Get a bead on the latest cell phone jewelry and super spring teen crafts with local artist Carol Thomas. Projects will be popular with both girls or boys. Teens in grades 6 -12 are welcome to come and create for themselves or others.
Tuesday, March 25 3 – 4:40 p.m Hoffman Estates Branch Library
The fabulous Skylarks Unlimited will bring you a fantastic evening of vocal harmonies like no other! With warm audience rapport, corny fun and lots of opportunities to sing along, this show will have you standing on your feet in ovation.
Monday, March 24 7 PM Audiovisual Department
Every so often, we get a call from someone who is unable to get into one of our databases. Usually it has to do with the security settings on the computer. Take a look at your Norton or McAfee settings the next time you’re having trouble accessing a database or take a look at these more in-depth instructions.
STDL is participating in the multi-library cooperative program Inside Writing and Publishing. These free seminars provide an opportunity to meet with authors to learn how to sharpen writing skills and get work published. Lisa Rosenthal, editor of The Writing Group Book, presents a workshop on the nuts-and-bolts issues of sustaining an effective writing group. Call the Information Desk at 847-923-3347 to register.
Thursday, March 27 7:30-9 P.M. Adult Classroom
Have you seen it? The E-Resources page of our website has changed and is packed full of great research material. Search multiple databases with Quick Search. Click to your favorite database with the Alphabetical listing. Magazine Search will tell you which magazines and journals are available online or at the library.
Pick up federal and Illinois state tax forms and instructions at any of our three locations or use our computers to print them from the IRS or the Illinois Department of Revenue websites. Pick up a tax brochure for web links to forms and instructions from other states. Use our reference collection of tax materials to answer your tax questions.
Make research super easy using our new Quick Search. Just enter your terms, choose a database, a category or mix & match the entire list! The Quick Search includes 50 of our most popular E-Resources. View the list.
The Schaumburg Township District Library (STDL) subscribes to several electronic products that allow cardholders to access or download electronic books (eBooks), audiobooks, and videos from home. Sites include NetLibrary, MyMediaMall, and an e-books for e-kids called Tumblebooks. For more information and instructions click here.
The AARP Driver Safety Course is an 8-hour classroom refresher that can help you learn the effects of aging on driving and how you can adjust your driving. Harold Sterling, the instructor, will collect a $10 materials fee at the time of the program. Participants must attend both sessions. (Please note that the phone number in the Daily Herald column by Sarah Long was incorrect.) Call the Information Desk at 847-923-3347 to register.
April 8th and 10th 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Rasmussen South
STDL Head of Reader Services Susan Gibberman won the Romance Writers of America prestigious Librarian of the Year Award. This honor is given to librarians ‘who demonstrate outstanding support of romance authors and the romance genre.’ Susan has promoted both romance books and authors actively at STDL as well as at local and national conferences. RWA will host Susan at their national conference in San Francisco in July 2008.
