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Did
You Know?
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Effective July 1, your total fines must be less than $5.00 in order for you to check
out new materials. (Previously, your fines had to be less than $7.00). You
cannot have any overdue items or late fees if you want to use the computer lab.
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Linebaugh Library has received a donation of microfilm of issues of The Daily
News Journal from the DNJ, in addition to a $1000 grant from the
Gannett Foundation. Linebaugh has microfilm of the DNJ from 1931 to June
2009. The library had been purchasing the film from the Tennessee State Library
and Archived; however, when the state library stopped providing the service,
Linebaugh was unable to afford purchasing it from an alternate vendor. The
DNJ has donated film covering January 2009 through July 2010 and pledges to
provide future reels, as well, to make them available for public use.
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Linebaugh Public Library System has purchased two series of books that will help
children progress in the challenge of reading. Made possible in part by a grant
from The Richard Siegel Foundation, these high-quality books will help all
children learn to read more easily, especially those with dyslexia. “With this
grant, we will expand the collection here at Linebaugh and extend it to our
Smyrna, MGL, and Eagleville branches, as well as on our Bookmobile,”
says Youth Services Librarian Joan Hemphill.
The books will include those appropriate for beginning readers in grades
K-3 -- phonetically decodable beginning reading books that tell rich and
engaging stories -- to books targeting children in upper elementary and junior
high schools who display high interests in reading and low ability levels for
their ages -- books with lower difficulty levels and age-appropriate subject
matter, ranging from literary classics to contemporary themes.
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Linebaugh Library was named as a Finalist for the
2009 Ruthies Awards for
Favorite Place to Take the Kids and Favorite Movie Rental Place. Thanks for
showing your support for your local library!
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Get a glimpse at the
history
of Linebaugh Public Library. An article about Linebaugh's past,
including photos of previous library buildings, is featured in a 2009
issue of Tennessee Libraries.
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Plan to be out of town for a few days? You can now suspend your holds
through our
online catalog. Suspending your holds allows you to keep your place in
line, but the hold won't become available until you're available to pick it
up. After you enter your library card number, you can choose to edit some or
all of your holds to enter suspension dates. You can also choose an
expiration date for your holds -- if you will no longer need an item after a
certain date, set that as your expiration. If the book becomes available for
you before that date, you will be notified. If not, the hold will
automatically cancel.
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As of July 1, 2009, LPLS no longer prints and mails courtesy notices.
Eliminating printed overdue notices will save the library system nearly
$10,000 annually, roughly the cost of 500 new books. Library patrons
may add email
address to their accounts if they would like reminders about overdue
materials. Patrons who sign up for email notices will receive a courtesy
reminder two days before materials are due and when items are one week, two
weeks, and three weeks late. We will also email you when a reserved item is available for pick up.
If your email address changes, please update us with the
Change My Address form. You will need your library card
number.
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Thousands of best-selling and classic audiobooks on
R.E.A.D.S are now compatible
with the iPod, iPhone, iPod touch, iPod nano, as well as the Zune and other
popular MP3 players. Recently
Tennessee R.E.A.D.S expanded compatibility with two popular audiobook
formats: WMA and MP3. Transfer these audiobooks to your Apple devices or
other MP3 players with a simple upgrade of the free software OverDrive Media
Console.
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Find us on Facebook! LPLS is now on Facebook. Become a fan to receive
regular updates about upcoming events and library news.
You can also follow the Linebaugh
Reference Department on Twitter. Get updates on today's events and today in
history, plus other information. Ask us questions by putting @linebaugh_ref in
your tweets.
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LPLS
is now offering
Online Book Clubs. Sign up and you'll receive a five-minute selection
from a chapter of a book each day. By the end of the week, you'll have read
2-3 chapters. The book clubs give you a chance to sample a book before you
check it out from the library. No matter what your reading interest, there's
a book club for you! The Online Book Clubs are sponsored by the Friends of
Linebaugh Library.
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Friends of Smyrna Public Library
has re-released Walter King Hoover's
A History of the Town of Smyrna
in January. This long out-of-print book is now available for $40. See our
book release webpage for
more information.
