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New Online resources at Lincoln Library
Lincoln Library cardholders now have access to online magazines through Gale General OneFile and Kids InfoBits. Also available are several special Infotrac collections such as Health Reference Center Academic and Expanded Academic ASAP. See the list of available Gale databases.
General OneFile includes:
- More than 7,100 full-text periodicals, and hundreds of newspapers.
- More than 500 travel guides, including Fodor's titles.
- The full collection of National Public Radio programs from 1990 to the present.
- Full-text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present, updated daily.
Kids InfoBits has an engaging, graphic interface, and includes:
- Reference books
- Magazines
- Maps, Flags and Seals
- Charts, Graphs, and Images
Gale iPhone App
Also, iPhone users may access the Gale databases with the AccessMyLibrary Public app:
Online Newsletters
BookNews offers access to free electronic newsletters on a variety of subjects. Readers can peruse the monthly newsletters online or choose to receive them via email. Based on genres, age, format and prize-winners, the lists include reviews, descriptions and author commentaries. Links within the newsletters take subscribers directly to the online catalog so they can easily see if a title is available at Lincoln Library. Click below to sign up.
Used Book Donations
Thank you for your donations of gently used books. They not only help make the Friends' Book Sales a success, they often enrich the library collection.
The library accepts donations of good, used books year-round. There is a donation bin in the lobby. Please remember when making donations, we cannot accept the following items: textbooks, encyclopedias, magazines over one year old, water-damaged books, moldy or dirty books.
When we receive unsuitable items, it actually costs the library money in the time taken to sort through the books and the expense to discard them.
Please be considerate, when donating. If you aren't sure about your items, please give us a call at 753-4900, ext. 202.
If you know the library will not accept your items, there are other options, including recycling. More information is available in this brochure by the City of Springfield's Division of Waste & Recycling.
Free Computer Classes
Each month Lincoln Library offers the public free, hands-on computer classes. The workshops cover a variety of topics -- Email, Excel Intro, Getting to Know Your Computer, Graphics with Microsoft Word, Internet Intro, Internet Searching, Photo Editing with Freeware, Power Point Intro, Tables Lables & Mail Merge with Microsoft Word, Windows and Word Processing.
To view descriptions and information on registering to attend, click below.