Freegal free music downloads not available

The Library has added a new SMART Table in the Children's Wing for preK-3rd grade children. This interactive table has many games and activities using a touch screen. Wonderful activity for parent and child.

Three new databases are now available for use with your Vernon Parish Library card.
WorldBook online is the famous encyclopedia online.
Chilton's.com is the well known automotive repair database. Chilton has stopped publishing its books.
Legal forms database contains legal forms useful in daily life.

The Library also provides Lexis Nexis legal database for use inside the Library. This database is the same database many attorneys use. It contains Louisiana law, court decisions, etc. We also have the U.S. Code in our reference section, as well as the Louisiana Register (agency regulations).

We now have laptops available to check-out for use IN the Library. Ask at circulation desk for more information.

The Vernon Parish Library is now offering one-on-one training on how to download free e-books and audio-books from OverDrive and free magazines from Zinio. Training is by appointment only, every Thursday or Friday. Please call the library at 239-2027 or 800-737-2231, and ask for Flo for an appointment.

Materials may be downloaded to your laptop, computer, IPad, Nook, Kindle Fire, SmartPhone and more.

 
The Vernon Parish Library is pleased to announce the availability of Zinio for Libraries. Awarded Best New Database of 2012 by Library Journal, Zinio is the world’s largest newsstand, offering multi-user access to thousands of publications.

Through
www.vernon.lib.la.us, patrons of the Vernon Parish Library will have unlimited simultaneous access to thousands of complete digital magazines, which can easily be viewed on any Internet-enabled device inside or outside of the library. Zinio’s unique technology digitally recreates a magazine page for page, including full color pictures, intuitive navigation, key word article search and interactive elements such as audio and video. Consumer Reports, Good Housekeeping, PC Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Newsweek, Guideposts and Readers Digest are just a few of the popular titles available.

Currently, the Library is offering 97 titles. These may be viewed on patron’s laptops, computers, iPads, smart phones, etc. There are currently, three ways to access these titles. From the reference tab on our home pagewww.vernon.lib.la.us , scroll down to Newspapers and Periodicals, and click on ZINIO, or go directly to http://www.rbdigital.com/vernonparishla/zinio. The easiest is to click on the Zinio tab near the top of the Library's home page.  Users will need to enter their Vernon Parish Library Card number. Please visit the Vernon Parish Library for more information on this new service. If you are having problems using this service, please let us know.

New Sexual Offender Policy as required by Act 693 of the La. Legislature

Sex Offender Regulation/Policy

 

In accordance with its responsibility to set policy for the Vernon Parish Library, the Library Board of Control has adopted on this 31st day of October, 2012 the following policy for the purpose of:

 

1. Compliance with the statutory mandates set forth in La. R.S. 14:91.2
2. Protecting children from contact with persons who have been convicted of sex offenses where the victim was under 13 years of age.

 

Regulation:

I.    Effective January 1, 2013, persons who have been convicted of sex offenses where the victim was under the age of 13 (referred to as “sex offenders” for purposes of this policy/regulation) are restricted as follows:

 

A.      Sex Offenders are allowed to use the main branch (Leesville) library of the Vernon Parish Library. At these libraries, their access is restricted as follows:

1.   Children’s Areas – No sex offender shall be physically present in any area of the library designated as a “children’s area” or “young readers’ area”.

2.   Peak Children’s Hours – No sex offender shall be physically present on public library property during published Children’s programing.

3.   A schedule will be posted on-line and at the entrance (bulletin board in lobby) of the library facility.

 

B.      Libraries On/Within School Property, public parks and recreation facilities, day care centers   – According to R.S. 14:91.2C, sex offenders are not allowed on or within 1,000 feet of school property without the permission of school authorities or recreation facilities without the permission of recreation authorities.  The following libraries are on or within 1,000 feet of school property or recreational facility/public park:

1.      Dunbar Branch Library

1003 N. Gladys Street

Leesville, LA 71446

2.      Pitkin Branch Library

7277 Hwy. 463

      Pitkin, La. 70656

Sex offenders will only be allowed access to these libraries if they first obtain permission to be on school property.  If they obtain this permission, the same restrictions as in section A of the policy apply. 

Alternative channels of access to public library resources include:

1.      Access to the other branches as outlined above, and

2.      Allowing a surrogate to check out library materials from these branches on the sex offender’s library card.

 

C.      Loitering within 1,000 feet – No sex offender shall loiter within 1,000 feet of public       library property.

 

D.     Employment - No sex offender shall apply for, work for, or otherwise provide services to a library facility as an employee, contractor, sub-contractor, or volunteer.

 

II.  Exceptions to these restrictions are:

 

A.      Police station/courthouse/polling station – There shall be no violation of this regulation if the sex offender is reporting to a police station, courthouse, or polling station that is within the restricted area.

 

B.      With special permission – There shall be no violation of this regulation if the sex offender has requested and has been granted written permission to be physically present on public library property from the Library Director or his designee, and the sex offender complies with any special restrictions contained within said written permission. Said written permission must be presented to library representative on duty at time of entering library building.

 

III.        The Library Director shall be responsible for developing and implementing administrative and management procedures in furtherance of the policies stated herein.

A.      Configuration – To the extent possible, each library branch shall be arranged in a manner to ensure that areas devoted to children and young readers may be easily supervised by library staff, and such areas are segregated from other library resources and facilities.

 

B.      Notice – Implement procedures to ensure adequate public notice of each library branch’s times and dates of peak children’s hours and children’s programming. Adequate notice may include posting such information in a prominent location near the library’s entrance and on the library’s website.

