Insurance and Medicare Purchasing Decisions

This is an illustration of the catalog display. Clicking on a red book will tell it that you want to reserve a specific copy. This can be helpful when you see newer editions and older editions all blended in from library to library. The libraries that hold on to their old copies may have limited resources but many libraries purchase new copies. Just a quick tip but on to the main show: Insurance

There are many ways to shop for insurance.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners puts out several consumer guides to shopping for insurance, including Auto, Home, Life, Cancer, Long-Term, Deferred and Fixed Annuities, and Medigap.

The Beaverton City library furnishes ratings guide to Health Insurers , ratings guides to Property and Casualty Insurers, and ratings guide to Life and Annuity Insurers to you in the library's reference collection. They are located on the Index tables.

Medicare is another big decision time. Here is a book we get called All About Medicare that may clarify the structure of medicare benefits. The Social Security Handbook is another regularly purchased item that is based on the presentation of public domain data on the Social Security website.

Nolo Press's popular Social Security, Medicare and Government Pensions is another guide for consumers. Ask at the library for these and other resources on Insurance. To reserve a current copy, here's a tip: To distinguish between copies that one library may have that are from 2004 which are too old, review the tip up at top, which is to click on the red book for a specific hold on a specific copy.

Pacific Northwest High-Technology (Folder of Companies on 2nd Floor)

Rich's Data Search - Pacific Northwest High Technology Directory* is a premium listing of businesses, in a white folder in the Reference collection. It is a white binder on the second Index Table. It used to be in a book called Advanced Technology in the Pacific Northwest. Here is the location of yearly updated Electronics, Monitoring, Military, Computer Accessories, Chemicals, Industrial, Materials, Software and much more! It contains email addresses as well as data about the firms that is more specific than the familiar websites and free sources such as chamber, yellow pages, or other all inclusive databases. The focus allows the firm responsible for the data to manage a deeper scope of information than normally found elsewhere.

(*YOU HAVE TO SPELL OUT THE WORD TECHNOLOGY IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IT ON OUR CATALOG)

Oil on the Brain

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli’s desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle.
In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit.
Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers. (Publisher Marketing)

Compatible Devices to use in Library2Go

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