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Need a product manual?

Information Sign 1This is a fantastic site to bookmark!  Have you lost a manual for something in your house or workplace? No worries! This website has 1,400,000+ products and 1,917,314 pdf manuals. All easily accessible for free and does not require signing up.  You can download the manual or read it online whichever you prefer.

If you have searched the internet for a manual oftentimes you can end up on a scam website that requires you to give your credit card info to get the manual.  ManualsLib.com is a safe resource to find nearly any manual ever made!  From blenders to iPhones to table saws to automobiles – this place has it all! What a great site! I searched the word drill and over 1800 manuals came up.  That is a lot of reading!

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50 Irish Sayings

IrishSt. Patrick’s day is just around the corner!  Here are a handful of catchy and insightful Irish sayings to help spread some good luck around! Click here for more.

  • May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint!
  • You must take the little potato with the big potato.
  • May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head. May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead.
  • May the roof above you never fall in, and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
  • May you live to be 100 years, with one extra year to repent.
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Do you really know the truth? Snopes Field Guide

Snopes LogoWho hasn’t been tempted to click on a story on Facebook about Chipotle planning to close all of its restaurants across the U.S.? What??? How can they??? Or how about the “World’s 1st Successful Head Transplant”?  I mean after all, there is a photo to prove it, right?  It must be true.

Most of us know of the availability of Snopes.com to check on the accuracy of many so-called “stories”. But here is a very valuable resource: Snopes’ Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors.  You will likely be surprised to find out some of the news sources that are fabricating their “reporting”.  Here is a partial list that the field guide mentions:

  • National Report:  This is the most prominent and popular example of false news reporting on the internet. Facebook has tried to establish algorithms to prevent the spreading of this type of vicious false news. In response, sites like National Report now use the domain names of legitimate news outlets such as the Washington Post and USA Today which mirror the National Report‘s content.
  • World News Daily Report: This one often mixes together incorrectly attributed and stolen photographs to spread long-held misinformation.
  • Huzlers: Uses the names of popular brands and restaurants to spread vicious rumors.
  • News Examiner: Gets around Facebook’s new algorithms by combining real news and listed items in with its fabricated news stories.
  • Newswatch28: Pretends its a TV news website.
Photo Credit: Snopes.com

Weekly Review 2/25/16

CMLE Updates: State & Regional News
– ECRL has a new website! More
– Results from Extended Contract Days poll More
– Featured Service: CMLE Grants page More
– CMLE does events! Take a look at this year’s lineup More

Upcoming Events and Registration Information
– Seats still available for CMLE’s Spring Author Event at North Folk Winery! Register NOW! More
– Notable Dates for your Noggin: March 2016 More

 Resources You Can Use
– Tips for library newsletters More
– Special librarians: A Button Museum! More
– AASL Recommended App: Digital Public Library of America More

 Tech Bits and Ideas
– The top 25 idiotic passwords More

 Food For Thought
– Ever heard of your media center as “third place?” More

Just for Fun
– Harry Potter-themed classroom More

Notable Dates for your Noggin: March 2016

Calendar BannerEach month we’ll bring you a compiled list of fun national holidays, birthdays of authors, and publication dates of favorite books.  You can use these for your own personal use or for some library inspiration!

March is Woman’s History Month. Other things to celebrate in March. . .

March
 2  Dr. Seuss’s birthday (1904)
 Read Across America/Dr. Seuss Day
 Old Stuff Day
 3  National Anthem Day
 4  National Grammar Day
 6  Henry IV Part One first performed (1660)
 8  National Proofreading Day
 12  Girl Scouts Day
 16  Freedom of Information Day
 19  Let’s Laugh Day
 20  Lois Lowry’s birthday (1937)
 Louis Sachar’s birthday (1954)
 25  Tolkien Reading Day
 26  Robert Frost’s birthday (1874)
 30  Jon Hassler’s birthday (1933)
 Pencil Day

Did we miss anything?  Let us know if we did!

For our calendar of library events, including conferences and library days, check out our Events/Initiatives page.

And for more Notable Dates for Your Noggin, check out our Notable Dates page.