The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will update this interim guidance as needed and as additional information becomes available. This web page includes recommended strategies for employers to use now and important considerations for creating an infectious disease outbreak response plan.
Month: March 2020
Start your genealogy research at home
You can research your family history from home with these helpful library resources:
Access Heritage Quest Online, free with your library card.
Click here or visit chescolibraries.org, select Tools and Research from the menu bar and click on All CCLS Databases to locate Heritage Quest Online. Sign in with your library card.
Family Tree Magazine on Flipster
View this current issue and past issues of Family Tree Magazine through 2015 online.
Click here or visit chescolibraries.org, select Downloads from the menu bar and scroll down to click on Flipster and sign in with your library card.
General OneFile (POWER Library)
Our GALE General OneFile through POWER Library has millions of articles available in PDF and HTML full-text, supplemented by reference, newspaper, and audio content. Find relevant articles and periodicals by entering “genealogy” in the Search bar.
Click here or visit chescolibraries.org, select Tools and Research from the menu bar and click on All CCLS Databases to locate General OneFile and sign in with your library card.
Genealogy searches from home – a great way to learn your family history!
Local agencies can help with food, rent, counseling
Contact the United Way of Chester County: https://www.unitedwaychestercounty.org/ or 610-429-9400.
Or, please contact the Brandywine Health Foundation: https://brandywinefoundation.org/ or 610-380-9080.
Library Update March 26
Welcome to Stay Connected with Chescolibraries. The Libraries are closed until April 13. Please do not return library materials at this time. All due dates have been extended to April 15, and current overdue materials will not continue to accrue fines until we reopen. For help with your library account, please visit our Contact Us page. For help with OverDrive, please visit our OverDrive Help page.
Kids’ Update: Everyday Mysteries
Why do camels have humps? Is it true no two snowflakes are the same? Browse questions or ask a question of your own. EveryDay Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress.
Guji Guji is a story of mistaken egg-dentity! Enjoy!
The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.
Job and career websites
Looking for help you can access from home to develop your career or maximize your job search? We’ve curated a list of websites for you! From career management to resume writing to interviewing tips to job and salary profiles, we’ve got you covered.
Simultaneous Use Classic eBooks
Are there some classics that you have been meaning to read or reread? We now have a Duke Classics Simultaneous Use eBook collection! These books are available without holds, so spend some time with Sherlock Holmes, Elizabeth Bennet, Tom Sawyer, Jo March, or other timeless characters.
These books can be accessed from our OverDrive website or the Libby app.
Jennifer Weiner Hosts Book Club on Facebook
Where are our realistic women’s fiction/chick lit/relationship fiction/beach readers?! Whatever you want to call the genre, we know it is one that is heavily read and loved by our patrons. One of the genre’s flagship authors, Jennifer Weiner, is hosting a live Backlist Book Club of her work, beginning tonight, Wednesday, March 25th at 7:30 p.m. on her Facebook page. You can find a complete list of her work here.
Kids’ Update: If I Ran for President
You already know that we’re going to have a Presidential Election in November. What better time to learn more about all our Presidents. Click here to learn about every one — Presidents of the United States. Once you’ve read about all your favorite Presidents, learn about where they live — The White House.
Have you ever thought about running for President when you grow up? Here’s a story about doing just that! If I Ran for President.
The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.
Author Talk with Emily St. John Mandel (Author of “Station Eleven”)
Looking for something to do on Thursday night (March 26)? Why not tune into an author talk with Emily St. John Mandel where she will be discussing her new book, The Glass Elevator, and answering online audience questions. This event is hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia.
To register for this event, click here.
In conversation with Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including Going Over, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, and most recently The Great Upending.
A finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling Station 11 vacillates in time between the world that we know and the dystopic travails of a Shakespearean acting troupe in the years following a global plague. Her other novels include Last Night in Montreal, The Lola Quartet, and The Singer’s Gun, winner of the 2014 Prix Mystère de la Critique in France. She is a staff writer for art and culture magazine The Millions. In The Glass Hotel, Mandel tells a tale of a gargantuan Ponzi scheme, cryptic threats, and the clandestine landscapes that exist just below the veneer of ordinary life.
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