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Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest now available at the Library |
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The Library now has available two essential databases for genealogical research. The first is HeritageQuest. Access is available from the library’s website homepage both in the library and at home. If you are accessing the database from outside the library, authentication will be via your library card. If you are accessing from inside the library, connection will be immediate.
The second database is Ancestry.com Library Edition and access is available only in the library, not remotely from home. Every Library computer has a desktop shortcut which takes you directly to the Ancestry homepage. Ancestry is also available in the library via the Library’s wireless network. If you bring in your own laptop computer, you can access it from this URL: www.ancestrylibrary.proquest.com.
Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest Flyer
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Dunham Public Library accents learning a new language with Mango |
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 Do you have the urge to learn a foreign language, but don't have the money to purchase an expensive program? The Library has come up with a way for our patrons to learn a new language easily. We now have a subscription to the individualized language learning service called Mango Languages. Like the Rosetta Stone service which many people are familiar with, Mango can track your progress and combines visual and auditory learning.
The programs are available in basic for beginners and more advanced for those with experience. Local library cardholders are now able to learn Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and many others. Speakers of French, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Greek, German, Spanish and Portuguese speakers can also use Mango for learning English as a second language.
Mango Languages uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate.
All you need is your library card and you can access Mango from the library or from home. Click on "Try Mango!" or scroll down and find the "Learn a language now!" link on the right side of this page.
À bientôt..... Mango Languages at Dunham Public Library Flyer
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eBooks Now Available for the Kindle |
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Dunham Public Library and the other libraries in Mid-York are pleased to announce that the Amazon Kindle is now compatible with MYLibrary2go, a digital collection of audiobooks and eBooks. Using Amazon’s Whispersync technology and WiFi access, a title can be checked out on your computer and will automatically load onto your Amazon Kindle.
"That's been my No. 1 question for the last six months," said reference librarian Dennis Kininger.
With more than 1500 eBooks in the online collection, people have a large selection of adult, children, and young adult fiction and non-fiction to choose from. MYLibrary2go is free to use with a library card from any library in the Mid York service areas. Library patrons can log in using their library card number and are able to borrow up to five items at a time. They can create wish lists for titles to borrow later, and place holds on titles that are currently out, just as you would with a physical book.
Library Director, Judith Jerome, states: “The new development came as a result of a deal struck between Amazon and OverDrive, a company that provides libraries Web access to downloadable materials.”
Amazon said the deal brings Kindle books to 11,000 public libraries across the United States. Through MYLibrary2go you can access more than 15,000 titles in the public domain or without copyright, including classics such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, and more. These titles do not count towards your checkout limit, and are yours to keep.
Instructions for Loading eBooks to a Kindle
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Thank You, Hamilton College Students! |
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From left to right: Jordan Graziadei,
Jon Dejesus,
Sabrina Hua,
Michelle Romano,
Jen Cruz,
Ian Matthews,
Leigh Gialanella,
Adrian Ophals,
Ivy Akumu,
Trevor Bobola,
Ana Abreu and
Andrew Yates.
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Once again this year Dunham Public Library participated in Hamilton College’s Community Outreach and Opportunity Project called Hamilton Serves! Scheduled during the first year students’, the Class of 2015, orientation week, it is a program which allows new students to become familiar with their new community and at the same time provide needed helping hands to a local organization.
What a fine group of young volunteers they were! In the matter of a few hours they managed to totally paint our Community Room, including the kitchenette, and relocate the entire contents of the Library’s boxed archives from the basement to the attic.
Amy James, Hamilton College Director of Community Outreach states: “Our goal in bringing Hamilton Serves! into the mix of orientation activities is to help students feel engaged in the community from the start, to educate them about the area’s needs as well as its offerings, and, of course,to provide [local organizations] with some able bodies ready to work.”
Library Director, Judy Jerome said: “And work they did! With good humor and good will, the students lent their muscle to the tasks that they were assigned. Volunteers like these young people are priceless.”
Somehow we feel that George Dunham would be pleased by the collaboration between the Library which he created and bears his name and his beloved alma mater, Hamilton College.
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