An organized group of cyber attackers–the same group responsible for the pipeline ransomware attack–are mailing malicious USB flash drives to the public.
Some of the flash drives have contained a message impersonating the US Department of Health and Human Services and claim to be a COVID-19 warning, and other drives were sent with a gift card claiming to be from Amazon. These flash drives install ransomware (malicious software that blocks access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid) on the computer into which they are inserted. Be wary of a USB drive if you do not know exactly from where it came.
HCPL recently added ten AT&T Unite Express 2 mobile hotspots and ten Verizon MiFi 8800L hotspots to the circulating collection. An additional eleven T-Mobile by Sprint hotspots will arrive in the near future.
Hotspots are available to check out at all HCPL locations. If you wish to place a hold on a hotspot to pick up at your branch, you may call and request that our staff place a hold for you or search for the term “hotspot” on HCPL’s online catalog. You will be prompted to enter your library card number, PIN and pickup library, and you will receive a phone call when your hotspot is ready to pick up!
If you do not have a Harrison County Public Library card or your card has expired, you can apply for a card at your local branch or by clicking here.
An adult 18 years of age or older who has a current resident HCPL library card in good standing may check out a hotspot. To view HCPL’s hotspot checkout policy, please click here.
Harrison County Public Library recently added more new and exciting subscriptions to its public digital collection. If you do not currently have an HCPL card, or your library card has expired, you may apply online for a Digital Access Card, or apply for/renew a resident library card.
CLICK HERE to download a brief step-by-step guide to accessing these streaming services and databases.
New databases
iNdieFlix streams classic and contemporary features, award-winning shorts, film festival favorites and documentaries from around the world. Explore thought-provoking, well-known and undiscovered content. iNdieFlix works directly with young up-and-coming filmmakers from all walks of life to seasoned professionals paying them for every minute watched.
Thousands of full length feature films, shorts, documentaries and series from around the world
Diverse voices, pop culture favorites and box office hits
Award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts
Thousands of hours of commercial free programming
Academy Award winning animation
Please note that some iNdieFlix content may include mature themes and language.
Stream the world’s largest collection of on-demand full-length music performances, concert films, and music documentaries. Qello Concerts transforms your connected devices into the ultimate live music concert film experience. Give your favorite headliners a standing ovation from the best seat in the house anywhere, anytime!
Please note that some Qello content may include mature themes and language.
The Great Courses Library Collection video streaming service is brought to you by The Great Courses—the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. This collection includes more than 250 courses, led by the world’s top experts, covering a broad range of subjects, such as science, mathematics, philosophy, history, literature, fine arts and music, travel, business, and personal development.
Over 250 unique courses to capture your curiosity or help you to improve in areas you are passionate about
3,000+ hours of carefully curated and commercial-free, entertaining and engaging content
Courses taught by brilliant, award-winning, and trusted experts in their fields
Twelve categories for all types of patrons with new content monthly
Guidebooks for each course to supplement course material
New streaming services
(Available October 22, 2021) ArtistWorks provides players world-class instruction from Grammy Award-winning music professionals. ArtistWorks for Libraries offers users a guided path of video lessons containing everything they need to reach their musical goals. All levels of player are welcome!
Hundreds of hours of high quality video instruction
Studio quality play-along tracks
Downloadable written materials, tablature and sheet music
Supported languages: English
(Available October 22) LawDepot’s extensive library of documents and legal resources provides easy-to-use assistance with a wide range of legal needs empowering patrons to create legal documents specific to their personal situation.
(Available October 19) Learn It Live is a place to find and attend live online classes on 200+ topics in health, wellness, and personal development. At LiL, you can join a live yoga, pilates, or meditation class and interact with an expert on the other side of the globe. Can’t make it live? Watch one of the 1,000+ recorded classes at any time.
Daily live classes
1,000+ Recorded Classes
200+ Topics Covering Health, Wellness, Spirituality, Career and Personal Development, and More!
(Available October 19) ACT® and SAT® test prep solutions from Method Learning are proven to raise scores! Tutoring, classes, and practice tests.
