On September 24th, Lynda.com will be changing to LinkedIn Learning for Library. Below is a breakdown of how this transition is going to work. Please review the information carefully so you can be fully prepared for these changes.

NOTE: All screenshots used below were provided by LinkedIn.

Why is Lynda changing?

LinkedIn has been running their own online learning platform, LinkedIn Learning, while also maintaining Lynda.com after acquiring it in 2015. They are now merging the two by taking everything from Lynda.com and moving it to LinkedIn Learning. This will get everything together on one platform rather than continuing to maintain two different platforms.

What will happen to my Lynda.com data?

All Lynda.com data will transfer to LinkedIn Library, so you’ll be able to pick up where you left off. This includes your learning history and your certificates of completion. The data is tied to your library card, so once you create a profile for LinkedIn Learning you’ll be able to put in your card number and that will get your Lynda.com data added to your LinkedIn Learning account. Although the data will transfer, we recommend you download copies of your certificates of completion from Lynda.com before the change just to be safe.

Day of the change

As stated previously, this change will be occurring on Tuesday, September 24th. Lynda.com will be down that day and could potentially be down for up to 16 hours; however they anticipate it will only take 2-2.5 hours for everything to be moved over to LinkedIn Learning. Once the transition is complete, we will update our Research page with a new link that takes you to LinkedIn Learning instead of Lynda.com. Any links to Lynda.com will redirect you to LinkedIn Learning. On your first visit to LinkedIn Learning, you will have to create a profile.

Creating a profile

Creating a profile for LinkedIn Learning means you will have to create a LinkedIn profile. Before you begin signing up for a profile, there will be a link to an article with steps on how to change your privacy settings once you make your profile. We strongly recommend you read through this article so you can get a better idea of how you want to set up your profile.

A breakdown of the profile creation process is below.

• A sign in screen will come up. You can sign in using an existing LinkedIn profile if you want (if you have one) or you can create a new one by clicking on "Join now."

• If you create a new profile, you first will have to type in your email address and create a password.

• Next, you will have to provide your first and last name. This is the only information you’ll be required to provide.
  
  • If you were creating a LinkedIn profile through the regular LinkedIn website, you would be asked more questions to help fill in your profile page. For LinkedIn Learning for Library, these other questions are bypassed.

• A verification code will be sent to your email address. Copy the code from your email to verify.

• After that, enter your library card number and the password you use to log in to your library account (i.e. through our website/catalog).
  
  •  LinkedIn Learning does NOT store this information, they check this information against the library’s system to verify that you are in fact one of our patrons.

• LinkedIn will then ask if you want to indicate any specific skills you want to learn. This is completely optional, you can click "Skip" if you don't want to do this. If you do this step, LinkedIn will have recommended courses on your LinkedIn Learning homepage that fit with the skills you have chosen.

Once your account is set up, you can choose how much or how little you want to have on your profile. There are essentially two types of profiles:

• Complete profile: provide more information on your professional experience, education, and more. This option tends to be chosen when one wants to try to use LinkedIn to find jobs and incorporate completed courses into one's resume.

• Obscure profile: provide little information and even choose to only show the first initial of your last name rather than the entire last name. This is a good option if you just want the bare minimum and only want to access the courses and not use LinkedIn in any other way.  

NOTE: Regardless of how much or little you put in your profile, you can change privacy settings using the steps from the article I mentioned earlier. These settings include: whether or not your profile shows up in search results, what other LinkedIn users can and can’t see, and more.

Changes to the content

All of the courses that are on Lynda.com will transfer over to LinkedIn Learning. You will also gain access to the 13,000+ courses that were already on LinkedIn Learning, so there will be even more content. This additional content includes courses that are in languages other than English, such as French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese. All of the courses are still video-based and work the same as before. There is also a LinkedIn Learning mobile app and you will be able to use that as well.

There’s a lot of information here, but I wanted to make sure everything about this change was explained well and explained clearly. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to go to the Information Desk, call 847-428-3661 and ask for the Information Desk, or email us at libraryhelp@frvpld.info.

It's time for Part 2 of the Pride month LGBTQIA inspired reading list. Check out any of these books (one for every day in June) and take a look at Part 1 for the rest of the list.  

Don't forget about East Dundee's Pride on the Fox on June 15 and FRVPLD's celebrations, Rainbow Storytime for youth and Rainbow Mosaic program for adults and teens the same day.

• June 16: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson- In this semi-autobiographical novel, Jeanette begins the story as an evangelical, believing she is one of God’s elect. As a teenager, Jeanette falls for a girl and this love leads her to leave the church and throws her family into upheaval.
• June 17: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller- Re-telling The Iliad’s story of Achilles and Patroclus, Song of Achilles charts their youth and relationship from their first meeting through the Trojan War that will change everything.
• June 18: When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri- Katie is dumped by her fiancé and, while nursing a broken heart, meets Cassidy. At first, the women are unsure of each other, but eventually their connection can’t be ignored. Katie questions her sexuality and her traditional views on gender, and starts to learn more about who she is.
• June 19: Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht- In 1962, Vera Kelly is working at a radio station when she’s headhunted by a CIA recruiter to become a spy. She ends up on a mission in Argentina where things inevitably go wrong.
• June 20: Codename Villanelle and No Tomorrow (Killing Eve novels) by Luke Jennings- Villanelle is one of the world’s leading assassins, and Eve is a former government agent tasked with tracking her down. What starts as a simple cat and mouse chase becomes more as the women become infatuated with each other.

