Rent.com

Hi All,

Have you heard?  Of.  Rent.com?  Its a website where you can rent your next apartment. Users can find an apartment using zip code and/or the name of the town or city and the state.  Its really easy to use. Rent.com uses Legit-A-Master to help make the site more authoritative and useful.

What's Legit-a-Master? It collects 3D floor plans, photos, virtual tours and finds certified resident reviews for the apartments on the site.

Site listings have floor plans, a list of amenities that come with the apartment, property details and neighborhood information. Contact information is included as well.

Other useful parts of the site include a Moving Center, Rent.com's Blog and a way to personalize your apartment searches using My Rent.

Enjoy the site.  Good luck finding your new place to live!

Regards,
Stu

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

Hi All,

I just came across a very educational, interesting and useful website. Its called the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL hereafter).  Simply put the site is "part of a massive effort to gather scientific knowledge about all animal and plant life using pictures, information, facts, and more."  In another words the site gives users global access to knowledge about life on earth - quite a large and ambitious agenda!!!

EOL's vision is: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.

EOL's mission is: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

EOL is supported by Harvard University, New Library of Alexandria, Marine Biological Laboratory and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History among others. 

The site is comprehensive, easy to navigate and authoritative. Click on this link to learn more about the educational components of EOL.  

Click here to learn more about EOL Tools/Applications, Biodiversity articles, podcasts, lessons and activities and resources/tutorials.

Enjoy the site and the links!

Regards,
Stu

Its Smart - Smart911.

 Hi All,

I recently received an advertisement at home explaining Smart911.  Basically the website allows citizens to create a free safety profile for their household using the site, Smart911.com.

Information is entered and can be useful for 911 call takers in the event of an emergency.  Details can include the names and photos of all family members, medical conditions of various members, allergies, names of pets, and emergency contacts for family members.

For further information call 516-571-6000.   Click this link for an FAQ from the Smart911 website. Click on this link for resources near community that assist Smart911.

Finally, to sign up for Smart911 alerts.

Hopefully you won't need the site, but if you do have an emergency, Smart911 might be a good resource to use at home!

Regards,
Stu

Banned Books - Read Them When You Can!

Hi All,

Librarians love lists of banned books - we just want to help patrons get the right book to them at the right time and on the right topic!

Here's a list of banned book websites - and in some cases why the particular books were banned.

20 Beloved Books & Why They Were Banned - MSN Lifestyle

All About Banned Books Week 2016 - ALA website

Banned Books Week - from the Banned Books Week website

11 Books That Were Banned For Completely Ridiculous Reasons - Barnes & Noble

List of Books Banned By Governments - Wikipedia

Banned Books: Complete List of 144 Books and the Reasons Why They Were Outlawed - PostDesk

Common Reasons For Banning Books - Butler University

Banned Books That Shaped America - Banned Books Week.org

Banned Books With Reasons Why - The Book Escape

10 Beloved Children's Books Banned For the Stupid Reasons  - ListVerse

Enjoy the lists and books!

Regards,
Stu

Acronym Finder

Hi All,


Have you ever wondered what the acronym gif, or jpeg means? Or what about IMDB or LOL or MLS or IMHO or RBI or ROFL? 

Well, the one thing all these letters have in common is that they are acronyms.  They all stand for the letter of a word in the phrase.  For example...FBI stands for 'Federal Bureau of Investigation'.  And LOL stands for 'Laugh Out Loud' - usually in the context of a text message.  You get the idea.

So...with Acronym Finder you can find more than 1,000,000 human-edited definitions.  According to the site, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.  Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 5 million acronyms and abbreviations. 

The site is easy to search and loads quickly. 

Enjoy the site!

Regards,
Stu