#GivingTuesday

You've heard of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Now there's #GivingTuesday, a day for giving back this time of year. #GivingTuesday will take place on Tuesday, November 27th. On this day, you can donate to the library in various ways:

1. Go to our website at www.coopersiegelcommunitylibrary.org and click on the Support the Library tab. Select to donate a Gift Book by clicking on the link to the form or select the Donate Now link to send an undesignated donation.

2. Text GIVE WISDOM to 84465 to donate $10* to the library. Please designate if your donation should go to Cooper-Siegel Community Library or to Sharpsburg Community Library.
*Terms: mGive.org/T

3. Bring your donation to the library in person. We love to see our patrons!

 

Have to Read from a Required Summer Reading List? Download Free eBook Copies

If you're a student looking for summer required reading books, think about reading an eBook. There are plenty of free eBook versions of these summer reading books available and often you can access and download them immediately.

The library-provided Overdrive and EbscoHost services are available and free with your library card.  You can download them to your pc or eBook reader, and the books automatically return themselves so you can read them on vacation and not have to return them to the library.

Project Gutenberg (which contains public domain books) is a good choice for free downloads. PG offers most of its books as free Kindle books, as well as in the ePub format. (You can download free Kindle books directly to your Kindle by pointing your Kindle browser to m.gutenberg.org). It also has a useful guide to downloading books from this site.

Epubbooks offers Kindle and ePub books available as free downloads. iBookNook has these downloads also and currently on the site is a recent post that lists 50 classic books that are available to download.

Amazon has free Kindle books that may be on your reading list, and Barnes and Noble ran a promotion for a while for free “classic” eBooks but this has apparently ended.

Google offers free eBooks although they don't organize the free ones as a browsable group. Many classic books are offered for free.

I've included this link to free eBooks for Nook, and this link to free eBooks for Kindle (includes information on a free way to convert eBook files to Kindle) as additional resources.

If you only find a book in PDF format and have a real desire to read the book in the ePub format (here’s an article on the advantages of reading an eBook in the ePub format) for $23.95 you can download a PDF to ePub converter.

We'll be happy to help you. If you need help finding or downloading free eBooks, contact the library reference department at 412-828-9520 ext. 215 or send an email to coopersiegelref@einetwork.net

Finding Good Homes For Your Electronic Stuff This Spring

The Cooper-Siegel Community Library is looking for donations of e-readers such as Nooks, Kindles, etc..  If you are considering discarding your e-readers, we would love to use them in our classes to train our library patrons how to use these devices. 

If you're getting rid of old cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, GPS units, laptops and handheld gaming devices during spring cleaning, the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium are looking for your help in saving endangered animals.  They are currently holding a recycling drive here at the library, and you can find the collection box at the front of the library.  The Zoo and Aquarium will receive funds from Eco-Cell to help endangered species. 100% of the funds raised will be donated to several different conservation organizations that the Zoo is involved with including: The International Snow Leopard Trust, Painted Dog Conservation and Polar Bears International.

If you donate items for the Zoo and Aquarium drive, you can enter a drawing for free admission.  Ask for raffle entries at the circulation desk at the front of the library.