Welcome
to the
September
2007
In
This Month’s Edition
What’s
Hanging in the Galleries
Web
Picks: Cool Stuff on the Web
The
National
Preparedness Week Event
The American Red
Cross will present a program on Wednesday, September 12 from 6:30
p.m. to 7:30 pm in the Gainesville Branch meeting room recognizing the week of
Sept 11 -17, which is National
Preparedness Week. Included will be a display featuring a three day disaster
supply kit from www.citizenscorp.gov
Get
Booked for Fun!
Get
Booked for
Fun! This new
blog, set up and
operated by Hall County Library staff members, invites individuals from all
walks of life to share their views (and reviews) on exciting books from all
genres. Library staff will periodically post reviews on books they have read and
liked...or disliked. Readers are invited to add comments about the books and, if
they choose, to post their own reviews.
Through
PINES, the
library offers amazing opportunities to access new reading material, so dive in
and find some great books. And don't forget to share your suggestions with
others!
The
Hall County Library System, a cooperating collection with the Foundation Center
of New York, is pleased to announce a one day Foundation Seminar to be held on
September 13, 2007. The
Scrapbooking
Workshop
There will be
ongoing Scrapbooking Workshops once a month at the Blackshear Place Branch. The next meeting is scheduled for
Monday, September 17 from 5:00-7:30pm. This workshop will feature great
ideas for creating clever pages for your memorabilia. Experienced scrappers and
“newbies” are welcome, but advanced registration is required. The registration
deadline is September 4. Beginners may purchase an optional starter kit for $12,
payable upon registration. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own photos or
clippings. Please call the Blackshear Place Branch at 770-532-3311 ext. 151 for
more information or click here and follow the
links.
What’s
Hanging in the Galleries
The Gainesville
Branch will be featuring many exciting displays during September. These
include:
What’s Hanging in the Galleries – Elis Wilson’s portraits and
more
American Girl Dolls
& Look-Alike Collections
Responsible Dog
Ownership Day - September 15
It’s National Piano
Month
Update Your Resume
Month
National Hispanic
Heritage Month Se 15 – Oct 15
Celebrate Family
Day the 4th Monday in September
The
library system offers free computer classes including Introduction to
Email, Introduction to the Internet, Advanced Email, Introduction to MS PowerPoint, Word Processing
Basics and Introduction to MS
Publisher. Classes are taught by trained library staff and
are free to the public. Classes will be held in the computer training labs at
the Blackshear Place Branch. For
class details and times, click here or
contact the library at 770-532-3311.
The next pajama
storytimes will be held at 6:30 pm on September
11 at the Blackshear Place
Branch. Everyone is welcome. Children may
wear their jammies and bring their favorite bedtime
buddy.
The Reading Patch
Club
(for independent readers in grades K-5) and the Jump Start Reading
Club
(for children who cannot read on their
own) started again the day after Labor Day and will end the day before the
Memorial Day holiday in May. There are new rules and new patches for the Reading
Patch Club—check it out!
The fall session of
Baby Steps lapsits and preschool
storytimes will start the week of October 8 at
the Gainesville
Branch, Blackshear Place Branch, and
Murrayville
Branch. Click on the link above, check the
library website, or call 770-532-3311, ext. 129 for more
information.
New titles for children
and teens:
Eloise and the
Dinosaurs by Lisa
McClatchy
Philip takes Eloise
to the
The School Play
Surprise (A Scooby-Doo!
Reader) by Gail
Herman
Scooby and Shaggy
find the rest of the gang in the school theater and worry about what they see
the gang doing. (EZ Reader)
Justice League
Unlimited #1: United They Stand by Adam
Beechen
Superman, Batman,
Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern join the members of the Justice League to thwart
evildoers in 5 stories. (JFC, Graphic Novel)
Totally Spies! #1:
The OP and Futureshock
In OP, Alex, Sam, and Clover think they
have found the perfect community when they are lost in
Emma-Jean Lazarus
Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren
Tarshis
Seventh grade
outsider Emma-Jean tries to help a fellow student when the meanest girl in
school tries to steal her best friend. (YA
Audio)
Time’s
Memory by Julius
Lester
A Dogon spirit
brought to
New
titles in the adult area:
A Fall from Grace by Robert Barnard
“Insp.
Charlie Peace… has left London for suburban Slepton Edge with his pregnant wife,
Felicity. Tagging along is Felicity's father, egotistical romance novelist
Rupert Coggenhoe. Felicity and Charlie soon discover that Rupert followed them
to Slepton Edge less to be nearby than to escape rumors of a past illicit
relationship, which soon plague him anyway, especially after he takes up with
seductive, manipulative teen Anne Michaels.”
Dream When You’re
Feeling Blue by Elizabeth
Berg
“[Berg] sets her latest in Chicago during World War II,
featuring three Irish Catholic sisters--Kitty, Louise, and Tish Heaney. The
novel opens as Kitty and Louise say good-bye to their boyfriends at Union
Station as they head off to war. Over the next three years, the sisters--amid
the usual sibling squabbles over borrowed clothes and makeup--learn what it
means to sacrifice during wartime.”
Tumbling
Blocks by Earlene
Fowler
Folk
art curator Benni Harper Ortiz is back and dreading the holidays as a new
exhibit, unfinished shopping, and a visit from her mother-in-law loom large. Not
to mention a murder….
