Tax Forms Are Here!

Tax forms are here! The IRS has sent us 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ forms and instruction booklets as well Schedule A and B (ran out 1/26/12).   We have also received CT-1040 and CT-1040NR/PY forms and instruction booklets from the CT DRS. They are available in the Reference area of the Main library.

If you need other forms you are welcome to visit our libraries and print tax forms off our computers. You will need a valid library card or photo ID to use our computers. Printing is 10¢/page.

You can obtain tax forms through the following sites:

• Connecticut Tax Forms — Connecticut forms and publications from the Connecticut Department of Revenue Service.
• Federation of Tax Administrators — links to out-of-state forms and filing sites.
• IRS Forms and Publications — every federal form, publication, and set of instructions you need for your federal taxes. You can even get last year’s forms, if you’re a little behind …

 

February Knit Wits

Are you a needleworker? Or interested in learning how to knit, crochet, or sew? Knit Wits is a great way for you to meet others and to learn new ideas and patterns! Bring works-in-progress, patterns, questions, suggestions and ideas to Bristol Public Library on alternating Wednesdays every month.

Free. No registration required.

When: 6:30 – 8 on February 1 & 15
Where: Meeting Room One (Basement)

 

Free Trial! Try Universal Class Today!

Bristol Public Library System is pleased to announce a free 3-week trial of Universal Class. Universal Class offers over 500+ online continuing education courses taught by real instructors with remote, 24/7 access so you can study on your schedule. Assignments are graded by certified instructors and feedback and discussion with other students and instructors is conducted via email or chat.

Courses include:

• Accounting and Bookkeeping
• Alternative Medicine
• Arts and Photography
• Business
• Career Training
• Computers and Technology
• Cooking, Crafts and Hobbies
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial Management
• Health and Medicine
• History
• Mathematics
• And much more!

We think that subscribing to Universal Class may be a cost-effective way to serve the needs of Bristol residents. However, this database is not inexpensive so we need to know if you find it worthwhile. Please try out Universal Class and tell us whether it will be a great addition to our existing databases!

The trial is active through 2/08 & can be accessed here or at home:

• Visit bristolct.universalclass.com/register.htm
• Enter you Bristol library card number
• Create an account
• Register for up to five courses
• Learn new things!

 

Library Hours for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday

The Bristol Public Library System will be closed Monday, January 16, in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday. The libraries will resume normal hours on Tuesday, January 17.

While we’re closed, you may still drop off items in our book drops or use the library catalogs to place holds, check your library card, or renew items. The library’s databases, downloadable audiobooks, and eBooks will also remain accessible with your library card while we’re closed. The library catalog and databases can be accessed through our website bristollib.com.

Don’t forget that Monday is also the King Day of Service — initiated by Congress in 1994 (H.R. 1933), this day seeks to transform the federal holiday honoring Dr. King into a national day of community service. Looking for a way to serve? The King Day of Service site lists many opportunities.

 

Book Banter: Cutting For Stone

Please join us for lively book banter on Monday, January 23, at 7:00 in Meeting Room One! We will be discussing Abraham Verghese’s first novel, Cutting for Stone.

The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.But it’s love, not politics — their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion to flee his homeland and make his way to America, finding refuge in his work at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his life to the two men he has trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
                    – From the author’s website, abrahamverghese.com

Copies of Cutting for Stone are available at the Circulation Desk.