Coming soon to DCPL’s Reference Databases Menu: Mango, a new language learning database that provides instruction in French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese. ESL (English as a Second Language) instruction is available for native speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish. Mango can be accessed from home or office with your library card and PIN.

Leaving the Reference Databases Menu after September 30 is Rosetta Stone. Although this program has been popular with our users, the company no longer licenses the database to public libraries. Tell Me More, which offers detailed instruction in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch, is still available in addition to Mango.

If you’re looking for more ways to save gas (and thus, money!), then here is something you’ve probably never thought about before, but can make a big difference.  Cars have an optimal speed for gas efficiency, and that speed is around 60mph or less.  “In a typical family sedan, every 10 miles per hour you [...]