George Washington
and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots
by Dave R.
Palmer
“Two great
patriots. Two giants of the battlefield. Yet one became our greatest
hero, and one became our most notorious traitor.
“
Homicide Special: A
year with LAPD’s Elite Detective Unit by Miles
Corwin
Corwin
(The Killing Season; And Still We Rise), a Los Angeles Times crime reporter,
shadowed several veteran homicide detectives during 2001 and 2002. His recount
of the investigations ranging from the underworld to the fringes of Hollywood
read like vintage noir.
Living a Dog’s
Life: Jazzy, Juicy and Me by Cindy
Adams
Author of the Gift of Jazzy,
Adams introduces the reader to the newest addition to her family, Juicy. By her own account ‘Yorkies are like
peanuts-you can’t stop at just one’.
Artists’
Book Club
The
Artists’ Book Club will meet at the Gainesville
branch on Tuesday, September 4th from 6 – 7:30pm. The group has not
met all summer so one of the major activities for this session will be sharing
recent creations, hors d’oeuvres, and exhibits seen by attendees. The group will
also plan for an exhibit at the library entitled “Postcards, how I spent my
summer.”
Program attendees
will also be meet artist and presenter Elis Wilson, who will be on display in What’s Hanging in the Galleries in
September and will be presenting a Funtastic Glowing Mask Workshop on Saturday, October 13
from 10am – 12pm. Registration for the workshop is $15.00
per child with parent to cover supply costs. Register by October 5
or contact Jeannie Crawford at 770-532-3311 ext. 116 for details.
Marsha Richter will
also be at the Artist’s Book Club meeting to discuss “Mosaics” for those who
wish to sign up for a Mosaic Workshop at Marsha’s studio in September.
September
Adult Program
September is
National Menopause Awareness Month. The average age of US women at menopause is
51. Twenty million women of the “Baby Boomer” generation (born 1945 – 1960) are
due to reach menopause within the next decade. Currently more than one-third of
all US women are older than 50. To increase education and awareness,
Northeast Georgia Health Systems and the Hall County Library System are
coordinating presenter and displays with information also provided by the
American Menopause Foundation, Inc.
Program details will be announced shortly.
Donating
a book to the library in honor or memory of a loved one is a great way to show
affection. Titles of suggested book donations are listed on the library’s
Amazon.com Wish List. For the price
of a book, anyone can help the library keep the most current materials
available. To view the list, see the library
website and
follow the link to amazon.com. Book
donors may request that a commemorative plate be placed inside the front cover
of the book in recognition of a loved one or to honor a special occasion.
The Hall County Library System is a non-profit government agency and a
charitable 501(C) (3) organization; therefore, all donations are tax
deductible. The library is pleased
to announce that it has now received 200 plus books through this
program.
Dear
Patron,
I just read a great
editorial in the newspaper. It was written by Chris Satullo who is the editorial
page writer for the Philadelphia Enquirer.
It is one of those things you stumble upon and just know you will
remember for years.
He basically said
the attitude “you can be anything you want to be, if you work hard enough” is
all wrong. He said that the
“interplay between pluck and luck, between personal will and genes, between
effort and social circumstance” is more important in defining your position in
life then your determination and hard work. You might think that is light years
away from the Horatio Alger myth that drives our ethic to succeed but just think
again.
The pluck that
drove Horatio Hornblower to choose the high seas and the precarious existence on
a British naval fighting vessel just positioned him to take advantage of Lady
Luck and fortunate turns of event to become Lord Admiral of the High Seas. No
matter how hard Lennie Small tried to make good decisions in Of Mice and Men, his genetics worked
against him. Jim’s and Huck’s flight down the Mississippi through great peril
probably improved their social standing but I do not believe any reader thinks
they were going to become riverboat pilots.
I used fiction to
try to illustrate Satullo’s argument because that is what a good story does. It
provides entertainment, teaches a little history and helps the reader learn to
deal with and understand unique situations. I frequently even find practical
lessons in a good mystery book. Good fiction is based in a very factual world.
This is why everyone should read and read and read, and enjoy the “interplay
between pluck and luck.”
I hope to catch you
in the stacks reading.
Sincerely,
Adrian
Mixson
Library
Director
To get
more information on your library account, please call the library’s Circulation
Manager at 770-532-3311 ext. 110 or visit the library
website and enter your account through the library's
catalog. You will need your library card and pin number, which may be
obtained by visiting any library branch. You may also email the
Circulation
Manager for
additional information.
Web
Picks: Cool Stuff on the Web
Krakatoa: Volcano of
Destruction Companion to a
"dramatized documentary that reconstructs the weeks before, and the struggle for
survival during ... [the] cataclysmic eruption" in 1883 of the Krakatoa volcano.
Features video clips, survivor diaries, a build-you-own volcano interactive
feature, an illustrated essay, and puzzles. From Discovery
Channel.
Hurricane Katrina:
Two Years Later This 2007 magazine
feature reports on the state of New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina.
It is accompanied by personal views, a graphic showing "the levee system
protecting
Editors
Leslie James and Lisa MacKinney
For more
information please call (770) 532-3311 ext. 134 or visit our website at
http://www.hallcountylibrary.org/
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