This year our wonderful Parish of East Baton Rouge celebrates its 200th anniversary. There are some great events scheduled to coincide with the celebrations including free museum admissions, summer concerts and ice skating at the River Center! With this sweltering heat that is not to be missed!
For details see the special feature on our Baton Rouge guide.
We have oodles of books and DVDs that can help you learn to dance. Impress your friends, neighbors and relatives with your new found skills. Here are a selection of titles, search the library catalog for more!
We even have the 1978 classic, Official Guide to Disco Dance Steps (well worth checking out!)
Career Cruising is a brand new career guidance resource we are delighted to be able to offer. This database is suitable for high school students thinking about the future to adults looking for employment or a career change. Some of the great features include:
Career Matchmaking: Answer questions and be matched with careers that fit your interests.
Explore Careers: Get the skinny on different jobs, including duties, educational requirements, earnings etc.
Career Portfolio Tool: Build a resume, bookmark careers of interest and more.
You can access Career Cruising from home or in the library. Go to our online databases page, enter your library card number (if outside the library) and select Career Cruising from the list.
Mango is our language database that currently offers detailed courses in 9 languages, and basic courses in 22 languages, perfect if you’re planning a trip.
Mango also has 15 English as a Second Language courses (ESL) including courses for speakers of Spanish, Chinese and Russian. Mango is of course free to library card holders and available 24/7 and you can retake courses as often as you like.
A cool feature that has been recently added is that of voice comparison. You can record your voice, see how the visual pronunciation looks compared to the narrator. Get them to match up and you’re talking like a local!
Mango Languages can be accessed in the library or from home just head to our online databases page, put in your library card number and select Mango!
The World Cup in South Africa is here! To get you in the mood here is the Official World Cup site and some great soccer books and DVDs in our collection!
Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead (Your blogger’s old team!)
Bloody Confused: A Clueless American Writer Seeks Solace in English Soccer
The Damned United (DVD)
Goal: The Dream Begins (DVD)
The Summer One Book/One Community selection is In The Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White. Get your copy at the library and join us in reading this fascinating tale set in the last leper colony in the United States in Carville, Louisiana.
There will be One Book/One Community events over the summer including author Neil White speaking on Thursday, July 29th at the LSU Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes. More details of specific events can be found at www.readonebook.org
Being ‘green‘ can be tricky, so we’ve put together a guide full of resources that can help. You’ll find great books that are in our collection, useful websites, tips and news feeds from top green sites! There is information on green consumerism and also websites with tools for business owners who want to go green.
Find out what you can do to reduce your environmental impact. Take a look!
Have a question? You can now ask us on live chat! Get the answer you need right away from the comfort of your computer. You can reach live help by going to our Got a Question page or to our Research Guides. When a librarian is available you’ll see a chat box like the one below for you to type in. (note: the pic below is not an actual chat box!)
Live chat will be available during all our open hours. Give it a try!
Scrapbooking is a popular pastime and a fun way to preserve family history. We have lots of books and even DVDs on scrapbooking. Below are some highlights and you can also browse our full selection of scrapbooking.
Budget Scrapbooking: Great Ideas for Scrapbooking on a Shoestring
Celebrate Your Stories: 100+ Fun Ideas for Show and Tell Scrapbooking
Montage Memories: Creating Altered Scrapbook Pages
Scrapbooking Sports: Celebrating you Family’s Sports Adventures
Special-effects Scrapbooking: Creative Techniques for Scrapbookers at all Levels
The Environment section of the National Geographic website has so many photos, quizzes, blogs, games and news, that you’ll want to visit over and over again. If you only have a little time, check out the link “News Blog: Greatest Nature Photos.” These pictures are the awesome nature photos that you expect from Nat Geo.
If you have some real time to kill, try your hand at the “Test your Earth IQ” quizzes on backyard birds, Yosemite, pollution, natural disasters, and going green.
As always, National Geographic has produced an excellent site full of the things that have made it a household name 122 years!
