Thursday, February 26, 2009
Cool New Services for Our Patrons!
The Chambers County Library System has two new services available to library patrons. More people are using the Internet and computer online services than ever before, and many have taken advantage of the online databases the library system has offered for several years through the Texas State Library and Archives. Those databases feature homework helpers, medical information, magazine articles, and e-books, and are accessed through the library system’s webpage at www.chambers.lib.tx.us. (Ask us for your login info next time you visit the library)
The Library System’s new online service, Ancestry, is a wonderful resource for researchers of all stripes! With census, birth, marriage, death, military, and social security records, narrowing in on family members and retrieving print copies for your files, has never been easier. Ancestry also has specialized collections, like slave narratives and records from the Freedman’s Bureau for Afro-American searching. Our service is the “international edition,” so you can even search records overseas.
The Ancestry subscription is restricted to in-library use only; we hope you will find many chances to visit us to use it. And if you have been working on family history, but have not used a computer to do so, our staff members will be more than happy to work with you to get you started.
Our second new online service is for all our area residents who listen to books in their cars or on their personal players, and who might be interested in watching movies on their computers. OverDrive.com is a very popular site in the library world, and patrons can download audiobooks to their computers, or download e-books and videos to watch on their computers. Many of the audiobooks can then be downloaded to personal listening devices or burned to cds. Information is available on our website, but only cardholders of the Chambers County Library System are eligible to use the service. It requires a library card number and a password. The library staff can assist you if you are in the library to get started, but the actual downloading is done on your home pc.
Chambers County is changing over to new phone systems, and currently the Courthouse offices in Anahuac and the library in Anahuac have been completed. The library system office number is now 409-267-2550, and the library circulation desk is 409-267-2554. Call us anytime, and check out the best little library system in Texas today – visit your local library in Anahuac, Winnie, or Mont Belvieu!
The Library System’s new online service, Ancestry, is a wonderful resource for researchers of all stripes! With census, birth, marriage, death, military, and social security records, narrowing in on family members and retrieving print copies for your files, has never been easier. Ancestry also has specialized collections, like slave narratives and records from the Freedman’s Bureau for Afro-American searching. Our service is the “international edition,” so you can even search records overseas.
The Ancestry subscription is restricted to in-library use only; we hope you will find many chances to visit us to use it. And if you have been working on family history, but have not used a computer to do so, our staff members will be more than happy to work with you to get you started.
Our second new online service is for all our area residents who listen to books in their cars or on their personal players, and who might be interested in watching movies on their computers. OverDrive.com is a very popular site in the library world, and patrons can download audiobooks to their computers, or download e-books and videos to watch on their computers. Many of the audiobooks can then be downloaded to personal listening devices or burned to cds. Information is available on our website, but only cardholders of the Chambers County Library System are eligible to use the service. It requires a library card number and a password. The library staff can assist you if you are in the library to get started, but the actual downloading is done on your home pc.
Chambers County is changing over to new phone systems, and currently the Courthouse offices in Anahuac and the library in Anahuac have been completed. The library system office number is now 409-267-2550, and the library circulation desk is 409-267-2554. Call us anytime, and check out the best little library system in Texas today – visit your local library in Anahuac, Winnie, or Mont Belvieu!
# posted by Valerie @ Thursday, February 26, 2009 
