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LIBRARY HOURS: SAVE A TRIP!
Monday - Thursday Working past midnight? Need to meet a deadline before the Library opens?
9:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Now you can research from anywhere with *new* remote access to premium library
Friday & Saturday databases! All you need is your library card number and this website:
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.oak-brook.lib.iLus/resources/databases/
Sunday Find everything from product reviews to medical information as well as thousands of
articles for student projects. ,
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Available now:
{ Closed on Sundays through Britannica Online - Articles from Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclope-
dia Et Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia plus Merriam-Webster dictionary andh
thesaurus
Labor Day weekend.
-- — FirstSearch - Includes ArticleFirst, ABI_INFORM (business), ERIC (education), GPO
Name the New Cafe (government), MEDLINE (medical), and more
76 open.early September NoveList - Find a good book, this is your guide to fiction for adults or children46
The Library is excited to intro- i PDR Physician's Desk Reference - prescription drug information
duce the newest perk to visiting
-a café. We are looking for ProQuest - Access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated
help to give the new coffee and snack daily and containing full-text articles from 1986. General research and specialized
bar a fitting and catchy name.The per- disciplines.
son who supplies the winning name will Public Records: Chicago Area - Five years of data on foreclosures, bankruptcies, new
get a prize: a covered mug and week's homeowners and new businesses. Covers counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake,
supply of cups of coffee. Your entries McHenry, and Will
will be accepted at any of the service
I desks. Thanks and good luck! j SIRS - Full-text articles on social issues from newspapers and periodicals for students in
**Non-alcoholic beverages may be grades 6-12
brought into the Library but must be in a Wilson Biographies - More than 72,000 biographical profiles and 26,000 images with hot
covered cup. ** links to full text articles from over 4,000 periodicals
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ration. This will occur on the 18th- — — Summer Reading Program
20th and will allow patrons to see COLLECTION a- , j reading logs by August 7th!
the circulation desk, the children's
desk and the adult reference desk DEVELOPMENTS _,x ' ,�,,,J LI .... .,
all at the same time. There will bek. ! —
some inconvenience due to the We have been offered 100 FREE B1" r eCor
move on the first two days. Friday, CDs by the DuPage Library System, to be
the 20th, the Library will be closed so selected by our staff. This is the result of a rh o to ora•pairovg awl the
that all the Staff may learn more class-action lawsuit over price-fixing by five
about our new intranet and cus- major record labels and three large music cgoliemeui otter lsle,b'azamcr
tomer service initiatives. We are i retailers. The companies agreed to give CDs leadiiigProgram,For Mlle Par s
very grateful to the Friends of Li- to nonprofit groups and to refund millions of ,brine ever, more ihso 10,000
brary for again providing the funds dollars to consumers who purchased CDs
for the move and to our patrons for 4. from 1995 to 2000. A list of CDs we 1hCIB$Were ohected out during
their indulgence during the move. `° ° receive will be available in October. i e mown of Jane.
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