During National Library Week, the library unveiled a new concept in library computer catalogs - one stop has it all.
The library research stations, as they are now called, contain NEWCat the online catalog and the many full text magazine and newspaper indexes to which the library subscribes. In addition there is electronic access to specialized tools such as Ancestry.com, which is a large collection of family history resources or netLibrary, a collection of over 1600 full-text eBooks. Book lovers can also find information on their favorite author using Contemporary Authors or get reading recommendations from What Do I Read Next.
Library staff has also created indexes of local information such as our index to the Post-Crescent or the index to our songbook collection. Both of these resources are also available on the library research stations.

We think the new configuration will be helpful not only to junior high and high school students, but to adults learners as well. At a research station a student can word process their paper while cutting and pasting information they find in magazines and on the Internet. The new workstations encourage patrons to spend time looking for information using the Internet and the electronic resources available on each station.

The library research stations are located throughout the library. Library staff is happy to give individual instruction on using the stations and to be "information guides" for our patrons.