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Summer Reading is Here!

Join us for a summer full of fun and games! This year's theme is "Read on the Wild Side!" For information about all the upcoming activities and fun, check out our Summer Reading Page.

*New! Scroll down to check out our new online resources!

Home improvement, consumer guides, do-it-yourself resources, reference and information and more! These online resources can also be accessed from our menu bar at the top under "Library Searches"

Did you know you can now receive Library notices via email?

The Library now has the capability of letting you know via email when we have items on hold for you or when you have items overdue. To receive your notifications by email, next time you visit the library just give us your current email address, and we'll do the rest!

Annual Baking Contest!

The Rochester Public Library annual baking contest, held as part of the "Sparks In The Park" festivities will be on Sunday July 5th at 3 p.m.  This year, we turn to “Blueberries for Sal” by Robert McCloskey as our inspiration, with blueberry pie being the challenge.  There is just one category:  blueberry pie – it can be one crust or two crusts – it just has to be blueberry!  Entry forms must be turned in to Rochester Library by 2:00 p.m. on Friday, July 3rd. Click here to download the entry form.     

New Resources Now Available for Rochester Library Patrons

Rochester Public Library is pleased to offer several new online resources for our patrons. Click on the links and provide your Rochester Public Library card number when prompted. These resouces can also be accessed via our menu bar at the top of the page under "Library Searches":

1. Consumer Reports Online: provides ratings and reviews, advice and tips, recommendations and buying guides for cars, home & garden, electronics, food, health and more..

2. Consumer Health Complete: provides information from more than 200 health reference books, thousands of health reports, Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, plus medical images, diagrams, animations and more.

Do-It-Yourself Resources:

3. Home Improvement Reference Center: includes maintenence, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects and home & garden decorating tips.

4. Small Engine Repair: includes info on ATV's, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles, snowblowers, tillers and other outdoor power equipment.

5. Auto Repair: this database contains information on most major manufacturerers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes back to 1945.

6. Hobbies and Crafts Online: this reference center provides information and instructions for many popular hobbies, crafts and recreational activities. Subject areas include collecting, games and electronics, model building, home & leisure, needlework, outdoors & nature, scrapbooking and papercrafts.

Information, Reference and Geneology

7. Worldbook Online Reference Center: the premier online reference source, containing every article from the 22-volume Worldbook Encyclopedia, plus thousands more. It also includes state-of-the-art multimedia, maps and other resources. We are convinced you will find this online reference center to be a valuable resource! To access this resource, a Rochester Library card number is required. Click on the link above, or use the menu bar at the top of our pages under "Library Searches."

8. HeritageQuest Online : Genealogical and ancestry search tools including searches from census and war records, as well as access to an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. To access this resource, a Rochester Library card number is required. Click on the link above, or use the menu bar at the top of our pages under "Library Searches."

9. Ancestry.com, library edition. This searchable database of census, birth, marriage and death records and more is available only on the library's computers; therefore you must come to the Rochester Library to use this resource.

10. Novelist Plus: This is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. For school media specialists and teachers there are Standards-Based Thematic Units and Picture Book Extenders, as well as specific teaching guides for using fiction in the classroom. A username and password is required, and Rochester Library patrons can obtain these by contacting the Library.

11. Novelist K-8 Plus: Like Novelist, but focusing on children's books.

We hope you enjoy these new resources. Contact one of our librarians if you have any questions.

The Rochester Public Library is closed the following days in FY 2010:

Saturday July 4, 2009

Monday September 7, 2009

Wednesday November 11, 2009

Thursday & Friday November 26 & 27, 2009

Thursday, Friday, Saturday December 24, 25, 26, 2009

Friday January 1, 2010

Monday January 18, 2010

Monday February 15, 2010

Monday May 31, 2010

On Thursday December 31 (New Year’s Eve) the Library will have shortened hours – it will be open 10-2