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A Publication Of The Porter County Public Library System July 2012 August www.pcpls.lib.in.us Volume 24 Issue 4 Published bi-monthly by Porter County Public Library System Serving 11 Townships INSIDE ExploreExplore thethe CareerCareer SectionSection THIS ISSUE ofof YourYour LibraryLibrary Today!Today! Career Whether you are 1,001 Ways to Pay Books ................. 1 & 2 Relatively contemplating ca- for College. Don’t reer choices, just forget—if you’re a Speaking ............... 2 Y. S. Book heading off to col- high school student, lege, entering the talk to your school Review ................... 3 workforce, or look- guidance counselor, Sherlock ing to change jobs, too. If you already Holmes ............... 4 & 5 there’s information know what univer- July Event at the library for sity you’ll be attend- Calendar ............. 6 & 7 ing, set up an ap- you. Ask the staff August Event at your library’s Reference Depart- pointment with the financial aid de- Calendar ................ 8 ment for help finding information in partment of that school. They may Friends the Careers section. have scholarship and grant opportu- News ..................... 9 nities specifically for that college. Trying to decide what career to go Wolfram into? Try Top 100 Health-care Ca- If you know what career path you Alpha ................10 & 11 reers. It’s a guidebook to training want to follow, you might be re- and careers in health, nursing and quired to take an entrance exam or other medical fields. Or how about skills test. The library has test prep The Top 100: The Fastest-growing books for a wide variety of exams Careers for the 21st Century? Find such as the NCLEX for nursing, the out what jobs have the best pros- LSAT for law school, the SAT for pects, perks, and salaries. Take a general college admission, the GMAT look at the College Board Book of for business, the ASVAB for the Majors to find out what kinds of de- Armed Forces, the CompTIA A+ for grees are out there and which col- computer tech., and many more. Don’t forget to log those leges offer them. The library also has So you’ve graduated college and books on specific career areas such as summer reads online need a job. Try What Color Is Your Internet & Multimedia, Food & Bev- before it’s too late! Parachute?, a guide for job-hunters erage Industry, Real Estate, Health and career-changers. Computer- Care, Sports, Engineering, Hospital- Kids and savvy? Try the book, Find a Job ity Industry, Casinos & Gaming, teens have through Social Networking. Lost th Education, Banking & Finance, Auto- until July 14 . your job? Try books like Eliminated! motive, Animals & Pets, etc. Adults can log Now What? or Career Comeback. Need money to pay your way? books until The library also has a nice selection of st Check out books like College Money July 31 . books on resumes, cover letters, and Handbook, Getting Financial Aid, or job interviews. Check out such titles as Resumes That tional Employment & Career Resources Knock ‘em Dead, Amazing Resumes, Cover Letter Magic, http://www.pcpls.lib.in.us/jobs.html or Winning Job Interviews. FAFSA, Federal Student Financial Aid www.fafsa.ed.gov Have you heard of INSPIRE? It’s a database that’s free to Occupational Outlook, the Dept. of Labor’s guide to Indiana residents. You can find it at www.inspire.in.gov jobs & job prospects, earnings, job search tips, career or through the library home page under “Research” then requirements, and working conditions “Databases”. In addition to sections on free e-books, and www.bls.gov/oco databases of newspapers, journals, and periodicals for Indiana Youth Institute, IN-specific career exploration research, there’s an area called “Testing and Education”. www.DriveofYourLife.org This section has resources for high school and college stu- State Student Assistance Commission of IN, lists of dents and for people already in the working world. Take financial aid resources for IN students practice entrance and placement exams, search for col- www.in.gov/ssaci/2335.htm leges, look for scholarship opportunities, explore specific IN Dept. of Education, links to IN colleges & univer- careers, or build a resume with INSPIRE’s easy-to-use sities template. http://www.doe.in.gov/htmls/higher.html Like to surf the Web? There are many online resources to Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc., guide to IN’s get you started on your college career or find that job independent colleges you’re looking for. Here’s a list of a few sites to visit. http://www.indianacollegechoices.org/ Porter County Public Library System, Local & Na- Donna Smith- Head of Portage Reference Relatively Speaking: Notes from the Genealogy Department The commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil 