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06/01/2018 Library Newsletter - Books & Bits Newsletter Click here to subscribe to Books & Bits via email. Vo/4 • "t,60L co a eliews - 00N cam' m * �• anol c °TipsandT TigardNews from the Library www.tigard-or.gov/library 503.684.6537 June 2018 For a calendar of all events, click here. Tigard Library's 2018 Annu Patron 71 x TIGARD PUBLIC LIBRARY // We Asked. SUMMER - I A ; Library'sAnnual MORARIF READ11fC The library's annual survey in * TM February provided much valuable Begins June 1. Sign up to * IN feedback from patrons. In addition *' read this summer and get to record-breaking customer ,o some fun prizes! service ratings, 1,901 of the 2,467 respondents provided many Adult Summer Reading Kick-off reasons why they feel the library benefits the community. The word Chicamarimba "access" popped up 321 times. • . . Other comments included: Celebrate the arrival of summer with a unique, lively • Availability for all to use. Best musical performance by fan favorites Chicamarimba, as use of tax dollars other than they share their special polyrhythmic blend of African schools. and Latin sounds. Sign up for the Adult Summer Reading Program. • The hours are great staying open Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library late and the building is very pretty. Being open daily is a big help, too. Kids Summer Reading Kick- . • Books that we can borrow and • PhillipsThunder Bubbles then not have to buy then keep. Tuesday, - • It is the hub. Mo Phillips and the Thunder Bubbles kick the good times up • In the past, the library has helped a notch with a full-on dance parry that will get you laughing me with reports and I have gotten and moving. Plus, help write a tune together and play it with an "A"on all of them. the band! • The films, the impressive _ n Mic with Khameelah Waldon and You! selection of literature, the audio books—all in a nice space. Y'all Open mic—Ages 12-20 * Audience—All ages rock! (and that was before we announced the Libraries Rock! Khameelah Waldon is a looping artist and one-woman band whose ethereal theme for summer reading.) sound will astound you. But first, you can perform at an Open Mic from Each year, we end the survey with 6-7 p.m. for ages 12-20. Call 503-718-2654 or email lisae@tigard-or.gov an open-ended question that asks to sign up. Open mic spots are limited, but the show is open to all! for suggestions or comments. This 11 11 _ year1,065 people responded. Manycomments related to the removal of fines on children's 77:TI�16 arn about some low-cost or free offbeat ideas materials, requests for specific what to do this summer around Oregon and additions to the collection, and e Pacific Northwest, including some destinations suggestions for library programs d events you may never have heard of. and hours. We will respond to some of your specific comments Painting to Music in future issues of B&B. Thank Sunday, June 17 9 1:30 — • p.m. you to everyone who took time to Puett Room 9 Kids & Families participate. Your input is invaluable in informing us on how best the Experience the joy of creating with colors as you listen IroJp14 library can meet your needs. to beautiful music. Create one-of-a-kind spontaneous impressionist masterpieces worthy of showing on any refrigerator door! All supplies provided. Levy Results What Happens Next? Crossing the Columbia with York On Tuesday, May 15, Tigard voters Saturday, June 9 9 3 — 4 p.m. 9 Adults rejected a measure that would In this serio-comedic performance, storyteller Gideon For- help pay for services funded by the mukwai narrates the panoramic journey of York of the general fund, such as the library, Lewis and Clark Expedition. Captain Clark's black slave York police and parks maintenance. pl contributed immensely to the success of the expedition. The City had prepared budget P Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library proposals for the next two fiscal years in the event that the levy Beat-Making Workshop did not pass. The City's Budget Saturday, June 30 e 1 — 4:30 p.m. Is Grades 6-12 Committee met throughout May, and the City Council will vote on Learn the basic skills to make and mix your own beats using iPad music the Committee's proposed budget production software. Local expert and studio engineer Jesse Munro will be in June. Once the final budget has your fearless leader. BYOH (Bring Your Own Headphones.) Registration been approved, we will provide required. Stop by the Children's Reference Desk or call 503-718-2656 details about its impact on library to sign up. operations. Tweendom: Tuesday, June • - • Puett • . . • - only, please You Rock! We Rock! Libraries Rock! Join your peers to solve a mystery challenge. It may be a Breakout game, a scavenger hunt, a guerilla art project i • • `�" or...who knows? If you persevere, you can tackle the next Tweendom Challenge. Tweendom is designed especially for 10-14-year-olds toR WE enjoy age-appropriate activities with their peers. On your mark, get set, get ready Medicare to rock, uh, I mean, READ! ' Options Summer reading is just around 7 Tuesday, the corner. And with it, comes Licensed insurance agent Steve Edwards will review hundreds of thousands of words