Monday, July 7, 2008

News from KNOWhere 7-7-08

Last week of vacation reading program! That’s right, July 11 is the last day of the summer reading program, and if your kid or teen is participating, they’ll need to bring in their reading record before then!

The Screven County Library Board will be meeting at 4 pm on July 10. The Jenkins County Memorial Library Board will be meeting at 10:30 on July 16. The Screven-Jenkins Regional Library Board will be meeting at 4 pm July 24. The public is invited to attend any or all of these meetings.





News from Screven

Vacation reading ends Friday, July 11! If your child is not in the reading club yet, get them in now!

Why, you ask? After all, they've only got this week to do stuff. Well, there is a reason - the Wii DDR (that's "Dance Dance Revolution for you non-gamer types) party! We'll have pizza, drinks, the hottest music and, of course, the chance to play our brand new Wii game! So put on your dancing shoes and get ready to strut your stuff 4 pm Friday, July 11!

Tuesday will be busy – at 10 am on Tuesday July 8 we’ll have our fun Reading Bug storytime. Your little one can listen to an insect-themed story and then create a piece of art based on that story. It’s a ton of fun for the little ones!

Tuesday at 2 pm we’ll have our last “Movie Evolution” program. It’s a great time for your teen or tween to watch A BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA and get a free copy of the book the movie was based on, thanks to a grant from Planters EMC!

Wednesday, July 9 at 2 pm Keep Screven Beautiful will be hosting their e-cool-ogical “Litter”acy story & craft time. It’s a lot of eco-friendly fun, so come join in!

Thursday, July 10 will be the last of the “Buggy Crafts” programs, so you won’t want to miss that!

And don’t forget that we have TWO special events on Friday, July 11! At 2 pm we have Barry Mann’s Bug-a-Boo, Bug-a-Zoo program, with lots of funny stories, songs, and even buggy poems! We’ll even throw some pizza into the mix!

At 4 pm on the 11th, after Barry Mann, we have the super-cool Wii DDR Party for all of our reading club participants! Put on your dancing shoes and prepare to rock out with the hottest video game ever at 4 pm! There will be drinks and refreshments, and the chance to strut your stuff on the dance pad!



News from Jenkins

Wednesday we’ll have another special program as the butterflies we’ve watched grow up in the library are set free at 2 pm!

Friday, July 11 is our final Vacation Reading day! At 11 am we have Barry Mann’s Bug-a-Boo, Bug-a-Zoo program, with lots of funny stories, songs, and even buggy poems to share the Reading Bug fun. Please join us for our big finale!



Now, on to the books - and remember, all it takes is a few clicks and your card number to have these books set aside for you!

GRAVEYARD SHIFT by Kelly Lange. The nightside is the dregs of news reporting, or so TV anchorwoman Maxi Poole says. But when her neighbor’s toddler is kidnapped in broad daylight, and then the neighbor winds up dead, that’s just the lead-in to the biggest story of her life.


ZAPPED by Carol Higgins Clark. Cop Jack Reilly and his PI wife Regan just want to have a quiet supper on their rooftop terrace. But it’s not meant to be as the lights of the Big Apple go out, and the chaos begins…


LONG TALL TEXAN LEGACY by Diana Palmer. Two tales told under the hot Texas sun – but the passion flaring to life between these two couples puts even a Texas summer to shame!


LOVING NATALEE: A MOTHER’S TESTAMENT OF HOPE AND FAITH by Beth Holloway. High school senior Natalee Holloway left for her senior class trip to Aruba May 26, 2005. Her mother would never see her again. The story of her disappearance made the national news, but Natalee has never been found.


SCHULZ AND PEANUTS: A BIOGRAPHY by David Michaels. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t know Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang? Did you ever wonder where he got the ideas for his 50 years of daily comic strips? You can find out where a lot of them came from in this book!



Click to check out these cool links!

GA Health – Go Local!
Need to find out how many dentists there are in our area? Want to know who’s got a good reputation as a doctor? Does the hospital here in town treat your particular problem? The answer to all those questions is at GA Health – Go Local!

Lawn Nation: Art and Science of the American Lawn
Companion to a 2008 exhibit in which "[o]ver thirty artists, designers, filmmakers, scientists, and landscape architects consider America's big green carpet." Includes galleries of outdoor and outdoor works (such as time-lapse photography of "Revenge of the Lawn" in which grass grows over a furniture-shaped installation), and links to sites on using less water and fewer chemicals. From the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Recaptcha
"A 'captcha' is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer [such as those with distorted images of letters]." You can use this site to help stop receiving email spam "by asking people to solve a recaptcha before they can view your email address" (if you are running a web application that lists user's email addresses). This process uses unclear images from digitized books. From Carnegie Mellon University.

Epicurious: Seasonal Cooking
Collection of resources for seasonal and local cooking, including seasonal ingredients, a peak season ingredient map for the U.S., visual introductions to foods such as peppers and mushrooms, farmer blog, and recipes. From Epicurious.

Listen to Nature: The Language of Birds
"[A]n introduction to how, why and when birds communicate, illustrated with sound samples, including Alex the famous talking parrot." Features essays and sound clips on topics such as songs (including vocal appropriation and duetting), calls (of young birds and as deceitful mimicry), bird to man communication, birds that talk to themselves, nature or nurture (including "talking birds"), and human appreciation of bird songs. Includes a short bibliography. From the British Library.

Water Calculator
This site helps you calculate residential water use per day. Covers source of water supply, and water use in the bathroom, kitchen, and outdoors (including landscaping, washing a car, and swimming pools). Results include suggestions for reducing water use. Also includes links to water conservation tips and related material. From the National Wildlife Federation.



Well, that’s it for now – see you at the library!

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