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Library Hours
Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm
Friday, Saturday
9am-5pm
Sunday
1pm-5pm
Upcoming
Events
Library Board
Thursday, Mar. 8, 4:45pm
Friends of the Library
No meeting this month
Northern Ink
Writing Group
Wednesday, Mar. 7 & 21, 6-8pm
Create a Card
Sunday, Mar. 11, 2pm
A Good Yarn
Knitting Group
Thursday, Mar. 15, 7pm
Movie Night
Saturday, Mar. 24, 7pm
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Teen Events
Teen Advisory Board
Sunday, Mar. 25, 2pm
Teen Anime Club
Sunday, Mar. 4, 3pm
Tiger & Bunny/Blue Exorcist
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Volume 6, Issue 7
March 2012
March is
Women’s
History
Month
Connect. Enrich. Inspire.
Here Comes Spring
Spring Forward Into Savings!
Bring in a canned good during the
week of March 11-17 and the
library will take $2 off any late
fees you might have. This offer
does not apply to fees for lost or
damaged items. All goods will be
donated to the Salvation Army.
Speaking of springing forward don’t forget to set your clock
ahead one hour on Sunday,
March 11.
Email hold notifications are now
up and running. If you provided
your email address in order to
receive online notifications, you
will also receive a courtesy notice
via email two days before your
checked out items are due.
Overdue Fees
DVDs
All other items
$.25 per day/title
$.10 per day/title
Create a card for St. Patrick’s Day
with Melinda Harder on Sunday,
March 11 at 2pm.
The Hunger Games are here! Join
us at 7pm on March 22 to celebrate the premiere of The Hunger
Games, in theaters March 23.
There will be food, games, and
prizes. This event is open to fans
of all ages. May the odds be ever
in your favor!
The Friends of the Library will hold
their Spring Book Sale on April 2022.
Sunday, Mar. 18, 3pm
Summer Wars
Children’s Events
The mission of the
Grand Forks Public Library is to
connect the community, enrich the
mind, and inspire the imagination.
Preschool Storytime
Tuesdays at 10am
Toddler Storytime
Thursdays at 10am
*Babies welcome.
LEGO @ Your Library
Sunday, Mar. 4, 1-4pm
Game On! - Wii
Monday, Mar. 5, 12, 19, 26
4 - 5:30pm
All ages welcome.
Teddy Bear Storytime
Tuesday, Mar. 6, 10am
Thursday, Mar. 8, 10am
Bring your teddy bear for a
library sleepover!
More events listed on page 2.
Kid Stuff
by Aaron S.
The Pretzel Leopards, the Grand
Forks Public Library FIRST LEGO
League robotics team, competed
in the North Dakota FLL Championship Tournament on Saturday,
January 28th at the UND Memorial
Union. The rookie team performed well, and were voted runner-up for the Inspiration Award.
The Winter Reading Program Final
Party was held in the Kids Zone of
the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center
on Saturday, February 11th prior
to a UND women’s basketball
game. Kids who completed the 8
h ou r r e a d i n g r e q u i r e me n t
received a free ticket to the game
and had their name entered into a
drawing to win prizes donated by
the University of North Dakota
Athletic Department. Close to two
hundred children in grades kindergarten through sixth grade
signed up for the program. Of
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Your Online Library Account
Things you can do with your online
account:
See a complete list of items you have
checked out.
Renew your checked out items*.
Check the status of items you have on
hold.
Cancel a hold.
Request a renewal for your inter-library
loan.
Learn if you have fines, how much you
owe, and what the fines are for (late
return, lost or damaged material replacement cost, etc.)
*Items can be renewed if they are not on
hold. DVDs can be renewed one time
only. Other library materials can be
renewed up to 3 times.
If you are not already signed in to your
account, click My Account at the top of
the page. Log in with your library card
number and your last name as your
password, and your library account will
come up.
You will see a list of your checked out
items. By clicking the tabs at the top of
the list (pic 1), you can check the status
of your holds, fines, and ILL requests.
Renew your items
You can renew your items in the
Checked Out Items tab. Under the title,
the due date will be listed. If you are
able to renew the item, there will be a
link - Renew this (pic. 2). You will get a
popup window telling you if the renewal
was successful, and your new due date.
If your renewal was not successful,
please contact the Reference desk during library hours.
Check/Cancel Holds
Click the Holds tab to check the status
of your holds. If the status is listed as In
process, the item has not yet been
returned to the library. If the item is
waiting for you, there will be a Pick Up
Before date listed. You can cancel your
hold by clicking the Cancel button (pic.
3).
Fines
If you have fines, they will be listed
under the Fines tab. You will see the title
of the item, the status of the fine (paid/
unpaid), the date the fine was incurred,
the amount of the fine, the reason for
the fine (overdue, lost material, etc. see
pic. 4), and the barcode of the item.
Fines must be paid in the library.
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Upcoming
Children’s Events
R.E.A.D. Therapy Dogs
Sunday, Mar. 11, 1pm
Please contact the
Children’s Department
772-8116 ext. 13
Crafts for Kids
Thursday, Mar. 15, 4pm
Grades K-3
Kid Stuff
cont.
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these, eighty completed the eighthour reading requirement.
We want to give a big thank you to
the University of North Dakota Athletic Department for partnering with
us for the Winter Reading Program.
