HOT PICKS

OUR MOST REQUESTED BOOKS

Fiction and Nonfiction

1. Turtles and Outlaws by Bill & Roger Klein
2. The Lost Symbol. Dan Brown
3. Alex Cross' Trial. James Patterson
4. Finger Lickin' Fifteen. Janet Evanovich
5. The Shack. William Young
6. Black Hills. Nora Roberts
7. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
8. Handle with Care. Picoult, Jodi
9. Just Take My Heart. Clark, Mary Higgins
10. Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
11. Liberty and Tyranny. Mark Levin
12. The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch
13. Below Zero. C.J. Box
14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Mary Ann Shaffer
15. Handle With Care. Jodi Picoult
16. Between Sundays. Karen Kingsbury
17. The 8th Confession. James Patterson
18. Long Lost. Harlan Coben
19. Loitering With Intent. Stuart Woods
20. Just Take My Heart. Mary Higgins Clark
21. Look Again. Lisa Scottoline
22. First Family. David Baldacci
23. Scarpetta. Patricia Cornwell
24. Extreme Measures. Vince Flynn
25. Shutter Island. Dennis Lehane

WONDERING WHAT TO READ NEXT?

1. What to read next?
2. Authors with their lists of books
3. Adult series and sequels
4. AR BookFinder
5. Juvenile Series and Sequels
6. KDL What's Next
7. Overbooked
8. YA Series and Sequels
9. Stop You're Killing Me
10. Allreaders.com
11. Readalikes
12. Fantastic Fiction Lists

ASK THE LIBRARIAN

Question: Did someone really discover a petrified man buried near old Forest City in Potter County, SD?

Answer: The story is told in Stanley Vestal's book THE MISSOURI. Briefly, the petrified man was a hoax concocted by bored locals who created a petrified body and buried it near Forest City. So successful was the hoax that the locals took the body to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, exhibiting it all along the way for a dollar a viewing. The hoax wasn't exposed until after the turn of the century when they repeated the stunt and tried to sell the next body. The buyer and his wife got into such a terrible fight over the purchase that the buyer murdered his wife and then killed himself.

Question: Where was Eales Post Office located?

Answer: On the border between Fayette and Appomattox townships.

24/7 From Your Home Computer

1. World Book Online now has audio. Click on the “read aloud” feature in the toolbox above the article you’ve selected. Then click in the article, and the article will be read to you. Text is highlighted as it is read, making it easy to follow along.

Access World Book online from the State Library homepage http://library.sd.gov/. Click on Online Resources for Library and School users for an alphabetical list. Call us at 765-9518 for login and password.


2. Learning Express, database of more than 300 practice exams, is provided free to citizens of South Dakota by the SD State Library.
Recently added practice exams:
●Electrician’s Licensing
Journeyman & Master Electrician
Tests NEC code knowledge
Tests general trade theory
●Plumber’s Licensing
Journeyman & Master Plumber
Tests UPC & IPC code knowledge
Tests essential trade theory
●Military Flight Aptitude
Pilot & Navigator
Practice tests based on content, format, and timing of the official Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT), Army Alternate Flight Aptitude Selection Test (AFAST), and (Navy’s Aviation Selection Test Battery (ASTB)
●Air Traffic Selection and Training (AT-SAT)
Air Traffic Controller
Practice tests based on the seven official cognitive AT-SAT tests:
Analogies, Angles, Applied, Math, Scan, Dial Reading, Letter Factory, and Air Traffic Scenarios
●ASVAB
● Commercial Driver License (CDL)
***** Note: you will need password information from us. Call 765-9518 or email pclibrary@venturecomm.net
Click: Learning Express Library
You may also click: printable handouts

If you have questions about Learning Express, please contact us at 765-9518.

Databases and Reference Sources

Databases / Reference Sources / South Dakota Newspaper Indexes

Magazines
ProQuest Research Library - request a barcode and password from the librarian
InfoTrac databases (Gale) - request a barcode and password from the librarian
Findarticles.com - A free online article-search service, accessing more than 300 reputable magazines and journals.

