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OverDrive at Kirkpatrick Library

Downloadable eBooks and digitable audiobooks now available at JCKL

Downloadable eBooks and digital audiobooks are now available through the library’s OverDrive service. Go to http://library.ucmo.lib.overdrive.com to make your choices.

Library Welcome Tours

The James C. Kirkpatrick library offers tours of the library early each semester. Tours not only let us show off our building – after a tour you will have a good idea where library services are located, and know who will help when you have a question or problem with your research. Tours are an excellent introduction to the JCKL library. Come join us!

Tours meet just inside the west doors (front entrance).

The library will conduct tours of its facilities, services, and resources on these dates and times:




New at Library – Mango Languages

New at the library - Mango Languages

The Kirkpatrick Library is pleased to announce that it now offers the Mango Languages online language-learning system  Learning a new language with Mango Languages is free for all library patrons, and offers a fast and convenient solution for our community’s increasing language-learning needs. Each lesson combines real life situations and audio from native speakers with simple, clear instructions. The courses are presented with an appreciation for cultural nuance and real-world application that integrates components of vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and culture. Users learn actual conversation, breaking down complex linguistic elements within an audio-visual framework that draws important connections and builds on information they have already learned.

Mango is available in two versions. One is Mango Complete, a 100-lesson course that is designed to provide a deep understanding of a language and its culture. The second is Mango Basic, which teaches everyday greetings, goodbyes and helpful phrases in a short period of time and is designed to appeal to a beginner in a new language. There are more than 40 foreign language courses available and 16 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses.

Ready to try – click here.

 

 

New Geospatial Analysis Tools @ JCKL

Median HH Income > $50K Kansas City, Columbia, St. Louis

Want to spice up your research project with some custom maps but don’t know much about GIS? You’re in luck because geospatial analysis just got easier. UCM’s ESRI campus site license now includes two user-friendly, web-based products for conducting basic geospatial analysis :

Community Analyst Online: View and analyze demographic, public, and third-party data to better understand a community and make better policy decisions. Built-in datasets include census, demographic, business, consumer spending, more.
Business Analyst Online: Analyze markets, customers, and competitors. Conduct store location analysis. Built-in datasets includ business, consumer spending, demographic data, market segmentation, more.

Learn more and get an account at  http://library.ucmo.edu/resources/gis.htm

Game Night at the Library !

 

Game Night at the LibraryFriday Evening – 7-9pm is game night – Free Pizza and Giveaways throughout the evening