Black Friday Technology

Black Friday Technology

Join us on Wednesday, November 9th at 6:30pm in the Community Room. Come in and learn about different technologies you might see during a Black Friday sale...like the iPad, Kindle, Nook, digital cameras, scanners, a few cell phones too. 

Find out some of the terms that you can throw at the salesman to show them that you are a more knowledgeable consumer!

We will also show you what all of those little codes you see in flyer are good for!

QR Codes

Hope to see you there! Call 860-889-2365x109 (ask for Amanda) for questions.

O'Tis a Festival at Otis Library

We are having a craft and book sale at Otis:


Saturday, November 19, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

• Handcrafted items
• Books from Bank Square Books in Mystic
• Musical performances
• Author Pearl Dexter - 11am
• Author Wally Lamb - 1pm
• Children's Crafts
• Face Painting

The crafters will be spaced out all over the library and you will be able to wonder through at your leisure. There will be ample parking and a festive spirit! Think of our festival when you are planning to get some holiday shopping done with a homemade flavor!

Internet Archive: Digging up the Digital Past

If you’re looking for a Web resource with a deep collection of cultural riches that are both eclectic, enlightening and free, you may want to visit the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/).

Beneficiaries of the institutional support of the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress and the Prelinger Archives as well as the support of thousands of individuals; the Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and cultural artifacts. The overall collection is comprised of approximately three million texts, over one million audio recordings (including 93,000 downloadable live music concerts) and nearly 600,000 movies/videos.

One of the more intriguing aspects of this resource is the Wayback Machine, containing 2 petabytes of archived websites reaching back across the entire history of the Internet. Unlike other search engines, the Wayback Machine requires you to enter the URL of the page you’re trying to find. For instance, typing www.newyorktimes.com into the search box will retrieve a “chronological map” allowing you access to an accurate snapshot of the website for a specific date of your choosing. This puts another powerful research tool at your disposal when you need to retrieve information from websites that change with great rapidity.