We're on Pinterest!

We've got ourselves a Pinterest account! If you're not familiar with Pinterest, it's a social networking site that works like a digital cork board. In other words, it lets you "pin" links (or bookmarks) onto "boards" so you can return to the linked webpages easily. Like our other social media accounts (Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube), you don't have to make an account of your own to look at the content we've posted.

Right now all of our boards but one basically act as bibliographies organized by theme. If you're looking for a good scary story to read as Halloween rolls around, you can look on our Horror board, click on a likely-looking book, and go straight to our catalog to place a hold on it. To access our Pinterest page, click on the red "P" next to the blue Facebook "F" to the right of the large central picture on the library's homepage. Interested in starting a Pinterest account of your own? Click here for a how-to guide.

Salmagundi: Newport Library's New Presence On The Web

Yeah, I had to look it up, too.
Salmagundi: “The term does not refer to a single recipe, but describes the grand presentation of a large plated salad comprising many different and disparate ingredients.” - Wikipedia
Sounds like us.
Social networking on the web really took off in 2008-2009 and since youʼre there, Newport Library wants to be there with you. We want to find out what you want. We want to tell you what weʼre doing. We want to start a dialogue that makes us relevant to how you access information.
Weʼve dipped our toes into the water with this blog and we hope to make a bigger splash in the future. Look for library audio and video projects, online tutorials, and reviews to staff picks old and new.
We encourage you to comment, either online or in person, (you know where weʼre at, donʼt you?) and you can expect us to comment right back at you. Let us know what we can do to make Newport Library the tag right next to Google on your bookmarks toolbar.
Speaking of Google, 12 Quick Tips to Search Google Like an Expert is a very useful article on how to improve your Google search results. You, too, can search Google like a librarian.