2012 Relay for Life

Now through the end of the month, we are taking donations at the Library for the Oldsmar Relay for Life. Come on down & donate a dollar for a star in honor of a loved one who has faced cancer!

The Oldsmar Relay will be held April 20-21 at Canal Park in Oldsmar.

Our Oldsmar Teen Advisory Board (OTAB) and some library staff will be participating in the Relay, you can view their Team Page here.

For more information, please see the above links or give Heidi, our GOTAB Team Captain a call at 813-749-1179.

Couponing Made Simple - March 1

Join "Christi the Coupon Coach" & author of Couponing made Simple on Thursday, March 1, 6pm in TECO Hall - Christi will share practical tools and tips that will help you and your family save money using coupons! Book signing to follow. No registration required.

One Click Digital (audiobooks) Media Manager now available for Macs!

We received this press release from the One Click Digital folks (formerly NetLibrary) and wanted to pass it along:

We are happy to announce the launch of the Mac-compatible version of the OneClickdigital Media Manager. All Mac users will now have access to the new Mac-compatible OneClickdigital Media Manager, which can be downloaded through Apple's App store. The link to this program is available on the Help/User Tutorial page, and at other locations throughout the OneClickdigital site.

The Mac Media Manager will allow Mac users (with OS versions Snow Leopard, Lion, and higher) to install the Media Manager on their computers, giving them access to your library's entire audiobook collection.

In addition, we have made some other enhancements behind the scenes that will significantly improve the speed of the OneClickdigital site. And be on the lookout for the OneClickdigital iPhone app, which is coming soon. We’ll let you know as soon as it is available.

Happy listening!

You can read more about One Click Digital here.

Street Closing Notice, Feb. 14-24

The intersection of Dartmouth & St Petersburg Drive is closed for streetscaping. St. Petersburg Drive is closed from Buckingham to State Street. Please follow the detour signs to get to our parking lot on Dartmouth or use this map to plan an alternate route.

The intersection should re-open Saturday, February 25.

February - Discovery Reef Exhibit

Discovery Reef, a unique traveling exhibit that brings coral reefs to life, will be on display in our Children's Department during the month of February. This interactive display developed by Mote Marine Laboratory of Sarasota offers a glimpse into the inner workings of reefs — vital habitats for thousands of marine species — through hands-on educational panels and live video conferences.

We are having two public all-ages interactive video conferences with a marine science educator from Mote Marine Laboratories on Wednesday, February 8th at 2pm and Wednesday, February 15th at 2pm. Each session will last about a half hour and no registration is necessary.

We also have several live teleconference spots open for groups of 10-25 children. Those interested in reserving a spot should call the Children's Department (813-749-1179) for available times and dates.

Discovery Reef is one of three traveling exhibits developed by Mote’s SeaTrek program, which offers exhibits to museums, libraries and other venues in the U.S. and beyond.

This exhibit is sponsored by Verizon.

Additional Lego Club day starts in January.

The Lego Club now has two days of the month to meet. It is the second Wednesday, and then the first Saturday following that. In other words, the second Wednesday of the month, and then three days later.

Here is the schedule for the next five months:

Wednesday- Jan. 11, Feb. 8, Mar. 14, Apr. 11, May 9
Saturday- Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Mar. 17, Apr. 14, May 12

--All meetings start at 3:00 pm--



If you have any questions, please call the Children's Department at 813-749-1179

Hope to see you on the 11th!


~Miss Heidi

Novelist Database - for all readers!

It's been a few years since we wrote about our Novelist database which is useful for readers of all ages, so here's a brief introduction!

A look at the front page will show you all that Novelist has to offer: series lists, book discussion guides, and lists of award winning books among many other features. Author Read Alikes shows you a list of authors similar to one whose books you have already read and enjoyed. You can also enter the type of book you like and Novelist will make a customized list of reading suggestions just for you!

To access it, please visit our resources page. To use it from home, you only need to enter your Oldsmar library card #.

Take a look at Novelist & let us know what you think.