My Library Rewards Follow-up

AUGUST 2020 UPDATE:  My Library Rewards was discontinued on August 31, 2020.

 

Those Books Just Won't Sit Still

I recently blogged about our new Wowbrary email newsletter.  If you sign-up, you'll know about our latest books, movies, and music before most other folks.  That means you can place holds on them (the items, not the folks) early, so you'll be able to check-out stuff sooner.  After all, those books (and other materials) won't just sit quietly on the shelves waiting for you to meander into the stacks.  Our promo trailer elaborates.

Wowbrary Promo Trailer, by MPL

See what I mean?  Better sign-up for Wowbrary newsletters (click the logo below) and then grab those books before they waltz right out of here.

So Click It Already!

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Here's some of our latest items to check-out.  Click the book covers (below) to jump to our Evergreen Indiana online catalog.

Forma Dat Esse

Form gives being, so says the Latin legal maxim (forma dat esse).  (You can look it up [see my postscript].)  That's true, for example, when a statute requires a contract to be in a particular form to be enforceable [District of Columbia v. Bailey, 171 U.S. 161 (1898)]. There's a reason lawyers are such sticklers for particular language in legal documents. Poorly phrased legal instruments may end up worth less than the paper they used to be printed upon.

This is why you should always consult attorneys when you have a legal quandary involving any significant sums of money.  Of course, that can be expensive.  What about finding your own legal forms online?  Most websites charge a bundle to download them.  But, now, finally, my Library lends a paw to help folks who need free downloadable, editable legal forms.

Gale Indiana Legal Forms Database

Use your MPL-issued Evergreen Indiana library card number to log-in, and then browse the hundreds of Indiana-specific legal forms available to download and fill-in.  The database covers many areas of the law--powers of attorney, wills, trusts, contracts, divorce, bankruptcy, real estate, incorporation, name change, landlord/tenant, affidavits--you name it, there's probably a legal form here somewhere.  Plus, there are many sample letters you can adapt to your own purposes.  This is the best legal forms database available at my Library.  Okay, it's the only one available, but, still.  Hey, free is good.

Scowl-Face says you should still consult an attorney concerning your legal matters.  He has to say that.  He says I do, too.  Also, that I'm not providing legal advice in this blog.  Just saying.

Take a peek at these legal forms.  The right words make all the difference in court.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Blacks Law Dictionary 586 (West 5th ed., 1979); District of Columbia v. Bailey, 171 U.S. 161 (1898).

What's All the Hoopla?

What's all the hoopla about this new database subscription my Library has undertaken?

 

Oh.

'Nuff said.  Pretty much.

Seriously, what does this Hoopla do, exactly?  There's a video for that.

"Librarian's Life: A Day With Hoopla," by Hoopla Digital

Now, that's how to make a good promo trailer.  Scowl-Face, take note.

Simply log-in using your MPL-issued Evergreen Indiana library card number and start streaming or downloading movies, TV shows, music albums, and more.  When does the fun begin?  Our subscription starts in March, 2015.  So does Spring. Coincidence?  Read the book.

All jokes aside, Hoopla promises to be a wonderful database for our patrons.  I can't wait to use it!  Well, have my minions use it for moi.  Same thing, really.

Stay tuned to our website for further developments.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Starship released its album Knee Deep in the Hoopla (1985), from which the hit single, "We Built This City," was taken.  Eighties glam-rock.  Grab a synthesizer and join-in.

Our 2014 Cauli-cott Medal Winner

Congratulations (or, should I say, concatulations) to local writer/illustrator Jeff Terry, recipient of the 2014 Cauli-cott Medal for best illustrated children’s work by a Morgan County, Indiana author/artist.  Jeff's children’s picture book, Reef Cuttlefish, the first title in the author’s Predators Underwater series, earned him this coveted honor.

Reef Cuttlefish and several other delightful books by Jeff are available to checkout from our Evergreen Indiana online catalog.  It's also available to purchase from Amazon.com.

Click Images to Bigify

Now Available to Checkout From

Our Evergreen Indiana Online Catalog

Jeff's on a roll.  He also received our 2013 Cauli-cott Award, as we discussed in a previous blog post.

Great job, Jeff!  Your books are wonderfully illustrated and are engaging reading (or reading aloud to youngsters).  Reef Cuttlefish is a welcome addition to our juvenile nonfiction collection.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Sparkle the Designer Cat (2002-2014) coined the term concatulations, as used, for example, in this blog post by Summer Samba.