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Tired of waiting weeks to check out the latest bestsellers? Get them while
they're hot with Hot Reads! Linebaugh Library has expanded its offerings in the Hot
Reads program, to offer more copies of more titles. For $2 you can rent new books at
Linebaugh Library for 1 week.
Hot Reads are available on a first come, first served basis and cannot be
placed on hold. Additional copies of these titles will be available for
normal checkout or to place on hold. The $2 rental fee must be paid when the
item is checked out. Hot Reads cannot be renewed. Overdue Hot Reads will be
fined $.30 per day. Get your hands on popular authors such as Janet Evanovich, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, and Nicholas
Sparks with Hot Reads! Please
tell us
what you think about this new service.
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BookFlix is an interactive literary
resource that builds a love of reading and learning in a fun, online
environment. BookFlix pairs classic video storybooks with nonfiction eBooks to
reinforce reading skills and develop essential real-world knowledge and
understanding. This resource also has educational games, author profiles, vocabulary, and more.
Requires Flash and audio. (Check
to see if your computer meets the requirements.) For grades PreK-3. You will need to enter
your library card number to use this service.
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LPLS's online bookstore,
MyLibraryBookstore, carries about 1 million book titles, plus
all the latest DVDs and CDs from dozens of
genres, just like other online bookstores. The benefit to using
MyLibraryBookstore is that proceeds from your purchases directly benefit the
Linebaugh Library System.
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Have you seen our zines? Linebaugh Library's zine collection can be found on the second floor, near the Periodicals. Zines can be checked out for 2 weeks. Available zines can be found in iBistro, our online catalog. For more information about what zines are or about the library's zine collection, please visit our Zine Collection page.
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Thanks to
Rutherford Books from Birth, your preschool age children can receive free,
age-appropriate books every month! You can now
register
your children online; you can also register for this
program at any of the Linebaugh Library System branches. The simple act of
reading books to your children on a regular basis gives them a big boost toward
a successful education. Rutherford Books from Birth, in partnership with the
Governor's Books from Birth Foundation and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library,
want to give you free books to read to your children. Visit the
Rutherford Books from Birth website to find out more!
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Give us your ideas! In 2005, Dubberly Garcia Associates of Atlanta developed a
Master Facilities Plan for the Linebaugh Library System. As of October 2005,
the Linebaugh Library System was 72,000 square feet shy of the state minimum
standards for Tennessee. This plan calls for adding several new facilities,
including constructing a new main library. The Executive Summary of the
Facilities Plan, as well as a PDF of the full Plan, are available for public
review and comment. The Library System has now contracted with Dubberly Garcia
to develop a Building Plan for the new main library and branch libraries. We
hope you'll join Project 72,000: Building Better Libraries, and that you'll be a part of planning the
future of libraries in Rutherford County.
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Linebaugh Library System offers adaptive technology services to the
disabled, elderly, and visually impaired. As the result of a federal grant,
Linebaugh Public Library and Smyrna Public Library have added adaptive computers, which includes software
to magnify text and images and verbally communicate to the user. The computer is
equipped with a large-print keyboard, trackball mouse, large screen, scanner,
and adjustable table and chair to make it accessible for patrons with physical
impairments. Both libraries also
offer the InSight magnifier, which magnifies materials using a large video
screen. For more information or assistance in using these machines,
please visit the Reference Desk at either library or read our
Adaptive Technology brochure (PDF).
Linebaugh Library,
in partnership with the League for the Deaf and Hard
of Hearing and the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, also offers services
for the deaf and hard of hearing. A sign language interpreter is available at
Linebaugh Public Library each Wednesday from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. to assist with:
interpreting phone calls, help interpreting documents, help on computers, help
finding information in the library, help finding local resources. The library
also offers access to IP-Relay on public Internet computers, available during all normal library hours. For more information, please
email the
Linebaugh Library Reference Department.
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Check out the Linebaugh Library System's Bookmobile!
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Linebaugh Library has Wireless Internet access.
Find
out more!
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