Are you tired of making the same dishes for dinner week after week? We can help! Nashua Public Library has cookbooks covering cuisines from Afghan and African to Yemenite and Yugoslav. The collection includes recipe books such as The whole foods allergy cookbook : two hundred gourmet & homestyle recipes for the food allergic family ; Introducing Macrobiotic Cooking : A Primer And Cookbook; What to eat when you get diabetes : easy and appetizing ways to make healthful changes in your diet and more for people following special diets. You will also find some classics such as The Joy of Cooking, and books by notable chefs Julia Child and Jacques Pepin.

If you can't make it to the library and need a recipe right away, you can always check Epicurious, which has recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines, or the Food Network website, which includes recipes from all of your favorite Food Network personalities and television shows. So, if you couldn't keep up with Rachael Ray's 30 minute meal or want to know what Emeril is cooking up, take a look at this site. It also lists the network's programming schedule, so you can be sure to catch your favorite chef.

Have you hit a brick wall in the search for your ancestors? Stop by the library and try the Ancestry Library Edition database. This is a rich collection of genealogical and historical information including:

• U.S. Federal Census information from 1790 to 1930
• Census information for various states, Canadian provinces, and portions of Great Britain
• Marriage, birth, and death records
• Immigration records
• Stories and articles from newspapers and local histories
• Maps and photographs
• Yearbooks
• City directories
• Military records

Although the collection focuses on the United States, it also includes Canadian and European records.

If you'd like some help getting started, consider signing up for our Genealogy computer class. This class gives you a hands-on overview of the Ancestry Library Edition database and HeritageQuest, our other genealogy database. Just call the Reference Desk at (603) 589-4611 to register.

Of course, we have more genealogical research tools in our local history collection. Stop in to use Ancestry Library Edition (sorry, it's only available from inside the library), and stay to browse the Hunt Room collection!

Novelist provides many services, all of which are discussed in the Novelist Learning Center. You can access the Learning Center using the Training and Support link found on the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen. The 1 Minute Novelist feature provides sample searches. Getting Around in Novelist gives a quick tour of the tabs at the top of the screen. Searching the Novelist Database provides step-by-step search instructions which can be printed out. The section on Using the Additional Content provides links to fiction awards lists, read-alikes and articles written by experts in reader's advisory. The five or ten minutes that you spend learning to navigate this database will be worth every second in successful searches.

Once you have the basics down, it is time to make Novelist your own. The last module in the Learning Center is Optimizing Your Use of Novelist. Spend a few minutes reading about what Novelist can do for you. On the sidebar, on the left-hand side of the screen,is a section called Tools. Under Tools, select Sign in to my Novelist. This will allow you to register as a new user. You can then create searches and save them in your own folder. You can also create alerts. If you are interested in a particular author or a particular genre, mysteries involving recipes and cooking perhaps, you can create a search for books of this type. Save the search and make it an alert. Novelist will run this search for you and alert you through email for a period of up to one year when any new titles are published which meet your search criteria. Happy Searching!

P.S. Don't forget to take a look at This Month's Tips and Tidbits which is featured monthly on the home page.

November can be deadly when it comes to homework. All those project deadlines and midsemester exams are fast approaching.

Did you snooze through last week's Geometry class and now you're paying the price?

Never fear, Live Homework Help is here!

If you're in grades 4-12 get connected and chat with a live tutor and they'll get you through this crisis. All you need is a library card and the Internet.

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To learn more about this service check out our website.

Interested in finding out how much a nearby house sold for? Want to know about upcoming foreclosures and auctions? Look it up in Registry Review, New Hampshire's statewide real estate and financial newspaper, which is kept at the reference desk. Each week, Registry Review reports information abstracted from the ten New Hampshire county Registries of Deeds and many other sources.

Features within the publication include:

• Real estate sales for consideration and associated mortgages.
• Liens and Attachments
• New Plans and Subdivisions
• New Bankruptcy filings in New Hampshire
• New Corporation and Trade name filings
• Schedule of upcoming foreclosures and other lien auctions
• Statewide listing of requests for Bids and Proposals

Where to Find It In the Library: Editions from the six most recent months are kept at the reference desk, and back issues are shelved in the Sterns Room (where other business periodicals are kept.)

