Pember Library

We have the ability to generate overdue notices, hold notices and ‘almost due’ notices by email.

If you would like to get this service, please give your current email address at the circulation desk next time you check out and we will set this up for you. Hold notices are generated overnight and will be delivered to your email by morning. ‘Almost due’ notices come three days before your item is due. Overdue notices are sent when your item is two weeks past due.

…that you can see a list of new items we have added to the Pember Library’s collection by going to the catalog link and clicking on the arrow near ‘New Stuff’ at the bottom of the left column…
Your choices are Fiction, Nonfiction, Children’s Books, or Videos/DVD.
There is a link to New Stuff in the left column on this page that will get you there also.

You can choose to subscribe to ‘New Stuff’ in RSS Reader if you use one.

In light of the ever growing unemployment numbers, the Southern Adirondack Library System created a resource to help us guide patrons who come into the library looking for job and resume assistance. The following information was compiled by the Southern Adirondack Library System in March 2009.

The New York State Library Division of Library Development has a great site devoted to information about what public libraries are doing to help job seekers; their webpage also has links to many helpful resources. The Saratoga-Washington-Warren Counties Workforce System has an excellent online resource for job seekers. The site includes information on how to access their regional, statewide and national job listings; a list of job search websites; job fair locations; civil service jobs and much more. This is a very comprehensive resource for job counseling.

You may also need help writing resumes and cover letters. For quick online reference, check out Job Star Central. Another great resource to help with resume writing is SeekingSuccess.com; this site has a nice section devoted to resume wording. Additionally, SALS compiled a resume writing packet. We will have a printout of this near the library computers.

For additional help with these resources, please ask at the library desk.

If you are 50 or older and would like to learn how to use a computer or improve the skills you have, now is the time to join us for a couple of lessons – no pressure, relaxed atmosphere, and hopefully, some enjoyment.

Each three-hour class will be divided between Monday & Friday from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. The two-part beginner class, intended for those who have never used a computer, will be held on Monday, March 30 and Friday, April 3.

For those with some experience, the classes are scheduled as follows:

April 6 and 10: E-mail and Internet
April 20 and 24: Word Processing
April 27 and May 1: Files and Folders
May 4 and 8: Graphics
May 18 and 22:  Library Card Catalog (<-date has changed->)

All sessions are from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.  As registration is required, please call the library at 642-2525 to register for any or all of the sessions.  All sessions are FREE, thanks to funding from Washington County Home for Aged Women.

Netlibrary, the current downloadable audiobook vendor for the Southern Adirondack Library System, will end at midnight of February 28, 2009. The link has been removed from the Pember Library’s website so if you click on “eAudiobooks” nothing will happen.

Why is this being done? It was decided at the SALS directors’ meeting to try a different vendor for the downloadable product. The new vendor is Overdrive.

Because this is a new product for our system and libraries, there are technical, training and selection steps that must be taken in order to have the product working for our public. This means there will be a lag in service between the end of Netlibrary and the start of Overdrive.

We hope to have information available soon on how to access and use Overdrive. In the meantime, be sure to check out our collection of audiobooks on cassette and cd. They are located in the aisle behind the circulation desk.