Ready Reference & Homework Help
SIRS Discoverer (ProQuest) - request a barcode and password from the librarian
SIRS Researcher (ProQuest) - request a barcode and password from the librarian.
Reference Sources - a selection of ready reference tools to use when you can't get into the library.
Education & Libraries - request a barcode and password from the librarian
World Book Advanced - encyclopedia - request barcode and password from librarian
Britannica Encyclopedia Online
Your Dictionary.com - grammars, dictionaries, and language links for a large number of languages, including English and Lakota.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Rhyming Dictionary
Crossword Puzzle Resources
Legal & Government:
Law Check
LexisNexsis - request a barcode and password from the librarian
South Dakota Grant Directory
Government - local, state, federal, and world government links.
SD Legislative Research Council
SD Birth Records
State of South Dakota
South Dakota LIVE (State Government)
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
The White House
Internal Revenue Service
IRS Forms

Health:
Gale Virtual Reference Library - request a barcode and password from the librarian
Highwire Press
MedlinePLUS
PubMed
Health & Medicine
National Library of Medicine

Genealogy & history:
HeritageQuest (ProQuest) - request a barcode and password from your librarian.
RootsWeb
Obituary search on RootsWeb
Index of Potter County, SD, obituaries 1883-2008 via email attachment
AncestryPlus (available only in the Library)
genealogical sites

News & E-Books
NewsBank Inc.(Sioux Falls Argus Leader and Aberdeen American News) - request a barcode and password from your local librarian.
NetLibrary (OCLC) - request a barcode and password from your local librarian.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - request a barcode and password from your local librarian.
The Paperboy - online newspapers from around the world.
News & Newspapers - request a barcode and password from your local librarian
Aberdeen American News
Argus Leader
Rapid City Journal
Watertown Public Opinion
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
USA Today
CNN Interactive
KDLT
KELO-LAND Television
KSFY Television


Practice Tests:
Learning Express - request a barcode and password from your librarian

Consumer Protection:
Consumer Information - product and purchasing information.

Science

Business
America's Job Bank
Thomas Register
Business & Investments - request a barcode and password from your librarian
Price It! -- Antiques and Collectibles

Grants
South Dakota Grant Directory
Grants Gov

People Finders and Phone Books
Internet 800 Directory
Switchboard
QwestDex
White Pages

Atlases
MapQuest
National Geographic
National Atlas of the United States of America

PRAIRIE READS & LOCAL HISTORY

BENDING THE TWIG a memoir by Kenneth Goetz. The story of a boy growing up on the Dakota Prairie (Potter and Sully Counties) during the Depression and World War II.

WHILE THE COYOTE HOWLS Written in 1933 by Alice McDonald Edmunds (Mrs. Andrew Edmunds) -- about her family and life in Potter County. Full text in 63 pages is available via email attachment. 63 pages. Request by emailing the library at pclibrary@venturecomm.net

BREAKING SOD ON THE PRAIRIES by Clarence Wilbur Taber. Historical fiction account of Taber's homesteading experience in Potter County. The World Book Company as part of their “In Pioneer Life Series” published it in 1924. Taber grew to adulthood in Potter County where he became a banker, married the daughter of one of Gettysburg's founders, and had three children. By 1900, Taber, dissatisfied with banking, moved his family to Minneapolis, but he never forgot South Dakota.While the BREAKING SOD book is invaluable to Potter County history, it is not the book for which Taber is best known. Long before BREAKING SOD was written, he wrote TABER'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY FOR NURSES. It was this book that brought him to the attention of the F.A. Davis Company where his dictionary was published as TABER'S CYCLOPEDIC MEDICAL DICTIONARY. It was an instant success, has become the standard for nurses, and is now in its 20th edition.Taber died in 1968. His portrait still hangs in the boardroom at the F.A. Davis Company in Philadelphia, PA. and the history of the company devotes an entire chapter to his life.

THE WORK OF WOLVES by Kent Meyers. SD fiction set in the Badlands. SD author. A four-star recommendation.

