Adults

Learn Anything Anytime

Posted by MegB at 4:39 pm

May 152012

Free with a library card
(valid e-mail address required to create an account and take courses. Email accounts are free.)
Enroll in up to 5 courses at a time.
Allowed 6 months to finish each course.
Perpetual access to your course online–attend class and do assignments on your schedule.
Each course has a real instructor available via email.
These are non-credit courses and are provided for your personal enrichment.
These courses are not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
Over 500 free high-quality personal enrichment and non-credit online courses. Video-based lessons, a collaborative learning environment, graded lesson tests, certificates of achievement and Continuing Education Units for selected courses.

Pet Care and Training • Software Tutorials (e.g. Photoshop, Excel) • Nutrition •

Writing Improvement • Alternative Medicine • Business Applications • Genealogy

Terry Ettinger, manager of the SUNY-ESF teaching and research greenhouse complex, will spend an hour teaching us how to incorporate edible plants into a traditional ornamental landscape. With more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of landscape horticulture and certification as both a Landscape Professional and Arborist – not to mention an absolute passion for what he does, Terry is a resource unlike any other in Central New York.

Tech Help Desk

Posted by MegB at 4:26 pm

Feb 062012

A librarian dedicated to providing assistance with technology like ebooks and ereaders, tablets, laptops, phones, etc. will be stationed at NOPL at the following times and locations throughout the month of February:

NOPL at Cicero, Tuesdays 12:30-2:00pm

Reserve a time slot using the NOPL calendar, or just drop in. Help can be granted in person or via Skype. Our Skype name is noplibrary.

Falls Prevention

Posted by MegB at 12:21 pm

Oct 072011

Tues. October 11 at 11:00am
NOPL at North Syracuse
100 Trolley Barn Lane, N. Syracuse 13212
The St. Camillus not-for-profit healthcare facility will speak about how to prevent falls and related injuries, illustrate how exercise can improve balance and strength, and share ideas on how to make homes safer. Register online to help us prepare enough chairs, handouts, etc. for attendees.

Check Out the iPad and eReaders at the Cicero Library

Posted by lizzieg at 1:43 pm

Sep 262011

NOPL at Cicero has three eReaders and one iPad available for circulation to NOPL patrons over the age of 18 with a library card in good standing.

The iPad will be available for in-library use only, it can be borrowed for two hours at a time, and is non-holdable. It is pre-loaded with content including games, newspapers, magazines, and educational apps.

The eReaders will circulate for three weeks and are also non-holdable. One Barnes and Noble Black and White Nook, one Sony Reader Touch Edition, and one Sony Reader Pocket Edition are available. The Nook contains popular titles that are being turned into movies. The Sony Readers contain titles from the New York Times Fiction and Non-Fiction best sellers lists.

Titles on the Nook:

A Game of Thrones-George R.R. Martin
Something Borrowed—Emily Griffin
The Help—Kathryn Stockett
Water for Elephants—Sara Gruen
The Lincoln Lawyer—Michael Connelly
I am Number Four—Pittacus Lore
The Hunger Games—Suzanne Collins
Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte
One Day—David Nichols
Moneyball—Michael Lewis
Too Big to Fail—Andrew Ross Sorkin
We need to talk about Kevin—Lionel Shriver
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—Stieg Larson
One for the Money—Janet Evanovich
I, Alex Cross—James Patterson
The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Shot—Lee Child
Anna Karenina–Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy—John Le Carre

Titles on both Sony Readers:

1105 Yakima Street—Debbie Macomber
After America—Mark Steyn
Bossypants—Tina Fey
Cold Vengeance—Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Confession: A Novel—John Grisham
Dexter by Design—Jeff Lindsay
Full Black—Brad Thor
The Glass Castle—Jeanette Walls
The Greater Journey—David McCullough
Heaven if for Real—Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent
The Help—Katheryn Stockett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—Rebecca Skloot
In the Garden of Beasts—Erik Larson
Kill Me If You Can—James Patterson and Marshall Karp
Now you See Her—James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
One Day—David Nicholls
Outliers: The Story of Success—Malcom Gladwell
The Return of Rafe MacKade—Nora Roberts
Safe Haven—Nicholas Sparks
Sarah’s Key—Tatiana de Rosnay
Second Son—Lee Child
A Stolen Life—Jaycee Dugard
Unbroken—Laura Hillenbrand
Until Proven Guilty—J.A. Jance

Library eBooks for Kindle

Posted by MegB at 2:45 pm

Sep 232011

Finally! Public Libraries can now lend eBooks for the Amazon Kindle.

How to borrow ebooks for your Kindle:

From our homepage click the big purple Overdrive rectangle.

2. Browse and check out a Kindle book.

3. Click the ‘Get for Kindle’ button. This opens the Amazon.com website. You may be required to sign in with your Amazon.com account if you are not already logged in.

4. Select a Kindle device or Kindle reading app. Click the ‘Get library book’ button and sync your device or app to download the book, or choose to send it to your device via USB.

5. An active Wi-Fi connection is required for wireless delivery to a Kindle device. If your Kindle is not Wi-Fi capable or you do not have an active Wi-Fi connection, see Amazon’s video tutorial or written instructions for transferring files via USB
Kindle compatibility with library eBooks also takes full advantage of Amazon’s Whispersync technology. If you check out the eBook again at a later date or choose to purchase the eBook from the Kindle Store, all of your notes, bookmarks and highlights will be preserved. The last page read will also be synced between your Kindle and free Kindle reading apps.