Kent County Public Library is pleased to announce that Hoopla Digital and Rosetta Stone have been added to its Digital Library collection.
Hoopla gives library cardholders the ability to explore and choose from thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, ebooks, audiobooks, and comics that are available. With a range of content from popular to niche, items in this collection can be streamed instantly or temporarily downloaded to smartphones, tablets, or computers.
Rosetta Stone is an award-winning program with an immersive, interactive approach to language learning. With over 30 languages available, learners can build reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills, as well as exploring activities to refine grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
In addition to these new offerings, KCPL’s Digital Library also provides access to free instructor-led online classes through Gale Courses; genealogy resources, including Ancestry Plus and Genealogy Connect; the Auto Repair and Small Engine Repair Reference Centers with repair guides for over 25,000 vehicles, ATVs, motorcycles, mowers, tractors, and other engines; the Testing & Education Reference Center with access to online practice tests, including AP, SAT, ASVAB, real estate, civil service, and military exams; and many, many other collections and resources.
To explore KCPL’s Digital Library, visit kentcountylibrary.org and choose the Digital Library menu. There is no cost to use KCPL’s Digital Library, but a valid library card is required when you are not in the library. To apply for a card, visit one of KCPL’s three locations–Chestertown, North County, or Rock Hall–with photo ID and proof of address.
For more information about the Digital Library, visit kentcountylibrary.org or call 410.778.3636.
Brenda Keckley says
I am from out of town and am just visiting my grand children. I was excited to take them to your beautiful library where children are taught to love books, to love learning and to have a beautiful SAFE place to create memories to last a lifetime. Your library fills all of those qualifications except one. You do not have a safe environment for the children of this area. In fact it is a perverted environment where children are involved in the full blown environment of porn. When I took my grand children to your library on Wednesday I sent them over to the children’s area which I am sure all of you know is no more than about 25 feet from the computers where the adults are. This is an area that is open to all people without any walls or doors. All the children are going back and forth between the children’s area and the adult areas. The man sitting in front of me was surfing all the porn sites on the Internet while the children were all around. I kept thinking that the computer would shut down due to blocking but when one of my children came over and I had to shield them from the computer and make them get back over I realized that the computer was not going to shut down.
I went to the front desk to tell the ladies in charge, thinking something had happened to their system ,only to be told that they have no blocking. I sat there in a stupor for a moment and said that I would like to talk to someone higher up in authority. When I spoke to the lady in charge she told me that it was not against the law for people to view porn in the library. So what I’m hearing is that the library has a place for perverts ,men that are viewing not just sites of naked people in perverted pictures, but also children in perverted scenes while our children are running around. T
his is absurd that this can be happening in a library. The very least that could be done is to have an area with computers that are unblocked for those that are on those websites where they are by themselves away from others especially children. I am sure that other adults coming to the library feel their rights are being taken from them when they have to sit next to someone surfing those areas. Please , people in charge of these decisions, make your library a place of safety for the children and let those people go into a closed off area if they want to view that. I have never been to a library that does not have a block on their computers.
SHAME on this situation and SHAME on the decision makers for not making this library a safe haven for all. The theaters are a safer place for children in this area because even there , the children have to be a certain age to be around certain rated movies. Libraries have always stood for a place to promote education. Citizens of your beautiful town, come forward and be heard.