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Are you ready for an Interactive Search Through History?

Pick up your Roads to Freedom Civil War Journal at any library location today!

For more information, visit the Roads to Freedom website!

Here’s a look at the Holiday Schedule for the library system over the 4th of July.

It’s time to Dig into Reading @ your library!

Sign up for the Summer Reading Program today at your library of choice!

Reminder:

All system libraries will be closed on Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day.

Now from College Prep to Careers and Beyond

For All Types of Students

Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) is designed to help students — in high school, graduate school, and specialty school and beyond — make their future education decisions easier. TERC is loaded with information on colleges, technical schools, practice entrance exams, and certification and professional license exams that show students what to expect and how to prepare for — and excel at — the next level. Plus, the Resume Builder and Virtual Career Library make TERC perfect for job seekers by providing specific examples and tips for the job search.

 Research Colleges & Universitites

Testing & Education Reference Center provides a vast collection of information on two- and four-year institutions across the United States to help students (and parents) screen potential schools.

Intuitive searches and quick results deliver data that includes the school’s location, tuition, majors, average G.P.A. of incoming students, religious affiliations if any, and much more. And when the selection comes down to a graduate school, students can find nearly 37,000 accredited programs representing a variety of disciplines.

 Identify Funding

Testing & Education Reference Center helps students and parents prepare financially by identifying aid sources and offering tips on how to secure available funds. TERC also offers one of the largest databases of scholarships and grants to assist students in funding their education. Updated and accurate information on more than 1.5 million financial awards is easily accessed.

 Ace the Tests

For many students, the key to testing success is “practice, practice, practice” — which is why Testing & Education Reference Center offers an extensive selection of online and eBook test-prep materials. Career-oriented test prep includes online practice tests for information technology, law programs, nursing programs, Air Force officer qualifying, military flight aptitude, and civil service and licensure exams.

Users will find high-school test prep for GED, AP, ISEE, COOP, SSAT and more. Those aiming toward college can find tests geared to CLEP, FCAT, SAT, ACT, PSAT, TAKS and more. Graduate school preps include GRE, LSAT, MCAT and MAT. There are even international tests covering TOEFL, TOEIC and U.S. citizenship.

 Step up to a Career

Testing & Education Reference Center offers an additional option — the career Module. With it students can explore career choices; assess their likes, strengths and interests; and map a career path to occupations that are most suitable to them.

The East Berlin Community Library is excited to announce a new fundraising program to benefit the ongoing goal of the library which is to provide quality reading materials for all ages. The East Berlin Community Library has partnered with Mixedbagdesigns.com to hold a fundraiser during the month of May 2013. The library has a supply of Mixedbags’ spring and summer catalog where you can help the library raise money by purchasing fun bags, totes, and accessories that are perfect for the beach, vacations, or everyday use.

How it works:

• Select what you would like to purchase from either one of the catalogs provided by the library or by using the following website:http://www.mixedbagdesigns.com/Retail-Home.
• If ordering at the library through a catalog, please pay the library or whomever is selling for the library at the time of purchase. 50% of your purchase goes directly to the library.
  • Note: If you and your family would like to take a catalog to sell on behalf of the East Berlin Community Library, please stop by the circulation desk of the library to sign out a catalog to take with you. We have plenty of catalogs and would love to have you help us with this fundraising project.
• If ordering online, please select your purchases through their online ordering system at the link located above. Please include the following when placing your order so we get our online credit: 40% of your online purchase goes directly to the library.
  • FUNDRAISER ID: 220844
  • STUDENT NAME: East Berlin Community Library
  • Note: All online orders will be shipped directly to your home. All orders through one of the catalogs at the library will be shipped to the library for disbursement.

How it benefits the library:

• As mentioned previously, if you order through a catalog, the library receives 50% of your purchase amount to benefit the library. If you order online through their website, the library will receive 40% of your purchase amount.
• All funds received from this fundraiser will be deposited into an endowment fund for children’s materials. In the future, the interest from the fund will be used to purchase children’s materials that couldn’t be purchased through normal library funds. If the fundraiser is successful, an adult book endowment will also be started to purchase adult materials in the future.

If you have any questions, or would like to reserve a catalog to help sell for the library, please contact library staff at 717-259-9000. Thanks in advance for helping to make the East Berlin Community Library the best it can be!

The Surprising Story of the Three Little Pigs

A Play with Music

Friday, April 26th & Saturday, April 27th

7:00 PM

Littlestown High School

Tickets are available at the Littlestown Library or at the door.
Adults: $8.00   Children: $5.00

Ticket sales support the Littlestown Library

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HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids.

18th Century or 20th Century. European or Native American. Farm or Factory. East Coast or West Coast. Where does your American past begin?

Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.

The collection consists of six core data sets:

U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1930, with name indexes for many decades. In total the collection covers more than 140 million names.

Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Titles have been digitized from our own renowned microform collections, as well from the American Antiquarian Society via an exclusive partnership.

Periodical Source Index (PERSI), published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800.

Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.

Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the Civil War.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.