Recomended library books on real estate:
Risk & grow rich : how to make millions in real estate by Kendra Todd
Mortgages 101 : quick answers to over 250 critical questions about your home loan by David Reed.

Have you ever been stumped when a techie mentions something lika a CPU or when you read in the newspaper about the OED? Well, fear no longer. You can find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for by going to the website AcronymFinder.

To find what an acronym means:
Enter the acronym in upper or lower case and press Enter or click the Find button. Acronyms may contain a space or other characters only if that is the way they are actually written e.g. AT&T. Do not put periods after letters in the acronym or search string, e.g NH, not "N.H., unless the acronym actually contains a period e.g. X.500). Also, watch out for plurals. For example, you might want to know what the acronym "pixels" means. Enter the singular pixel, not pixels.

To find an acronym when you know the term but not the acronym (Reverse Lookup):
You can search by words or concepts by using the word in meaning option then typing in a phrase or a list of words. You will see a list of all acronyms containing the phrase or the words you enter. For example, you could find all acronyms containing and thus probably having to do with libraries (enter library) or computers (enter computer). Searching for multiple words or concepts is similar to Google's Boolean search. Type in each word separated by a space (the AND is assumed). If you are looking for an exact phrase, enter the phrase in quotations e.g. Social Security.

HF!

If you use the library computers to print in the reference area, teen room, or Winer room, you'll want to read this...

The printing process has changed throughout the library. The cost remains the same ($.10 for black and white, $.25 for color), however now you must prepay to a printing account instead of the old way of printing and then paying at the service desk. Each time you print a page your account will be debited accordingly.

You can add money to your "printing account" at the reference desk, circulation desk, or the music arts and media desk. The first time you add money to your account you must add a minimum balance of $1.00.

This new printing process was implemented as a way to keep the printing costs as affordable as possible for you the customer. We hope that you find this a more convenient process as you no longer have to wait to pay when you pick up your printouts.

Please feel free to ask us any questions you might have, and remember, we always like to receive customer feedback. In fact, feel free to leave a comment on this blog!

Now available on the library's web site: the History of the City of Nashua, N.H., edited by Edward Everett Parker. Published in 1895, this history of Nashua covers the settlement of the area when it was called Dunstable, and follows its progress up through the late 1800s. Chock full of portraits and biographies of prominent citizens, it also discusses aspects of the town's development, from manufacturing to railroads to medicine. You can download the entire book as a single PDF file, but be warned that it is 350 MB. If certain chapters interest you, you can just download the files for the individual chapters. Each file is searchable. You will need the free Adobe Reader to open these files.

Of course, you can still view the paper copy of the History of the City of Nashua, N.H. and other Nashua history books here at the library. We have a number of copies in the Hunt Room and in the reference collection. Just ask at the reference desk.

The digitization of the History of the City of Nashua, N.H. was a project of the Reference Department of the Nashua Public Library. It was made possible by funding from a library trust fund.

You've seen the movie and can't wait to read the book, or you've read the book and can't wait to see the movie. But where do you find that information? If you love movies and you love to read, this is for you.

There are a number of good websites, several posted by public libraries, which provide information about books into movies, and movies into books. Take a look at some of these and you’ll be ready the next time someone asks “Which did you like better, the movie or the book?”

The first website is posted by the Mid-Continent Public Library headquartered in Independence Missouri. The link provided is to their Reader’s Advisory section where one of their databases is “Based on the Book” It is well organized and easy to search as books and movies are categorized by Title, Release Year and Book Author. The information here is updated regularly and goes back as far as 1980. It provides a good starting point, but plot descriptions are not included.

Another alphabetical listing by movie title called “From Books to Movies” is done by the Arrowhead Library System and Hedberg Public Library in Janesville, Wisconsin. The title of the book is included if it differs from the movie title. This listing does include the author’s name, but not the year of publication or movie release.

The Book Report Network consists of a number of websites. One of these is Bookreporter, which has been on the web since 1996. “Books to Movies” is a link found on the toolbar at the top of the web page. “Books to Movies” provides information on the movie and the book. Here you can get all the information about the movie including the release date, rating and stars. A good plot description is included. The title of the book serves as a link to Amazon.com where information including reviews and availability of books can be found.

