eBooks eBooks Everywhere!

eBooks are becoming easier and easier to find online. You can check out our collection of new and popular fiction and non-fiction eBooks and eAudiobooks through our website.

If you're searching for older books that are no longer under copyright, Project Gutenberg has digitized many books in the public domain. You can read the full text of these books online at their website for free. Project Gutenberg Australia has some books that are still under copyright in the U.S.

Google Books has also started a wide scale project to digitize books in and out of the public domain. The site allows you to search for key words or phrases within each book. You can read about the controversy this project has created in the publishing community in the article "Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google"

If you want to learn more about the public domain take a look at this comic book "Tales From the Public Domain"

Nasa loses photos of
moon landing

For those of you who enjoyed the most popular film at the Library's "Summer Down Under" film festival The Dish or for those of you who might wonder why organized libraries with their skilled librarians are necessary, this article is for you:

"One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures"

Toy Return

The library is requesting a return of the summer reading program toys shown above in order to comply with a RECALL INITIATED BY HIGHSMITH INCORPORATED due to lead content. This recall will affect many public libraries across the country, including the Mission Viejo Library, who used the toys as prizes during this year’s Summer Reading Program.

The toys, a bendable dog and cat (see above picture), were found to have 0.4 and 0.24 percent lead. The maximum safety limit is currently 0.06 percent. The toys are roughly 3.75 inches long and are similar in shape to a lollipop.

We would like all children and parents to return these toys ASAP to the Mission Viejo Library for safe disposal. Replacement reading prizes will be provided in exchange for the bendable toys.”

For more information, please contact Library Administration at (949) 830-7100, extension 4002.

Calling all Fiction Fanatics and

Book Club Members

Come join us on Thursday, August 10th, at 7 p.m. in the Library Community Room as we wrap up our first-ever Adult Summer Reading Program. We'll be demonstrating NoveList, the library's fabulous fiction database, and several reading group and book review websites. Find a new favorite author, or share your favorites with others. We'll have a grand prize drawing and refreshments. Everyone is welcome! Please R.S.V.P. to Gayle Meldau at gmeldau@cityofmissionviejo.org

"Summer Down Under"

Film Festival

Continues with

Muriel's Wedding

On Saturday
July 22,
@ 6:30 in the City Council Chamber

Where do you find out about the books you read?
	Library staff
	Friends
	Newspaper bestseller lists
	Book stores
	Library website
	Other websites (Amazon, author sites etc...)
	Book clubs
	TV and Radio shows
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Downloadable Audiobooks have Arrived!

Access our new collection of eAudiobooks and eBooks through the library's website. This collections allows you to read or listen to full text digital versions of popular fiction and non-fiction titles anytime and anywhere you like without ever having to come to the library to check them out.

For more information about this new service visit our website.

Adult Summer Reading Program

June 15 - August 10, 2006

Join us for our Kickoff program with mystery author, Denise Hamilton, on Thursday, June 15th at 7:00 p.m. (see post below) and our Wrap-up Party on Thursday, August 10th at 7p.m. Read as many books as you like between those two dates and enter to win weekly prizes.

Fill out a raffle ticket each week to enter our weekly drawing, enter at the reference desk or e-mail your name, phone number and title of the book you've read to: libreference@cityofmissionviejo.org.

Looking for good books to read for the program? Download Audiobooks and eBooks from our website or take a look at our reading lists for recommendations.

If you have any questions about this program, call the reference desk at (949)830-7100 ext.4008. or visit the Adult Summer Reading program website.

eBooks at your eBrary

The library has extended its collection to include electronic versions of our most requested print books. If you see a book with the blue "e" shown above it means the library owns both a print and electronic copy of that book.

Now you can browse these three popular reference books from the comfort of your home:




the Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Countries and Their Cultures, and Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia.


You can also study for a variety of different tests from the ASVAB to SATs with our Learning Express collection of eTestBooks.

Simply go to the catalogs and databases page on our website and open up the book of your choice.

Join Our Book Club!

Do you like to discover new authors? Do you enjoying discussing the book you’re reading with others? If so, we have the perfect group for you. The Readers Club (sponsored by the Mission Viejo Friends of the Library), meets every month to discuss recent fiction or nonfiction titles selected by the group.

Meetings are held from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of the month; most meetings are held in the Saddleback Room in City Hall. Please call Shelley Fels at (949) 581-6414 for more information. No R.S.V.P. is necessary, and all are welcome!

Here are the books still to be discussed in 2006:

7/26 Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

8/23 The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

9/27 The March by E. L. Doctorow

10/25 Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles by Francine Prose

11/15 The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr