News & Events

New Database - Historic Mapworks

The Russell Library announces the addition of a new online resource, Historic Mapworks to our menu of databases. This is a unique product combining quality images of historic digital maps from all over the world along with property atlases, nautical charts, antiquarian world views, directories and other text documents. There are over 300,000 maps at your fingertips. Use Historic Mapworks to track ancestors, view neighborhoods, and compare historic maps with modern images. Check this source out from inside the library on our web page under the “Library Databases” heading History & Genealogy. For those of you with a Russell Library barcode you may also access this excellent product from home.

Don’t Let Your T.V. Go Dark

Learn about the transition to digital television (DTV) on Wednesday, July 30 at 7pm in the Hubbard Room.  Guest speaker Lynne Montgomery, Attorney, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will explain why you will need a converter box by February 17, 2009 if you have an analog TV.  She will also discuss the coupon program which households may use towards the purchase of digital-to-analog converter boxes.  Digital broadcasting allows stations to offer improved picture and sound quality and is more efficient than analog.  All-digital broadcasting frees up parts of the valuable broadcast spectrum for public safety communications.  Attorney Montgomery will be available to answer questions after her presentation.  For more information about the digital transition, go to www.dtv.gov or call 1-888-CALL-FCC. 

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Movies for Teens

Join us for some entertaining movies and tasty popcorn during the upcoming film series for teens in the Hubbard Room. The movies will be shown on Wednesdays at 1:30 and include:

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest on August 6 - Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless Jack can find a way out, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation;
  • The Net on August 13 – Angela Bennet, a freelance software analyst, is inadvertently drawn into a dangerous conspiracy when a client asks her to de-bug a CD-ROM game. Soon the client turns up dead and Angela is next on the hit-list. After the assassins obliterate her official identity, Angela realizes hers is not the only life being destroyed on the Net;
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail on August 20 - The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion; and
  • Clueless on August 27 - Still as smart and charming as ever, Clueless gets a fresh, sassy makeover for this new 'Whatever!' Collectors Edition. Alicia Silverstone sparkles as Cher, the matchmaking 15-year-old Beverly Hills High student who has shopping and boys on her mind.


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