Prospect Heights Public Library News & Announcements

Summer Reading Begins June 4th!

May @ Your Library

Volunteer @ Your Library
If you're interested in volunteering at the Library, we'd love to have you on our team! Please fill out a Junior Library Volunteer, Tutor, or Adult Volunteer application and let us know what your skills and interests are. >>Read More

Volunteer/Staff Appreciation Luncheon
View pictures of our volunteer and staff appreciation luncheon, Monday, April 16.

Why You Can't Find Some Books on MyMediaMall
You may have heard on the news, or simply noticed, that you can't get many of the latest best selling eBooks through MyMediaMall. Either way, you're probably wondering why. >>Read More

Egg Hunt Pictures
View pictures of our Egg Hunt with special guests Plum Crazy Puppets presenting "Humpty's Egg-cellent Adventures."

Download Music For Free With Freegal
Watch the Video to learn how to use it. Go to Freegal .

Online Library Catalog
Finding titles, placing holds and monitoring your Library account just got easier!
>> Find Out How

Large Print Keyboard Available For Public PCs
>> Read More about our Keys-U-See keyboard.

Be A Volunteer!

If you're interested in volunteering at the Library, we'd love to have you on our team! We have volunteer opportunities for all ages. Please fill out a Junior Library Volunteer, Tutor, or Adult Volunteer application and let us know about your skills and interests. >>Read More

Volunteer @ Your Library!

If you're interested in volunteering at the Library, we'd love to have you on our team! We have volunteer opportunities for all ages. Our current corps of volunteers donated over 500 hours of their time last year and we're extremely grateful to them. We have volunteer opportunities for all ages:

Our Junior Library Volunteers are middle school aged or younger.  They help us with our youth programs by helping set up the rooms and put together craft kits among other things. 

Marvelous Math Tutors are high schoolers who want to help younger students with their homework. It's usually math related, but sometimes other subjects come up as well!

Our PHPLD Volunteers are adults who help us with a wide variety of tasks. They make reminder calls for our programs; pull books from our shelves that we send to other libraries; teach some of our computer classes; and help with many other projects around the Library. Other volunteers help patrons improve their English skills by having conversations with them on a regualr basis - nothing formal, just a nice chat so their patron can practice speaking and understanding English. 

If you're interested in volunteering, please fill out a JLV, Tutor, or Adult volunteer application and let us know about your skills and interests.

April is National Poetry Month

Poetry is often seen as a love it or hate it thing. It doesn't have to be that way, though. We've compiled a list of great poetry in our collection that we think you'll enjoy. We've included the all time greats like Tennyson and Frost as well as the recent laureates like Billy Collins. The list has French poetry, hip-hop poetry and beat poetry. You might not like it all, but chances are there's something that will interest you, whether it's gardening tips or travel advice.

Why You Can't Find Some eBooks on MyMediaMall

You may have heard on the news, or simply noticed, that you can't get many of the latest best selling eBooks through MyMediaMall. In either case, you're probably wondering why. Currently five of the seven largest publishers will not sell their eBook content to libraries. The other two only do so at exorbitant pricing or with severe lending restrictions. >>READ MORE

Why Some eBooks Aren't Available at the Library - Full Article

You may have heard on the news or simiply noticed that you can't get many of the latest best selling eBooks through MyMediaMall. In either case, you're probably wondering why. Currently, five of the seven largest publishers will not sell their eBook content to libraries. The other two only do so at exorbitant prices or through severe lending restrictions. The titles we've purchesed up 'til now, those that are in our catalog, largely won't be affected. But going forward, we won't be able to provide Macmillan titles such as Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan, or Simon & Schuster blockbuster Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. You won't have access to new titles from David Baldacci, Lisa Scottoline or Clive Cussler because Hatchette Book Group, MacMillan and Penguin Group won't sell eBooks to libraries.  Scholastic won't sell us The Hunger Games. Click on the link below for more information about this unfortunate situation. We'll continue to work with these publishers towards a compromise that will address their concerns as well as providing you with access to these best selling titles and more. In the meantime, please don't forget that we do carry these titles in print and often on CD and as downloadable audiobooks.  

EBook Publisher Restrictions

Youth Art Month

VIEW PICTURES OF OUR
YOUNG ARTISTS RECEPTION

Use Your Kindle with MyMediaMall!

You can now download Library books to your Kindle using MyMediaMall! To use this service, follow these steps:

• Select MyMediaMall from the Library's homepage (under Catalog in the left menu), or go directly to www.mymediamall.net. Sign in using your Prospect Heights library card.

• Search or browse for the Kindle title you would like to check out.

• Add the title to your cart, and checkout.

• After checkout, click Get for Kindle. This opens the Amazon.com website. You may be required to sign in with your Amazon.com account if you are not already logged in.

• Select a Kindle device or Kindle reading app. Click the Get Library Book button and sync your device or app to download the book, or choose to send it to your device via USB.

An active Wi-Fi connection is required for wireless delivery to a Kindle device.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Library.

Can You Pick the Oscar Winners?

Participate in our second annual Oscar contest and you could win a $15 gift card to AMC Theaters. Pick up your entry form at the Library or print it out here, complete it and turn it in at the Library. Choose the winners for six categories, and make sure to guess our tiebreaker--what time the 10:00 Channel 7 News program will start on February 26. (Here"s a hint--it won't start at 10!) Submit your entry by 5:00 pm Sunday, February 26.

Attend A Night at the Oscars, Thursday, February 23, 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Internationally known author, film historian, and critic, Raymond Benson, will present this year's Oscar nominations with anecdotes and film clips. Bring in your pick of winners and we will do our own voting. REGISTER