Category: Adult Resources

Just added – new magazines on Flipster!

~ Book Club Mom ~ Leave a comment

We have more magazines to share with you on Flipster, for all your reading tastes and interests. From new children’s literary and activity magazines to fashion, wellness, bird watching and many special interest periodicals, here’s a quick run-down of what’s new:

Children’s

Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle

Health and Fitness

Bird Watching

Reading and Writing

Special Interests

Here’s how to get started. Click here to sign in to Flipster with your library card or visit chescolibraries.org, select Downloads and scroll down to Flipster to access these and nearly ninety additional informative, fun and interesting magazines.

And here’s a full list of what we’ve added:

    • Advocate
    • Archaeology
    • Ask
    • Audubon
    • Backyard Poultry
    • Bicycling
    • Bird Watcher’s Digest
    • Butternut
    • Color to stay Alive A Zombie Coloring & Activity Book
    • Consumer Reports Buying Guide
    • Cricket
    • Dogster
    • Dwell
    • Elle
    • Harper’s Bazaar
    • Harvard Health Letter
    • Harvard Women’s Health Watch
    • Health
    • Ladybug
    • Mystery Weekly
    • National Geographic Kids
    • Outside
    • Rachael Ray in Season
    • Ranger Rick
    • Spider
    • Town & Country
    • Under the Radar
    • Writer’s Digest

Which will you read first?

Chester County Masketeers

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Would you like to help our Chester County Community but not sure how?  Please check out the Chester County Masketeers. They need help with sewing masks, donating materials, sewing machines, donating time to pick up and deliver masks. This group of volunteers has made and donated thousands of masks in 3 weeks to our county’s essential workers and community organizations that are working hard to make a difference during these difficult times.

Chester County Masketeers

See what they’ve done in just 3 weeks!

You can also can check out their Facebook pages and discussion groups.

“Ambient Pleasures and More: 9 Sound Libraries To Whisk You Away”

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Image from the New York Public Library

Would you like some new sounds to transport you to a different location or time, or provide you with interesting or comforting background sounds to work or relax to?

Library Journal‘s recent article “Ambient Pleasures and More: 9 Sounds Libraries to Whisk You Away” connects you with options, including the New York Public Library‘s new album Missing Sounds of New York, sounds from various libraries (including University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries), sounds from nature, historical recordings, imagined sounds from Hogwarts Library, and more!

Build your skills with Cisco Networking Academy

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Take advantage of the Cisco Networking Academy! Available for free through Chester County Library, these online, self-paced courses will help you explore potential career pathways, develop technical mastery, and build critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed to succeed.

Get Connected: Learn how to use a computer, connect devices and access search, email, and social media. This is a self-paced, beginner level course.

Entrepreneurship: This course teaches business and financial skills, attitudes, and behaviors to help students develop an entrepreneurial mindset that can empower them to improve their lives.

Introduction to Cybersecurity: Learn how to protect yourself online and in social media while discovering careers in cybersecurity. This is a self-paced, beginner level course.

Cybersecurity Essentials: Develop an understanding of cybercrime, security principles, technologies, and procedures used to defend networks. This is a self-paced, intermediate level course.

Introduction to IoT (Internet of Things): Learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) and the digital transformation of business create new value and new job opportunities. This is a self-paced, beginner level course.

Introduction to Packet Tracer:  Learn the basics for using Cisco Packet Tracer to simulate network configurations. This is a self-paced, beginner level course.

Packet Tracer Mobile: Learn how to use the Cisco Packet Tracer Mobile software. This is a self-paced, hands-on course.

Take flight with these virtual rides

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Do you feel like taking flight during these stay-at-home times? If you love the feel that the freedom of the skies offers, take a look at these virtual rides. Experience the cockpits and controls of the earliest airplanes, ride over Manhattan in a helicopter and join a fighter jet crew over the Swiss Alps.

Virtual Cockpit Tours from EAA Aviation Museum

Experience NYC by Helicopter from youvisit.com

360° cockpit view | Fighter Jet | Patrouille Suisse | Virtual Reality

And here are some eBooks for you to enjoy after you land – available now!

Fight or Flight by Samantha Young

First Flight Around the World by Tim Grove

The Flight Girls by Noah Salazar (audiobook also available)

Hornet Flight by Ken Follett

Star Flight by Phyllis A. Whitney

Virtual English Conversation Groups

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We will resume holding English Conversation Groups virtually twice per month beginning the first week of May. Please join us to practice your English in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. Participation is free. Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom link for the meeting. Please register here for the first meeting on Wednesday, May 6th from 7:00-8:00PM.

A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.

Virtual Program: Introduction to Genealogy

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Please join us virtually on Thursday, May 14th, for Introduction to Genealogy with Ancestry Library Edition from 7:00-8:30PM. Take advantage of the Ancestry Library Edition database being available remotely until May 31st with this program.

Registration is required (you can register at the link above). A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.

Learn how to use the library database Ancestry.com for family research. Get genealogy searching tips, research guidance, & more. Genealogy researcher Mike Sheldon will demonstrate introductory methods used to research a family tree, using Ancestry – Library Edition and FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com – Library Edition can currently be accessed remotely through May 31st. A librarian will be available to answer questions about the database.

Resume Writing Workshop to resume virtually

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In conjunction with the United Way Financial Stability Center, Chester County Library will resume our monthly Resume Writing and the Job Search workshop in a virtual format starting May 12. This workshop reviews fundamentals of writing a resume: format, content, tips and tricks, required and optional sections, etc. We’ll review example resumes and discuss online and print resume resources.

For more information and to register, click here.

For more upcoming virtual programs, click here for Chester County Library’s calendar and here for the United Way’s calendar.