The front door of the main branch will be closed on Tuesday, February 7th from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm as we complete a renovation project.  Please enter and exit the building using the children’s room entrance on the Concord Street side of the building.  Thank you for your cooperation and your patience as we work to maintian this beautiful, historic building.

On May 11th, from 2:30 to 4:00 PM, there will be an introduction class to the basic contents and workings of these two databases. During this class, some other public on-line genealogy databases will be talked about. The class will take place in the Winchell Room at Manchester City Library.

Laptops will be provided during the class to use in the searching the databases.

There are a limited amount of seats available; therefore you must register ahead of time for the class. You may register for the class by using the calendar of events or contacting the Information Desk at 624-6550 ext. 320.

Point of contact is Eileen A. Reddy for additional information. She can be reached at ereddy@manchesternh.gov or a 624-6550 ext. 320 (Information Desk).

Pandora: http://www.pandora.com
Free music! The Music Genome Project created by a group of musicians and technology minded music lovers to share music with the world. Pandora allows sampling of music you might not have not heard before and have always wanted to listen to.

Skype: http://www.skype.com
Skype is useful for making calls from your computer. Free to other people also on Skype and cheap to landlines and cell phones around the world.

Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains applications you need, like a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and more.

Twitter: http://twitter.com
“What are you doing?” Great for microblogging and keeping up with friends, family and groups of people (like a library). Twitter is now a feature of our new website. Follow our happenings at the library using twitter

Googledocs: http://docs.google.com/
With googledocs you can create and share work online. Upload and save to your desktop, edit anytime from anywhere you happen to be!

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Firefox is billed as “the browser that has it all.” An alternative to other web browsers-it is speedy and secure.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
Flickr is the tool we are using to help create our new library website and the 365 Days of the Library photo project we are working on this year. Photos can be uploaded, organized, stored and shared for free.

Open Office: http://www.openoffice.org
A software suite for word processing, spreadsheets,graphics, databases and more. It stores data in an international open standard format and can read and write files from other common software packages.

WordPress: http://wordpress.com
Wordpress is a publishing platform focusing on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. This blog is created using wordpress!

Meebo: http://www.meebo.com
Instant messaging everywhere!

Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us
This is a social bookmarking site. Store your bookmarks online so you don’t lose them when you computer starts acting up and goes wonky on you. Del.icio.us also lets you see what websites your friends or colleagues are looking at or working with online. A new way to gather and store information.

Survey Monkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com
SurveyMonkey enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. It’s free if you ask fewer than ten questions. This is the survey software we used to conduct out latest library survey.

Drupal: http://drupal.org
Drupal is a web content management system.

So check out these resources and as always, if you have any questions please come in, call, or e-mail us with your questions. We’d be glad to help you.

See you at the library!