Directory of Trade Schools

With businesses and for-profit schools competing on the web, it is hard to find a plain nonbiased listing of trade, industrial, and vocational schools just by googling. But you can get to some of that information in the resource called Oregon CIS. Washington County provides access to this. It contains trade schools here and in the other states too. For how CIS decides which schools to add, read on

The American Presidency Project

 

 

The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  The archives contain over 102,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.  According to the website, The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database:

 

• The Messages and Papers of the Presidents:  Washington - Taft (1789-1913)
• The Public Papers of the Presidents:  Hoover - G. W. Bush (1929 - 2007) and Obama (2009)
• The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:  Carter - G. W. Bush (1977-2009)
• The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents:  Obama (2009 - 2012)

The archives also contain thousands of other documents such as party platforms, candidates' remarks, Statements of Administration Policy, documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary, and election debates. 

This is a great resource for anyone interested in the Presidency of the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 







Historical Beaverton Newspapers 1923-present

The library has a collection of microfilm of the historical Beaverton Newspapers.
As it turns out not all of them are listed in our catalog. This blog is to inform you of the holdings we do have, and the titles over time:

Beaverton Review
12/25/1923 to 4-18-1941

Beaverton Enterprise
3/17/1927 to 1-26-1951

Beaverton Valley News
2-2-1951 to 5/24/1962

Beaverton Valley Times
1963- present

One other cool feature is the abity to scan microfilm into pdf and then have it as a file on your portable storage device, aka thumb drive.

The tax man cometh...

We do not yet have federal tax forms but expect to have them towards the end of January.  The forms are currently available for download and printing at the IRS website:  www.irs.gov .  State tax forms are available at www.oregon.gov/DOR.  The library no longer receives state forms for distribution.

Tax Reference shelf at Library

Annotated Tax Code and Weekly Tax Bulletin

among the helpful things for tax preparers at Beaverton City Library

 

 

 An index table near the Value Line in the library has annotated tax code and weekly updates, as well as reproducable tax forms. 

CCH Federal Tax Guide ( 3 volumes ) and Federal Tax Guide Reports Tax Bulletin--Weekly

CCH US Master Tax Guide

Benders Payroll Tax

JK Lasser’s Your Income Tax

 The library does not host the AARP Tax preparation service and there usually is not information out about the AARP schedule until later and it will be posted on the Washington County Library's website. Come here and do your taxes or someone elses!



 

 

 

 



One Good Deed

 It's that time of year when many of us want to do something differently in the upcoming twelve months.  I know, I know, there are countless books that have us making task lists, examining our most inner thoughts, etc. and all of these have their place, but this little book is just about reminding us that it really isn't so difficult to make a difference - however small - in someone else's life.  Giving examples from her own experiences and those of others, Erin McHugh has us open our eyes a bit wider to all the simple things that we can do to make things just a little bit better.

Accidental deaths related to Fireworks and Popping Corks

The New Year's Eve accident statistics questions

 

 

Lifetime odds of death from being a car occupant is 1 in 368

 

& Over 40 percent of fatal automobile accidents are alcohol-related

 

The lifetime odds of dying from a fireworks discharge is 1 in 652,046

 

Lifetime odds of being struck by an object in the home (i.e. a cork) 1 in 5,230

Source
Injury Facts
® 2012 Edition