May 2012 newsletter - Grand Forks Public Library

Library Hours
Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm
Friday, Saturday
9am-5pm
Sunday
1pm-5pm
Closed - May 26, 27, & 28
Memorial weekend
Upcoming
Events
Library Board
Thursday, May 10, 4:45pm
Friends of the Library
Monday, May 14, 7pm
Northern Ink
Writing Group
Wednesday, May 2 & 16, 6-8pm
Movie Night
Thursday, May 24, 9:15pm
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
A Good Yarn
Knitting Group
Thursday, May 17, 7pm
Soldiers’ Care Package
Donation Drive
All month long.
Please bring donations to the
main floor of the library.
CVIC - Children’s Items
Donation Drive
All month long.
Please bring donations to the
Children’s department.
Teen Events
Teen Advisory Board
Sunday, May 20, 2pm
Check It Out
Volume 6, Issue 9
May 2012
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Spring Things
Circulation/Overdue Policy
Overdue Fees:
DVDs…………….$.25 per day/per title
All other items...$.10 per day/per title
DVDs may be checked out for one
week. You can renew a DVD once if
there isn’t a hold on it. If you return
or renew your DVDs after their due
date, you will be charged an overdue
fee of $.25 per day, per title.
All other library items may be
checked out for three weeks, and can
be renewed up to two times if there
are no holds on the items. If you
return or renew your items after their
due date, you will be charged an overdue fee of $.10 per day, per title.
The Spring into Savings fine forgiveness food drive was such a success, we’ll be holding another event
in the fall. Watch for more information coming soon
Teen Anime Club
Saturday, May 12, 3pm
Soul Eater/D. Gray Man
Sunday, May 20, 3pm
Hitman Reborn/Fairy Tail
*Author Visit*
Michelle Bredeson
Saturday, May 19, 3pm
Children’s Events
Game On! - Wii
Mondays @ 4pm
All ages welcome.
May 21 is the final session.
Preschool Storytime
Tuesdays at 10am
More events listed on page 2.
Kid Stuff
Connect. Enrich. Inspire.
We are offering two new computer
classes this month: Publish Yourself - Learn to use free software
Mobipocket or Calibre to create
your own ebooks. Pin It! - Everything you need to know about
using Pinterest and Delicious, popular social bookmarking sites. Sign
up for these classes at the Reference desk today.
Get Caught Reading in May. We
are looking for pictures of people
reading - books, ereaders, newspapers, magazines, etc. If we see
you reading in the library, we may
ask to take your picture.
Throughout May, we will be taking
donations of items that will benefit
deployed and wounded soldiers.
For a list of needed items, visit the
library or soldiersangels.org.
The mission of the
Grand Forks Public Library is to
connect the community, enrich the
mind, and inspire the imagination.
by Aaron S.
STEM Kids
The Grand Forks Public Library
has formed a partnership with the
Dakota Science Center (DSC) and
the University of North Dakota
(UND) School of Engineering and
Mines in order to provide Science,
Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) activities to
library patrons.
STEM Kids was made possible by
generous grants from IEEEChicago (Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers) and the
North Dakota State Library. The
grant monies were used to purchase print and audiovisual STEM
materials, along with STEM kits
that will be used for programming. The STEM kits provide
hands-on learning opportunities,
and will help children excel at
school and explore new interests.
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Check It Out
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CAMIO
Visit museums and see thousands of
works of art, all without leaving the
library. OCLC’s Catalog of Art Museum
Images Online documents works of art
from around the world, representing the
collections of several prominent museums. CAMIO can only be accessed
using a library computer.
Skull watch with stand.
Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco
http://camio.oclc.org/u?/
FAMSF,1519
To try CAMIO, click Online Databases on
our homepage or the Research page.
The database page will open, showing a
complete list of library databases. Click
on the CAMIO graphic, and the website
will open in a new window. You will have
the option to choose the type of art you
would like to browse. Click more for a
full list of art types, as well as a list of
contributing museums. You can see all
items from an individual museum by
clicking on the name of the museum.