Original Medicare, the difference between Medicare in hardback, paperback, on your Advantage plans and Medicare Supplement Insurance tablet or in your ears. Words that (Medigap), timeframes for enrolling, late enrollment can whisk you away to another penalties and extra help programs. era or another galaxy. Read for pleasure. Read for WorkshopUkulele knowledge. Read for escapism. Wednesday, Sign up for summer reading gradeAdults &Teens in beginning Friday, June 1, and earn Learn how to play the ukulele with the Ukalaliens! All skill a chance to get a free book and levels are welcome; bring your own ukulele or use one of other cool prizes. the 30 instruments provided. Instructors Kate Power and This year's theme is Libraries Steve Einhorn are lifelong musicians, songwriters and Rock. Library programs will teachers. They owned Artichoke Music in Portland which #ell accentuate the theme, whether was a performance venue, music school and instrument it's rockin'with Chicamarimba at shop, from 1981-2006. the adult summer reading kick- Sponsored ickSponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library off or rockin' around the clock at the 40th anniversary of the film Independent Writers Today Grease in July. Kids will be rockin' all summer beginning with a full-on dance Interested in becoming a writer? Members of the Northwest Independent party with Mo Phillips and the Writers Association will discuss the latest developments in non-traditional Thunder Bubbles on Tuesday, publishing. The discussion will cover how to get started, how to get heard, how June 26. Other rocky programs to get paid and how to survive long-term. include 123 Andres, a Latin Grammy award winner who Critter Clinic Billboard Magazine called "a Wednesday, June • rockstar for little language Puett Room e Kids & Families learners."On Tuesday, July 17, he Bring your favorite stuffy for a visit to our medical clinic, where you get to be will perform high-energy songs inEnglish and Spanish. the doctor! It will be a fun pain-free interactive experience just right for pint- sized patients and future doctors! And then there are real rocks, the kind you find in the earth. On, LEGO@ZoneWednesday, August 1, families can learn more about rocks and Puett Room minerals and learn how to start their own collections. Whether it's Drop in to build with our LEGO° bricks and explore learning the ukulele, performing a featured tech toy. Each month will offer something at an Open Mic or learning how different: coding, circuits, robots and more! We'll have all to make and mix their own beats, the supplies; you bring your curiosity and creativity! teens will rock their way through the summer, too. In the ACTIVITIES ALL SUMMER LOU Kids a d teens, if your each'ngyour goal, you can score a book, a Family Jam! Trail Blazer's game, a free swim, a State Fair ticket and an Oaks Rock the library this summer! Stop by the Children's Reference Desk and ask to Amusement Park coupon. Not borrow one of our instrument kits to use when the Puett Room is available. You to mention all the characters can explore the Family Band Kit with instruments for ages five and up, or the you'll meet as you read your way Baby Band Kit for your tiniest rock stars! through the summer. Adults can Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library enter to win a fabulous themed prize basket. Discovery • • Wednesdays, p.m. Get To • Puett Room * Kids & Families Katie Drop in and discover materials on your own with a different theme each week. Nelson, Build constructions, play with the science of sound, create your own games and Volunteer more! Coordinator Scratched Katie recently Studio received her Young Adult Room ' ' - Master's in History from Need to scratch a creative itch?Then contribute to Scratched, the zine made for Portland State University, where teens, by teens! Stop by the Young Adult Room anytime, all summer long, and she researched and wrote about use our supplies to create a submission or work on your own project. Zinesters s advocacy right can enter a special drawing for tickets to a Literary Arts event in Portland, with efforts in the Portland's civil l right In her spare bus passes to get you there. time, Katie enjoys reading and Silent Jam spending time outdoors hiking and camping. A few of her favorite Throughout the summer, visit the bulletin board in the Young Adult Room to books include The Thousand contribute to a collaborative musical composition! Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes and Roots by COMPUTERAlex Haley. She will celebrate her second year as Volunteer Classes are held in the Technology Room on the C;G Coordinator on Wednesday, second floor on a first-come,first-served basis, August 8. unless otherwise noted.Stop by the Reference E' '. Desk to pick up a ticket and claim your spot a fewti1 1) Tell us about your job. minutes before classes begin. t What are your main duties? As the Library's Volunteer Get One-on-One Tech Help Coordinator, I am responsible for Make a one-hour individual appointment with a tech helper. Call the recruiting new library volunteers, recording current monthly Reference Desk: (503) 718-2517 volunteer service hours, helping volunteers find the perfect position E-Book Clinic for their skills and experience and Wednesday, June 13 Is 2-4 p.m. maintaining the growth of the Do you need help setting up your e-reader or mobile device to download volunteer program. free a-books and e-audiobooks successfully? Learn about OverDrive and Libby, our digital download services! Registration required. Sign up at the 2) How do volunteers serve Reference Desk or call 503-718-2517. the library? How many people typically volunteer Ask Anything About Gadgets! at the library? Saturday, June 30 Is 4-5 p.m. We have 280 regular volunteers Attend an open session to get answers to technology questions about at the library and 380 volunteers using your gadget. Want to know about settings? Apps? Downloads and file annually. Monthly, our volunteers management? Bring in your tablet, phone, laptop or other digital gadgets, contribute on average about 1,300 along with your questions! The library will have some devices available for hours of service to the library, the practice. equivalent of about 7.2 full-time positions. Volunteers serve the Open Learning Labs library in a variety of ways! They Sundays 2-4 p.m. work in the Technical Services, Readers Services or Circulation No appointment necessary. Drop in any time during lab hours! Staff and divisions. volunteers will assist you with computer questions or guide you as you practice. In Readers Services, volunteers work as Program Assistants for youth services, and we have volunteers who visit homebound All programs will be held in the patrons through our Friendly Visitor George and Yvonne Burgess Community Room Program in Adult Services. The unless otherwise noted. majority of our monthly volunteer Additional parking is available in the evenings at Tigard City Hall,13125 SW Hall Blvd., work is in Circulation. They help in and afternoons and evenings at the Tigard Senior Center,8815 SW Omara St. many ways, but primarily in getting materials back on the shelves via bin sorting and shelving, pulling patron requests for reserved items, READING ROOM and welcoming patrons as our Entry Point Greeter. We also have Rock'n Read volunteers who are Local History Room docents, Special Project Adults Volunteers, and Administrative Assistant Volunteers. Beat the Champ (Music CD) 3) Why does this job appeal by The Mountain Goats to you? The Mountain Goats explore both rock and jazz to I frequented the libraries of my compose several tales about professional wrestling. hometown, college town and If you are a stranger to the topic, don't let it deter - current home. I have a deep love you. The stories are humanizing: a father traveling and respect for libraries and the across Texas post-match to return to his family; the robust services they provide— friendship that grows between two wrestlers after not only books, but additional an impromptu team-up in a cage match; a wrestler who gets tired of educational and entertainment acting like the good guy in every fight (wrestlers are actors!), and a retired resources such as movies, CDs, wrestler taking odd jobs and relishing his lifelong friendships and lingering programs and classes. I love that fame. both my personal and professional Reviewed by Adrianne Driver,On-Call Librarian lives support a public service such as the library. I also enjoy The Best of Adam Sharp the diversity of people that I by Graeme Simsion I get to work with in this position. You cannot typecast a library A story of lost love reignited becomes the bittersweet tale SIMSIONvolunteer. Each volunteer's of two marriages; paths taken and not taken, and how Me BettI history, background and skillset is memories shift over time, all set to a soundtrack of 60's cfAdamincredibly diverse. This makes for and 70's pop songs that evoke the moods and emotions fharp a unique environment where every of the storyline. Adam's complacent routine is shaken up I day is different. when an email from beautiful Australian actress Angelina, Learn more about Katie... the"one who got away"two decades earlier, pops up in his in-box. Suggestion: Read while listening to the accompanying Spotify playlist (requires Spotify account): https://play.spotify.com/user/ Plugged thebestofadamsharp/playlist/52H EENZTAQaoMLiAnZLk3H?play=true&utm_ source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open Rockin' with Lynda Reviewed by Ann-Marie Anderson,Adult Services Librarian Did you know that your library card gives you access to free online The Rock& Gem Book; io>a S irFtsnn ❑ music tutorials? WCCLS subscribes i,�ti ...And Other Treasures of the Natural World a1��,, ` to Lynda.com, a digital repository by Dan Green l"# of tens of thousands of high-quality You will be amazed at the vibrant colors of the naturally0 Ws 4 occurring rocks and minerals in this Smithsonian book. Pyrite, better known as fool's gold, is one of my favorites. rr Pyrite comes in different forms, such as shiny crystals and t cubes, as well as nodules. You may be familiar with basalt, sandstone, granite and diamonds, but are you have you heard of marcasite, rhodochrosite, serpentinite and sphalerite? All these treasures and more - await inside this jewel. Reviewed by Joyce Niewendorp,Senior Adult Services Librarian online instructional