Learn about dinosaurs or check out some relaxation and yoga tips!

Absolute Beginners: Guitar: This easy-to-follow guitar video tutor will take you step by step from first day exercises to playing along with a professional backing track. Learn how to tune your guitar, develop techniques using fingers or a pick, practice your sense of rhythm, play essential chord shapes, and perform your first complete guitar solo. Includes a 32-page booklet matching the exercises on the video.

All About Dinosaurs: Want to learn more about dinosaurs and what paleontologists do? Paleontologists are people who dig for fossils and study them in a lab. Dinosaurs lived for millions of years. Learn about the first dinosaurs in the Triassic Period, 230 million years ago. What kind of dinosaurs lived in the Jurassic Period? Not the Tyrannosaurus Rex or the Triceratops! They came much later in the Cretaceous Period. Dinosaurs vanished around 65 million years ago and no one knows for sure what happened to them. They may be gone, but they are not forgotten. As we dig deeper in the past, what we know about them will grow! Learn how you can unlock the hidden answer found in fossils.

Guided Relaxation for Sleep: Guided Relaxation for Sleep offers quick relief to help you achieve a restorative, restful night’s sleep. Through calm, soothing instruction, you’ll learn to let go of the day’s frustrations, quiet your mind and focus on the moment to fall into a deep, sound sleep.

Healing Yoga: The healing art of yoga has been practiced for millennia to enhance both physical and mental well-being. Filmed on the serene island of Maui, Healing Yoga features internationally acclaimed yoga teacher Rodney Yee, who offers you five yoga solutions that use restorative poses to help relieve stress, back pain, indigestion, fatigue and headache. Take time for yourself and discover the healing power of yoga and the rewards it brings to your life.

All descriptions are from the respective publishers unless otherwise specified.

The STLS Digital Catalog may be found on the library’s homepage of http://ssclibrary.org/

Or via the following link:

http://stls.lib.overdrive.com/FE5904CF-8A91-4688-A592-7A046C7988D3/10/536/en/Default.htm

And if you have an app device look for the OverDrive Media Console app in your app store – it is the app that will allow you to check out free library e-books and audio books.

Digital Catalog music and video titles must currently be downloaded to a Windows computer to enjoy.

Have a great weekend!

Linda R.

Dewey Decimal Number for International Cook Books

Linda Reimer

ImageThe Dewey Decimal System number for cooking (generally speaking) is 641.5. And as you browse through the shelves in that section you’ll find more books that focus on various aspects of cooking. For example, the books labeled 641.55 cover “Money-saving and timesaving cooking” (OCLC, 2003) and the books labeled 641.52 to 641.54 deal with “Cooking with specific fuels, appliances, utensils;” (OCLC, 2003) all of which is very interesting if you like to cook! However, my favorite Dewey Decimal System number for cooking is 641.59 because the books that feature spine labels with that number fall under the category of international cooking. So if you’re looking for recipes and/or cook books that feature French, British, Polish, Italian, Brazilian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and South African cooking then 641.59 is your number!

And of course what this has to do with tech is very simply the fact that you can look up cook books (and all other library materials) and request them in the library catalog which is called StarCat. To request an item, either one that is checked out or one that is on a shelf at a library within the Southern Tier Library System, you simply click on the word “Hold” found on the item record and you’ll then be prompted to enter your library card number (the long number on the back of your library card without any spaces) and your PIN number (the last four digits of your telephone number) and that is it! The item will then be requested and you’ll either be sent an email notification when the library item has been pulled from the shelves and is available for you to pick up (if we have an email addresses on file for you) or you’ll receive a telephone call notifying you that the item you requested is ready to be picked up.

Here’s the link for StarCat which may also be accessed by going to the library’s home page – SSCLIBRARY.ORG – and clicking on the Library Catalog link at the top of the page.

http://enterprise.stls.org/client/default

Have a great day!

Linda R.

References

The Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index. (2003). OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Dublin, Ohio.

*Our library, the Southeast Steuben County Library, is a member of the Southern Tier Library System – also known as STLS for short. And patrons of all the member libraries in the system (which consists of all the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuler and Alleghany counties) can request items from all the libraries within the system. So if that book you want to read is only owned by The Wide Awake Library in Fillmore, NY, which is located in the north western corner of Alleghany County – you can request it and have it sent to our library where you can much more easily pick it up than you could if you had to drive to Fillmore to retrieve it!