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Show Stroll continued from page 9 Resorts continued from page 5 Nickel said a portrait takes him anywhere from three to 12 hours to paint. When artists are in residence and their works are shown during the strolls, they are available to answer questions about their works. Slim Jolley, volunteer office manager for Artstop, said there are no real guidelines to the art on display. The gallery showings include paintings, woodcarvings, pottery and sculptures - just about anything that is art. "It makes a great date night," Scott said of the art stroll. More than 20 restaurants do business on or around 25th Library - SNOWHASIN A snowboarder rides the glades of Snowbasin: A Sun Valley Resort. A day pass at Snowbasin costs S58. The resort does not have a college discount for day passes, Their season passes for students cost $525, whereas a regular season pass costs $925. To get more information about the resorts, visit their Web sites: snowbasin.com, powdermountain.com and wolfmountainedcn.com. You can reach reporter Jason Statey by tailing 626-7614. Street and many of them have local arlists's paintings hanging on their walls. Scott said the Artisan even changed its name from the Club to reflect what 25th Street is all about. "Twenty-fifth Street is a pretty happening place," Scott said. No longer are bars Historic 25th Street's main attraction, though there are some still in business. Many of the galleries and restaurants are just as busy, especially the first Friday of every month. Take a stroll down Historic 25th Street and catch some of the fine talent Ogden has to offer. You can reach reporter Jesica Medellin by calling 626-7621. Local artists Cara Koolmees and Suzanne Storer discuss business during the 25th Street Artist Stroll on Friday. "You are welcome to come on in," Santiago said. "We have a wireless BG access if you have a built-in wireless access on your laptop or a card for wireless BG you can connect automatically to Wi-Fi if you have a valid email account and if your wireless connection is up and running." Using the wireless connection does not require a library card; neither does using the regular library computers. In fact, the only cost to use the computers is time. "Sometimes you might have to wait a few minutes because it's first come, first serve," Santiago said. "Length of time to use the computers depends on what you want to use it for.. If you want to surf the Internet, we have 15- and 30-minute computers. There are reference computers that are onehour long, but those are restricted to academic and job-related items. And we do have two-hour word processors. Those have no Internet access, but they do have PowerPoint." But the wireless connection would not be possible without a new database system implemented August 2005. "Our new integrated computer system is really at the heart of what the library will offer for the public in the future," Wangsgard said. "We've selected a computer system that is state-of-the-art. It's in more than 2,000 libraries around the world. It really has contiiuit'd from page 9 "We try to subscribe to a lot of major titles in major databases like 1-BSCOHOST," said Zandro Santiago, assistant specialist in Adult Services Two North. "We try to keep the popular items, 'People,' 'Time,' stuff like that." The Main Branch of the Weber County Library keeps past volumes of magazines available upon request. "Depending on the title, they go from the early 1900s to 1950s, 1960s. We do keep the StandardExaminer on microfilm. We have the Standard-Examiner up to the late 1800s," Santiago said. There are many other services offered at the Weber County Library such as free Internet access and;'a new wireless Internet service. V MEN'S BASKETBALL WBBERSHIt VS. 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Weber State University Continuing Education & Community Services For information, call Kent Paskins or Vicki Jex at (801) 626-7564. Register early to allow time for pre-test and background check. Visit the WSU Police Academy website at http://weber.edu/ce/policeacademy the ability to keep pace with technology so that we'll be able to integrate not only the materials that we have within the library, but also materials that are available via the Web. People will have one-click access to resources as well as be able to query on collections and pay their fines and just conduct their business on the Web." The new system promises to be easier to use than the old system and has picture-based program for children to use. "You can look an item up by author, call number, topic, key words, title, and this new system does it a lot more quickly than the old one," Bowthorpe said. "You can also sort by books, magazines, audio books, DVDs." The library also offers bilingual story time, a youth chess club, English-as-a-Second-Language classes and computer classes. "I think people use libraries , both for fun and for information and so we try to balance those two things," Wangsgard said. The library employs people from three different continents. The mix of cultures and perspectives allows the library to provide services to benefit the most patrons possible. "In the community around the main library about fifty different languages are spoken," Wangsgard said. "Ideally our staff would speak ail of these different languages, but we don't. But we're trying. One of the things that we recruit for when a position is open anywhere in the library is language skills and right now we have people who are fluent in about 12 different languages." If materials are checked out of the Weber State University Stewart Library, it is possible the public library will have it available. "It's not as heavily used by students as Weber State's Library so they might be able to get materials that are in demand that aren't available at the Stewart library," Bowthorpe said. If an item is not available at one branch, but is available at one of the other Weber County Library Branches, the library will have it sent to whatever branch is most convenient for the patron. Not only are a wide variety of materials available, the library employees, themselves, are more than willing to answer whatever questions they can. "I think the public library is very focused on customer service, on helping people find what they want so the students who are not, as yet, as information literate as they would like to be, might actually find that the public library is very hospitable to their needs," Wangsgard said. But Wangsgard is not trying to keep students from using the Stewart Library. "Weber State has a wonderful library, but no library has everything," Wangsgard said. I invite the students to use the library to let us help them with their coursework and to certainly allow us to serve them in their personal life, we have a lot to offer." Students can access the Weber County Library Web site at weberpl.lib.ut.us. You can leave a message for reporter Nikki Garrett by calling 626-7105. t |