150 points higher on the SAT, 3 points higher on the ACT
Learn every trick, strategy, and technique needed to raise ACT and SAT scores
Course includes full-length, timed practice exams
Video and audio lessons and explanations. Students learn best when they can see/hear the instruction
Supported languages: English
(Available October 19) Universal Class is the place to continue your education online and fulfill all your lifelong learning goals.
Today the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce announced that beginning on Monday, September 27, 2021, Hoosier residents and businesses that have no access to broadband–or have service speeds less than 25 Mbps download/2 Mpbs upload speeds–will have the opportunity to log their addresses in the Indiana Connectivity Program database. The program will then provide that information to internet service providers, along with potential financial incentives, to help provide services and expand infrastructure in our most rural of communities.
Addresses may be registered by contacting the Indiana Office of Rural Affairs at (833) 639-8522 or by visiting in.gov/ocra/broadband . Individuals and business owners may also contact the Chamber of Commerce of Harrison County for assistance registering by calling (812) 738-0120 or via email at llong@harrisonchamber.org.
Please include your full name, address where service is needed, telephone number, email address (if one is available) with all email correspondence.
Please share this information with your colleagues, friends, families and neighbors!
The Harrison County Public Library has recently added Harrison County Election Documents, 1833-1864 to its online digital archives. This collection of important historic documents consists of more than 1,700 images of original nineteenth century election records. Full transcriptions of the documents accompany the digital images and are easily searchable.
These documents are official, handwritten, election records from each township in Harrison County. Elections include local, state, and national ballots and range from voting for township constables and justices of the peace to county sheriffs and coroners, to state officers and legislators, governors, congressmen, and senators, as well as presidents and vice-presidents. Typically, there are three types of documents per township for each election. These are: 1) a list of voters, which is a numbered list of the names of those who voted in the election; 2) a tally sheet that contains tally marks next to the names of each candidates; and 3) an official returns statement that lists confirmed results. For several larger elections there is also a “canvas sheet” that provides totals from across the county. Beginning with the 1856 set of records, printed forms and poll books were used to record the information. However, the information recorded on the forms continued to be written by hand.
Polling sites were located in principal communities within each township such as Bradford, Buena Vista, Corydon, Elizabeth, Laconia, Lanesville, Mauckport, New Amsterdam, New Salisbury, and Springdale. In less populated areas, such as Blue River, Scott, and Spencer Townships, early elections took place at an individual’s home, and later at schoolhouse or other community building.
These unique and valuable resources will be of interest to researchers, genealogists, and the public as both important primary sources of Indiana’s early history and significant genealogical records that document residency in Harrison County.
This digitization project was made possible by a Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) digitization grant through the Indiana State Library and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
On August 26, 1920, Hoosier women won the right to vote.
At first glance, the meaning behind that statement is simple enough, but the real story goes much deeper. In Indiana, almost seventy years passed between the first calls for women’s voting rights and the passage of the 19th Amendment. Though momentous, 1920 is just one milestone in a long and ongoing journey, and access to the voting booth is just one part of what it means to be an equal part of the democratic process.
Explore this chronological history of women’s suffrage in Indiana on April 20, 2021, at 12:30 pm virtually from your favorite device with access to Facebook! Join in on HCPL’s Facebook page to view the live virtual presentation “From Amanda to Zerelda: Hoosier Suffragists Who Raised a Ruckus” by Marsha Miller, a member of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial’s Speaker’s Bureau.
Dressed in historical costume and carrying a suffragist song (or two), special guest speaker Marsha Miller introduces Hoosier women who helped shape the movement, including:
Amanda Way, “mother of Indiana suffrage”
Helen Gougar, a feisty publisher and lawyer based in Lafayette
Zerelda Wallace, one of the founders of Indiana’s Equal Suffrage Society
Women who moved into the national suffragist sphere including May Wright Sewall (educator and civic organizer) and Ida Husted Harper (journalist and close friend and biographer of Susan B. Anthony).