The last suggestion is the Internet Movie Database or IMDb. This site contains massive amounts of information on movies. Try searching using the Movie Keywords Analyzer or MoKA for keywords such as "based on the book" or "based on the novel". A search using "based on the book" brings up 20 categories such as "based on the children's book". Each category indicates the number of movies that are included. Each title is a link to extensive information about that movie including user ratings and comments.

Happy reading and viewing! Feel free to leave us a comment with your reviews of these sites.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you look for information on the Internet? Search engines such as Google and Yahoo can yield hundreds, thousands, or even millions of results, especially when your query contains common words, phrases or topics. For example, a Google search for Martin Luther King, Jr. returns over 2,700,000 hits! You can't look at all of these web pages, and some sites might not be helpful to you, appropriate for your project, or even reliable. Is there a better way?

To help you find credible and relevant information, NPL has compiled a list of suggested sites. Rather than enter a term into a search engine, take a look at our links page. From the homepage, click on links, and then links by topic. The General Adult Services link includes the Best of the Internet and the Librarian's Index to the Internet. Both are arranged by subject and will lead you to sites recommended by librarians. The list also has links for finding college rankings, bibliography and citation formats, the perfect quotation for any occasion, and other good references.

Remember, you should always evaluate web sites when you do research on the Internet--even if the pages are recommended by librarians.

The library recently acquired two historical atlases for the reference section. A historical atlas is usually a collection of maps that either shows a sequence of change, such as in an atlas of World War I which maps changing land occupation, or is a collection of many views of the same area at a particular time in history, such as a country atlas. Click on the titles below to learn more about each item.

Historical atlas of the United States : with original maps by Derek Hayes
"Using more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world, this book is the first to tell the story of America's past from a geographical perspective. Covering more than half a millennium in U.S. history - from conception to colonization to Hurricane Katrina - this atlas documents the discoveries and explorations, the intrigue and negotiations, the technology and the will that led the United States to become what it is today. Richly detailed, visually breathtaking maps are accompanied by extended captions that elucidate the stories and personalities behind their creation."

National Geographic historical atlas of the United States text adapted by Ron Fisher.
Beginning in 1450, this atlas highlights, in chronological order, landmark events through our nation's history, from the Revolutionary War to the Pony Express, from the Civil War to Matthew Brady and daguerrotypes, from World War II to Superman's first comic, from the Vietnam War to the first test tube baby. Each moment in history is covered in two pages of text and is accompanied by a critical image, a sidebar that gives sharp focus to one aspect of the moment, and, in most cases, a map: some created by the great cartographers of history such as Lewis and Clark, many by the unparalleled cartographic staff of National Geographic Books.

Leave us a comment about these new items or any other historical atlases that you recommend!

Did you know that the largest earthquake in New Hampshire occurred in 1940, having a magnitude of 5.50. The epicenter was at Ossipee Lake, near Whittier. For comparison, the largest earthquake in California (San Andreas fault, 1857) had a magnitude of 7.9. The most recent earthquake in New Hampshire occurred on August 28, 2004. It was thirty miles NNW of Nashua with a magnitude of 2.1.

Earthquakes have sparked man's curiosity since ancient times. They have also disrupted lives, destroyed great monuments and cities and created great tidal waves. The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) was created to determine rapidly the location and size of potentially destructive earthquakes worldwide and to report this information immediately to the appropriate national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. On this website, you can do such things as:

• read up all about earthquakes,
• search for earthquakes by state or by region,
• find information about the most recent earthquakes.

Another interesting site is Understanding Earthquakes. Here you can read excerpts from renowned people who have been witness to an earthquake, look at earthquake locations on a revolving globe, take an earthquake “quiz” and more….

Related Library Books:
When the Mississippi ran backwards : empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes by Jay Feldman.
A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester.

Most Americans have heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. After surviving a difficult year in the New World, the Pilgrims celebrated a successful harvest by sharing a feast with their Native American neighbors. But, the history of Thanksgiving is more complex. Celebrating the harvest reflects old world customs, and many communities continued the tradition throughout the colonial period. In the nation's early years, George Washington twice declared days of thanksgiving, but they were one-time events. John Adams proposed the establishment of an annual holiday in May, while Thomas Jefferson believed that giving thanks was a religious and personal, not government, affair.

Although some states, particularly in the northeast, celebrated a day of thanksgiving in the intervening years, Thanksgiving was not declared a national holiday until 1863. For years, Sara Josepha Hale, a New Hampshire native and editor of Godey's Lady's Book, campaigned for official recognition of a day of thanksgiving, hoping it would unify a nation on the verge of civil war and promote white, Protestant ideals. After the victory at Gettysburg, Lincoln agreed, although he initially recommended an August celebration. Hale and Secretary of State William Seward convinced Lincoln that the holiday should coincide with regional harvest festivals. Once established, Thanksgiving was used to assimilate immigrants and highlight the importance of family.

To learn more about the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, the roots of its traditions, and the way it has been used to promote American ideals, take a look at the items below. The Journal articles are available through Academic Search Premier, one of our EBSCO databases. To find them, go to our databases page, click on EBSCO and then select Academic Journal Resources. Academic Search Premier is the third database on the list. You can then type (or copy and paste) the title of the article into the search bar. Remember, whenever you enter a phrase or title, enclose the words in parentheses.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bibliography

Books
Appelbaum, Diana Karter. Thanksgiving: An American Holiday, An American History. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1984.

"Thanksgiving." In The Folklore of American Holidays, edited by Hennig Cohen and Tristram Potter Coffin, 396-420. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1991.

Articles
Pleck, Elizabeth. "The Making of the Domestic Occasion: The History of Thanksgiving in the United States." Journal of Social History 32, no. 4 (1999): 773. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 10, 2006).

Sigal, Lillian. "Thanksgiving: Sacred or Profane Feast?." Mythosphere 1, no. 4 (1999): 451. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 10, 2006).

Wills, Anne Blue. "Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving." Church History 72, no. 1 (2003): 138. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 10, 2006).

Wilson, Samuel M. "Pilgrim's paradox." Natural History 100, no. 11 (1991): 22. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed November 10, 2006).

Immigration, medical marijuana, stem cell research.... All have been debated in the news in recent months. Whether you're researching for a paper or merely want to understand both sides of an argument, you can find information on the pros and cons of these and many other hot topics in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database on the Nashua Public Library web site. For each topic, you may find:

• Magazine and news articles
• Pro and con viewpoint essays
• Statistics
• Relevant web sites
• Primary documents
• Images
• Reference articles, including overviews of the topic

Drawing on dozens of publications such as the New York Times and U.S. News & World Report, the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides easy access to multiple resources on both sides of a controversy. You can mark articles that interest you and save them for later perusal. Or, if you prefer, simply print or e-mail the full text of the articles. The database is available in the library or from any internet-connected computer--just have your library card handy and type in the last five digits of your card's barcode to gain access to the database.

If books are your medium, the Nashua Public Library also carries the Opposing Viewpoints series of books. Stop by for a look!

With the departure of Thanksgiving, the holiday season is upon us! December is definitely the month with Hanukkah beginning on the 15th, Christmas on the 25th and Kwanzaa beginning on the 26th. Nashua Public Library has a large collection of non-fiction, holiday-related books which will help you to celebrate with decorations, recipes, games and activities. Some books are helpful for understanding why we celebrate, as well as how, and others will explain old traditions and help you and your children to create new ones. For example, We are what we celebrate by Amitai Etzioni may shed some light on why holiday celebrations are so important to Americans. The book of new family traditions by Meg Cox should help your family to discuss holiday traditions and to find new and inventive ways to celebrate. You may even find some new and inventive holidays to celebrate.

Both The Hanukkah book by Mae Shafter Rockland and The tapestry of Jewish time by Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin describe the origins of Hanukkah and the meaning behind the symbolism involved in the celebration. The Hanukkah book includes craft projects such as a stuffed dreidel made from old jeans and an elephant bank gift made using paper-mache and a balloon. If you want to serve potato latkes, cheese coins, or other traditional foods of the season, try the "new" Jewish Holiday Cookbook by Gloria Kaufer Greene.

Our Christmas collection includes books on food, decorating, gifts,traditions and the customs celebrated in many lands. For traditions, try Stories behind the great traditions of Christmas by Ace Collins or to get that Christmas spirit, Chicken soup for the soul: the book of Christmas virtues by Jack Canfield. Gifts, food and decorations are all made easy in 365 ways to prepare for Christmas by David E Monn.

