Due to inclement weather, all CCLD locations will close at 5pm today. 1/2/2014
Due to inclement weather, all CCLD locations will close at 5pm today. 1/2/2014
Due to inclement weather, all CCLD locations will close at 5pm today. 1/2/2014
Many end users find Windows 8 a terrible experience. The main reason for this is because Windows 8 itself has a high learning Curve. Most end users are only comfortable with what they know. The inherent danger with this is Continue reading Windows 8.1: It is a Good Operating System!
I recently realized that the copies of Downton Abbey owned by the West Elmira Library have a combined circulation of nearly 250. And although season 1 has been available since February, 2012, all three seasons are still being checked out. Continue reading Downton Abbey – Loved By Many
It’s the season to shop! Are you hesitant about shopping on the internet, wondering if the site is legitimate and whether you will actually get the item you are buying and that your credit card information will remain private? If Continue reading Beneficial Bits n’ Bytes – Google Trusted Stores
November 2013 is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the publishing world has jumped on the bandwagon to print several new books on the topic. Everything is discussed and rehashed about the entire Kennedy Continue reading 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination
CCLD’s biggest marketing tool is its Mobile Branch, otherwise known as the Big Blue Bus or the Bookmobile. Its exterior is covered with colorful graphic drawings of happy children reading on a rocket ship, in a tower, a tree, a Continue reading The CCLD Bookmobile
Among friends, I have been accused as having very “interesting” taste in music (aka –weird). My taste runs from classic rock, Middle Eastern and Turkish dance music, chants, Baroque music, anything Mozart, and some New Age stuff. Maybe eclectic is Continue reading Music
I have been weeding the non-fiction collection, using a computer program that can generate a report of books that have not gone out recently. When we used to go to the shelves to weed the worn out, dirty out-of-date books, Continue reading Endangered Books
I love the Aurora Borealis. I saw a lovely photo online today. This thought led me to think about what other phenomena exist that we are scarcely aware of, so I did a little research. Rainbows are a common phenomenon, Continue reading Natural Phenomena
Staplers have been around for a long time. Their purpose is to pierce and clip papers together. The design of the stapler has changed a little, and the staple itself really hasn’t changed at all. It is still a piece Continue reading Unchanging Designs