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Get a Flash Drive

flash drive Have you ever spent hours creating something really amazing on the computer and then not been able to save it?

Well, the Pioneer Library System would like to help make sure all your hard work does not go to waste. Each hometown library will have the 2GB flash drives available for $9.00 each. We have been selling 1GB flash drives, but now we have upgraded to 2GB flash drives. Now you can store even more of your documents, pictures, videos, and music.

Time to get working on your projects, but be sure to save often.

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Become a Fan of Pioneer Library System

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:39

The Pioneer Library System is now on facebook!

Now you can not only post articles from the website on your facebook page, but let all your friends know that you support the library. We are inviting everyone to visit the page and become a fan of the Pioneer Library System. So, take a break from MafiaWars, Farmville, Pet Society, or looking at friends pictures to check out the Pioneer Library System page and show how much you love the library by becoming a fan. Just click on the facebook icon on the right side or search for "pioneer library system" on facebook.

Check back weekly to see our fun profile pics featuring your hometown libraries and events throughout the system.

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PLS Presents: Children's Fable Podcast

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Last Updated on Monday, 02 November 2009 13:54

Illustration of mouse freeing lion This month's fable, read by the Moore Public Library's Children Department staff, is The Lion and the Mouse. When the western world thinks of fables, Aesop is the name which springs to mind for many. But if it wasn't for Gaius Iulius Phaeder in Pieria, aka Phaedrus, we may not think of fables as we do today.

Phaedrus translated Aesop’s Fables from Greek into Latin and put them in a poetic form. He compiled them in the first collection of fables ever published as literature. He did more than create a compilation of Aesop’s tales, he refined and rewrote the fables in a Greek poetry style, called iambic senarii. He also included some of his own fables using “the old form but with modern content”, some say to fight against moral degradation during the time of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius.

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PLS Presents: Children's Fable Podcast

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:41

Dog and His Reflection. Bernard Salomon: Aesop Cycle (1547) According to Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory–476 c.e., Aesop lived in the sixth century b.c.e (before common era). If the biography written about him is even partially true, he lived a life more fanciful than all of his fables combined.

He came from Thrace, an area in southeast Europe; was a slave on the Greek island of Samos and was released from slavery for being too much trouble; was described by his biographer as "very ugly, worthless as a servant, potbellied, snub-nosed, swarthy, short-armed, squinted-eyed and liver-lipped"; and was known, as far away as Babylon, for his verbal prowess.

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Libraries help parents raise readers

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 11:31

Activities to help babies grow into readers are the focus of an innovative early literacy program offered through the Pioneer Library System. Growing Like a Read gives parents the information, materials, methods, and rewards they can use during the first four years of their children’s lives to lay the foundations for reading and language development.

“The Growing Like a Read program is a way to make parents and librarians partners in very meaningful, proven ways in the development of babies’ brains,” says Jenny Stenis, Coordinator of Children’s Services for the Pioneer Library System. “None of the materials or the methods we use are anything new. What’s new is the way we are packaging and presenting the information.”

Parents who sign up to be part of Growing Like a Read are given a bag of materials that include a stand-up book of traditional song, rhymes, and finger plays. Parents also receive a set of activity logs that list 30 age-appropriate activities to do with their children. The eight activity logs are tailored to developmental levels at six-month intervals from birth to 48 months. Parents begin with the log that matches their child’s age and receive new materials as the baby grows.

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