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01/01/2018 Library Newsletter - Books & Bits Newsletter Click here to subscribe to Books & Bits via email. y4 �ce� VO/, o,, �1co a eviews LOO" N, W Qp0 � LUS A andF o Sips and TWO 1-0 News from the Tigard Library www.tigard-or.gov/library 503.684.6537 December 2017 JF For a calendar of all events, click here. Holiday The Library will be CLOSED on Monday, January 1. TOGETHER L ATTHETABLELuther COMMUNITY GATHERING TO HIGHLIGHT LIBRARY'S MLK CELEBRATION Community Event In his famous I Have a Dream speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said he dreamed that one day"the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood." To celebrate Martin Luther King Day, the library will host the Together at the Table program on Monday, Jan. 15, from 1-7 p.m. The program is designed to bring members of the community together to learn more about each other. I _ People can drop in any time during those hours, enjoy a muffin and join in a wide-ranging conversation stimulated by thought-provoking questions. , But the end is reconciliation; the P end is redem tion• the end is the . creation of the beloved community. f 04• -• It is this type of spirit and this A: type of love that can transform r y opposers into friends. It is this type - ' of understanding goodwill that will ComedyThe Physical transform the deep gloom of the old Tuesdaage into the exuberant gladness of Burgess the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the Be amazed by Henrik's wacky acrobatic antics. hearts of men. He juggles, unicycles, spins plates and more! -Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. The Times They Are a Changin' From "Facing the Challenge of a A Musical Tribute to Bob Dylan New Age,"1956 Saturday, ' For many years the library has celebrated Dr. Martin Luther uitarist, singer and songwriter Ronnie Robins celebrates the King's vision of a beloved music of folk troubadour and winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize ��- community, which seeks to in Literature Bob Dylan. Robins will perform some of Dylan's bring people together to learn well-known songs, as well as some hidden gems. a variety of perspectives and Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library to work together to improve the community. On Monday, Wonder . January 15, the library will host Saturday, January 13 9 3 — 5:30 p.m. e Adults &Teens Together at the Table. We invite the community to join in a wide- Trained warrior Diana is Princess of the Amazons. When she leaves the ranging conversation stimulated island for the first time to fight a war outside her world, she develops her by thought-provoking questions. superpowers and becomes the world's most famous woman superhero. The goal is not to solve the problems of the world, but to AuthorSteve improve the community by giving Holgate: people the opportunity to talk Sunday, TANGIER with each other in a meaningful Houghton • ' Room Adults way. Drop in any time from .„T3 1-7 p.m. Local author Steve Holgate reads from his debut E novel Tangier, which tells two parallel stories set 50 Stephen Option years apart, about a son's attempts to uncover the Ig truth behind the mysterious disappearance of his The City Council is considering a father, a French diplomat, in 1944 Morocco. local option levy to maintain the quality of life our residents enjoy. Tigard's tax rate has remained t e c h n t� To l o g y one of the lowest in the region - • since the 1990s; because of that, • • ' our revenues are not keeping Submit your work to our technology-themed art show curated by Teen pace with demand. Library Council. Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 2, pick up a submission form at People are drawn to Tigard the library or download one from our website. Submit digital, video or because of the quality of life handmade art and photography from Thursday, Feb. 1, to Wednesday, here, but growth and increasing Feb. 28. Teen Library Council will select three favorites and the winners demand for services is putting a will receive a prize. We will display favorites in the Young Adult Room strain on Tigard's infrastructure during Teen Tech Week, March 4-10. and ability to deliver quality Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library services. Without additional revenue, the city may need to Scams and Identity Theft cut back core services including Wednesday, January 17 * 6 — 7 p.m. 9 Adults library programs for children P T and seniors. I Scammers try to attack you over the phone, through �JJ email and on your favorite social media platforms. Community policing, school ' They are constantly coming up with new ways to steal resource officers, safe walking consumers' private information. Learn how to protect yourself from the and biking paths for kids to get to latest threats at this presentation by The Better Business Bureau. schools and parks maintenance may also be affected. The City _ Reads , the New Year has much more information on its website, including videos. Wednesday, January 3 e 7 — 8 p.m. 9 Adults Learn about exciting new book releases for the New http://www.tigard-or.gov/ funding_future/index.php Year. We'll also play a low-key game where you can share your favorite reads with other attendees and : http://www.tigard-or.gov/ discover new-to-you titles. �Je document_center/City_ Stuffed Budget/budget_summary.pdf A . • http://www.tigard-or.gov/ community/community_ survey.php Bring your favorite stuffy for a pizza and pajama http://www.tigard-or.gov/ party hosted by Teen Library Council! Listen to � �`, bedtime stories, make fancy stuffy accessories then YourCity/index.php R . leave your fuzzy friend for a sleepover at the library. - Pick up your stuffy the next day. ` ' OregonEstate Planning — A Will is Not Enough in Sean Garvey Wednesday, January 10 e 6:30 — 8 p.m. * Adults Local History Librarian Are your estate planning documents in order? How can you best protect yourself and your family?Attorney Richard B. Schneider, author of A Willis Not Enough in Oregon, will offer a comprehensive review of essential state and federal documents to r ' help safeguard your assets and health care wishes. A Q&A session will follow. Library TLC • - Teens, the library needs your TLC! Help the library clean up for the new year. If you are a library volunteer or are interested in becoming one, come Sean Garvey has been the help plan and prepare programs and create displays. You can earn volunteer library's local history librarian credit as you help the library be the best it can be! since 2007, assisting many Hearts patrons with local history questions and conducting Saturday, January 13 * 0 0 p.m. Puett research for them. He is also a Room reference librarian who helps Make your own star magnets, scratch art peek-through heart Patrons get the information they cards, and bright fuse bead designs, all in rainbow bursts of need, selects new materials for color! the library's collection and plans library events and programs. Smash Club Tournament The Local History Room is open Grades Mondays 2-4 p.m., Wednesdays 10 a.m.—noon, Saturdays Garners unite! All levels are welcome to this double elimination 1-3 p.m. and by appointment. WiiU tournament coordinated by Tigard High School's Smash Club. 1. Why is it important for the library to promote local • ° A - history? How do people most often use the Local History • - i a.1LT$T# Room? Drop in to build your creations with our LEGO° bricks We are fortunate to have a and explore a featured tech toy. Each month will +' dedicated space in the Tigard offer something different: coding, circuits, robots and ' Public Library for a local history more! We'll have the supplies; you bring your curiosity `_ collection. Part of our mission and creativity! is to foster lifelong learning and : . . • • Outrageously to provide an array of programs and services that encourage the Join this book discussion group for grades 6-12 and discover some fantastic development of well-rounded reads while enjoying snacks, games and crafts. Registration required. Sign citizens. I can't think of a up at the Children's Reference Desk and get your FREE copy of the book more useful discipline than an while supplies last. appreciation for local history, no Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library matter where you live. The most frequent questions we ENNET„oPPE, The Nest get are people seeking obituaries = by Kenneth Oppel or trying to track down people Tuesday, January 16 • 4:30 — 6 p.m. they went to school with in Grades 6— 12 Tigard through the Tigard High moo` Steven is heartbroken when his baby brother is born with a yearbooks. We have created ` rare disease, but when a supernatural wasp offers to solve simple ways for the public to this problem, its sinister plans cause even more anxiety. find a local obituary online for a late friend or family member or COMPUTERto locate old newspaper articles s about people or events in Tigard. Classes are held in the Technology Room on the � � SMCG� C18.5 second floor on a first-come,first-served basis, � �,�. 2. Since you became the unless otherwise noted.Stop by the Reference ix local history librarian, what Desk to pick up a ticket and claim your spot a few - improvements have you made minutes before classes begin. to the Local History Room? What kind of resources would Microsoft Word - Level 1 be necessary to better serve Friday, January 5 • 1 — 2:30 p.m. the public? Learn the basics of Word including inserting, deleting, selecting, rearranging, formatting and aligning text. Also learn about the undo/redo, A few years ago the library spell and grammar check, thesaurus, find, replace, print and save tools. began sharing some of our historic photograph and oral Microsoft Word - Level 2 history collections with the public Friday, January 12 • 1 — 2:30 p.m. online. The City of Tigard's Build on Word Level 1 skills by learning about page and line layout Geographic Information System options and how to insert graphics and text boxes. (GIS) department also helped us create an online, photographic Microsoft Word - Level 3 Alstorymap" of the people, places Friday, January 19 • 1 — 2:30 p.m. and events that have historically Learn advanced features of Word including templates, table of contents, defined Tigard. That allows tables and objects, links, mailings and more. people to do research online. E-Book Clinic One of the things we are looking Wednesday, January 24 6-8 p.m. into is digitizing our historic Wednesday, January 312-4 p.m. copies of the Tigard Times and Do you need help setting up your e-reader or mobile device to download Tigard Sentinel and that costs free e-books and e-audiobooks successfully? Learn about OverDrive and money. We also need to find out Libby, our digital download services! Registration required. Sign up if we can get permission from at the Reference Desk or call 503-718-2517. the owner of the Tigard Times to digitize them. Many other libraries Ask Anything About Gadgets! in the state have digitized their Saturday, January 6 • 