Marsha Miller
Marsha Miller has taught more than 4,800 information literacy sessions at Indiana State University from 1985-present and coordinates library social media. Her degrees are from Central Michigan University (History) and the University of Michigan (Library Science). Since 2012, as a member of the League of Women Voters of Vigo County, she has served on the steering committee for the annual celebration of Women’s Equality Day. She has created biographical badges of suffragists and collected the songs that they sang when they gathered and marched. She currently serves as the Indiana president of the American Association of University Women, which was founded in 1881. She plays the clarinet and is known as the “Purple Librarian.”
This virtual program was made possible through a grant from the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial, Lilly Endowment, Inc., and Hillenbrand, Inc.
If you cannot make the live event or do not have a Facebook account, it will be recorded and made available on HCPL’s Program Videos page for future viewing. Click here to view and share the Facebook event.
For more information, call the the Frederick Porter Griffin Center (FPGC) for Local History and Genealogy at 812-738-5412.
Click image to see the Story of Women’s Suffrage in Indiana.
Practioners of Bharatanatyam, a sacred dance of India, from the Guru Vandana Arts Academy. Photo courtesy of Akila Iler.
On April 5, the Study Abroad and Global Awareness (SAGA) Committee will hold the annual virtual International Festival to celebrate cultural diversity. This festival will feature a wide variety of entertainment and cuisine. Christopher Lee Proctor II, the representative of Indiana University Southeasts’s SAGA committee says that “we are excited to welcome international performances from cultures spanning the globe. Examples include, inter alia: Andalusia, Cuba, India, Ireland, West Africa, and Zimbabwe.”
Women’s History Month was borne from a week-long celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history and society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978.
A few years later, the idea had caught on across the country. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. The U.S. Congress followed suit the next year, passing a resolution establishing a national celebration. In 1986, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned Congress to expand the event to the entire month of March. More information about the history behind Women’s History Month is available at History.com.
Mobile hotspots are now available to check out from your local HCPL branch!
The library offers twenty Alcatel Link Zone 2 hotspots that are connected to the Sprint/T-Mobile network and twenty Kajeet SmartSpots. Of the Kajeet SmartSpots, ten are connected to the Verizon network and ten are connected to the AT&T network. Kajeet SmartSpots are best suited for students, as they are filtered for content and are unavailable to use from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Click below to place a hold on a hotspot from the Enterprise catalog: Kajeet SmartSpots (AT&T or Verizon)
You may also call your local HCPL branch to request that staff place a hold for you.
Hotspot Policy
Borrowers of the Harrison County Public Library Hotspots must hold a current residential or paid Harrison County Library card, be 18 years of age or older and have an account in good standing. Any fees present on an account must be paid and any overdue materials must be returned before a Hotspot can be checked out. Hotspots are available 1 per household only!
When checking out a Hotspot, the patron must sign a form assuming complete responsibility for any damage to and/or loss of the equipment or software configurations. Cost for replacement of Hotspot is between $95 and $129.88 (depending on device) with any damages being capped at replacement cost.
Patrons must return the Hotspot by the time specified. Hotspots overdue for more than 14 days will be declared lost and full replacement costs will be charged to the patron’s account.
Hotspots may be checked out for a two-week period. Hotspots cannot be renewed.
Hotspots must be physically returned to a library employee. Hotspots may NOT be returned to the Book or Media Drops; any damage caused by returning the Hotspot via Book or Media Drop will be charged to the borrowing patron. Failure to return the Hotspot to a library employee will result in a six-month suspension in Hotspot privileges.
Hotspots must be able to be turned on to check for functionality before being removed from the patron account.
If a Hotspot becomes overdue, it will be deactivated until it is returned.
The Alcatel Link Zone 2 hotspots were largely funded by an Indiana Library Services and Technology (LSTA) Grant. The Kajeet SmartSpots were funded largely by the Marilyn M. Rhodes Community Foundation Endowment Fund.
If you are a senior who is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, HCPL staff at any branch will be glad to assist you in the registration and scheduling processes.
Indiana residents who are age 65 or older on the date of their first shot are now able to register. Visit ourshot.in.gov to register and get more information. If you are unable to travel to your local HCPL branch for assistance, please call 211 from any phone and someone can help you make an appointment. You may also call any HCPL branch and the staff will be happy to help.
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