The Mailbox - Free Teaching Aids

 

The Mailbox is a teacher-created, editor-reviewed online resource that includes printable worksheets, crafts, forms, songs, games, graphic organizers, patterns, clip art, cards and more for Pre-K to Grade 6. With more than 52,000 teaching ideas & activities, it'll surely be a great addition for teachers, homeschoolers and parents!

Access here with your Oldsmar library card.  Once logged in, you can browse freely or create a personal account to customize lesson plans, save content to folders, and take advantage of other features.

Lifelong Learning with Libraries

Try Hoopla Digital - Sign up for your own account on their website or through their app.  

You will need your Oldsmar library card, pin and an email address. 

Learn more here Hoopla Digital  

• Binge Passes Curiosity Stream & the Great Courses
  

• Music  Variety of music for learning & enjoyment
  

Summer programs 2022 for Adults

Book Bingo - fill out a card and return by August 13 to enter the gift basket raffle

Spotting Fake News - Saturday, July 9 at 1:00 pm. media literacy program at the library (no registration)

Mark your calendar for the First Friday movie on August 5th at the library (bring your own snacks)

Visit the Adult  program page on our website for more info

Digital Magazines from Overdrive

• Digital magazines check out for 14 days
  

• You can read directly through the browser of your tablet, computer or phone

• Or read with the Libby app - a free download from your app store 

• A variety of magazines are available - Fitness, Cooking, News, Cars & Motorcycles, Computers & Tech, Home & Garden and more!

•  Overdrive digital magazines are provided through the PPLC - Pinellas Public Library Cooperative
  

Browse the Oldsmar Library magazine collection

 

 

 

Holiday Help with Your Library

Winter holidays are fast approaching and your "to do" list may be growing.

Cooking, shopping and travel preparations for visiting with friends and family. If you're feeling a little time pressured, look to your library for some help.

Recipes and cookbooks: We have a variety of cookbooks (both in-house and online) with recipe ideas for making that traditional dish or a new recipe would like to try. There are books with different cooking methods, baking, slow cooking, grilling and some that cover special diets.

Shopping recommendations: The Consumer Reports online database and buying guides can help with gift ideas on the latest electronics - smartphones, tablets, TVs, digital cameras and home appliances. Access to the database is available from library computers only.

Make sure you pencil in a little downtime for yourself and family! 

 

Whether you enjoy reading, watching or listening, your library provides free access to audio-books, books, comic books, magazines and DVDs to check-out with a library card. 

 

If you prefer online access, you will need your library card, pin and device (tablet, e-reader, computer or TV) to enjoy content from the Tumble Book library, Hoopla and Overdrive databases. 

 

Not sure what to check-out? 

 

Browse the Novelist Plus & Novelist Plus K-8 reading databases for ideas - great for finding the next title (or the First) in a series. 

 

You can also browse the library catalog for book lists, awards and recommendations. or download the app from your app store - search for Pinellas Library Cooperative

 

To get started - visit the library checkout desk to get a library card. For help with downloading e-books/audios - click on the "help" buttons within each database to find out which devices and formats are supported and how to download/stream. Call the library (813) 749-1178 for more info.

 

 Wishing you an enjoyable and relaxing holiday!

Freecycle Event - We need donations!

We are hosting our first (hopefully not last!) Back to School Freecycle Event!  Freecycling is giving away unwanted but still usable things to help keep items out of landfills. 

Here's how it will work:


 DONATIONS

• Beginning on July 22, bring your clean, gently used clothes & wearable accessories (hats, shoes, purses, etc) for kids from babies to teens to the Oldsmar Library
• We're also accepting small childrens toys and school supplies
• Please leave them with a staff member, and remember...NO UNDERGARMENTS! 
• We're accepting donations until Thursday, August 8

SHOPPING

• Staff will sort donations and have items out for FREE on Friday, August 9 and Saturday, August 10 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Don't have anything to donate? That's OK, you can still come and "shop" for what you need!

Bring what you can - take what you need!

Anything left over will be donated to Oldsmar Cares.

Special thanks to the New Port Richey Public Library for the idea & for helping us get started!

Questions? Give us a call or email at 813-749-1181 information@oldsmarlibrary.org

Thanks for your support.  Let's work together to make this a success!!

New Newspaper database including Tampa Bay Times

  
The Oldsmar Library is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its new digital newspaper collection: Access World News. This collection is available to all library patrons (both in-house and remote) and is updated daily.

Access World News provides Web-based access to current and archived issues of  full-text newspapers, including access to the Tampa Bay Times archives going back to 1987.

This new resource appears under the Research & Learn tab on the library's homepage, or you can use the links in the pictures above.  Use outside of the library will require an Oldsmar Library Card.
 
Access World News is a resource offered by NewsBank, the world’s premier provider of newspapers and other news sources online. Serving public libraries for more than 45 years, NewsBank offers Web-based access to more than 12,000 titles from the U.S. and other countries around the globe.

For more information on this collection, contact us by calling 813-749-1181, emailing information@oldsmarlibrary.org, or visit http://www.oldsmarlibrary.org/