Free Tax Aid

Beginning February 5, 2010, AARP Volunteers will be at the Hart Memorial Central Library on Fridays from 12:00-4:00.

To help customers find the location closest to them, have them go this page on the AARP website, type in their zip code, and it will give a list of places closest to that zip code.

Tax forms are available at the Library. Customers requesting W-2 and 1099 forms, must contact IRS either through phone (1-800-829-3676), online, or visiting the nearest IRS office.

Finding Titles by African-American Authors Using Novelist

Need help finding African American book titles and authors? Here are some tips in using the Novelist Database to find them.

To access pre-made lists:

1. Open the Novelist Database
2. On the left hand side of the main page, click on Feature Articles in the Adult Section.
3. Scroll down to Fiction A to Z and click on it.
   
4. The African American Fiction List is the first one.
   

Create your own lists by conducting an Advanced Search:

1. Click Advanced Search from the homepage.
   
2. Select the desired Reading and/or Grade Level from the limiter options.
   
3. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page, and select “African-American” from the Author’s Cultural Identity limiter.
4. Click Search.
5. From the result list, you can Narrow Results by selecting any of the subjects listed. For titles in a specific genre, amend this search by entering the genre, i.e “mystery,” in the first Find bar and selecting GN Genre from the adjacent drop-down. For the most recent additions, sort your result by Date Descending.
   

Protecting Reputations Online

Be careful what you post online on your "private" Facebook and MySpace pages. It turns out, these are not so private. For more information, check out the following:

Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English
~ a short video

Read this article from Forbes Magazine

Or check out a book in the 005.8 section of the library.