If you are planning your Kwanzaa celebration, or if you are interested in finding out more about Kwanzaa, the library has books which will help you. The complete Kwanzaa by Dorothy Winbush Riley explains the seven principles of Kwanzaa and acts as a holiday guide as well. A Kwanzaa keepsake by Jessica B. Harris offers suggestions for creating Kwanzaa traditions for your family, and the recipes and crafts found in Kwanzaa Karamu by April A. Brady will add fun to your family celebration.

A trip to visit NPL should fit right in to your December plans! Happy Holidays!

If you're wondering why the library only collects PS2 games to circulate, you're not alone.

Let me start by saying we're not trying to show preferential treatment over those of you that are part of the Nintendo family. It's actually much more basic than that.

A few years ago we noticed a desire from our customers to be able to check out video games and we agreed that this is a service we'd like to offer our community. However, our budget only allows for us to collect one platform of games. At the time we started to purchase video games for check out our research told us that PS2 was the most popular console. Since we want to serve as many people as possible, that's what we went with.

Now that new platforms such as the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii, perhaps we will soon have to re-evaluate our collection policy, for now, however it remains that the library will only be purchasing PlayStation 2 video games for check out.

To see a complete list of PS2 games owned by the library...
1. Visit the library catalog
2. Choose "Subject Browse" from the pull down menu
3. Type "PlayStation 2 video games" into the search box and click the arrow or hit enter.

You can locate the games on a white turn rack in the teen room.

Happy Gaming!!!

Did you know that there is really such a thing as the Invisible Web? Is it something that you need rose-colored glasses to see?

The term "Invisible Web", also known as the "Deep Web", refers to the information that search engines and directories do not have direct access to, such as databases. Unlike pages on the "Visible Web" (the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in databases is generally inaccessible to software spiders and crawlers. That is because search engines cannot type or think to construct searches or enter passwords to access databases such as EBSCO, Lexix-Nexis and ERIC. In addition, there are sites that may build in technical barriers so that search engines cannot crawl them, sites that search engines reject to eliminate clutter, and sites that are dynamically created and thus do not have a stable address.

The Invisible Web is BIG. BrightPlanet estimates the invisible web as being 500 times bigger than the searchable Web. Google, for example, accesses about 8 billion web pages). The fact that search engines only access a very small portion of the web makes the Invisible Web a very tempting resource. There is much more information out there . And the Invisible Web will only become larger.

There are several ways to search the Invisible Web:
> You can find searchable databases containing invisible web pages in the course of routine searching in most general web subject directories. Examples are Librarians Index, AcademicInfo, Infomine, Direct Search, the Resource Discovery Network from the United Kingdom, and Virtual Library.

> Use Google and other search engines to find searchable databases by searching a subject term followed by the word "database". See the difference between entering "obituaries" and "obituaries database" in Google.

> Various websites are set up to search the Invisible Web. CompletePlanet.com is a directory of "over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines". "Academic gateways" can help you also. The SJSU Academic Gateway enables you to access the San Jose State University library as well as San Jose public libraries. In addition, there are various governmental (US) databases such as Ask Eric which provide access to educational resources, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and many more

To Learn More About the Invisible Web
Related Library Books:
The hidden web : finding quality information on the net by Maureen Henninger.

The invisible Web : uncovering information sources search engines can't see by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.

Websites:
Invisible or Deep Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity

Medical Resources on the Invisible Web (Scroll down to and select Featured Article: The Invisible Web")

Invisible Web Gateways-Portals to the Deep Web

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

Related Articles:
Invisible Web Gets Deeper

The Invisible Web

Special: Seek and Ye Shall Find

Flush The Web .com - Worst of the Web Search Engine

Happy searching!

It has happened to almost everyone I know, and it's a tough lesson to learn. After laboring for hours on a paper or project, the computer freezes, lightning strikes, or a fuse blows. Replicating your efforts will be impossible. How can you prevent this from happening? Save your work regularly! Click on the disk icon after you finish each paragraph or once you finally get your graphic looking just right.

Even if you take great care in saving your work, you might put your disk into the computer and find that a file is corrupt or the computer cannot read the disk. If you made a backup, you’re in luck! A backup is the same as your original, but saved in a different location. When working at home, save the file to both your hard drive and to a disk. If you use a public computer, either save the file on two different disks or e-mail a copy of the file to yourself. Always save the most recent incarnation of your work in both places.

