The CollectionsWe are a small public library maintained by the Town of Red River for use by its residents, visitors and surrounding communities. We have an excellent selection of popular fiction and keep most bestsellers on our shelves. We also have a wide variety of non-fiction works of local and regional interest, and a large audio tape collection. We maintain a small but quality collection of general non-fiction, video, periodicals, and children's and young adults' books. As stated above, we do allow non-residents to check out our materials and there is no charge for a library card.
The Computers
We have five public access computer terminals with word processing, spreadsheet and other productivity software for patron use, an online catalog, and many CDs with reference or educational programs on a wide variety of subjects. The only charge is a nominal one for printouts. We do not permit anyone to insert their own disks in our machines because of virus issues, but we will sell patrons a floppy for $1 that they can use while here and take with them, or leave here for further use. There is no particular time limit on usage unless someone is waiting, then there is a half hour limit per patron.
We are unfortunately unable to permit visitors to plug in their laptops to access the internet - since we only have one phone line for all our own machines.
The Internet
We have internet access on three of our public computers. While there is no charge to patrons for internet use, we do not have unlimited hours available so we request that our connections be used primarily for educational and research purposes - not for personal entertainment like chat rooms, penpals, extended correspondence, online games, etc. We do, however, allow visitors to briefly check and respond to their online email through a browser.
We also have three online database subscriptions available to the public at no charge: InfoTrac - a magazine database with almost 3000 full text publications
including regional newpapers and the Wall Street Journal
Health Reference Database - 360,000+ articles from professional journals and health-related reference materials
Business Database - 1049+ business and financial publications and journals
The databases include search engines allowing searches by publication, date, subject, etc. They can be accessed from the library machines or by residents anywhere in New Mexico from our link page by clicking on the appropriate links and typing in the user ID or password as indicated - some are case sensitive, so be sure and type them exactly as they appear on the link.
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