Bear Lake County Library District

WHAT A COOL PLACE TO READ!!!

   Thanks to everyone who saved milk cartons for us!  The kids of the valley have a new fun place to read their favorite books.   We hope it will bring years of enjoyment to the kids who visit the library.

  REST IN PEACE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM

The last two weeks we were busy changing over to a word based system.  We hope you like it better.  It should be much friendlier for you.  If you have questions be sure to ask.  We will be glad to help you find what you need.

Adult Fiction Categories are:

  Christian,  Classics,  General,  Historical, Mysteries, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense,

  Western, and Holiday.

Adult Nonfiction Categories are:

●    Architecture

●    Art  Includes Art History, fashion,  Performing Arts,  Technique
●    Biography and collective biography
●    Business       Includes, grants, investing, job hunting,management,  personal  finance      real estate, and small business
●    Collectibles
●    Computers   Includes hardware, software, and internet
●    Cooking
      Includes, baking, breakfast,  desserts, food/drink, fruit, general, healthy, holiday,
      international, main dishes, make ahead, meat,  microwave, outdoor,                            pasta/Italian,   preserving, regional, technique, and vegetables
●    Crafts
                Includes afghan, crochet, general, holiday, knitting, needlework, paper, quilting,
                and sewing
●    Curiosities
                Includes astrology, dreams,  and paranormal
●    Education
●    Ethics
●    Games
●    Genealogy
●   
●    Gardening
      Includes flower, general, landscape, techniques, and  vegetable/fruit
●    Health
       Includes addiction, aging,  beauty, cancer, diabetes,  diseases, diet, eating

       disorders, exercise,  general, kids, mens, mental,  nutrition, remedies, women            
●    History
        Includes 17thCent, 18thCent 19thCent, 20thCent, 21stCent, Africa, ancient, Asia,
        Australia, Cent.Amer, Civil War, colonial, discovery,   Europe, GulfWar, N.Amer,      Renaissance, Revolution, S.Amer, U.S.,  VietnamWar, WW1, WW2
●    Holiday
                 Includes Christmas, Easter, FathersDay, General,  Halloween,  MothersDay,        Parties, Thanksgiving,  Valentines
●    Home
        Includes Decorating, DIY  (Building projects) and  Home economics
●    Humor
●    Language
         Includes Foreign, Public Speaking, sign language and  writing
●    Law
●    Literature
●    Math
●    Music
●    Nature
        Includes Animals, birds, Dinosaurs, insects, ocean
●    Parenting and grandparenting
●    Pets
       Includes birds, cats, dogs, general, fish, horses, reptiles
●    Philosophy
●    Places
        Includes Africa, Asia, Europe,  General, MidEast, N.Amer,  S.Amer, Space, and U.S.
●    Poetry
●    Politics
        Includes foreign and U.S..
●    Reference
         Includes almanacs, atlases,  dictionaries, encyclopedia, Ettiquette
●    Relationships
         Includes abuse, dating, divorce, family, man-woman, and marriage
●    Religion
         Includes Buddhism, Islam, Catholic, FLDS, General, LDS
●    Rural Life
         General but includes farm animals, barn building,etc.
●    Science
         Includes biology, chemistry, earth, environment, general,Paleontology, physics, and
         Space
●    Self Help
         Includes Emergency Prep, Grief, Personal Growth, and  Motivation
●    Social Science
         Abuse, civil rights, death, folklore, general, and Mythology

●    Sports
          Includes Baseball, basketball,cycling, fishing, general, golf, hiking, hunting, outdoors,
           shooting and winter
●    Technology
           AutoRepair, electronics, General, mechanical, and Military
●    Transportation
           Includes Air, Autos, railroad  and ships/boats

●    Travel Essays
●    True Crime
●    Weddings

   Learning Express Library

Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests,exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.  How do I get there?  Just click on LiLI Databases on the left hand side of our website and follow the links to the Learning Express Library.

Did you get a new ebook reader for Christmas? 

Here are some sources of free ebooks in various formats.

‎1. Project Gutenberg: 33,000 free e-books, including all of the classics, available in Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

2. Google E-Bookstore: The free section is filled with thousands of free, scanned copies of books, available in Kindle-friendly PDF formats.

3. Internet Archive: Millions of primarily rare, out-...of-print works in multiple languages and formats especially useful for academic work.

4. Open Library: 20 million user-contributed items in multiple editions and formats

5. ManyBooks.net: Nearly 30,000 titles, many of which have been pulled from Project Gutenberg. Has a good collection of little-known Creative Commons works.

6. LibriVox: Thousands of free audiobooks (Not ebooks, but audiobooks to listen to)

7.  GetFreeEbooks: Thousands all absolutely free.

8.  Barnes and Noble  has some free ebooks too!

9. FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories.

10.  Adobe Free eBooks – In Adobe’s Free eBooks area, you can download, unlock, and read electronic

books on your personal computer or reading device.

There are lots of books to sort through.  Of course if you prefer a good old-fashioned book we always have those available at the library.

Try Tumblebooks -- e-books for e-kids!

Watch, listen and read animated picture books on your computer!
Click on the blue logo to begin

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