Ancestry Library Edition access

For those of you who have come to the Library and discovered the public terminals occupied, there is another solution. If you have a personal laptop, we have a subcription for unlimited in-library access to Ancestry by going to this address: http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com. The image display is different than the public terminals offer, but you can zoom and enlarge as well as save your work to a flash drive to take home and massage later.

If you elect to use your laptop and need a plug, we must exercise caution not to overload the circuits where the microfilm machines are located. Please use instead the plug nearest the census books or the one located at the base of the journals on the north end of the wall.

Interlibrary Loans

Library patrons have become accustomed to Bartlesville Public Library and LFH providing interlibrary loan borrowing services to our patrons. Thanks to the statewide site licensure of the international bibliographic utility, OCLC, that became effective October 1st, we now can request copies of articles from genealogical journals, many difficult to find, at no or nominal cost from OCLC libraries. The HeritageQuest PERSI database, available in LFH and remotely to BPL patrons online 24/7, is an index to genalogical literature leading to the citations LFH staff need to request interlibrary loans.

If you would like to explore the over 1.4 billion records in OCLC to see libraries worldwide that own what you are looking for, go to www.worldcat.org and enter the desired title.

While LFH staff is still learning some of the finer points of placing OCLC interlibrary loans requests, we have been successful in obtaining articles and encourage patrons to use this wonderful new resource to meet their research needs.