News from KNOWhere 8-4-08

It’s the dog days of summer, but it’s nice in the library! Come on in and check out our cool books, movies, CDs and more!


News from Screven

Do your little ones need something to do? Well, bring them in to the library at 10 am on Tuesdays and they can chill out while they listen to a story, and then do a fun and creative craft project!

It’s the return of Free Movie Fridays! Come in at 3:30 Fridays and you’ll get a chance to see some of the best movies out there free and on the big screen. This week on August 8 it’ll be NANCY DREW, a snappy retro romp with the most famous girl detective of them all! Remember, that’s 3:30 on Fridays – don’t miss it!

Love old movies? We’ve just received a ton of great videos, like HONDO, ANGEL & THE BADMAN, THE KING & I, SINGING IN THE RAIN and even some series like PERRY MASON, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW and many more!

News from Jenkins

Do your kids need something to do? Well, bring them in to the library at 4 pm on Wednesdays and they can chill out while enjoying our cool activities. This Wednesday August 6 at 4 pm we’ll have Smokey Bear coming to visit, and next Wednesday August 13 at 4 pm we’ll be enjoying a Wild & Wacky Wednesday!

Now, on to the books!

GARLIC AND ROSES by Gail Gaymer Martin. Juli Maretti’s father has made their family rich, but the business is based on garlic, and she’s heard every joke there is about it. Worse, she’s just met a man she’s really interested in – but he hates garlic. How can she come out of this situation smelling like a rose?

THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein. Sometimes wisdom lives in the most unexpected places… like in the mind of a dog whose soul is almost human.

RESOLUTION by Robert B. Parker. After a bloody conflict in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch headed out into the sunset, and wound up in the town of Resolution, where he becomes the protector of the ladies who work the back rooms of the local saloon, and the only man in town tough enough to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the O’Malley copper mine.

BETRAYAL by John Lescroart. DA Dismas Hardy and detective Abe Glitsky make a great team, and that teamwork is put to the test when Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of an attorney who recently disappeared. But then they run into a case involving the Iraq War and things get dangerous.

SOUTHERN LIVING 2007 ANNUAL RECIPES. Every recipe that appeared in Southern Living Magazine during 2007 is here, along with a special slow-cooker bonus section. Luscious and lavishly illustrated.

Click to check out these cool links!

Teen Summer Job Safety
Tips for teen health and safety for construction, landscaping, life guarding, parks and recreation, restaurant, and farming jobs. Topics include on-the-job hazards (such as noise on construction sites and exhaust at drive-through restaurant windows), and recommendations to prevent injury from excessive heat for outdoor jobs. Also includes rights and responsibilities of teen workers and general tips on safe driving. In English and Spanish. From the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Soda Free Summer
Website for a 2008 health campaign challenging individuals (especially children and teens) not to drink sodas and sweetened drinks over the summer. Provides facts about how much sugar an average person eats in a day, the amount of calories and sugar in various drinks, and downloadable adult and family brochures (with tables to keep track of what you drink) in several languages. From the Alameda County, California, Health Department.

Ban Trans Fats
Website for a campaign to ban the use of partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) in food because studies suggest that eating trans fats increase the risk of heart disease. This organization "launched the national and international trans fat campaign by suing Kraft in 2003 to eliminate trans fat in Oreos." Website features background about trans fat, details about the Kraft lawsuit, news (2003-2007), and related material.

Online Newshour: China Prepares for 2008 Olympics
Reports and news coverage by the PBS Online NewsHour about China's preparations for hosting the 2008 summer Olympic Games. Covers topics such as an odd-even car ban during Olympics to reduce traffic congestion and pollution, efforts to increase press freedoms for foreign journalists, and human rights and Tibet. Also includes a comparison of demographic factors for Olympic host cities back to 1980, slideshow about Olympic stadiums around the world, and more.

Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
"Frequently cited by journalists, public officials and researchers, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll regularly surveys residents in Connecticut, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and nationwide about political races, state and national elections, and issues of public concern, such as schools, taxes, transportation, municipal services and the environment." Find polling results back to the late 1990s on topics such as presidential elections in swing states and Boston Red Sox fan support in Connecticut.

The Vietnam Center and Archive
This center's mission "is to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia." Features a virtual archive with over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials including "documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids." From the Institute for Modern Conflict, Diplomacy and Reconciliation, Texas Tech University.

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