Popular magazines online…for free from home!

The public libraries in Marin provide access to thousands of free, full-text magazines and journals—at your fingertips! Access popular titles like Newsweek, Time, and People at the click of your mouse. No need to go to the newsstand to buy dozens of magazine subscriptions. Just come to the library’s website, and you’ve got it all right there! 

  Anyone can access this database inside the library, and anyone with a card from any of the public libraries in Marin can access InfoTrac Magazines from home, work, or school.

Just go to the research tab on the Library’s website, click on electonic reference tools and then click on the link to Magazines and Newspapers, select InfoTrac Magazines and log in with your library card number and PIN.

If you have questions (how to find it, how to use it), please ask a friendly librarian.

As expected, the credit crunch had a big impact on sales in September. Sales of single-family, re-sale homes fell 34% from the month before, and were off 42.3% year-over-year. Year-to-date, home sales are down 20%. We expect sales to be slow this month, then start to recover at the end of the quarter as the credit crunch is alleviated.

The median price for single-family, re-sale homes in Sonoma County rose 1.5% from August, and was off 2.7% year-over-year. The average price for homes dropped 4.9%, month-over-month, and was down 0.6% compared to last September. The median price is now down 11.`% from the high of $618,450 reached in August 2005.

The median price for condos was essentially flat, losing $25, down 7.3% compared to last September. The median price is now down 12.5% from the high of $394,000 reached in October 2005. Condo sales fell 12.8%, month-over-month, down 30.6% compared to September 2006. Year-to-date, condo sales are down 13.3%.