LeBEAU by Dale and Mary Lewis. True story of the once flourishing cattle town of LeBeau, South Dakota and the murder that ended its reign as railroad king. Its location between Gettysburg and Mobridge is now under the waters of Lake Oahe. Consultant for the book was Gettysburg rancher Clint Parker

Excerpt from THE BATTLE OF SHILOH by Samuel M. Howard, who lived through it. p 130 "Again I hear the roar and crash of guns, 'til the whole earth rocks beneath it. .... Again I see brave General Peabody wage the unequal strife of one small brigade against two corps of the enemy and fall dead from his horse just as the enemy swarms around both flanks of the Sixth Division ... The past rises before me when the ominous hour of 10 o'clock overtakes the combatants, when more than 80,000 men, with 300 great guns and 80,000 muskets, wage the deadliest great battle of all time; 'til more than 26,000 soldiers fall upon that fearful field, either killed or wounded, while everywhere the very flesh is quivering on the bones of both the living and the dead ... Again I see and hear the screaming and bursting of shells and the closing in of the dreadful circling walls of brimstone fire -- flash on flash, flash on flash, flash on flash ... Again I hear the heartrending appeals for help by the mangled and dying .... Again I see the whole Peach Orchard where General Albert Sidney Johnston fell, so thickly carpeted with dead that one can walk in any direction stepping on the bodies of the dead all the time, without a foot touching the ground."

LOCAL HISTORY

> 75 YEARS OF PROGRESS 1883-1958 : HOVEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
> 75th ANNIVERSARY, LEBANON, SOUTH DAKOTA
> 903rd REUNION – video 1997
> A TALE OF THREE FAMILIES by Elizabeth G. Longstreth -- Gillpatrick genealogy
> ALUMNI DIRECTORY : GETTYSBURG HIGH SCHOOL : 2000
> BREAKING SOD ON THE PRAIRIES by Clarence W. Taber - historical fiction set in Arena Township, Potter County, SD
> CATHEDRAL OF THE PRAIRIE - video
> CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS – Sutton Ranch history
> CLARENCE WILBUR TABER, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
> DAKOTA COWBOY by Ike Blasingame - nonfiction -- life at the time of the Matador Land and > Cattle Company between Gettysburg, SD and Eagle Butte, SD.
> DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE & CAROLINE JELI 1845-1991 by Michael and Dianne Jeli – genealogy
> DESTINATION GETTYSBURG – video
> ELIDA TOWNSHIP by Rella Frankhauser McIntosh
> GETTYSBURG CENTENNIAL STYLE SHOW – 1983 -- video
> GETTYSBURG: THE LEGACY LIVES ON -- video
> GETTYSBURG SOUTH DAKOTA 75TH ANNIVERSARY 1883-1958 – history
> GRANDPA AND GRANDMA MILLAR’S BIG HOUSE BY STONE LAKE by Millar – genealogy
> HOMESTEAD ATLAS, POTTER COUNTY
> HOVEN ALL FAITH CENTENNIAL - video
> HOVEN SOUTH DAKOTA 1883-1983 – history
> IN THE SPIRIT OF McKAYLA by Vonnie Reuer and Rhonda Strouckel – music cassette
> POTTER COUNTY IN THIS WORLD WAR 1917-1918- 1919 - history
> INGA by Harold W. Anderson - Jordeth genealogy
> JORDETH by Inga Jordeth Haanstad -- genealogy
> LEBANON S.D. 1884-1984 – history
> LOOK BACK ONCE IN AWHILE by Ed Carlson -- memoirs
> MAGNIFICENT CHURCHES ON THE PRAIRIE by Coomber
> NOLD FAMILY, THE by Mary Ragatz Alexander - genealogy
> OBITUARY BOOK, POTTER COUNTY – 1883 to present
> PIONEER ON THE PRAIRIE: THE LIFE OF IVAR SANDBERG by Gilbert Ivar Sandberg
> POTTER COUNTY PEOPLE PICTURES and PROGRESS : 1883-1983 – history of Gettysburg
> RECIPES FOR THE HEART, THE HEARTH, THE HOME by children of Nick and Catherine Rausch – recipes and history
> SUTTON BOOK - genealogy
> THE FRANSEN FAMILY by Darrell Fransen -- genealogy
> THE LAST BRIDGE and A DISTANT PROMISE – both by Elvera Ziebart Reuer – WWII history
> TOLSTOY DIAMOND JUBILEE HISTORICAL BOOK 1982
> TURKEY RED by Frances Gilchrist Wood - historical fiction
> VAN BOCKEL FAMILY - genealogy
> VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR WHO SETTLED IN POTTER COUNTY DAKOTA TERRITORY by Winifred Fawcett and Thelma Hepper. ** Index online at Veterans book index
> WE ARE AMERICANS by Marion Cronin Crowley - genealogy
> WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH FIFTY CENTS by Ernie Nagel -- memoirs 1915-1980
> WHEN THE SOUTH WIND BLEW SOFTLY by Gertrude E. Flyte -- memoirs 1890-1973
> Online Potter County Database


