Talk Like a Pirate Day-Arrr!

Ahoy! September 19th is the official Talk Like a Pirate Day.  If you want to learn how to speak pirate, Mango Languages offers a free Pirate Language Course.  If you like learning Pirate, you may be interested in other languages that Mango offers:

• Arabic (Levantine)
• Chinese (Cantonese)
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dari
• Dutch
• Farsi (Persian)
• Finnish
• French
• French (Canadian)
• German
• Greek
• Greek (Ancient)

• Greek (Koine)
• Haitian Creole
• Hawaiian
• Hebrew
• Biblical Hebrew
• Hindi
• Icelandic
• Indonesian
• Irish
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latin
• Norwegian
• Pashto

• Pirate
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

  These courses are available for free with your Niles Public Library card.

Smart Solution$ at the Niles Public Library

Smart Solution$ Display
Stop by our new display (3^rd floor) on smart money management.  Find resources to help you take control of and safeguard your money.
-Browse personal finance books.
-Pick up free brochures on scams, credit and debt, budgeting basics, and savings and investing.
-Read the FINRA Investor Education Fact sheets.
-Take a Financial Knowledge test or Identity Theft quiz.
- Search the Smart Solution$ site for links to consumer protection tips and tools.

ESL Club at the Niles Public Library

New English speakers are invited to join this conversation club to practice speaking English. Meet people from all over the world to share personal stories and discuss current events and other topics chosen by the group. For more information contact Darlene at 847-663-6433.

Thurs., Sept. 13, 3-4:30pm

Tues., Sept. 18, 7-8:30pm

Smart Solution$ Kick-off Breakfast: To Your Credit

July 19: Smart Solution$ Kick-off Breakfast and Program: To Your Credit. Enjoy a continental breakfast while learning about our new Smart Solution$ initiative—one-stop shopping for unbiased financial and investor information. While topics are targeted to the consumer aged 50 and better, all are welcome. At this program, learn the purpose of a credit report and how it is used, how to order a free copy, and read and dispute errors. Speaker is an educator with the Consumer and Family Economics Division, Univ. of Illinois Extension Services. To register, go to http://www.nileslibrary.org/calendar.

Job Seekers and ReferenceUSA

Job Seekers: Looking for postings? Check out ReferenceUSA—an internet–based service with information about U.S. businesses that includes jobs openings. Find one or more companies by location, keyword, industry, etc. and open the detailed profile to find open positions for that business. These postings  link to indeed.com for fast application. Use also to find information prior to an interview or create and download custom lists of potential employers.
 
Online access is easy—all you need is your Niles Library card!   At http://www.nileslibrary.org/, choose Virtual library, then select Business and People Directories. No card is needed to access this resource in person at the Library.

We Have eBooks!

A new study, Libraries, Patrons, and e-books done by the Pew Research Center found that many Americans do not know that libraries have eBooks.  They found that 62% of the people asked didn't know that eBooks may be borrowed from libraries and only 12% of readers borrowed an eBook from the library in the last year. 

You can check out eBooks from home with your Niles Public Library card through My Media Mall. The eBooks are compatible with the Sony Reader, Nook, Kindle, iPad, and many other eReaders and tablets available.

There are also apps available for many mobile devices:
Android via Google Play
iPhone/iPad via iTunes
Windows Phone
Blackberry via Blackberry App World

If you need individual help with checking out eBooks from the library, submit the eBook Help Form and we will contact you to make an appointment.

Facebook e-mail address changes

Facebook has changed users e-mail addresses to @facebook.com.  If you would like to change it back to your email address, Cnet has instructions.