2– 3 p.m. historic newspapers. Attend an open session to get answers to technology questions about Read More... using your gadget. Want to know about settings? Apps? Downloads and file management? Bring in your tablet, phone, laptop or other digital gadgets, along with your questions! The library will have some devices Nuts & Bolts available for practice. The Joy Cinema: Open Learning Labs A Tigard Treasure Sundays 2-4 p.m. Wednesdays 6-8 p.m. � No appointment necessary. Drop in any time during lab hours! Staff and volunteers will assist you with computer questions or guide you as you practice. ` Note: Open Lab is canceled on Wednesday, January 24. I� IRONMARb 630 -- - 6AW10 -r GREAT ON GATSBY 9 Check out more of our computer classes or sign up for one-on-one assistance. For over 75 years, Tigard's Joy All programs will be held in the Theater has entertained our George and Yvonne Burgess Community Room community night after night. After the theater's grand opening in unless otherwise noted. 1939, the Tigard Sentinel reported Additional parking is available in the evenings at Tigard City Hall, 13125 SW Hall Blvd., "...the new theater in Tigard is and afternoons and evenings at the Tigard Senior Center,8815 SW Omara St. quite an attractive building and it is said that there are few small READING ROOM theatres of better construction in the country." The new building also featured a Happy New You! number of modern amenities for the time—air conditioning and a baby"cry-room." For decades, The Joy was the only place in town to Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner see a movie. By 2010, multiplexes and cable television took their toll by Claire Watson Garcia on the historic theater, and it was Paintine boarded up and nearly forgotten Whether you've always wanted to learn how to paint, or � nbsouce you're looking to cultivate a new creative hobby in the Bginner before being revived by current New Year, this easy-to-follow primer can help get you ''''==° owner Jeff Martin. started! With 20 years of teaching experience, the author The Library's Local History Room assumes that the reader has no previous painting or looks back at the 75+ years of drawing skills and starts at the very beginning of the learn-to-paint process. The Joy through local newspaper Determine how to choose paints, brushes, mediums and supplies. Then articles, old movie posters and move on to mixing paint, exploring color relationships, handling brushes and theater mementos. Come visit the developing basic painting techniques to create representational still life. Use display during January. The Local your new background to springboard into oil painting, watercolor, digital or History Room is open Mondays other painting styles. 2-4 p.m., Wednesdays Reviewed by Rachael Hyde,Reference Assistant 10 a.m.—noon and Saturdays 1-3 p.m. You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life � P --:A lugged by Eleanor Roosevelto� e A Healthy New You Mrs. Roosevelt shares her philosophy of life by describing ( for the New Year qualities that helped her cope with her personal and Yo L-RI YLV. public responsibilities. Her down-to-earth pearls of Do you want to take charge of wisdom are memorable, as if she were our sage your health in the new year? The grandma sharing her experiences from her rocking chair. Some of these Internet is brimming with health pearls include: 1) Learning to Learn 2) Fear, the Great Enemy 3) The advice, but how can you be sure Uses of Time 4) The Difficult Art of Maturity. She conveys these pearls in that the information you read succinct chapters that share personal examples from her life. The stories online is from a reputable source? are a tad didactic, but worth reading and rereading. Eleanor Roosevelt's Luckily, your library card gives experience and advice reveal what an extraordinary woman she was while you free access to the Health also illustrating how wonderfully ordinary she was! More... & Wellness Resource Center, Reviewed by Laveda Altenhofer,On-Call Librarian where you can easily find health and medical information in full- Paleo Cooking With Your Instant Pot®: PALED - text magazine articles, academic 80 Incredible Gluten- and Grain-Free COOKIN6 Z and professional journals and Made Twice as Delicious in Recipes pamphlets from a wide variety of INSilINi PNi Half the Time - authoritative medical sources. - -�_., You can do a simple keyword by Jennifer Robins ift• search or a more advanced search Were you gifted an Instant Pot° over the holidays? a to find the information you want, or Do your New Year's resolutions include revising your you can browse through topics in diet to eat more like your hunter-gatherer ancestors? Then check out this four categories: new cookbook. "Predominately Paleo" blogger Jennifer Robins provides 80 • Diseases and Conditions recipes using the Instant Pot°, an electric pressure cooker with features that . Diagnostics and Tests let you slow cook, steam, saute and pressure cook all with one appliance. Recipes include Cultured Coconut Milk Yogurt, Easy Grain-Free Meatballs, • Drugs Bacon Turkey Meatloaf, Loaded Baked Potato Soup and more, plus desserts . Therapies, Treatments and such as Fruit-Sweetened Cranberry Orange Loaves and Chocolate Pots De Surgeries. Creme. Bon app6tit! You can read the articles in regular Reviewed by Ann-Marie Anderson,Adult Services Librarian or large print; listen to an audio recording of the text; translate the text into a number of different languages, and email the articles This Is Our Constitution: