Genealogy Center hours: update

The Genealogy Center is resuming its full, regular hours:

Monday: 1-4 pm

Thursday: 1-4 pm

Saturday: 1-4 pm

For additional information, please call Jan Wyland or email the center.

3/24: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Tuesdays with Morrie

DVDs:

• Spirited away
• Proposition
• Flyboys

Books:

• Nineteen minutes / Jodi Picoult — Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. (read a sample chapter)
• The official Fahrenheit 9/11 reader / Michael Moore — The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader is a book that includes the complete screenplay of the most provocative film of the year. The book also includes extensive sources that back up all facts in the film, as well as articles, letters, photos, and cartoons about the most influential documentary of all time. (read a sample chapter)

IRS Urges Caution about Internet Sites that Resemble the Official IRS Site

Following on our previous post about obtaining tax forms online from the IRS website, the IRS Urges Caution about Internet Sites that Resemble the Official IRS Site.

Tax forms for 2006 filings

With tax filing time fast approaching, more folks are looking for tax forms. The IRS no longer ships the library piles of forms or printable form books the way it once did. Today, the IRS provides all of these forms through its website in downloadable and printable pdf files.

The most commonly used forms may be downloaded directly from their home page's lefthand sidebar; they have a full directory of all of their publications and forms; and there is also a table from which you may select the specific form or instruction booklet you want (hint: they are in numerical order by form number, so you may need to scroll quite some distance down the list to find such forms as the 1040). The forms page also includes links to directions for downloading, printing, and filling in their forms.

To open or print files of the pdf format, if you use a Windows-based computer you must also have a copy of one of the free readers for this file type, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader.

If you do not have access to a printer, you may print IRS forms from the library's public-use computers using our printer at the usual charge of $.10 a page. We also have a photocopier, for which we charge $.10 a page as well.

Genealogy Center closed 3/16-3/27

The Seldovia Genealogy and Family History Center will be closed from March 16-27. For assistance, please contact Sandee or email gen.cent.sov@gmail.com.

The main library will be open its usual, posted hours.

Daylight Saving Time on your computer

Daylight Saving Time comes early this year, thanks to a recent federal law change. We will "spring forward" this Sunday, March 11, by setting our clocks an hour later and we won't "fall back" until November 4. Because these time changes are built into the operating system of most of our computer-based devices, we normally don't have to give that much thought: our computers and all of their programs just update on their own.

But this year, we'll need to update the information our computers use to make that change. Some computers, especially those running Microsoft Vista and Microsoft XP with automatic updates enabled, will have already received the special update to accomplish this. Other computers and devices will require a manual download. Here are some places you can look to find more information specific to the versions you have on hand (or to help decide what it is you have):

• Microsoft's Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center
• Daylight Saving Time on your Mac
• Is Your Windows XP Ready to Spring Forward?
• And there's even a patch for your Windows-operated cell phone: Updating Windows Mobile-powered devices for the new Daylight Saving Time

(via Librarians' Internet Index)

updated to add:

• And for other software than your basic operating system, The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium offers Extended Daylight Saving Time Links, Advisories and Changes (via Brad)