Upgrading our Tech

You might notice some changes around the libraries these days.  For example, don’t worry, the paging system really has gotten louder at the Frankfort Library!  We have recently installed a new telephone system that includes an exapanded paging system that allows patrons to hear us in previously unreached areas, such as the lower level computer lab, main floor magazine area and Hubbard Gallery.

Other changes include a computer and print management system (CASSIE) at the branch libraries as well as Frankfort.  CASSIE allows patrons to manage their own computer sign in and allows management of printing. 

Also, if you haven’t looked recently, check out our main page to see new features from the library’s BookLetters (eNewsletters) that allow us to insert widgets to help promote reader’s advisory.  Our current widget features selections by library staff.

To infinity and beyond!  In the future (by summer), we look to have Download Stations at each of our libraries to allow patrons to download Ebooks and Eaudio directly from their Ditigal Media accounts to their e-devices. 

We also look forward to continuing with DearReader services.  DearReader is an online book club that allows you to receive portions of books in your email each.  You can comment and interact through DearReader’s website and link directly to our online catalog to check if the book is available if you like what you’re reading.  While in our online catalog, feel free to write a review of any item you find by using ChiliFresh.  Simply click on Write Review by the item you wish to review and you’re on your way to writing your review!

We look forward to another year of great changes and hope that everyone in the community and beyond will be a part of our positive changes.

Library Receives LSTA Innovation Grant

The Frankfort Community Public Library has received an LSTA Innovation grant administered by the Indiana State Library funded by the Institute for Museum & Library Services (IMLS). 

The Innovation grant is funding “Shaping the Future with Digital Media: From Consumer to Creator,” which will be used to purchase digital media tools and equipment for a Mobile Digital Media Lab for the Frankfort Community Public Library.  Included in the grant is audio and video recording equipment and software.  We plan to have programs for teens and to use the equipment with Clinton County Youth Theatre productions and workshops.  Workshops will also be held for teachers from the local middle and high schools to gain a better understanding of digital media available and how to promote their use to their students.  We will also hold workshops for local small businesses so they can learn how to use these tools in their businesses.  The equipment will be made available to the public upon request. 

Keep on the lookout for programming coming in the next few months to learn more about digital media equipment and what you can do with it!

Have you used our Online Digital Media?

Have you been on to our Online Digital Media site to download e-books or e-audioboooks lately?  All you need is a valid Frankfort/Clinton County Contractual Public Library card.  Click on the image above to go to the Indiana Digital Media site to search for the downloadable media you want. 

Click on the Tutorial link in order to see what software you need to download and to begin searching for the materials you want.  To sign in simply click on the Sign In link along the top, select the Frankfort Community Public Library as your library and enter your library card number. 

Enjoy a good audiobook or e-book now!

http://idm.lib.overdrive.com

Become a Fan on Facebook

Take a look at Frankfort Community Public Library’s 3 Fan Pages on Facebook. Keep up with what’s happening at the Frankfort Library, with the Frankfort Teens, and with Clinton County Youth Theatre.

Frankfort Community Public Library on Facebook

FCPL Teens on Facebook

Clinton County Youth Theatre on Facebook

 

Michigan Road Receives Grant for Wireless

Michigan Road recently received a grant funded from the William J. and R. Jean Beard Endowment Fund, a fund of the Clinton County Community Foundation to install wireless technology at the library!  Wireless has now been installed at Michigan Road Library, which allows users to use wireless at all of our libraries: Frankfort, Michigan Road, Mulberry and Rossville.  We hope that this service is a great benefit to everyone!

Add Your Reviews Straight to Our Online Catalog!

You can now add your own reviews to our catalog!  We have added ChiliFresh to our Online Catalog that allows users to put in their own reviews of the materials in our Online Catalog.  To see an example, check out Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell.  To add a review to a title that doesn’t have one, click on the Write a Review link and you can put your own review of the item in!  Visit the Frankfort Library’s Online Catalog to start writing your own reviews!

This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

What Do You Geek?

 

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What do you geek @ the library?  Join thousands of others in voicing your love of your public library.  Click on the link above to go to igeekthelibrary and share YOUR story about the library.  Get involved!

New eNewsletters – Get Library Lines in your inbox!

The Frankfort Community Public Library has new eNewsletters now available!  You can choose to receive any number of newsletters periodically in your email.  Simply go to our sign in page and choose which newsletters you want to receive.  You can choose to receive Teen book news, what books and authors have been on TV during the week, new fiction or nonfiction, new DVDs, or read about various authors. 

At the top of the list are the Library’s custom newsletters, we will be adding more as time goes on.  You can now choose to receive Library Lines directly in your email rather than your mail box!  Just choose that newsletter, enter your email address at the bottom of the page, and click Subscribe.  It’s that easy!  Now you don’t have to wait on the mail to receive library information.  Check the eNewsletter list regularly to find new newsletters!  Coming in the future: FCPL Staff Picks, Friends of the Library News, FCPL Teen News, and more!

This program is funded through a Library Services & Technology Act grant administered by the Indiana State Library from the Institute for Museums & Libraries (IMLS).

Online Book Clubs

The library now has Online Book Clubs available! 

You can sign up to receive portions of books each day in your email.  The emails link directly back to our catalog to see if we have it available  at one of our libraries or online as an e-book or e-audio book. We have a Fiction, Non-Fiction, Teen, Business, Romance, Good News (Inspirational), Sci Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Audio, Pre-publication, and Classics Book Clubs available.  You can sign up for 1 or all of them if you wish! This program is funded through a Library Services & Technology Act grant administered by the Indiana State Library from the Institute for Museums & Libraries (IMLS).

Next-Generation Library Catalogs

Many of our professional organizations are looking at the necessity of moving to a “next-generation” library catalog.  In the library world, what this means is moving to a catalog that integrates more features found in mainstream websites such as Google and Amazon.  For example, allowing starred reviews and allowing for patrons to write their own reviews about materials found our catalog; being able to manipulate searches performed in our catalog; having multiple languages available to search in, etc.

The Frankfort Community Public Library has received a Library Services & Technology Act grant administered by the Indiana State Library through Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to help provide more Library and Web 2.0 services.  The first of our services is now available through our Online Catalog and is a Spanish Language PAC.  The Online Catalog can now perform the same searches as before in the Spanish Language.  To search our catalog using Spanish PAC, open our catalog and change the language in the upper left-hand toolbar titled Language.  You can switch the language you are working with at any point during your search and you will not loose any of your search information.   We will be offering training classes for Spanish PAC at the library on June 30 from 6-7 pm.  More classes will be offered in the coming months, so keep checking back to find out what days.

Coming soon as part of the grant we will be implementing ChiliFresh in our Online Catalog which will allow users to create their own reviews on materials that the Frankfort Community/Clinton County Contractual Public Libraries own.  Also coming through our website (http://fcpl.accs.net) is an Online Book Group from DearReader, which will provide portions of books via email and allow discussion on these materials.  Another new feature on our website will be the availability of email lists.  Users will be able to sign up to receive best-seller lists, author information, Frankfort Library publications, and much more.  Keep checking back at our web address to sign up for these.

We are excited about these changes and I hope that you will email us if you have questions at fcpltech@accs.net.