You can borrow, at no charge, a TTY (teletypewriter) for up to two weeks through your library. All you need is your library card. Bell Atlantic has donated TTY devices and instructional videos to the Nassau Library System for use throughout Nassau County. This program enables people to try a TTY to see if they would like to buy one for themselves or a child, parent or employee. A TTY - also known as a Text Telephone - is a keyboard-like device that a deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired person can use to communicate over the telephone by typing instead of speaking. For your information the Franklin Square Library has a TTY phone should you need to communicate with us.

CD ROMS

The library now has a circulating collection of CD ROMS for the public which consists of adult and children's education and recreational discs. The CD ROMS will be circulated to District patrons only, aged 14 and older, and shall be limited to 4 per patron. CD ROMS may be reserved.

• 2 copy machines ($.15, a page)
• more than 100,000 books to take out
• hundreds of compact disc recordings
• plenty of books on tape
• The library has a notary on staff should you need documents notarized. Please call in advance to find out the hours the notary is available. Please note that no more than 4 documents at a time will be notarized. This is a free service and you must provide proper identification.

INTERNET COMPUTERS

Now you can surf the World Wide Web at the Franklin Square Public Library. Register as an authorized user at the Reference Desk. (Students under 18 must have a parent's signature).

Children's Computer

Interactive Educational computer programs for your children. A second Childrens computer has been installed. The new programs are the Encarta Encyclopedia, World Book, Indians, States, Colonies and the Ultimate Human Body.

On-Line Databases Available on our WEB page

If you wish to do research from home .... visit our webpage via http://www.nassaulibrary.org/fsquare/onlnedb.htm from your home computer and choose any of the following databases:

*Please note that you may be asked for your library card barcode number.*

ALISweb allows you to search all the catalogs of the Automated Library Information System for Nassau County libraries. Searches can be limited to our particular library or extended to cover all the libraries.

AncestryPlus can only be accessed from computers in the library, not from home. It provides access to 1 billion names, more than 3,000 databases, primary-source document images and many genealogical resources

College Source Online features over 11,400 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover page format. This includes 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.

Country Watch provides statistical data for 191 countries. This includes Business Services, a resource center for global business information.

EBSCO HOST provides access to business, health and newspaper sources - Wall Street Journal, business periodicals, consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides access to the complete encyclopedia and related websites.

FACTS.COM delivers foil text articles of 20 years of the print edition of Facts On File World News Digest, from January 1980 through the most recent weekly issue along with overviews, primary source documents, photographs, maps, biographies, country profiles and newswire updates from Reuters.

Franklin Square Public Library is our official website at www.nassaulibrarv.org/fsquare/ Some options to choose from are: Access Our Online Catalog, Programs, Services, Online Databases (named on this sheet), Accelerated Reader list for the Elementary schools, Accelerated Reader list for Carey High School, and Kids/Teens.

GaleNet helps you research authors and literature and US History. It provides access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, History Resource Center.US, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's US Authors. The History Resource Center covers US history from Pre-colonial times through the present.

Grolier Online includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People and America the Beautiful.

Grove Art The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from
prehistory to the present: painting, sculpture, graphics, decorative arts, and photography.

Grove Music incorporates music history, music biographies and sound archives in one database.

Health Reference Center provides articles on medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health and safety, occupational health, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, fitness, pregnancy and more.

InfoTrac contains many databases. The main database called General Reference Center Gold (1980 to the present) provides full-text articles from magazines and reference books plus citations from several newspapers. Also available are two business databases which analyze companies. Another database provides the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center which offers articles on current social issues.

InfoTraC Informe! is the Spanish version of the above InfoTrac database.

InfoTrac Business and Company Resource Center provides a fuiiy integrated
resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

InfoTrac Kids is mostly a magazine database designed for students in middle and junior high school. Most articles are full-text. It covers current events, the arts, science, health, sports, history and more.

Kids InfoBits offers topics of interest for children in Kindergarten through Grade 5. The topic titles are presented in pictures as visual icons. Magazines, newspapers and reference books are used as sources.

Learnatest helps prepare users for successful test taking. It combines practice tests with preparation and
study materials.

Long Island Union List Of Serials includes the serials holdings of public, academic and special libraries in Nassau and Suffolk Counties as well as the school library systems.

netLibrary offers access to the full text of several thousand reference, scholarly and professional books. You must create a netLibrary account before the collection can be accessed from home. If you are interested in establishing and account please come to the Library's Reference Desk.

NoveList brings you information about books and authors through Author Read-a-Likes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and Book Talks.

Proquest provides full-text access to 51 major newspapers. Your searches can be limited to some specific newspapers such as Newsday (1985+) or The New York Times (1995+) by clicking on "Select Multiple Databases" on the Basic Search screen and then choosing only the newspapers) you want.

ReferenceUSA provides 3 separate directories of detailed information for (1)Businesses, (2)Residents, and (3)Health Care Providers in the U.S.. The Business data contains contact information, credit rating, ticket symbol, SIC, URL (websites) and more. Residents data covers households. Health Care Providers data covers physicians and dentists.