MANGO LANGUAGES!

Check this out!
Our newest online resource, Mango Languages provides language learning from your own computer! This is easy-to-use program is accessible from BOTH within the library and away. It includes Spanish, ESL, German, Mandarin Chinese, and more!

See the ad on the Library's homepage -
www.telluridelibrary.org
Click on the ad
Then click on Mango Languages from the e-Resources page.

or try this link:
http://libraries.mangolanguages.com/wilkinson/start

You can either create an account...(which allows you to pick up lessons where you leave off) or get started without an account.

To use the program from a computer outside the library, you will be prompted for a Wilkinson library card number and you link to Mango Languages from our website.

For more information, please contact a friendly library staff member:
970-728-4519 ext. 33
askus@telluridelibrary.org

Citations Info

Hi Service Specialists,

I spent the morning with three seventh grade classes (I'm doing an internship with Tava at the High School library for my masters program) teaching MLA citation. We may get some further questions on this from the kids.

The 7th graders are currently compiling their bibliographies (Works Cited pages) for reports on specific countries and may come here asking for further assistance with citation. Most of them have a book, a magazine and a couple of websites to cite. They are using CIA World Factbook, pages in which are treated like web documents. They are also relying on CultureGrams, which gets cited using the rules for subscription databases (basically the same but they also record that they accessed it through WPL).

I emailed y'all the PP presentation that I put together and showed them this morning. I also worked with some of them in the HS tech lab and the major questions they had were about formatting (can be obnoxious in MS Word) and where to find the authors, dates, and titles within web resources.

If you have questions not addressed in the Powerpoint, check out this resource from Purdue. There are examples for what to do with complicated or just out of the norm situations.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Thanks in advance for helping!

Sarah

GOOGLE EARTH

IS AVAILABLE on:
CREATION STATION
and the MAC NEXT TO IT....
--sarah

ILL Mystery Unraveled...

How to Check in an ILL item in Millennium

Each of the ILL items that we check out to our patrons is associated with a small blue card that has a call number, like "ILL 410" and a standard barcode. If you feel like running upstairs and finding the blue card that matches your ILL item, you just check in the item by scanning the barcode on that small blue card.

Or do it the easy way!

If the paper slip is still in the book, look for the ILL number, it is hand written and is between 1 and 399. Now go to the normal checkin page in Millennium (F2 or F9) and type in the special letter 'e' (like n, this is a prefix, it indicates Dewey) followed by "ILL " and finally the ILL number.

This should have the exact same effect as if you scanned in the barcode -- no need to highlight, copy or paste!

Colorado tax forms

To get Colorado tax forms:
http://www.colorado.gov/revenue/tax

If people would like one mailed to their personal address:
call: 303-238-3278 (tax forms)

TAX HELP

There are a couple of programs from the IRS for help volunteer help filing taxes:

For a description, click here:
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=119845,00.html

VITA - is for those with earning less than $42,0000 -
The closest help can be found in: Dolores - 970-799-8066 call for appointment.

The other program is TCE - for the elderly (60 and over)
the closest AARP sponsored-center is Montrose: 970-249-3342 open wed. thurs. 9:30-3:30p.m.
AARP MONTROSE PAVILION CENTER
Address: 1800 PAVILION DR MONTROSE, CO 81401-5378
Telephone: (970)249-3342

--Sarah