Facebook Page

Have you checked out our Facebook page recently?  We’ve added new information you can access right from Facebook.  A Locations tab gives our library locations with links to maps, the Catalog tab allows you to perform a search right from the Facebook page, and a Book Club tab that allows you to access our Online Book Clubs.

So check us out to get all the latest information!
Frankfort Community Public Library

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

 

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.

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).

How Can Google Help You?

Google is much more than simply searching the internet now.  Google Docs allows you to create documents similar to those found in Microsoft Office.  You can create a word processing document, a presentation, a spreadsheet, or forms and have access to them anywhere you can get online.  You can also share them with other people if you’re working in a group and you can even work on the same document at the same time with others. 

By using Google Calendar, you can keep up with activities that you have scheduled and you can even embed them into a blog or website if you wish, to share them with others. 

With Google Groups, you can create a group space where you can collaborate on a project.  For example, the Frankfort Library is working on Clinton County Reads for 2009 and we have a committee made up of multiple representatives from around the county.  To help the committee work together, we have created a Google group space where we can post what each of us is working on and others from the committee can post comments.  They can also upload documents, email everyone at the same time from the group, and much more.  If you need to collaborate with others and you aren’t all in the same place, this is a great way to work together.

To get started visit http://docs.google.com an sign up for an account.

More Useful Online Tools

Need to take a document or file with you but you keep forgetting your jump drive?  Try using http://drop.io/ which allows you to create a custom web address with your file name to upload.  Each file can be up to 100 MB and can be password protected.  Files stay saved for a 1 year period.  With this you can collaborate in real time with others on the same file.

You can also use http://www.senduit.com/ which allows up to upload a file and gives you a unique web address for the file.  senduit gives you the option of keeping the file uploaded online for a period of 30 minutes up to 1 week before it is deleted.  This is great to use if you need to have something uploaded quickly for a presentation or to have quick access to at another location.

Need to stay in touch with your family, a group of friends, or some of you from work simply want to create an interactive forum?  Try creating a Ning at http://www.ning.com/.  A Ning is a social networking site that YOU create.  You simply create a name and web location for your Ning and then you ask others to join your Ning or they can find you and join.  You can create a Ning for your church, your family, friends, co-workers, etc to get messages, pictures and more to a specified group of people.  In your business you can use it for customers to stay informed of upcoming events, new need-to-know messages and so on!

New Technology Soon Available @ FCPL

The Frankfort Community/Clinton County Contractual Public Library recently received a Library Services Technology Act grant through the Indiana State Library.  The grant will allow the library to integrate new applications and programs through our website and our online catalog (PAC).

For our PAC (Online Catalog)
We will soon be adding Spanish PAC, which is the Spanish language version of our online catalog.  We will also be having some short training sessions and will have online resources available to help with using Spanish PAC.  Check out the Louisville Free Public Library to get a preview of Spanish PAC.

Also added to our online catalog will be enriched features through ChiliFresh that will give the user a more “Amazon” type experience.  Users can rate an item by giving them stars and can write a review of the item that will appear in our online catalog.  Check out a search from the Louisville Free Public Library that demonstrates this capability through the online catalog.

Through our Website
Another feature that we will be implementing through our web page is our Online Book Clubs through DearReader.com.  Patrons will sign up for the book club of their choice and a portion of brand new books will be sent through your email everyday.  You will be able to link to our online catalog so you can place a hold on the item and will be given the chance to discuss the materials in an online book discussion forum.

We will also be offering enhanced content using BookLetters throughout our website with pages geared towards your favorite genre, book covers displaying the newest books to hit the shelves, newsletters you can sign up for to stay current, best seller lists, awards lists, and much, much more!  You will be able to search options easier and faster via our website. 

Stay tuned for more information and visit our website for more updates!  http://fcpl.accs.net

These programs are funded through a Library Services & Technology Act grant administered by the Indiana State Library from the Institute for Museums & Libraries.

Make your Life Easier!

If you want to make your life easier, try some of these resources that are available online and free to the public.

The Frankfort Community Public Library has a delicious bookmark site now, http://delicious.com/frankfortlibrary.  Find tons of resources, no matter what you’re searching for. 

Tired of not having the file in the right format when you need it.  Try http://www.zamzar.com and you can convert image, movie, sound, word processing files & more!  You simply upload the file and then put it an email address where the file can be emailed to you.  Then you can open it up and begin working on it wherever you are.

If you’re looking for a site that allows members of a group to work on a document at the same time while online, visit http://www.zoho.com.  So, if you’re working as a group at school, or a professional needing to collaborate in different locations, ZOHO gives you the opportunity to create a document and alter it while online with other group members.   Programs included within ZOHO are spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, wikis, and more.

Chunk It! (http://www.tigerlogic.com/ChunkIt/ )is also a great tool to use while doing research.  You download Chunk It! and it runs within your web browser simultaneously with your favorite search engine.  Basically, 2 panes appear with the searches in them.  Chunk It!’s search will actually give more in depth details on the site and the links within the site to save you some clicks to find out if it’s a creditable source.