to friends and family or your health Discover America with a Gold Star Father941JDur care provider with the click of a �'orl�ti/Nteo� button. With access to this wealth by Khizr Khan _ of information, it is easier than ever Khizr Khan became famous after he pulled a copy j = to make informed choices about of the Constitution of the United States out of his your health care. pocket at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, challenging presidential candidate Donald Trump to read CommitmentVoluntary and understand it. Here, this Gold Star father issues the same challenge, this time to teen readers, with lots of helpful and fascinating historical Resolved: context along the way. With this book you can achieve your resolution to To Volunteer at the Library become a more involved and informed resident of this country. Reviewed by Lisa Elliott, Young Adult Librarian Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin Steal your resolve to stay healthy with this book, which doesn't shy away from gruesome yet captivating details of the deadly flu pandemic of 1918. Happy New Year! What are your Reviewed by Lisa Elliott, Young Adult Librarian New Year's resolutions? Is it to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meet new people? Give back to your community? Learn a by Mackenzi Lee new skill? By volunteering at Monty doesn't actually want to take over his cruel the Tigard Public Library, you father's estate; he'd rather spend his days partying with can accomplish all three (and his best friend (and secret crush) Percy. But alas, after much more!) We're seeking their Grand Tour together, the two will be forced to volunteers to join our team of separate and Monty will have to become a responsible shelvers, program assistants aristocrat. However, destiny has other plans for them. This book will and library lovers. If you are inspire your resolve to see the world; spend time with the people who interested in volunteering for the love you for who you are, and be your true self in spite of seemingly library, please contact Volunteer insurmountable obstacles. More... Coordinator Katie Nelson and she Reviewed by Lisa Elliott, Young Adult Librarian will help you sign up for the next Volunteer Orientation. Once again, the Tigard Public Library will participate in the 2018 Good Night Yoga: MLK Weekend of Service from A Pose-by-Pose bedtime story Saturday, January 13, through by Mariam Gates (Juvenile Non-Fiction) Monday, January 15. The January 13 event is a special Breathe and move your way into the New Year teen-only volunteer party to along with the children in this calming book, which honor Dr. Martin Luther King's teaches 11 basic yoga poses to help you prepare commitment to community for a restful night's sleep. A short lullaby winds service. It will be from throughout telling a gentle goodnight story, while illustrations of children 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the library. performing yoga poses inspired by familiar characters and elements from We invite adults and families the natural world grace each spread. Check out Good Night Yoga for a to celebrate Dr. King's memory gentle introduction to yoga and mindfulness; it just may become the new at two subsequent volunteer star of your bedtime routine. sessions on Sunday, January 14, Reviewed by Kari Kunst, Youth Services Librarian and Monday, January 15, from 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Registration is Pocket Change: . . required, so please contact Pitching in for a Better World Katie for more information at 503-718-2516 or by Michelle Mulder(Juvenile Non-Fiction) KatherineN@Tigard-or.gov Are you ready to make a difference in your community? Check out Pocket Change to learn about the history of money, the environmental and social r impacts of consumerism, and the ways that people LIBRARY HOURS around the world, especially kids, are creating sustainable alternatives. They have created ways to meet their consumer needs that are more Sunday Noon-6 p.m. humane to the planet and its inhabitants. Real-life examples of people working together to grow food for the hungry; to build homes with Monday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Habitat for Humanity, and organize"Repair Caf6s"to fix broken items instead of throwing them out, offer inspiration and ideas for a more Tuesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. sustainable future. More... Reviewed by Kari Kunst, Youth Services Librarian Wednesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Creative Lettering for Kids: CREATIVE Techniques and Tips from Top Artists LETTERING Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. by Jenny Doh (Juvenile Non-Fiction) FOR KIDS Calling all crafters! Want to learn how to add fun Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and beautiful text to your arts and crafts projects? In Creative Lettering for Kids you will learn favorite techniques from accomplished artists to make all Questions or comments about different kinds of letter art. They include making an alphabet that looks like Books & Bits or the Library? animals, monsters or flowers; making bubbly or block letter alphabets, and Contact paula@tigard-or.gov. using different materials like stamps or chalk to create cool effects. Each artist presents the project with easily followed step-by-step instructions and examples of finished work! More... To see archived newsletters, click here. Reviewed by Kari Kunst, Youth Services Librarian *Additional book reviews by NoveList.