1910 but that was a deceptive number. The Valparaiso War continues. In honor of Northwest Indiana's contri- University student population was included in the 1910 bution to the effort, the South Shore Civil War Trail has census but not in the 1920 one. In 1940 if students were been created. It is a path of different sites in the region away to college then they would still be recorded in the marking the soldiers and events that helped the Union households of their family instead of where they were effort. The Valparaiso Public Library has been included actually located. as part of the trail. Larry Clark gave Beginner's Workshops in genealogy at This is due to the Genealogy Department's vast collec- the Wanatah Public Library on May 23rd and the Kouts tion of Civil War information and that the records of the Public Library on June 5th. The next workshop will be at Chaplain Brown Post of the Grand Army of the Republic the South Haven Public Library on August 6th from 6:15 and the David D. Porter Post of the Sons of the Union to 8:45 PM. Veterans of the Civil War are housed in the library. Larry Clark and Marlene Polster attended the National Larry Clark continues working on the Porter County in- Genealogical Society Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio dex to the 1940 United States Census. Several states have from May 8-12. The meeting featured ten different ses- been completed on the some of the national genealogical sions every hour to choose from. The focus was on the sites such as Ancestry.com and Familysearch.org. The anniversary of the War of 1812 and early settlement in Porter County index will be an abridged index meaning Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. that Larry is correcting some misspelled The Indiana Collection that is housed in the words and adding full names where abbre- Genealogy Department has greatly ex- viations are given. This will be different panded its collection of books on railroads from the national indexes where names are that served the state- particularly North- supposed to be indexed as is. west Indiana. These books contain numer- The population for Porter County in 1940 ous glossy colored photos of trains and rail was 27,836. The county has gained in num- yards from many years ago. bers every census except for 1920 when it Larry Clark—Head of Genealogy Department had lost a couple hundred people from 2 YouthYouth Services:Services: BookBook ReviewsReviews This summer, the PCPLS Youth Services departments Why I picked it up: The unique format: are exploring the themes of Dreaming Big and Own- this is a novel told entirely in photo- ing the Night. The following stories all feature char- graphs. We see visual snippets of acters with big dreams. Check them out at your Glory's life: drawings, scrapbook pages, branch! newspaper articles, youtube videos, IM conversa- ★ The Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi tions, and more. The reader must interpret the story (Jfic) from these images. Eva Nine's circumstances are special, and so is Eva, Why I finished it: Things may not be all that they as her Muthr, a Mult-Utility Task Help Robot, keeps seem in Glory's life, as becomes more and more evi- telling her. She has never met another human, for dent the farther you read into the book. I kept find- Eva and Muthr live alone together in an underground ing myself going through earlier sections, rethinking Sanctuary. Eva feels like her life is on hold, and she those images even as I neared the ending. dreams of the day when she will pass her survival skills training and finally be allowed to go up to the I'd give it to: Those who are fans of the visual arts, surface, where she hopes to search for other hu- as well as teens and adults looking for a fast read mans. She'll soon get her chance, though not in the with some depth. This is a great book for readers and non-readers alike! way she was expecting—and what she encounters is both strangely similar and vastly different from the ★ A Long, Long Sleep, by Anna Sheehan (YA) Earth she was prepared for. Rosalinda Fitzroy loves her stass dreams. They may Why I picked it up: The premise of the story and the be chemically induced, but they excite her imagina- beautiful accompanying illustrations, featuring curi- tion and inspire her art. While dreaming in stasis, ous and marvelous flora and fauna, hooked me right time is at a standstill for Rose, and she always wakes away. up the same age she was when she went to sleep. But when she's woken by Brendan, she learns that over Why I finished it: Eva is an imperfect protagonist sixty years have passed, and her entire world has you can relate to, and we can marvel at the world she changed.

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