Thank you especially to all the student athletes who volunteered at our
weekly events.
The
Children’s
Dept.
recently
received a $2000 grant from the
IEEE-Chicago (Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers). The grant
will be used to purchase print and
audiovisual science materials, along
with science kits that will be used
for programming in partnership with
the Dakota Science Center and University of North Dakota-IEEE.
There will be special Teddy Bear Storytimes on Tuesday, March 6th and
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Your Online Library Account cont.
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Check/Renew ILLs
You can check on the status of your
interlibrary loans by clicking on the ILL
Requests tab. If you are still waiting for
your item to arrive, check the status to
see if it’s on the way. If you would like to
renew your ILL, click the Renew ILL button (pic 5). As soon as the lending
library responds, your ILL status will
show if the renewal has been accepted
or not.
Computer
Classes
Drop-In Computer Help
Wednesdays
Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28 @10am
Microsoft Word
Thursday, Mar. 1, @ 6pm
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3
5
Microsoft Excel
Saturday, Mar. 3, @ 10am
Computers 101
Thursday, Mar. 8, @ 6pm
Saturday, Mar. 31, @ 10am
Library2Go
Saturday, Mar. 10, @ 10am
Take a Byte
Out of the Web
Thursday, Mar. 15, @ 6pm
Facebook
Saturday, Mar. 17, @ 10am
Kid Stuff
Microsoft PowerPoint
Thursday, Mar. 22, @ 6pm
cont.
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Thursday, March 8th. Children are
encouraged to bring their teddy
bear or favorite stuffed animal. The
animals will spend the night in the
library, and we will take pictures of
the mischief they get into. Preschool
Storytime is Tuesday morning at
10:00 a.m., and Toddler Storytime is
Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m.
Forthcoming Children’s books
March 1
Library Mouse: A Museum Adventure by Daniel Kirk
Fly Guy #11: Ride, Fly Guy, Ride!
by Tedd Arnold
March 13
Seeds of Rebellion by Brandon Mull
March 20
On Sunday, March 11 at 1:00 p.m. a
READ dog will visit the library.
Big Nate Goes for Broke by Lincoln
Peirce
On Thursday, March 15 at 4:00 p.m.
there will be a St. Patrick’s Day craft
in the Storytime room.
Pinch Hit by Tim Green
PC Spring Cleaning
Saturday, Mar. 24, @ 10am
Electronic Devices:
It’s On, Now What?
Sunday, Mar. 25, @ 2pm
Picture This!
Thursday, Mar. 29, @ 6pm
Wacky Word Definition of the Month: positive - mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
Teen Scene
Don’t forget the next meeting
of the Teen Anime club on
Sunday, March 4th @ 3pm.
We'll be watching Tiger and
Bunny and Blue Exorcist, two
of Japan's most popular new
releases.
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:
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Contact the Children’s Dept.
[email protected]
Contact the Reference Dept.
[email protected]
Library Director
Wendy Wendt
Library Board
Chairperson
Brian Schill
Vice-Chairperson
Fawn Behrens-Smith
Secretary
Corey Mock
Eliot Glassheim
Marie Strinden
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Editor/Head Writer
Tonya Palmer
Book
Clubs
Classic Re-Reads
Wednesday, Mar. 28, 7pm
Apr. - The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
Great Reads Book Club
Tuesday, Mar. 20, 7pm
Apr. - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Teen Book Club
Sunday, Mar. 18, 2pm
Apr. - Paper Towns by John Green
This & That Book Club
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 7pm
Apr. - Tales From Outer Suburbia
by Shaun Tan
Who Done It?
Brown Bag Book Club
Wednesday, Mar. 7, noon
Apr. - Track of the Cat
by Nevada Barr
by Erin B.
will be hosting a Hunger
Games event to celebrate the
film's release. Join us at 7pm
for Wii games, themed food,
trivia, prizes, and good company!
Lastly, on Sunday the 25th @
2pm is our next TAB meeting.
We'll be getting more details
about what we can do to help
the next Friends of the
Library book sale, seeing
what we can put on those
walls, and taking suggestions
for new books to order.
The Teen Book Club is meeting on March 18th @ 2pm;
we'll be talking about The
Hunger Games in preparation
for the film's release later
that week. We’ll be handing
out copies of Paper Towns by
John Green for April. Immediately following will
be the Teen Anime
Club, where we'll be
watching Summer
Wars.
On Thursday the
22nd, the library
March Book Clubs
Classic Re-Reads - The Thin Man by
Dashiell Hammett - Nick and Nora
Charles are Hammett’s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in
between wisecracks and martinis.
Great Reads - Still Alice by Lisa
Genova - Alice is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her
career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and
her memory begins to fail her, she
receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Teen Book Club - The Hunger
Games by Suzanne Collins - A dystopian government hosts a brutal competition in which one boy and one
girl from each district must fight to
the death in recompense for a failed
revolution. Sixteen year old Katniss
volunteers for the Games in her sister’s place.
This & That - The War of the
Worlds by H. G. Wells - Invaders
from Mars decimate the English
countryside, harvesting humans for
their blood. This classic is considered the grandfather of alien invasion stories. *This is a public domain
book and it is available as a free
download through Library2Go.
Who Done It? - Faceless Killers by
Henning Mankell - It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a
remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and
his wife is left to die with a noose
around her neck.