GETTYSBURG/POTTER COUNTY HISTORY BOOKS
For Sale: Gettysburg's 75th Anniversary Book - 1883-1958. -- $5 each
None of the information is duplicated in the 100th Anniversary Book

The 100th Anniversary book is available through the Dakota Sunset Museum.

SD War Memorials
SD Vietnam Memorial Site
Vietnam War/Baltezore: Teddy Baltezore
SD Korean War Site
SD World War II site

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Fantastic Fiction
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10 privacy settings every Facebook user should knowNick O’Neill writes: “Every day I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook. Here is a step-by-step process for protecting your privacy.”...
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What's Twitter???

Check out these fantastic how-to videos.
Twitter in Plain English
Twitter Search in Plain English

How to create your own blog

Creating a blog is easier than I thought.

Creating a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:
Create an account (view screenshot)
Name your blog (view screenshot)
Select your template. (view screenshot)

Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:

1. To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit, or change the set-up of your blog is accessed online at http://www.blogger.com/ Be sure to write down your login and password
2. To view your blog: Your blog address is http://(xxxx).blogspot.com, (xxxx)=the unique identifier you entered in Step 2. Be sure to also write down your blog address.If you run into problems or would like more information about blogs and using Blogger here is a discovery resource you can use Blogger’s Quick Tutorial.
   

Fun You Tube Video

Need an icebreaker or a program exercise. Tooty Tah is great fun.
Watch the video on You Tube.

What are Google Docs?

Take a look at a free web-based word processing tool called Google Docs . Even this little old lady librarian created a document - works much like Microsoft Word - and even inserted pictures. For more info, read through the Google Docs tour or watch Google Docs in Plain English.

Creating web-based documents means that we can read/share these documents from any computer with Internet. No worrying about program compatibility. Huge benefit.

Internet "crap" detection

Crap Detection 101
You've used a search engine to try to find the answer to your question. Your results are in the thousands. Now it's up to you to sort the accurate information from the misinfo, spam, scams, and hoaxes. Help is here. Read Howard Rheingold's Crap Detection 101.

RSS in Plain English

RSS feeds and e-mail alerts are great tools for anyone who is doing ongoing research. For example, both alerts and RSS feeds are offered in ProQuest. To practice, search ProQuest for Gettysburg, South Dakota, and then set up both an alert and an RSS feed. Find the icons just above the search results.

Video: RSS in Plain English
Source: www.youtube.com
A short explanation of RSS and how it helps you save time reading the web. This video comes in an unbranded "presentation quality" version that can be licensed for use in the workplace. http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/rss_plain_english

Scroll down until you see this sentence"Visit one of these sites for a free, non-commercial version of this video (how to share responsibly):" Click on the red link for YouTube

100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know

100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know
This website lists specialty search engines:

1. E-Book & PDF Search Engines, such as PDF Searcher
2. Audio and music search engines, such as BeeMp3
3. Video search engines, such as blinkx