Currently, there are 140 graphic novels (eBook) available for download through the Overdrive service.  After downloading your title, you can read it on your computer.  To find the novels on the Overdrive site, click on Advanced Search, change Subject to Comic and Graphic Books, click search.  For assistance, stop at the 2nd floor reference desk or call 236-5205.  Here are some titles available to download:

Do you know how much your home's electrical devices cost to operate each month? Could some of them be costing you too much?

You can find out exactly how much energy your appliances and electronics use, even when they're turned off, with help from an instrument called a Watts Up meter from WPS and Focus on Energy.

The Oshkosh Public Library now has A Watts Up meter.  It is available at the 1st floor Public Service Desk.  You can check it out for a two week loan period.  If the meter is checked out, place a hold/reserve through the library catalog.

Two new magazines in our collection  - Bon Appetit and Fast Company

Food and entertaining magazine.  12 issues a year.  Sister magazine "Gourmet" folded last year.  Our subscription starts with May 2010 issue.
 

Business magazine.  10 issues a year.  Topics include innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design, and social responsibility.  Regular features are "Next" short articles on money, tech, design and media, and "Wanted" - what you will crave this month.  Current issues covered how tech is making kids smarter, the world's 50 most innovative companies, and an article about Volkswagen.  Our subscription starts with February 2010.

• Read and consider the DRAFT plan revision
  • DRAFT 2010 - 2011 Strategic Plan March 15 2010 (pdf)
  • OPL Strategic Plan 2010 to 2011 Placemat edition Mar 15 2010 (pdf)
• Pass along comments or suggestions for improving the plan to the Library Director by end of day April 5, 2010.
  • Email: director [at] oshkoshpubliclibrary [dot] org (subject: Strategic%20Plan" rel: "nofollow)
  • Phone: 920-236-5212
• Bring your comments or suggestions to the public listening session about the plan to be held at the library on Monday evening, April 5, 2010 from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
• Speak to the library board as it considers approval of the plan at its April 29, 2010 meeting, which begins at 4:00 p.m.

Read the latest issue of Library Lines, the library's newsletter.  Featured in the newsletter are the new online resources, book clubs, and upcoming programs.