Portable media options for saving computer files include floppy disks, CDs, zip disks, and USB flash drives. Floppy disks are the small 3.5 inch square disks. They are inexpensive, but have the smallest amount of memory and are slowly being phased out. Some newer computers, such as the library’s teen homework computers, do not have floppy drives, but you can borrow an external floppy drive from the reference department for library use.

If you plan to save pictures, graphics, or large files, you should look into the other options. CDs come in two formats—CD-R and CD-RW. Once you save a file on a CD-R, you cannot edit it. You will need a CD-RW if you anticipate making any changes. Zip disks are less common and more expensive than floppy disks. They are physically thicker and can hold much more information. The final type of portable storage, and my personal favorite, is the USB flash drive. This newer technology is easy to use, holds a lot of information, and is more stable than a floppy disk. The price of flash drives depends on the brand and amount of storage.

You can purchase floppy disks, CDs, zip disks and flash drives at office supply stores or stores with an electronics department. Also, the reference department sells floppy disks and CD-Rs for $1 and CD-RWs for $2.

Take it from someone who has been there—saving your work will save your sanity!

If you got an e-mail making one of these claims, would you think it was true or false?

• "If you forward this e-mail, you could win a trip to Disney World from Bill Gates!"
• "If you forward this e-mail, someone will donate lots of money to the American Cancer Society!"
• "Boycott Starbucks, because they refused to send free coffee to our soldiers in Iraq!"

All three e-mails are compelling, and designed to make you pass the e-mail along to all of your friends. Also, all three are FALSE. How do you tell? When in doubt, check the story on Snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference Pages.

With e-mail, it's easy to share cute stories, outrageous political news and scary health warnings with your friends. But before you hit the "forward" button on your e-mail, check for the facts on Snopes.com. The staff of Snopes investigate many of the e-mail claims circulating on the internet, and they post the results on their web site.

If you're researching a specific claim, you can use their search engine to locate the report. There's also a browse feature. Each urban legend or e-mail claim is assigned to a category. Categories range from Autos to Weddings, including Legal, Medical, Computers (which includes discussions about virus warnings), Fauxtography (exposes faked photographs), and more.

Sometimes the stories are true, and you can forward the e-mail with confidence. But often, Snopes staff have debunked them, and they give you clear descriptions of how they found out that a tale was false.

So stop inbox clutter, and fight the chain mail--check before forwarding!

The state of New Hampshire has a very handy website. It's loaded with information, all of it free! As the tabs across the top show, the website is divided into four categories: visitors, residents, business and government. Information is frequently referenced in more than one category,so it's hard to miss something important. The toolbar on the left-hand side also links you to important features such as Laws and Rules, Just for Kids, and especially useful at this time of year, ShopNH.

The state website has answers to a number of frequently asked questions. If you want to know who represents your town to the state legislature in Concord and how that person has been voting, take a look at Who's my Legislator?. Select your town by clicking on the map or using the dropdown menu. That will bring up a list of your representatives and your senator. Select a name, and you are connected with the contact information for this person as well as committee memberships, bills sponsored, voting record and personal webpage, if there is one.

Community profiles are also available on the state website. These profiles provide very complete information about each town drawn from a number of sources. Information about town services, demographics, property taxes, employment and wages, housing and largest employers can be found here.

The Visitors tab will connect you to the New Hampshire Events Catalog where you can search for events by date, region or town. The Things to do tab at the top of that page will connect you to attractions, dining, lodging and other must-know information for a wonderful vacation.

Business and tax information are available here as well as forms for New Hampshire taxes. The New Hampshire Almanac is an excellent resource for students and anyone else needing New Hampshire facts. Here you can find all of the state symbols as well as census data and information on the first-in-the-nation primary. This is a must-see website for anyone living in, working in, or visiting New Hampshire!

Did you know that you can recommend a book, CD, or movie for the library to purchase? We want our collection to reflect the community's interests so that means we want to know what interests you.

If you know of a title that you think the library should own, you can submit your suggestion online, stop by the Reference Desk and fill out a suggestion form, or give us a call at 589-4611. The appropriate librarian will then be notified, and he/she will investigate the title, (and let you know what he/she decides in case you would like the book reserved for you after it is bought.)

Please keep in mind purchases should be appropriate for a public library setting and fit within our collection development policy.

Happy reading, listening and viewing!