There is also a search bar at the top of
the page.
There does not seem to be any order to
the results list (unless you choose to
view the list of items from an individual
museum, which are listed in alphabetical
order). You can refine the results by
date, format, creator, and sometimes
subject.
To view the details about a piece of art,
click the name or the thumbnail image.
The CAMIO Work Viewer will open with a
large image of the art and information
about the creator, a description (not
available for all art pieces), the museum
where it is housed, and other important
facts. You can also view the image in
high-resolution. From the high-res window, you will be able to download the
image. Please read the Rights statement
at the bottom of the Work Viewer window to make sure your intended use of
the image does not violate any Terms
of Use. Most images can be used for non
-commercial, educational purposes.
When working with images, you can save
anything you want to study further by
clicking Add to favorites, located at the
top and bottom of the Work Viewer. This
is also where you will find the Reference
URL needed to cite the work properly.
You can zoom in and out, pan left, right,
up and down, view the image in maximum resolution, fit the image to the window, show/hide the reference thumbnail, and clip the image, which allows
you to copy the whole image, or specific
details from it, and print or email it.
Upcoming
Children’s Events
Toddler Storytime
Thursdays at 10am
*Babies welcome.
Children’s Garden Club
Thursday, May 3, 4pm
LEGO @ Your Library
Sunday, May 6, 1-4pm
Crafts for Kids
Thursday, May 10, 4pm
Grades K-3
Mother’s Day Craft
R.E.A.D. Therapy Dogs
Sunday, May 13, 1pm
Please contact the
Children’s Department
772-8116 ext. 13
for an appointment.
Kid Stuff cont.
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In order for all of the children to
have a hands-on experience with the
kits, STEM Kids will be limited to 8
children per session. The first three
weeks of programming will be for
children in grades K-2, and the final
four weeks of programming will be
for grades 3-6. Because of the limited space, we are requiring parents
to fill out a short application form
for each child. Not all children who
fill out an application will be able to
attend STEM Kids this summer, however, all of the STEM kits can be
used again and we plan on hosting
an after school STEM Kids in the fall.
Gardening Club
Grab your garden gloves because it’s
time to welcome in the spring season with the Grand Forks Public
Library Children’s Department’s first
outdoor edible garden! We will be
planting a variety of delicious vegetables such as purple beans, pickling
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What’s New
We now have pay-as-you-go photocopying. The machine accepts nickels, dimes, quarters, dollar coins
and one dollar bills, so make sure
you have your change handy. If you
need help using the new system,
please ask at the Circulation desk.
Mango Languages now has an app
for Android! You can learn any of the
almost 40 languages offered by
Mango, as well as English as a
second language, right on your
phone.
How much does this interactive,
portable, and all around awesome
application cost users? Great question. It's FREE - no asterisks or fine
print. The Android™ App, along with
our iPhone® App, is included in the
library's Mango subscription.
Computer
Classes
Drop-In Computer Help
Wednesdays
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 @10am
Picture This
Thursday , May 3, 6pm
*Publish Yourself*
Saturday , May 5, 10am
Computers 101
Thursday , May 10, 6pm
Etsy Entrepreneurs
Saturday , May 12, 10am
Library2Go
Thursday , May 17, 6pm
Computers 101
Saturday , May 19, 10am
*Pin It!*
Thursday , May 24, 6pm
Kid Stuff cont.
of garden meetings and events.
Hope to see you there!
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Baby Shower Donation
cucumbers, and sweet cherry tomatoes in raised bed gardens. The Children’s Department will be starting a
garden club open to kids in grades K
-6. If your child is excited about digging in the dirt or curious about gardening then be sure to sign up! The
Children’s Garden Club is free and
will be a wonderful hands-on learning opportunity. The Children’s Garden Club is meant to spark interest
in gardening, nutrition, and the environment. We are planning on getting
started in the garden on May 17. We
are tentatively planning on meeting
every Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. for about
an hour.
