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December
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The library will be closed on Wednesdays, December 25, 2019 and January 1, 2020.
The Library will close at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, December 24 and 31, 2019.
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O Mitten Tree! O Mitten Tree!
For the 23rd year, the Tigard Library will display a Mitten Tree, and
we're asking you to decorate it! Throughout December, bring new
socks, hats, scarves, gloves and personal care items to dress up
the branches. They will be distributed to families in Washington
rr' County who are experiencing homelessness.
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It's About Time
Have you heard? The buzz on the street is that the library has new
hours! We are open earlier on Sundays at 10 a.m. and close at
NEW6 p.m.as usual. We now also close earlier Monday through Friday
Library Hours at 8 p.m.
Don't Try This at Home!
Through Washington County Cooperative Library Services,
(WCCLS)you can now access Pamplin Media online while at the
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library. Pamplin publishes many local newspapers including
TheTimes, covering Tigard, Tualatin and Sherwood, as well as the
Portland Tribune, which often covers stories impacting Washington
County residents as well as Portland news. Unlike access to some
other news sources through WCCLS, you can only log on to
Pamplin while in the library.
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HAPPENINGS
History of Holiday Pop Music
Saturday, December 7 12-3 p.m.
Burgess Community Room I Adults 8,Teens
Some of the most popular singers in the country recorded some of
the best-known holiday music. Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis,
Rosemary Clooney and others are associated with holiday mega-
hits. Pop music historian and former disc jockey Jim Pritchard will
put you in a holiday mood while you listen to snippets of well-known
holiday songs.
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PROGRAMS
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STEAMdom: Hour of Code
0 Thursday, December 12 14:30-6:30 p.m.
Puett Room I Ages 10-14 only, please
.� Get coding and making with a variety of methods from low-tech to
robotic. Create your own game, complete a Cubelet challenge or
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t design a path for Ozobots in this coding playground.
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Noon Year's Eve
- Tuesday, December 31 111:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Puett Room I Kids and Families
202 , It's time to ring in the New Year! Join us for a family-friendly
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celebration of counting down to the New Year without staying up
late.
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Ah, it's that time of the year when the word "holidays" is synonymous with "busy." Our To-Do
lists double. Time runs short. And we often find ourselves trying to catch our breath. So, this
month's booklists are doing double duty—ways to give your overloaded brain a break as well
as gift ideas.
Adults
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E-Book Beginner or Best Seller Fan?
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Are you new to e-books or do you swear by them? Love best-
Rs sellers but hate being #200 on the waiting list? Check out (literally)
our Kindles and Nooks pre-loaded with popular book titles. This is
a wide-ranging list that includes titles for both adults and kids, as
well as a Kindle with 20 Spanish titles.
YLE RA Lectores de espano/pueden disfrutar de nuestro Kindle en
espano/con hasta 20 libros mas vendidos.
After checking one out, maybe you'll put an e-reader on your gift
list!
Teens
Attention All Gamers
What better way to spend the holiday break than playing board
games at the library with your bestie? From Codenames to Zombie
Dice, we've got lots, and now you've got plenty of room to play
them in The Teen Scene. Review the list and challenge your
friends. Are you into Dungeons & Dragons? Whether you're a
beginner or a master, check out handbooks that can help you hone
your skills.
Kids
n• Take a Picture Book Break
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+, A good way to take a break from the daily To-Do list is to spend
some quality time reading a picture book with a child. The library
has so many to choose from. This list includes some of our
librarians' favorites! Maybe you'll find one that is just the thing for a
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WHO ' S THAT?
Erik Carter
Adult Services librarian Erik Carter has worked at the Tigard Library for 24 years. If you've
been to the Reference Desk on the 2nd Floor, he may have helped you find what you were
looking for. Having learned to read when he was very young, Erik is still a voracious reader,
consuming as many as 600 books in a year, mainly nonfiction.
1. Descibe a memorable moment on the job.Why did it have
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an effect on you?
1 This is a little ahead of the next question, but the second year I
hosted Holocaust survivors Eva and Les Aigner we had a perfect
storm of publicity and attendance. A huge number of students
came from Tigard High, and the Community Room was full. I
stopped counting at 300. We've never matched that since, but the
fact that so many teens came to hear something so horrible gives
me some vague hope for the human race.
2. You have hosted the Library's annual Holocaust
remembrance program every November for more than a
decade. Why do you feel it is important to repeat this program
each year?
To me, it is a matter of standing up for truth and memory in the face
of hatred and power. It does not give me the slightest happiness as
a human being to have to acknowledge that one of the great
nations of the Earth, a leader in science, the arts and philosophy,
went insane and murdered people with carefully engineered
machines because "they had no right to exist."
And yet, Hitler and thousands of accomplices did carry out the
Holocaust, even taking measures that led to Germany losing the
war faster in order to kill more Jews at the end. After the war, the
human race said, "never again," and yet there has been an again
so many times—in Rwanda, the alternating slaughters in the
Balkans after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and many other
countries. America is not immune to anything either, and Langston
Hughes' "America Will Be" is still an unfulfilled promise. I will keep
this program going as long as there are any witnesses to speak.
3. You're a voracious reader. Of all the books you've read, can
you name one or two that jump immediately to mind as
particularly meaningful? Ones that you frequently refer others
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to or that you've drawn knowledge from that you have often
used in your own life?
I do read a lot, so that is tough. Thinking on formative experiences,
I would say that reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich in high school was an attention-getter, and another influence
towards history as an interest and pastime. I remember reading it
and thinking that this is weird and stupid and bizarre, and then I felt
a sudden wrenching of perspective. I realized that this really
happened, and a fairly average newspaper reporter who probably
wore a fedora, smoked Luckies, and called his secretary, "doll,"
was there from the beginning and watched as an entire nation went
insane. It was good for its time, but we have better histories
now. Yet, as eyewitness reporting Rise and Fall is still a valuable
work.
Also, although I haven't read the actual books in decades: The
Hobbit and the Rings trilogy. I read it when I was 10 or 12. It's a bit
of a nerd clich6, but Tolkien invented a swath of languages and an
encyclopedia of mythology as a hobby and then was forced by
editors to fit just some of it into four books. The Rings trilogy was
the first fiction I ever read where I definitely felt that there was a
whole huge strange world just outside the focus of the story.
Erik Elaborates...
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