Looking for a great place to work? Enjoy providing excellent customer service? Apply for this part-time position at the library's circulation desk.

Every month Ms. Jen puts together a list of great books for teens, the Teen Staff Favorites. Get it online or by email.

Take a look in the display case near the magazine room upstairs for historical photos of some of the city's finest homes of the past.

You can now sign up for our new e-reader class or read the detailed handout (PDF) for the class.

You can get all seven Harry Potter books in Kindle, Adobe EPUB, and MP3 formats from the Ohio eBook Project and the SEO Consortium. (Tip: Check both sites for the shortest holds list.)

If you have a Blu-ray player, check out our lists of Blu-rays for adults and Blu-rays for kids. Blu-rays check out just like DVDs, and they count toward the same limit (you can check out up to 10 Blu-rays and/or DVDs).

You can usually get library ebooks onto your Kindle using wifi, but sometimes you'll need to use a USB cable - like when you don't have wifi, or when you check out a book published by Penguin. Here's an Amazon web page with instructions and a video on how to do this.

Last year was the third busiest year in the library’s history in terms of checkouts, and we loaned even more audiobooks, e-books, and regular books for adults than we did in 2010, our busiest year ever. In 2011 we also had more people come into the building, attend our programs, and use our computers.

Here are the 2012 Oscar winners and nominees for the major categories, with links to those which you can get from the library. Just click on a title to check its status and place a reserve in the library catalog. For a complete list of winners and nominees, see the list at Oscar.org.

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