Technology « McDonald County Library

Spotlight on: ‘Wowbrary’ – for New Releases

You can find all the newest Books & Videos just released at our library each week with Wowbrary! Wowbrary is a service that shows you our newest additions via free weekly emails, Facebook posts, and/or new book lists online linked from our library website. Wowbrary serves as an online version of our new-book shelf, but one [...] [...]

Featured Freeware: CDBurnerXP

Looking for a better way to burn your CD’s and DVD’s? Try CDBurnerXP! While it may not look as fancy as some similar programs, what it lacks in bells & whistles, it makes up for in simplicity, performance, and features. CDBurnerXP version 4.3.8 CDBurnerXP is a completely free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including [...] [...]

Featured Freeware: OpenOffice

It has been awhile since we’ve had a Featured Freeware program, so let’s make this one a biggie… After a recent experience dealing with M$ Office (that $280-$500 proprietary software suite) we are particularly happy to offer you a COMPLETELY FREE alternative: OpenOffice.org version 3.3 OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, [...] [...]

Spotlight on: Accessing Your Account Online

No matter if you are snowed in at home, or traveling on the road, your Internet access allows you to easily access the library! See All the Items that are checked out on your account. Renew Items that are due soon. Reserve Items that is currently checked out. When the item is available we will notify you. Add an [...] [...]

Spotlight On: GALE PowerSearch

Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing our libraries with a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information. Gale PowerSearch helps researchers save time through a streamlined common user interface that can be customized to match your skill [...] [...]

Featured Freeware: FrameSize 2

Once again we’re recommending one of our favorite FREE software programs, that you can download directly to your home PC or laptop! This week’s featured freeware program: FrameSize 2 If you or someone you know got one of those increasingly popular Digital Photo Frames for Christmas, you’ll love this week’s Featured Freeware… Those frames [...] [...]

Spotlight On: COLOR Laser Prints & Copies

The Pineville and Noel Libraries have excellent photo-quality COLOR Laser printers available for public use. And the Pineville Library has a very FAST COLOR COPIER that also produces excellent quality photo-copies and enlargements. These color printers & copiers are great for when you need a last-minute custom Christmas card, or family newsletter, or large copies of a [...] [...]

Featured Freeware: XnView photo browser

Once again we’re recommending one of our favorite FREE software programs, that you can download directly to your home PC or laptop! This week’s featured freeware program: XnView 1.97 XnView is a powerful image browser used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical & video files. With the amount of photos we generally take during [...] [...]

Featured Freeware: Firefox

Continuing our new feature: Once every week (or so), we’re recommending one (or more) of our favorite FREE software programs, that you can download directly to your home PC or laptop! This week’s featured freeware program: Firefox version 3.6 Update, March 2011: Firefox 4 is now available Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web [...] [...]

Spotlight On: Inter-Library Loan

If you need a particular book, or a book about an unusual subject, and we don’t have what you need here in McDonald county, we can borrow a book from another library for you! The service is called Inter-Library Loan (or just I.L.L. for short), and for a very small postage fee – usually around [...] [...]