newsletter of the Peoria Public Library Volume 25, No.10
OCTOBER 2016
Time for an Investment Tuneup? Morningstar Investment Tool and Value Line Available at Library or Remotely Peoria Public Library offers everyone a chance to get comprehensive investing information through our access to Morningstar Investment Tool and Value Line. Whether you have never invested or are an accomplished financier you will find tools and information to help. On our website at www.peoriapubliclibrary.org look under Research and All Databases for Morningstar and Value Line. Then you can choose what you would like to do. Use tools in Morningstar to explore companies or funds or build a portfolio. If you already have a portfolio, use the X-Ray tool to see if you are invested properly. If you know what you are investing for, such as retirement or a college education, make sure you are doing it properly with Goal Primers and Calculators. Value Line gives daily updates and research on stocks that may be suitable for more experienced investors. If you are a beginner, you can educate yourself with Morningstar using information under the tabs Help & Education Links, Articles and Videos and the Newsletters Archives. You will find tutorials on how to use Morningstar as well as curriculum you can follow at your own pace about stocks, funds, portfolios and bonds. Each one takes about 10 minutes to complete and is followed by a quiz. Value Line also offers tutorials on how to use the service and improve investing skills. Download PDFs from Morningstar you can read and refer back to as you make investment decisions or speak with your investment professionals. A great place to start might be “Investing for the Long Run” a guide that helps you shape up your finances and has strategies and solutions. You will even find a glossary of investment terms at hand so you can understand any terms you are not familiar with quickly and easily. Frequent webinars are also offered. Just check the list on the left of the Help & Education Screen. Morningstar Investment Center and Value Line provide an entire financial library that is just a click away. If you do not have an internet capable device at home, come use our computers to find your way through the investing maze. Our staff is always willing to help you get started with these or any other database.
Try-it! Illinois Returns October 1 The State Library is pleased to announce that Try-It! Illinois, the annual statewide electronic database trial, is returning October 1. The trial offers the more than 5,000 ILLINET member libraries, their staffs and patrons an opportunity to evaluate a wide variety of electronic resources. There is no charge for accessing these databases during Try-It! Illinois. To obtain the login and password between October 1–November 30, visit Try-It! Illinois. While Peoria Public Library already has made the databases marked with a star available to you, we are always interested in your opinion of what interests you and what doesn’t. During October, visit peoriapubliclibrary.org under our Research tab to
explore what we have then visit Try-It Illinois. Some of this year’s participating vendors include: Career Cruising EBSCO* Gale-Cengage Learning Gleeditions LLC Grey House Publishing Mango Languages* Morningstar, Inc.* Oxford University Press Plunkett, Ltd. Record Information Services, Inc. Salem Press Scholastic, Inc. SCOLA TeachingBooks.net World Book, Inc.
Local Author’s Fair to be held on November 5 The Peoria Public Library will host a Local Author’s Fair on Saturday, November 5 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at North Branch. Local Authors are invited to have a table and meet fans as well as sell books just in time for the holidays. The Friends of Peoria Public Library will handle all sales so authors will be free to speak with visitors. Twenty percent of sales will go to support The Friends who in turn support programs at Peoria Public Library. To participate, download the form from http://www.peoriapubliclibrary.org/2016-author-fair-registration or call (309) 497-2143.
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