07/01/2023 Library Newsletter - Books & BitsJuly 2023
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Find Your Voice at Tigard Public Library
This July we encourage you to join our summer reading program and Find Your Voice at the Library.
Here are three ways you can keep celebrating this month:
Write Your Own Tune: Did you know you can check out instruments from the Tigard Library of
Things? Take home a keyboard, steel drum, or microphone, and make your musical mark.
Experience Oregon Voices: The Oregon Historical Society's Oregon Voices exhibit will be in the
Library Courtyard July 5-August 27. Visit to learn about the evolution and expansion of Oregon
industries, social justice movements, migration and immigration, environment and energy, and
Indigenous nations in Oregon from WWII to present day.
Find Your Song: Teens can collaborate to create a communal composition in the Teen Alcove.
Add notes, then play along on our keyboard.
Library Closed Tuesday, July 4
Tigard Public Library will be closed Tuesday, July 4.
Online resources are available 24/7 at wccls.org.
All Ages
A Midsummer Celtic Celebration with Andrea
Wild & Company
Sunday, July 9 | 2-3 PM
Burgess Community Room | All Ages
Enjoy Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall through the music that
has inspired generations. Hear tall tales, legends, Welsh songs in
the Welsh language, Irish bagpipes, fiddle tunes, tin whistle and
Irish bouzouki. Andrea Wild will be joined by multi-instrumentalists
Preston Wilde and Bob Soper. Stay after the program for Q&A.
Program presented in partnership with Friends of the Tigard Library
Kids
Oregon Rocks!
Tuesday, July 25 | 2:30-4 PM
Burgess Community Room| Kids in grades K-6
Take off on a geology adventure and explore our ever-changing
planet Earth. Dig into rocks, fossils, earthquakes, and volcanoes
through hands-on activities and rockin’ specimens, discovering the
dynamic forces that have shaped Oregon’s landscape over time
with the University of Oregon’s Traveling Museum of Natural and
Cultural History.
Program presented in partnership with Friends of the Tigard Library
Teens
Luddites Unite
Thursday, July 27 | 5-7 PM
Burgess Community Room | Teens in grades 6-12
Log out and tune in for a peaceful evening completely free of
electronics! Frolic outside with playground games, try your hand at
macrame, read a one-act play with your peers, and follow clues to
free your phone from a lockbox, escape room-style.
Online registration is encouraged (and yes, we are aware of the
irony).
Adults
Author Thien Pham presents Family Style
Saturday, July 29 | 3-4:30 PM
Burgess Community Room | Teens & Adults
Comic artist and educator Thien Pham comes to Tigard to share his
new graphic novel Family Style: Memories of an American from
Vietnam! In this charming book, Pham tells the story of his family’s
immigration to the US through the meals he ate along the way,
revealing how food builds memory and community.
Program presented in partnership with Friends of the Tigard
Library.
Looking for something good to read?
If you don't see the perfect selection in these lists, ask Your Personal Librarian! Fill out this simple
form to tell us a little bit about what you like (or what you can't stand!) in books, movies, or music and
we will email you a list of titles chosen just for you.
We can also browse our shelves and select materials we think you might be interested in. Tell us what
you like here, and we'll pull a stack of items, then check them out to you.
Find Book Club Help From Our Book Club
Clinic!
Do you need ideas for books that everyone will actually read? How
about questions that spark better discussions? Is your club stuck in
a rut? The Tigard Public Library staff is here to help with all of your
book club issues. Just fill out this short form and a librarian will
respond with recommendations in 5-7 business days.
Kids
Summer Reading Lists!
Here are summer reading suggestions for a range of ages, created
by the Association for Library Service to Children.
Click below to see each list or place a hold.
Birth-Preschool Reading Suggestions
K-2nd grade Reading Suggestions
3-5th grade Reading Suggestions
6-8th grade Reading Suggestions
-Janet, Youth Services Librarian
Teens
Raise Your Voice!
"Teen books about social justice and activism."
-Lisa, Teen Librarian
Click here to view the full list or place a hold.
Adults
Emerging Fantasy & Science Fiction Genres
"Interested in some new Fantasy or Science Fiction, but can't
decide what to read next? Take your pick of these cool subgenres
with brand new writing styles, emergent concepts, allegorical
experiences, and hot takes on vibrant new settings."
-Mila, Adult Services Librarian
Click here to view the full list or place a hold.
Tigard Public Library
13500 SW Hall Blvd.
Tigard, Oregon 97223
503-684-6537
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