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Wednesday, August 11, 10 - 2:
BHS Health Van visits
The BHS Health Van visits on Wednesday, August 11,
10 am - 2 pm, when it will be parked at our Wendell Avenue entrance. Free services include: Blood Pressure Screening and Health Insurance Information.
Sponsored by Berkshire Health Systems and the Berkshire Athenaeum. Stop in to learn your numbers!
Summer Reading Club:
June 28 - August 21 
The Children's Library is scheduling a variety of crafts, special performers and prizes for the 2010 Summer Reading Club. Registration opens June 28. Make plans to join us for some or all of the fun!
Films for kids: Mondays & Fridays
through August 20
The Children's Library is showing films for kids all summer through August 20. Each Monday at 2 pm we'll view a movie for School-aged kids. On Fridays at 1 pm we show films for the Preschoolers. Film programs are approximately 30 minutes long.
Groups are welcome.
No registration required.
Downloadable audiobooks, videos and ebooks 
Do you love to be read to? Do you have a long commute, a planned vacation drive, or a household task that would go faster if you could listen to an engaging book? Browse our collection of downloadable audiobooks. You'll find audiobooks for Children, Young Adults and Adults; fiction and nonfiction titles; biographies, business, history, romance, foreign language study, classics, mystery, science fiction and self-improvement titles. Over 100 titles are iPod compatible. Many can be burned to a CD. Also available are downloadable videos and ebooks. All you need to begin is a library card and a high-speed Internet connection. Browse the digital catalog and choose some titles today
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Tuesday, July 27, 1 pm:
Just for the Fun of It Comedy
On Tuesday, July 27, at 1 pm, the Children's Library presents Keith Micahel Johnson with Just for the Fun of It Comedy. Program is suggested for children ages 5 and up. This special performance is presented as part of the Berkshire Athenaeum's Summer Reading Club, sponsored by the Massachusetts Library System, Burger King, Cyber Station, and the Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum.
Consumer Reports online
now available to Athenaeum patrons
The Consumer Reports database is now available from the Online Databases page of the Athenaeum website. Long respected as the ultimate no-nonsense resource for consumer information, CR is published by Consumers Union, an independent, nonprofit organization. CR tests appliances, cars, electronics, baby gear, products for the home and garden. Patrons can access the database from library computers; access is also available from home computers by entering an Athenaeum library card number.
Questions? Ask at the Reference Desk at pittsref@cwmars.org or (413) 499-9480 x202 during library hours.
Pay your fines & Make library donations online! 
The Athenaeum offers the convenience of paying fines and other library fees online with a major credit card. To pay library fines and fees,login to your account. click the link displaying the amount of money owed, and enter the information requested.
Tax deductible donations targeted to the Berkshire Athenaeum can also be made online. A Donation link
is available from the library online catalog (PAC) to accept donations from a secure site.
No payment information from online transactions is stored. Online transactions can only be processed for a minimum of $5.
For more information on this new service, visit the help screen or ask at the Reference Desk.
Grant Research 
The Berkshire Funding Resource Center, a cooperating collection of the Foundation Center, is located in the Athenaeum's Reference Department and offers access to print and online sources of information for those researching sources of grant funding. Professional assistance in using the databases is available; access to Internet computers, word processing workstations, and a wireless internet connection are provided. |
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