For last-minute voters…

If you’re still making up your mind on the Presidential election, here are some websites to help:

FactCheck.org
Check the claims made by candidates and outside groups in ads and debates.  From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

PolitiFact.org
“Truth-O-Meter” ratings in a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly.

FactChecker from the Washington Post

Commission on Presidential Debates
What did the candidates say in the debates?  Read the debate transcripts, both from 2008 and from past debates going back to Kennedy-Nixon in 1960.

CNN Issues Center
Pick from their menu of major issues, and read what the candidates have proposed, what they’ve said, and how they’ve voted.

Websites from the Presidential candidates:
John McCain-Sarah Palin
Barack Obama-Joe Biden

For your polling place, ballot info, and list of your elected officials, see the Secretary of State’s website.

New bibliographies!

We’ve added some new lists (including both books and internet resources) on our page of bibliographies:

Planning on Retirement

Jewish American Heritage Month

John Adams

The Enchanting Silk Road

The Righteous
Memoirs
Depression
The Dalai Lama and Buddhism
Locating Poetry (updated)

Get a Massachusetts Library License Plate!

Coming soon to a car near you, Massachusetts Library License plates! Celebrate your support of libraries, be one of the first to get one, and proceeds will benefit public, academic, special and school libraries across the state that belong to a Regional Library System.

Applicants who submit their application by Nov. 30, 2008 will be entered into a drawing for the opportunity to communicate with prominent Massachusetts authors Lois Lowry or Gregory Maguire, and to be named as a character in a work-in-progress by one of them or to help invent a name that suits the story.  Two names will be selected.