Special Spotlight
Weiss Ratings
Weiss Ratings is a great source for accurate ratings that you can rely upon to make sound, informed financial decisions. They do not accept compensation from the companies they rate. Nor do they give the companies an opportunity to preview the ratings or suppress their publication if they're unfavorable.
The books in this series cover stock investing, common stocks, stock mutual funds, bond and market mutual funds, property & casualty insurers, banks and thrifts, life-health & annuity insurers, and HMO’s & health insurance. The library receives updated copies of this series on a quarterly basis. Be sure to come to the library and take advantage of what this series has to offer when you want to make an important financial decision!
Learning Express Library
For those of you who may not be aware of it, the library subscribes to a database called “Learning Express Library.” This database provides a wonderful opportunity to practice, via online tests, many of the academic tests you or your children may have to take for employment or school purposes.
Learning Express Library offers a variety of tests under such headings as Academic, Advance Placement, Basic Skills, Civil Service, College Entrance Exams, Cosmetology, EMS, Firefighter, GED, Graduate School Entrance Exams, Law Enforcement, Military, Nurse’s Aide, Real Estate, Teacher Certification, Technical & Career College, U.S. Citizenship and Toefl.
You can access this database on our public access computers at the library or at home. To access the database, go to the library web site at www.gwllibrary.org and click on Library Catalog. Once in the Catalog, select the Research Databases tab. Select the Students tab, scroll down and select Learnatest. This will bring you to the Learning Express Library site, where you will click the New User button (after you have used it once, you would click the Returning User button), enter your library bar code (on the back of your library card) as your ID, and make up a password. Once this is done, you are ready to use the database. The database will save the results of all the tests you take and you can take tests in portions to continue them at different times.
We sincerely hope that you will take advantage of all this database has to offer you and your family!
NetLibrary: Downloadable Audio Books
Downloadable Audiobooks from NetLibrary and Recorded Books are digital versions of the latest best sellers, book club favorites, award winning authors and more that you can download and listen to on your computer or portable listening device. You can access your library’s eContent 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To access NetLibrary, you must first come to Greenwood Lake Library and set up your user ID and password on one of the library’s public access computers. You must have a Greenwood Lake Public Library card. Once this has been done, you can access your library account from any computer. Of special note, books that are downloaded can only be reopened on the original computer on which they were downloaded. So, if you want to read the book on your home computer, do not download it on ours. Also, if you do intend to use the library computers for reading, be sure to make a note as to which computer number you downloaded your item(s) on, and be aware that we do restrict such usage to an hour.
To browse for books and download, simply go to www.netlibrary.com, and log in with your user ID and password. AudioBooks are checked out for 21 days and will self-erase from your computer or portable device. Any questions you have about what portable devices can be used and what computer requirements are necessary can be answered in the Help section of the NetLibrary web site.