• June 21: The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst- Through the eyes of David Sparsholt and, later, his son Johnny, this book explores key moments in Britain’s changing views on morality and homosexuality from the 1940s to the present.
• June 22: This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel- Claude is not like his older brothers. He likes long hair and dresses and wants to carry a purse. He tells his parents he wants to be a girl when he grows up, and at first they believe he will grow out of it. But eventually, keeping this quiet takes a toll on the family.
• June 23: Lie With Me by Philippe Besson- Philippe reminisces about a secret affair that he has never forgotten. During his last year of high school, he and Thomas ignored each other in the halls but conducted a passionate, life-changing affair outside of school.  
• June 24: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn- Margot works at a resort in Montego Bay and does all she can to earn money for her younger sister Thandi in order to pay for Thandi to go to school and build a better life than the one offered on their small island. When a new luxury hotel gets ready to open, Margot sees an opportunity not only to make more money for Thandi, but a chance to openly declare her feelings for another woman.
• June 25: Stuck in the Middle With You: a memoir of parenting in three genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan- Boylan’s memoir about transitioning from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother also features interviews with other fathers and mothers about the world of parenting.

• June 26: Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel- Bechdel’s memoir in graphic novel format focuses on her family and includes her coming out and eventual realization that her father was gay.
• June 27: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- The young and beautiful Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by a friend, through whom he meets Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry’s influence on Dorian leads to his corruption and years of debauchery. Through all of this, Dorian never ages, with all the signs of his age and horrible behavior showing up in his portrait.
• June 28: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy- The narrative spans decades and locations throughout India, weaving together disparate characters’ stories through some of the darkest times in modern Indian history.  
• June 29: Stonewall Uprising- This documentary film tells the story of the police raids on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, and the fight back which became the birth of the gay rights movement.
• June 30: Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris- One of Sedaris’s more recent collections of biographical short stories, these use his trademark twisted humor to re-visit strange and formative moments in his life and recognize the absurd in everyday life.

This summer, D300 students entering grades 6-12 can read books from one or more award lists or read an article a week. We have the books featured on these award lists on display at the Dundee Library and Randall Oaks. 

And you can check out the award lists below to find a title or two (or more!) to read for #D300Reads this summer.

The Best of the Best book lists:

• Margaret A. Edwards Award
• Morris Award
• Nonfiction for Young Adults
• Odyssey Award
• Michael L. Printz Award
• YALSA's Top Ten Picks:
  • Top Ten Best Fiction
  • Top Ten Great Graphic Novels
  • Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers
  • Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks
• Lincoln Award
• Premio Lazarillo
• PREMIO NACIONAL DE LITERATURA

June is LGBTQIA Pride month, timed to commemorate the Stonewall riots in June, 1969 that served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement. Celebrations, pride parades, memorials, and much more will take place throughout the country in June, including right here in East Dundee with Pride on the Fox on June 15.

FRVPLD is celebrating Pride on the Fox with Rainbow Storytime for youth and a Rainbow Mosaic program for adults and teens.

Along with programs and events, Pride month is a great time for reading LGBTQIA related books. Whether this is a regular part of your reading habits or is a way diversifying them, take inspiration from this list with a recommendation for every day of June (Part 2 coming soon). The list includes novels, memoirs, history books. Some are specifically about LGBTQIA themes while others prominently feature characters who identify this way, whether or not it plays a part in the central plot.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of great LGBTQIA titles, so if you’d like more recommendations, see the Information Desk at either library.

• June 1: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon- Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish refugee from Nazi-invaded Prague, and his cousin Sammy Clay, a native Brooklynite, create comic books as their way of fighting back against oppressive forces in the world and expressing their innermost feelings in a contemporary take on the American Dream.
• June 2: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai- Dual narratives connect the tragedies faced by two characters. In 1980s Chicago, Yale Tishman’s artistic career flourishes as the AIDS epidemic devastates everyone in his life. The story also follows Fiona, the sister of one of Tishman’s friends, to contemporary Paris as she attempts to track down her estranged daughter and still grapples with the way the AIDS epidemic changed her life.
• June 3: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson- Nelson’s memoir centers on her relationship with artist Harry Dodge. The autobiographical contents are then used to delve into theorists' views on sexuality, gender, marriage, and child-rearing.
• June 4: David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 years of LGBT music by Darryl W. Bullock- Even before musicians like David Bowie and Elton John helped bring it to the mainstream, LGBT musicians throughout the last century changed the musical landscape and pioneered the evolution of music.
• June 5: Early Stories and Novels by James Baldwin- This book includes Giovanni’s Room, which finds a young man in 1950s Paris coming to grips with the fact that his desires do not match with the conventional morality of the time.