Interested and want more information? Stop on over to the Children’s Garden Club info meeting on
Thursday, May 3rd at 4:00 p.m. in
the Storytime Room. We will talk
about club sign-up and the schedule
Brian and Chulita Goodman recently
held a baby shower and requested
that friends and family donate to the
Children’s Department of the Grand
Forks Public Library in lieu of gifts.
Over $1,000 was donated to the
Children’s Department.
Thanks to the donation, the Children’s Department has purchased
(thus far) a puppet theater, Edushape EduBlocks, jumbo magnetic
letters and numbers, a Learning Rug,
a LEGO Cinderella’s Castle and LEGO
Deluxe Train Set.
All this month, the Children’s
department will be holding a donation drive to benefit CVIC. They are
in need of children’s items. A list will
be posted in the library.
The puppet theater was
with
money
The final session of Game On! - Wii purchased
is Monday, May 21. Wii’ll see you donated in honor of one of
in the fall.
our newest patrons.
Wacky Word Definition of the Month: preoccupied - looking for work.
Teen Scene
We will be closed on May
27th, so this month’s TAB
meeting will be on May 20 @
2pm, right before the Teen
Anime Club.
Grand Forks Public Library
2110 Library Circle
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Phone: 701-772-8116
Fax: 701-772-1379
Website: www.gflibrary.com
Contact Wendy Wendt
[email protected]
Contact Check It Out:
[email protected]
Contact the Children’s Dept.
[email protected]
Contact the Reference Dept.
[email protected]
Library Director
This month @ Teen Anime
Club - Soul Eater & D. Gray
Man on May 12 @ 3pm and
Hitman Reborn & Fairy Tail on
May 20 @ 3pm.
Wendy Wendt
Library Board
Chairperson
Brian Schill
Vice-Chairperson
Fawn Behrens-Smith
Secretary
Corey Mock
Michelle Bredeson will be
here on May 19 @ 3pm to
promote her new book,
Legends, book 2 of the Bloodline series.
The May Teen Book Club has
been cancelled, but you can
share your thoughts about
this month’s book, Uglies by
Scott Westerfeld, on the Teen
Facebook page.
Watch for more information
about the Teen Summer
Reading Program, coming
soon!
TAB is free to join, so if you
are 13-18 years old, you could
help decide what goes into
the library’s Teen collection books, music, magazines,
events, and more.
Eliot Glassheim
Marie Strinden
Check It Out
Editor/Head Writer
Tonya Palmer
Book
Clubs
Classic Re-Reads
Wednesday, May 30, 7pm
June - The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Great Reads Book Club
Tuesday, May 15, 7pm
June - Iron Lake
May Book Clubs
Who Done It? - The Snatch by
Bill Pronzini - The Nameless
Detective is hired to handle a
ransom drop for financier
Louis Martinetti. Martinetti
doesn’t trust the police or the
members of his own household. The
Detective takes the $300,000 to the secluded drop point, and all hell breaks
loose. May 2 @ noon
by William Kent Krueger
This & That Book Club
Tuesday, May 8, 7pm
June - Abarat by Clive Barker
Who Done It?
Brown Bag Book Club
Wednesday, May 2, noon
June - Crocodile on the Sandbank
by Elizabeth Peters
This & That - The Sparrow by Mary
Doria Russell - The story of first contact
between human beings and an incomprehensible alien culture, and the mystery of the human expedition’s failure, revealed by the
contact team’s sole survivor.
May 8 @ 7pm
Great Reads - Hotel on the
Corner of Bitter & Sweet by
Jamie Ford - Best friends Henry and Keiko are the only
Asians in their school in
1942. Henry is Chinese, Keiko
is Japanese, and Pearl Harbor has made
all Asians - even those who are American
-born - targets for abuse. Henry keeps
his friendship with and eventual love for
Keiko a secret. When Keiko’s family is
sent to an internment camp in Idaho,
Henry vows to wait for her. May 15 @
7pm
Classic Re-reads - Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro - A profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect
English butler and his fading
insular world in postwar England. May 30 @ 7pm