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Catalog Changes

Catalog Changes

On May 1, if all goes well, the look and feel of the catalog will change. We are pretty excited about it. The new catalog will make it easier to find things, to get recommendations and to manage your account. We realize change can be stressful, so we will do what we can to make it easier. We will have a class on the new system on the morning of May 17 and again on the night of the 23rd. The librarians are busy familiarizing themselves with a preview version, so they can better answer your questions.Read More Read More

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Save your lists before April 24

Save your lists before April 24

If you use the lists function in the catalog, you should back them up before April 24 (instructions available here)..Why? The Westchester Library System will soon be conducting a major overhaul of the public catalog and there is a possibility your lists won’t carry over. That said, there are a lot of things we think you will be happy about. For example, in the new interface you can search for books and ebooks at the same time without having to log into different services. Read More Read More

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Crowds of Doctors Infest Tech Commons
Doctors examine image

Crowds of Doctors Infest Tech Commons

The Library’s new Merlin Elite Pro HD/OCR reader brings a whole new crowd to the Technology Commons these days. Doctors from all over the County and beyond are lining up to take advantage of the reader’s powerful magnification and ease of use. The apparatus is so popular that some local medical hospitals are thinking of saving some money by giving up their microscopes. Still, there are some problems.Read More Read More

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Popular Jigsaw Collection Creates Tensions

Popular Jigsaw Collection Creates Tensions

Our new circulating jigsaw puzzle collection is very popular with our patrons. For the staff, however, not so much. The number of parts in each puzzle creates problems when the puzzles are checked out and again when they are checked in. “It’s a nightmare,” said Principal Library Clerk David Richy. Read More Read More

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News system is strong, New York Times says

News system is strong, New York Times says

A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, sought to allay fears that a run on news items might leave the paper without anything fit to print. “The state of the news industry is strong,” he said. “If you go to the paper, you will be able to withdraw all the news you want, subject to limits imposed by your prescription package of course.” Read More Read More

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Donation helps visually impaired

Donation helps visually impaired

If you, or someone you know, needs help reading fine print, or any other sized print for that matter, a recent donation may help. The Merlin Elite Pro HD/OCR reader is an amazing piece of machinery. It can magnify whatever you want to read up to 73x, but it can also read it to you. Not only that, the device has a library of languages. If the document is in Magyar, for example, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) will read it to you in Magyar. It won’t translate it though. The machine is good, but not that good.Read More Read More

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We Checked our Inter-Library Mail and Found Covid Tests!

We Checked our Inter-Library Mail and Found Covid Tests!

Every day, the library gets a shipment of holds or returns from the Westchester Library System which contains 200+ books or other library-oriented materials. Today, however, we were delighted to find that WLS had also sent us 200+ Covid test kits! If you need to grab a test, please stop by the Circulation Desk on the main floor. Also, it is important to note that the expiration date printed on this batch of tests (lot CP22B05) is October of 2022. The FDA has extended this expiration date through April of 2023.Read More Read More

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Welcome to our new web page! Now go read the paper

Welcome to our new web page! Now go read the paper

Before you go exploring the new web page, check out the New York Times. Now, courtesy of the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library, you can read the entire paper (well, except for puzzles and cooking) with a click of a button. Go to this web page, click on the “redeem” button, create a NYT account and start reading. Note that it won’t work if you already have a paid subscription. As for the new look of our site, we have more information at the “We’ve changed our look” postRead More Read More

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We’ve changed our look (and functionality)

We’ve changed our look (and functionality)

As you can see, the look of our webpage has changed. The primary purpose of the redesign is to make our webpage work better on phones and other mobile devices but it was also time to refresh the nine year old design. We encourage you to poke around and get a feel for the new page. Additional details are available at the New Web Page FAQ. Read More Read More

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Borrow a Chromebook and/or a Hotspot

Borrow a Chromebook and/or a Hotspot

These days many people rely solely on their phones and their cellular networks to do their online business. This creates problems if you have limited data or if you need to write something more complicated than an email or a text. One solution is to come to the Library to use our public internet computers.Now we have another option. Borrow a Chromebook and a mobile hotspot. We have two of each. You can check them out for three weeks. See the Librarian at the Information Desk. While we don’t have a printer to lend you, you can send print jobs to the Library using our Remote and Mobile Printing service.Read More Read More

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