July Tech-Know: NoveList

Looking for a good book? Read EVERYTHING by your favorite author? NoveList can help. NoveList offers read-alikes, book club discussion guides, reviews, and readers advisory for adults and children. NoveList, NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 are available to all Sun Prairie Public Library card holders in the library or remotely from home! Go to http://www.sunlib.org/, click on the Databases tab, and scroll down to NoveList.

Summer Library Program in full swing

Today is the first day you can check in at the Children's Desk for Summer Library Program prizes! These include a Dane County Fair pass, Mallards game pass, stickers, Dolphin's Cove pass, and a variety of other mystery prizes. And don't forget, when you finish your booklet, you get a pass to the August 8th pool party!

Adults can join in the fun, as well. Turn in completed slips at the Information Desk to enter drawings to win a variety of prizes.

Looking for a Good Read? Check out the Readers tab on our website to see a variety of sources to help you select your next read!

Posted by Tracy Herold

Georgia O'Keefe Celebration

Join a celebration of Georgia O'Keefe on Saturday, June 13th, at the library from 10-3.

-- See the O'Keefe exhibit in the lobby display case

-- Watch a brief video on O'Keefe's favored vistas

-- Participate in the community art project from 11-2:30 p.m.

Posted by Tracy Herold

Seasons of Discovery Photography Exhibit

Al Snowdon, local photographer, writer, and poet, teamed up with photographer Sally Keyel to photograph our beautiful library prairies in each of the four seasons. The result of this partnership is now on display in the Adult Wing of the library through the month of June. A Haiku written by Mr. Snowdon accompanies each set of photographs.

LearningExpressLibrary

June's Tech-Know feature is Learning Express Library. LEL offers a variety of online test preparation tools, from elementary school to college! Check it out at http://www.sunlib.org/; click on the Databases menu and scroll down. Login using your library card number and create a user account and password. Absolutely free!

Posted by Tracy Herold

Fax at the Library

The library now offers fax services for your convenience! Available at the Information Desk, you can send a fax using your credit or debit card, or by purchasing a pre-paid card at the Registration Desk. The first page is $1.50; each following page is $1.00. Information Desk staff is available to answer questions.

New! Morningstar Investment Resource Center

We're pleased to announce that Morningstar Investment Resource Center is now available as one of our electronic resources to help you start tracking your investments and plan for the future! This database offers not only the contents of the print edition, but much more. Morningstar provides up-to-date coverage on more than 30,000 mutual funds, stocks, and ETFs with analysts' reports for over 2,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds.

Screeners allow you to create lists of possible investments in mutual funds, stocks and ETFs.

Expert analysis, ratings and grades help you to make sense out of the investments that interest you most.

Portfolio X-Ray allows you to enter your current or prospective portfolio to check asset allocation, sector weighting, and other key variables.

Help and Education provides guides to the database and offers articles on investing, retirement planning, and tax planning.

Morningstar is available to all Sun Prairie Public Library patrons in the library and remotely to all City of Sun Prairie cardholders. To access Morningstar Investment Research Center, go to http://www.sunlib.org/, click on the Databases tab, click on Morningstar, and enter your library barcode number.