Saturday, July 26, 2014

MUNY KIDS

SORKINS DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT

The Sorkins Missouri business database has been added to SLPL.org--you can now access it from home! You'll find the link under the "Business" heading on our Databases page:

Sorkins Directory of Business and Government

What is Sorkins Directory of Business and Government?

Sorkins is the largest publisher of comprehensive regional databases in the U.S.

What do we mean by Comprehensive Business Profiles?

When you name a major city, everyone knows the largest public companies which produce well known products. There are only 4000 public companies in the country. No one else--except Sorkins--covers these companies providing the best coverage available for the other 99% of the area's economy.

Sorkin’s coverage includes:

Complete editions for the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago metro areas.

Detailed listings include:

* Company name & parent company name
* Company headquarters & major locations in the region
* Detailed descriptions (of whatever length necessary) that tell the company story
* Executives, managers, officers, and boards
* Encompasses everyone in charge of sales, marketing, public purchasing, human resources, logistics, and information technology
* Companies indexed by proprietory industry codes.
* Sorkins Directory of Industry Categories (SDIC's), as well as, the widely used SIC/NAICS industry codes.

Search Capabilities include:

* Search by keyword
* Ability to look up a person and find all of their companies and board memberships
* The family tree of a company
* Saving companies
* Selecting & Sorting

Thursday, July 24, 2014

CIO ONLINE

You can now read our monthly newsletter (Check It Out!) online:

CIO ONLINE

CENTRAL LIBRARY TOURS

Have you taken a tour of Central Library since our massive renovation was completed? If not, you've got a treat in store:

CENTRAL LIBRARY TOUR INFO

SLPL ONLINE EXHIBITS

Have you checked out our online exhibits? There's sure to be something of interest:

SLPL ONLINE EXHIBITS

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

REMEMBERING A HERO

General Ulysses S. Grant died on this day in 1885 at Mount McGregor, New York. He was only 63 years old.



You can search for these (and other) books about General Grant on our catalog.

Monday, July 14, 2014

DOWNFALL

2014-2015 Winston Churchill World War II Film Series
Presented by the St. Louis Public Library and the National Churchill Museum

On June 6, 1944, Allied Forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in what is now recognized as the turning point of World War II. Seventy years later, the St. Louis Public Library and the National Churchill Museum are collaborating on this series which will take you from the beginning of the war through 1945, viewing major films depicting WWII, and listening to commentary on the films while putting each in historical perspective. The series will run through May 3, 2015.

Downfall (German: Der Untergang)

This is a 2004 German war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's reign over Nazi Germany in 1945. Unlike many other films which use historical footage, this movie is based on a number of books and the memoirs of Hitler’s secretary, Traudl Junge, who was hired in 1942 and was in the bunker at the end. Critics debated whether the film humanizes Hitler too much or shows how a human being can do such things as he did.

Sunday
August 17, 2014
1:15 p.m.

Central Library Auditorium

The next film in this series, The Dambusters, will be shown on September 7.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

TALKING FREEDOM

The first official public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place today (July 8) in Philadelphia in 1776:



Search the SLPL catalog for this and other books about the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution

Thursday, July 3, 2014

FREE CENSUS ACCESS THIS WEEKEND!

Although SLPL offers free access to Ancestry.com at Central Library and our branches, you usually can't access it from home without a paid subscription. This weekend, however, a significant part of Ancestry.com is available to you for free:

Happy 4th of July!

In honor of the 4th of July, we will be opening up all of our U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790 through 1940 for FREE. These collections will be open from July 2nd through the 6th.

Hopefully this will distract you from the 12-year-old neighbor kid who hasn’t stopped lighting off fire crackers all week…

Enjoy!

Matthew Deighton
Sr. Public Relations Specialist
Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com U.S. Census Collection