This month, your librarian flips out over Flipster Digital Magazines

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By Michael Beller, Community Library Manager at Ygnacio Valley Library

One of my very favorite online resources available with your Contra Costa County Public Library card is Flipster. Flipster is a collection of online digital magazines that look exactly like the magazines you check out from the library or buy from the store. All the pages, all the columns, all the graphics and pictures, it’s all there. You can magnify for easier viewing, and you can print pages out, if you want to show a column to a friend.

Flipster is accessible anywhere that you have access to the internet and this is both important and useful. Two of the magazines available through Flipster are Consumer Reports and the Consumer Reports Buyer’s Guide. That I can access those two titles instantly has served me amazingly well because when I shop, I want to make sure that I’m getting quality for my money and I can do that immediately. The reviews are all there! The ratings are all there! I can look it all up in seconds. Using those resources in Flipster gives me confidence that I am making the best choices that I can.

Consumer Reports and Consumer Reports Buyer’s Guide are only two of the many titles accessible through Flipster. Others include the financial magazines Kiplingers and Forbes. Real Simple, Good Housekeepiing, Dwell, and HGTV Magazine are all available in the from the Home and Garden section. There are plenty of other categories, too. Fitness & Health, Food & Cooking, News & Politics…Flipster is a wealth of articles and information that are all available to you wherever you have Internet access. All you need is your library card to access all the titles, even the current issues.

You can access Flipster and all of the other subscribed databases from the Contra Costa County Library’s Research Center: http:// ccclib.org/researchcenter/

If you have any questions regarding your library privileges and resources, please reach out. You can always call the Ygnacio Valley Library at (925) 938-1481; and the Contra Costa County Libraries Main Office at (800) 984-4636.