videos on a wide range of topics, including music. Awns Learn the basics of music theory, The Disenchantments including rhythm, harmony and scale, as well as advanced music by Nina LaCour theory concepts such as chord After graduation, Colby drops everything to join Bev on progressions and intervals. You her band's brief tour of the Pacific Northwest. He can't could also take courses on how wait to spend the next year exploring Europe with Bev, T HAI to manage your music collection his best friend and secret love. But after she drops aISE using various apps, as well as how bombshell that completely destroys his plans, he's still I a �� to browse, stream, and download stuck awkwardly touring with her and a weird cast of music on an iPhone. characters during the first week of the summer. If you're interested in the music Reviewed by Lisa Elliott,Young Adult Librarian industry, check out the tutorials Behind the Songon recording musical instruments, "p learning music licensing and Edited by K.M. Walton becoming a music producer. You This anthologycollects stories from diverse YA authors 1 tot can access Lynda.com by going to and musicias, all reporting how the influence of musicwccls.org/Lynda where you will log helped shape their futures. A song can truly change your in with your WCCLS library card life, and these writers share anecdotes that will have you number and PIN. Then you'll be running to YouTube so you can experience their playlists prompted to create a first-hand. Lynda.com account, which will Reviewed by Lisa Elliott, Young Adult Librarian allow you to manage your course history, playlists, bookmarks, and The Beauty That Remains Certificates of Completion. by Ashley Woodfolk Lynda.com is normally a subscription service. To access Autumn, Logan and Shay have something in common: the free service, do not go to They've all lost someone close to them to untimely death. Lynda.com directly. Use the They each have different, unhealthy ways of dealing WCCLS link. with their grief. One is wracked with undeserved guilt, another has panic attacks and the other one drinks. But when they put their energy into the other thing they have VoluntaryCommitment in common, the band Unraveling Lovely, they find a way to leave their Seeking Friendly isolation behind and finally heal with a little help from their friends. And Library Volunteers LIsIRr music, of course. VOLUNTEERS Reviewed by Lisa Elliott, Young Adult Librarian The library is looking ROCK for new volunteers for our Friendly Visitor program. Friendly Visitors are library volunteers who make Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender xd,,ss monthly visits to patrons enrolled Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin (Picture Book) IAYe Me Tender in the library's homebound service. In this tribute to the classic love song by the King of l- These Friendly Visitors undergo a Rock and Roll, the members of four diverse families background check and are matched celebrate their tender love for one another. Check with one or two homebound out a CD like Elvis: 30 #1 Hits and listen to him r R patrons. croon as you share this book with your little one. Friendly Visitors deliver library Reviewed by Holly Campbell-Polivka,Youth Services Librarian materials to and from the patron's residence on a schedule Rocks and Minerals �.�. determined by the volunteer and b Dan Green '�7 C> patron's availability. If you are 1' lq interested in volunteering, we have (Juvenile Non-Fiction and Young Adult Non-Fiction) `; crs immediate openings. More patrons It's not your typical book on rocks and minerals. In this have requested the service than we book and others from the Basher Science series, thecurrently have Friendly Visitors. unique combination of European graphic design and Japanese character creation makes readingnon-fiction '' .�' ;;;'p;;� The Summer Teen Volunteer p " � --�' Program begins Saturday, a whole new experience. This is written by the same author who wrote the Rock and Gem book reviewed in June 23, and ends Saturday, the Adult section. August 25. Teens throughout Reviewed by Holly Campbell-Polivka,Youth Services Librarian Tigard will volunteer on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Space is still available. If you are Rockabye Baby! (Music CD) interested in learning more about Listen carefully to the sleepy, instrumental music the program, please contact Katie. and recognize tunes from the likes of The Eagles, [ Our New Volunteer Orientations Eminem, Justin Timberlake, AC/DC, Sublime and are on "pause"this June, July Taylor Swift. With over 100 different artists and and August and will resume in bands, everyone, no matter how old, is sure to find September. If you are interested one they like. in volunteering with the library, Reviewed by Holly Campbell-Polivka, please contact Katie, and she Youth Services Librarian will register you for a September orientation. For any of the volunteer opportunities described here, contact Katie at KatherineN@tigard-or.gov LIBRARY • Sunday Noon-6 p.m. Monday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Questions or comments about Books& Bits or the Library? Contact paula@tigard-or.gov. To see archived newsletters, click here.