Went to the King County Library site (think Seattle) which of course is wonderful. Lots of good lists of books for every category plus GOOD graphics. Texas State Library and San Antonio Library good for for hispanic/Spanish info (kind of boring looking). All had good links to even more info. I think GCL website is great - easy to use and has lots of good info. Think it might be better if some of the categories were updated more often - as more and more patrons rely on computers for info instead of calling, we need to be up- to- date accurate. It is easy to navigate and straight forward which is a real plus. Some other sites are so "designer" that they become hard to use. Would like to see more links someday and a real ad campaign to make people aware of the Homework Help. The info is there but patrons aren't clueing in.

Blinkxx has a Consumers' Guide write-up about movie downloads which recommends Butterfly as the best and offers a link. Butterfly is $39.95 a year w. unlimited downloads - but the way things are changing, think I would rather pay as you go since a year from now who knows which ones will still be in biz. You can burn DVDs through them so you can keep your old favorites or see the latest, very tempting... You can get to internet radio programming through their podcast site . Some great music available and well organized by type. Reminds my of the short wave radios which offered programs from all over the world - depending on which way the wind was blowing in the upper atmosphere...that was fascinating too.

MovieFlix - What a great site for OLD movies, the kind that used to be on tv in the afternoons and aren't anymore. Noticed most of the free ones are very short but that's ok for free. WC Fields "The Dentist" was a freebie and he's always good. Hadn't heard of most of the free cartoons but worth a try.

Wikipedia edit under" Papiamento"

(needs specific references to include in Wikipedia - glad to know they are careful of what they allow included and demand research references)

"Papiamento is linguistically similar to Ladino, the language of early Portugese/Spanish Sephardic communities. Since many early residents of Curacao were Sephardic Jews either from Portugal, Spain, or Portugese Brazil, it is logical that they brought their language with them and continued to speak it among themselves and in communicating with their servants and employees. These servants and employees would have used the language with their own modifications and taught it to their families since jobs existed for those who spoke it. As the Jewish community became the prime merchants and traders in the area, business and everyday trading was conducted in Papiamento/Ladino. As various nations owned the island and official languages changed with ownership, Papiamento/Ladino became the constant language of the residents. " Ellis

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Librarian, patron, and bookseller admire a children's book donated in memory of a beloved member of the community. Thanks to everyone for posing willingly and smiling real smiles...

On bloglines with a small blog and blogroll w. subscriptions. Interesting info - could definitely spend hours and hours reading all this. Fun but I think I need the Cliff Notes or start using the text messaging abbreviations, even speed reading couldn't keep up with all this info...

Looked at Firefox - finally. Apparently Google has bought it/created it and wants to get you to sign up for Google Plus with 8+ add ons - wouldn't let me proceed to Firefox without it... Very annoying. I LOVE Google but this was frustrating. Have now looked over Firefox and it seems ok - so used to Explorer I'll probably continue with it until there is a real reason to switch. Netscape was the one I used about 10 years ago and didn't realize it was still an entity. Seems fine - lots of opinion messages from "members" who must have lots of free time. Do like the little news blurbs on the first page but it is so easy to get sidetracked following an interesting tidbit and forgetting why you logged on...