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New Travel and Country database you can access from home

We have added an exciting new database to our collection. It is called Global Road Warrior and it has great travel information as well as all the pictures and maps kids will need for their country reports. Next week they will be adding receipts to each country. Right now their map logo is in the middle of our homepage. Click on the blue "Global Road Warrior" lettering and it will take you to the login page. Use 83202 as your barcode login and give it a look see. We would be interested in your feedback in a week or so after Qwest brings back our DSL.

Last updated: August 19, 2008 - 1:28pm by portneuf

Donate old cell phones to sell for calling cards for soldiers overseas.

Turn old cell phones into prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops
stationed overseas. Each phone collected is worth 1 hour of prepaid
calling time. Phones can be brought to the front desk of the Portneuf
Library or left in the drop box. The library will ship the phones to a
recycler that will pay Cell Phones For Soldiers so they can purchase
the calling cards. The recycler is able to recondition nearly half the
phones for resale and reclaims the valuable metals from the rest. Last
year cell phone collections amounted to nearly 12 million minutes of

Last updated: March 28, 2008 - 10:50am by portneuf

List of MP3 players for Netlibrary

BEFORE you purchase a
player
check out the list
of tested players at:

http://support.oclc.org/Resolutions/TestedPlayers.pdf

Last updated: March 18, 2008 - 11:22am by portneuf

Tumblebooks needs latest Flash player

We have now completed updating all the TumbleBooks to the new manual with audio
feature.

Your great feedback has been very much appreciated!

As
we build new books and new features, we are using the latest Flash technology-
please note that you may want to download the latest version of flash from
www.adobe.com

We have had a few phone calls from schools noting that
they don't see the text as a book is playing- this can be remedied by
downloading the latest version of Flash.

Last updated: December 12, 2007 - 1:42pm by portneuf

New Audio Books Database

Last updated: October 18, 2007 - 12:44pm by portneuf