In September, libraries across the country, including ours, are encouraging people to get (and keep) a library card.

THIS MONTH WE ARE:

· Giving away treats for those who have their library cards at check out

· Having a prize drawing for those who sign up for a card

· Waiving fees for lost cards

- Promoting all of the free services you can access with your library card, including genealogy data, online classes, newspaper archives, and eBooks

WHY DO WE WANT YOU TO CARRY YOUR CARD?

- So you can easily access all of the cool, free resources we offer (see the list below). You usually need your library card barcode number and PIN.

 - Your library card is as valuable as a credit card. If you lose it, someone else may be using it to take out many expensive items under your name. Let us know immediately if you lose your card, so we can block it.

 - While we can look up your account with your name and birthday, anyone with that info could use your account. Announcing your name and birthday in public is also not safe.

 - We don't want to make a mistake! While we can look up your account, there are many people with similar names, addresses, and phone numbers in our huge database. Sometimes we just click on the wrong one. Help us avoid this!

- You'll be helping us save time and mental energy. 

We help many people every day. Please help us by bringing your library card to check out.

IF YOU LOSE YOUR LIBRARY CARD:

Let us know ASAP if you lose it, so that we can put a block on it. This will ensure that no one can take out items under your name. Although it doesn't happen often, thieves have been known to check out hundreds of dollars worth of video games, Blu-rays, and other items from libraries, then pawn them for cash.

YOUR LIBRARY CARD GETS YOU FREE ACCESS!

Obviously, you can check out library items on your card, including books, DVDs, Blu-rays, video games, guitars, magazines, audiobooks, etc. But did you know that with your library card's barcode number and PIN, you can also get:

- The Winnefox app, which lets you keep track of your library account on the go

- Free downloable eBooks and audiobooks online at Overdrive and in the Libby app

- Free computer basics classes at winnefox.org/tech-skills-center

- Access to free Gale Courses. These college-level courses last for six weeks, and are taught by real professors. Subjects include everything from medicine to Photoshop.

-  Access to Learning Express Library. They offer textbooks, practice problems, and test prep for all subjects. View guides for the nursing exams ATI TEAS and NCLEX-RN, the military's ASVAB,  the AMP Real Estate exam, as well as academic tests like the SAT, ACT, GED, LSAT, and GRE.

- Access to Newspaper Archive and the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers

- Entrance to a wide variety of high-level academic research tools plus homework help and homeschooling resources for students under 18

- Local history and genealogy databases

...and even more resources, too many to list here!

 Click HERE to see everything available to you!

GETTING AND RENEWING YOUR LIBRARY CARD: WHY WE NEED ID

When you sign up or renew your library card, we need to see a photo ID. If your ID doesn't have your current address on it, we need to see something you got in the mail recently with your name and current address on it-- like a utility bill or pay stub.

This is our one shot in 18 months to make sure that we are protecting your identity. It's also the only time we can make sure we have all the correct contact information on file for you, so please bear with us. We promise it will only take a minute or two.
 

DID YOU KNOW?

Your library card isn't just a Princeton library card. With it, you can check out items for free at any of the 30 libraries in the Winnefox System! Those libraries include Campbellsport, North Fond Du Lac, Ripon, Berlin, Green Lake, Markeson, Kingston,Endeavor, Neshkoro, Neenah, Coloma, Painfield, Wautoma, and Oshkosh. For a full list, go to https://www.winnefox.org/member-libraries.

We will be closed Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of Labor Day Weekend.
Need to renew your books before the long weekend?
Call us at 920-295-6777 or use the Winnefox Mobile app or our free texting service. More info here: https://www.princetonpublib.org/shoutbomb

Check out our upcoming events!

Click HERE for a printable pdf of August events.

Click HERE for a printable pdf of September events.

The Library Board usually meets on the first Monday of every month at 6pm. 
 

Public Notice:

The Princeton Library Board Meeting will be held at the library
424 W. Water St. Princeton WI 54968
at 6pm on Monday, September 5th, 2022. 
The library will be closed due to Labor Day except for the board meeting.

Agenda:

• Call to order
• Roll Call of Members
• Approval of Minutes from August
• Friend's Report
• Director’s report
  • Review & approval of bills from August
• Lost item bills
• Collecting Driver's License Numbers
• Budget Proposal for 2023
• Backyard / garden plans
  • new planters for front & back
• New Board Member
• Adjournment

The next meeting will be at 6pm on Monday, October 3rd, 2022

You may need a library card to access some of our resources. If you don't have one right now, go here to get one, free: https://vulgus.winnefox.org/onlineregFAQ.html

Overdrive is our most popular online resource-- download ebooks and audiobooks for free!
If you have a smartphone or tablet, download the Libby App. 
All you need to do is sign in with your library card number and PIN. Your library card number is all the numbers on the back of your library card, with no spaces. Your PIN is four numbers, the last four numbers of the phone number you gave us when you signed up. Books are available for all ages, and we recently added many more titles. You may have to wait to download some books, but others are available 24/7. J.K. Rowling recently released the audio and ebook versions of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for unlimited checkouts with no waiting until April 30th.

Need financial assistance? UW Madison has put together a great list of resources.

Do you have a young student at home? Check out Story Time Online, KidLit TV, Scholastic's Learn at Home, a list of 30 online "field trips" with live cameras or virtual walk-throughs, a sample daily schedule for kids, a great list of resources at Read Wonder & Learn, Live Learning videos with LivBits, Mystery Science lessons for grades K-5, and 1 Hour Coding for Kids for K-9th grades. Finally, here's a HUGE List of at-home educational entertainment resources, including live webcams, activities and more.

Do you have an older student at home?
Check out the Winnefox Tech Skills Center, where you can learn technology skills at your own pace by watching these video tutorials on popular software and computer basics.
You should also visit our Research Page for more great links, including homework help, genealogy resources, automotive repair guides, Consumer Reports, language learning, and lots more.

Want more free ebooks?
Sesame Street is offering some free ebooks for kids right now.
The Internet Archive's Open Library has textbooks, classics, and even some juvenile chapter books like The Giver by Lowis Lowry, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, and Matilda by Roald Dahl.
 Open Culture has a nice list of older classics.
The National Emergency Library is a collection of mostly older non-fiction books that supports remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation.
Project Gutenberg has over 60,000 titles (mostly older).

Forgot to grab a free copy of our Book Page magazine? Sign up to get a digital copy.

Need to connect with people digitally? Here are some resources for online meetings:

• Microsoft Teams https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
• Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/solutions/facebook-live
• Google Hangouts https://gsuite.google.com/products/meet/
• Zoho https://www.zoho.com/meeting/
• Zoom https://zoom.us/
• Join.me https://www.join.me/

The Winnefox digital resource collection has hundreds of free Gale Courses on almost everything. From accounting to photoshop, alternative medicine to web design, you can advance your career, build your resume, or just learn a new hobby!

    - 375+ interactive online courses, available 24/7.
    - Courses run for six weeks.
    - New sessions begin every month.
    - Taught by college instructors who are experts in their field.
    - Certificate of Completion awarded.
    - Students who have enrolled in a course must log in and VIEW (not complete) lessons one and two within 13 days after the start date of the course, or they will be automatically dropped.
    - Students who are dropped from a course will be able to enroll in the course during a later session.

Click here to view courses.