 

C.      Surrogate – Implement procedures to allow sex offenders to authorize a surrogate to check out library materials using the sex offender’s library card. Procedures to obtain a library card via a surrogate may be granted by the Library Director.

 

D.     Enforcement – Implement procedures to update policies, where necessary, and enforce policies regarding unattended children.

 

IV.  The Library Director and members of the public are invited to make recommendations to the Library Board to improve this regulation or suggest state legislative changes that will allow public libraries to more effectively achieve the public purposes set forth herein. Those recommendations, along with any supporting documentation, should be submitted annually to the Library Board by or before Oct. 1 of said year. Such correspondence shall be sent:  Attention: Library Director.

 

Authority Note

Act 693 of the 2012 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature amended and re-enacted R.S. 14.91.2. The effective date of the Act is January 1, 2013.

 

New Databases available

NEW ELECTRONIC RESOURCES NOW AVAILABLE TO

VERNON PARISH LIBRARY PATRONS

 

Vernon Parish             residents now have access to three electronic resources made available through the State Library of Louisiana and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Vernon Parish Library announces that Mango Languages, McGraw-Hill AccessScience and TumbleBooks are now available to its patrons.

The State Library of Louisiana has added these services to the Louisiana Library Connection suite of statewide electronic resources.

Mango Languages offers more than 40 foreign languages to explore and more than 15 ESL courses taught in the patron’s native language. Patrons can learn anytime from home using free mobile apps or a computer and their library card.

Through TumbleBooks, Vernon Parish patrons have unlimited access to fiction and non-fiction e-books, read-along picture books, graphic novels, National Geographic videos and educational games. Books in French and Spanish, graphic novels and audio books are also available.

AccessScience is a web-based, fully searchable encyclopedia of science and technology that includes the full text and illustrations of the latest content of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Patrons can also access more than 7,100 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms and 1,300 research updates in all areas of science and technology.

The State Library of Louisiana provides services to all residents through their local public libraries and uses state and federal funds to provide statewide electronic resources.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Their grants, policy development and research help communities and individuals thrive by providing broad public access to knowledge, cultural heritage and lifelong learning.

To learn more about IMLS, please visit www.imls.gov.

These are but a few of the many online databases and other online resources available to the citizens of Vernon Parish through the Vernon Parish Library. Some of these are OverDrive audiobooks, Lexis Nexis legal database, Homework Helper, Jobs, Government Documents and much more.

To find out more, please call the Library at 337-239-2027 or 800-737-2231.

New Fine Schedule beginning January 2, 2013

The Vernon Parish Library will increase daily fines for overdue items effective January 2, 2013.

 

All print items (books, magazines, vertical file, etc.) will be 25-cents per item per day overdue

Audio-Visuals (DVD=s Audio-Books, CD-ROMS, etc.) will be 50-cents per item per day overdue

Games will be $1.00 per item per day

ILL (Interlibrary Loan Materials) will be $1.00 per item per day overdue

 

Materials  may be renewed by phone or in person one time if the items are not on reserve for another patron. Books may be returned after-hours in our book dropbox.

 

This is the first increase in fines in many years.

TumbleBooks now available

TumbleBooks is our newest additon to our E-Book collection. These two sites are aimed especially at children. Anyone with a Vernon Parish Library card can access these two sites. Icons are posted on our home page, www.vernon.lib.la.us. Just click on which everone you are interested in. There is also a link on our home page under the reference tab down towards the bottom under the subject TumbleBooks.

About TumbleReadables:

TumbleReadables is a collection of online read-along titles in categories such as Graphic Novels, Early Readers, Chapter Books, Teen Fiction, Classics, and Drama/Poetry.

The Read-Alongs highlight the sentences as they are narrated aloud, turn the page automatically, and offer the ability to customize your screen by changing the font size and screen/text colour, to name just a few options.

Read-Alongs are great for emergent, struggling, and reluctant readers, and are an excellent tool for ESL students. With a fun, stylish interface, Read-Alongs will also appeal to accomplished readers who are excited to follow along to the narration of their favorite books.




About the TumbleBookLibrary:

The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.

TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.

E-Books arrive at Vernon Parish Library

E-BOOKS ARRIVE AT VERNON PARISH LIBRARY

Leesville - Vernon Parish Library announces that e-books have arrived and are ready for download. Provided by the State Library of Louisiana, the Vernon Parish Library now offers more than 1,200 e-books for downloading and many more that can be read in a browser. In addition, patrons may download from a catalog of more than 200 audio books. Up to five e-books and five audio books may be checked out at a time.

 

Titles are primarily nonfiction, for both adult and young readers.

After two weeks, the e-book or audio book automatically expires from the device, thus eliminating the possibility of overdue fines.

To access these materials outside the library, a patron must use a public library card to log onto http://lalibcon.state.lib.la.us/.

 To find out more, call 337-239-2027 or 800-737-2231.

This service is provided to Louisiana residents through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.

Journey Stories -- oral histories

The latest addition to the collection is a series of oral histories on DVD, interviewed by Ellen Ibert. There are 12 interviews. These interviews contain stories about early Leesville and Vernon Parish, including family histories, Fort Polk, No-Man's Land, New Llano, KCS railroad, early sawmill towns and logging and much more. The discs are in Reference and must be viewed in the Library. Individuals interviewed are May E. Thompson, Regionald Seastrunk, Marilyn O. Stephens, Cheryl Perkins, Martha Palmer, Maurice Johnson, Howard Blackburn, John Crook, Roger & Delma Briggs and Albert Dunn.

The interviews are part of Museum on Main Street, sponsored by the Smithsonian and La. Arts and Humanities Council.

The Venron Parish Library is helping preserve the history of Venron Parish.