• June 6: The Gay Revolution: the story of the struggle by Lillian Faderman- A history of the gay rights movement spanning the 1950s through the 2010s, this book brings together interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community detailing the struggles they still face in this unfinished movement.
• June 7: Logical Family by Armistead Maupin- Maupin, author of the Tales of the City series, writes a memory of his escape from the Old South to San Francisco, and how this journey led him to a life as a gay rights pioneer.
• June 8: Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston- A rivalry between America’s First son and the Prince of Wales heats up, and in order to prevent US/British relations from souring, a fake friendship is orchestrated by their handlers. Soon enough, the pair find themselves truly falling for each other and worried about the political fallout a relationship would create.  
• June 9: Boy Erased by Garrard Conley- As the son of a Baptist pastor in small town Arkansas, Conley struggled with his sexuality. When outed to his family, he faces the choices of attending a conversion therapy program (to “cure” him of homosexuality) or be forever estranged from his family and friends as well as his lifelong faith.
• June 10: The Lauras by Sara Taylor- Alex and Ma leave Alex’s father to go on a cross-country trip to visit people and places from Ma’s life before she was a mother. Alex’s own coming of age story unfolds as they re-live these parts of Ma’s past.

• June 11: The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka- PI Roxane Weary investigates the disappearance 15 years earlier of a teenager whose parents were murdered the same night she vanished. The girl’s boyfriend was convicted and sits on death row, but has maintained his innocence even as his coming execution looms.
• June 12: Leading Men by Christopher Castellani- Weaving fact and fiction, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo attend a party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy. There, they meet Anja Blomgren, and the evening changes each of their lives.
• June 13: Willa & Hesper by Amy Feltman- Willa and Hesper embark on a whirlwind romance that falls apart. Each woman deals with heartbreak by looking to the past, Hesper fleeing to a family’s ancestral lands in Tblisi, Georgia, and Willa to the WWII war sites of Germany.
• June 14: Orlando by Virginia Woolf- Spanning three centuries, Orlando experiences life as a young nobleman in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, then as an ambassador in 18^th/19^th Century Constantinople, and finally as a wife and mother in 1928.
• June 15: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides- Intersex protagonist Cal learns more about the ways a mutated gene have effected 3 generations of his family and the changes it created in his life. Part coming of age and part family saga, the novel explores gender identity and the American Dream for immigrants into this country.

Last month, we added a new automobile repair database to replace AllData. The new database is called Auto Repair Source (formerly known as AutoMate) and, unlike AllData, it can be used remotely from home! Powered by MOTOR Information Systems, Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls. Auto Repair Source is completely free to use with a valid FRVPLD card. The steps below will show you how to access Auto Repair Source and provide an overview of the content and features available.

How to Access

1. From the library’s homepage, click on “Research.”
2. You’ll get a list of resources in alphabetical order. Scroll down a little bit to the end of the “As” and click on “Auto Repair Source.”
3. You’ll be taken to another screen with a list of a few different resources listed. Scroll down and click on “Auto Repair Source.”
4. You’ll be taken to the Auto Repair Source home page.

Using Auto Repair Source

Towards the top of the screen, there are some drop down boxes where you can choose the year, make and model of your vehicle. Once you choose your vehicle, a list of options will come up on the far left side of the screen. This list is in alphabetical order by the type of part or by the vehicle system. Simply click on a category to get more specific information. Within these categories, you’ll see step-by-step instructions, printable diagrams, and more. There is also a search bar above the list of categories that you can use to search for a specific part, error code, and more.

Auto Repair Source is a powerful, authoritative automobile repair database. It can be used remotely at home, as well as in the library. The Auto Repair Source website is mobile friendly, so it works well on a variety of devices. Have questions, want more information, or want help using Auto Repair Resource? Please stop by the Information Desk, call 847-428-3661 and ask for the Information Desk, or send an email at LibraryHelp@frvpld.info and we’d be happy to help you!

Baseball season is upon us and today is a truly memorable day in baseball history.  April 15^th is Jackie Robinson Day; the 72^nd anniversary of his very first baseball game and the first time an African American played Major League Baseball. 

His uniform number, 42, was retired long ago, but every year on April 15^th, every Major League Baseball player wears the number 42 in honor of this baseball legend.  To commemorate the occasion, enjoy a baseball game or check out library materials based on the life of Jackie Robinson.  Here are a few that I recommend!

42 is Not Just a Number: the Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero by Doreen Rappaport: A youth biography about Jackie Robinson that is nominated for this year’s Caudill Award.

42: the Jackie Robinson Story:  A film based on the life of Jackie Robinson

The United States v. Jackie Robinson by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen: A youth non-fiction book about Jackie Robinson’s fights against prejudice during his military career