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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.

Reminder!

All system libraries will be closing at 5:00 on Thursday, April 18th for the Board of Trustees Annual Dinner Meeting.

Libraries will re-open on Friday, April 19th for regular hours.

Just a reminder!

The Gettysburg Library will be closed on Sunday, March 31st for Easter!

Due to deteriorating conditions, the library system is closed today.

Stay safe, warm and dry!

Looking for information on the countries of the world?  Planning a trip to a foreign land?  Global Road Warrior is the resource for you!

The database features more than 8 million words of editorial content, over 6,500 color photos and 1,575 maps, all presented in a consistent 92-category framework for each country. Topics include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture, communications and more. Created by an international team of researchers, cartographers and writers, the database is continually updated.

Global Road Warrior is proving valuable to multiple educational disciplines and promotes cross-cultural understanding through comparative studies. Business people engaged in international trade, students researching country reports and patrons planning international travel all will find what they need within this site.

You simply need to use your library card # and pin for access.

The library is closed this evening due to the weather.  Stay safe!