Didi's Blog

Michigan Legal Forms

Didi — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:43:08 +0000

Michigan Legal Forms, accessible from CPL’s database page, offers an array of legal forms at your fingertips. You can browse the categories, such as Wills & Estates, Power of Attorney, and Landlord Tenant. You can also search for your form in the search box. All forms are officially approved. Michigan specific forms are clearly indicated. Forms are available in Microsoft Word and/or Rich text.

Enjoy eBooks & eAudiobooks

Didi — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:54:09 +0000

Access anytime, anywhere our large collection of eBooks and eAudiobooks from our website. Your Canton Public Library card is your key to gaining access to the latest best selling authors and titles. Don't forget to log in before you start searching.

Easy checkout
24/7 access
Automatic return; no late fees
Holds can be placed if book is checked out
Read/listen on computer or compatible device

Zinio Digital Magazines

Didi — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:49:01 +0000

Check out the new Zinio Digital Magazines. This online collection features:

Full cover to cover editions
Always available--new issues
Multi-access
No due dates, and no returns
View online on any computer or mobile device

Ask at the Help Desk for more information, or download this handy tip sheet, or check out the site by clicking from our home page. You must enter your CPL card number in order to access.

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See Book, Read Book!

Didi — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:32:10 +0000

OverDrive Read lets you do just that. iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android users can now borrow a supported title, click the Read button to open the book in a new tab to read. No download is necessary. It's that simple. Find out more from the Help Site. You can also check device compatibility.

Our Next Generation eBook Site

Didi — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:55:59 +0000

Today our eBook website has a new look and new functionalities. There is even a name for it--The Next Generation. See all the new, exciting features, and especially the new format OverDrive Read that allows you to checkout and read in your browser.

Good Art Listens

Didi — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:43:58 +0000

On March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 5 drawings by Degas were among the missing. B.A. Shapiro draws from this fact for her novel--The Art Forger. In this brilliantly plotted art world thriller, Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn into the world of art forgery when she duplicates a missing Degas heisted from the Gardner museum. Expertly read by Xe Sands, this book makes for 10 hours of pleasurable listening. If you are hooked by the art reproduction process, try The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould. This non-fiction title is read by James Langton .<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks

Didi — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:57:29 +0000

Enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks from the Library's collection. You can access anytime, anywhere with your Canton Public Library card number.

Easy checkout
24/7 access
Automatic return; no late fees
Holds can be placed if book is check out
Read/listen on computer or compatible device

AP Images Database

Didi — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:08:53 +0000

Want to jazz up your school report with images? Want to add photos to your PowerPoint presentation? You will find plenty of photos documentating current news, sporting events and people in our AP Images database. It contains photos from the Associated Press from the 1840s till now.
Photo courtesy of AP Images--Pope Benedict XVI on Ash Wednesday

Year 2012 Top Audiobook Picks

Didi — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:42:09 +0000

Fiction

Broken Harbor by Tana French

Carry the one by Carol Anshaw

The dry grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew

The forgotten waltz by Anne Enright

The Gilly salt sisters by Tiffany Baker

Gone girl by Gillian Flynn

A grown-up kind of pretty by Joshilyn Jackson

A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller

The night circus by Erin Morgenstern

The red house by Mark Haddon

Sacré bleu: a comedy d'art by Christopher Moore

Non-Fiction

Does this church make me look fat? by Rhoda Janzen

Elizabeth the Queen: the life of a modern monarch by Sally Bedell Smith

Let's pretend this never happened: (a mostly true memoir) by Jenny Lawson

Lots of candles, plenty of cake by Anna Quindlen

Yes, chef: a memoir by Marcus Samuelsson

How to download library eBooks on your Kindle

Didi — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:00:00 +0000

The Canton Public Library offers current bestsellers as well as older fiction and non-fiction titles in the Kindle format. Join us to find out how to borrow these free eBooks from the library and read them on your Kindle, or Kindle apps. Remember to bring your Amazon account information (account email and password) if you wish to try to download a title during or after class.

Date: January 16, 2013
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Location: I-Lab
Registration required

Free Music Download of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

Didi — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:10:04 +0000

What can be more befitting the Christmas season than Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker ballet! This week we offer free download of "Shchelkunchik [The Nutcracker], Op. 71" from our Classical Music Library. Based on a Christmas story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the ballet was first produced on December 18, 1892, and has since become a traditional Christmas favorite for the whole family.

Every two weeks, you can download a free piece of music, courtesy of Alexander Street Press. Find the link from our Databases page and you can sign up for future notices.

Christmas Listens with a Criminal Twist

Didi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:24:19 +0000

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross [sound recording] by James Patterson

Twelve drummers drumming [sound recording]: a mystery by C.C. Benison

A Christmas garland [sound recording]: a novel by Anne Perry

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows [sound recording] by Alan Bradley

Christmas at Timberwoods [sound recording] by Fern Michaels

Busy body [sound recording]: an Agatha Raisin mystery by M.C. Beaton

Christmas mourning [sound recording] by Margaret Maron

Gingerbread cookie murder [sound recording] by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier

Plum pudding murder [sound recording] by Joanne Fluke

Heart-warming Christmas Listens

Didi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:30:44 +0000

1225 Christmas Tree Lane [sound recording] by Debbie Macomber

A fool's gold Christmas [sound recording] by Susan Mallery

An O'Brien family Christmas [sound recording] by Sherryl Woods

The Christmas wedding [sound recording] by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo

Angels at the table [sound recording]: a Shirley, Goodness and Mercy Christmas story by Debbie Macomber

A plain & fancy Christmas [sound recording]: a novel by Cynthia Keller

The Christmas singing [sound recording] by Cindy Woodsmall

The memory quilt [sound recording]: a Christmas story for our times by T.D. Jakes

Comfort & joy [electronic resource] by India Knight

A Christmas carol [sound recording] by Charles Dickens

Nobel Winner Mo Yan 莫言

Didi — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:15:02 +0000

Chinese writer Mo Yan 莫言, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, set much of his fiction in his home province Shandong, China. His books touch on many of contemporary China’s most sensitive themes, including the Cultural Revolution and the country's strict family-planning policies. The award citation states that "Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition." CPL has many of his works in Chinese, a couple in English translations, as well as a DVD of his Red Sorghum.

OverDrive Media Console App for newer NOOKs

Didi — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:35:31 +0000

This new app is for NOOK color, NOOK Tablet, NOOK HD, and NOOK HD+ with Wi-Fi access. Users can visit the NOOK Apps storefront to install the free OverDrive Media Console app. The app enables users to locate their home library, browse or search for eBooks and MP3 audiobooks, and, after entering a valid library card, check out and download the title directly on their device. We have detailed instructions available on the Library's Help Desk if you need them. Older NOOKs can continue with the sideloading method to download books.