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September 29, 2006

Back to School Prep at the Library

The Darien Library's newest database, Learning Express Library, provides free online access to college, graduate degree, and professional licensing exams. You can access this database in the Library or from home, using your Darien Library library card barcode. The database includes practice tests for such popular academic tests as the SAT, high school AP tests, GRE, MCAT, and GMAT. On your first visit, you will be asked to sign in as a new user and then log in as a returning user on each subsequent visit. If you're interrupted in the middle of a practice test or course, your work is automatically saved and you can return to complete the test later. Exciting features of this wonderful new resource include immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your results. Give it a try and let us know what you think. For assistance when online, call the Information Desk at 655-1234 x114.

Posted by JudyS at 10:12 AM

September 22, 2006

Attention Firefox users

One of the best things about the Mozilla Firefox web browser is the search box in the top right hand corner. When I'm searching all I have to do is type my search terms into the box, choose which site I want to search from the dropdown menu, and hit the enter key. This saves me the time of typing google.com in the address bar, waiting for google to load, and then finally googling.

Once you download our new search plugin, you will be able to search the Library catalog without having to first visit the Library's site.

Click this link to install the Darien Library Catalog Mozilla plugin

Posted by EmilyW at 04:36 PM | Comments (1)