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05/01/2018 Library Newsletter - Books & Bits Newsletter Click here to subscribe to Books & Bits via email. - N Vo/, � L � �oolfvsL � a .,views . N cam' �` andF o Tips andNews from the J T Tigard hbw tm�� www.tigard-or.gov/library • 503.684.6537 May 2018 For a calendar of all events, click here. Holiday The Library will be CLOSED on Monday, May 28. APRIL 21 - MAY 5,2018 Where Better To Find a Story • A Storytelling Festival Than in the Library rt of the Story For the past few months, the A Washington County Cooperative Library Services Event library has been spotlighting some of the programs we offer at the Destination? Slammer! True Tales of Life and Laughter library. The focus has been on Wednesday, May 2 • 7 -8 p.m. • Adults adult programs, children's story Geraldine Buckley, a British-born convent schoolgirl, becomes a times and S.T.E.A.M. programs. chaplain at the largest men's prison in Maryland inspiring thoughtful, Now these stories are accompanied hilarious, true stories. This event is part of the WCCLS Art of the Story by short videos, so you can see Festival at WCCLS member libraries April 21-May 5. and hear the programs in action. Visit www.wccls.org for full schedule. Lights! Camera! Library! Programs for Adults Classical • Close Some people with members of - Oregon Sym • • still think • • ' ages libraries are primarily for Classical Join us for a special, interactive classical music concert children, but the Tigard Public Up Close for children and families! Musicians will introduce Library has a robust schedule of instruments from the orchestra and present different far [ids! styles and periods of fun music.Fanprograms to appeal to adults... • om • S.T.E.A.M. Programs for Kids Friday, ' Give me an S. Give Make a date with the things you love! Visit the Honeydukes me a T. Give me snack bar, dance to a Hamilton playlist, make a Time Lord- an E. Give me an worthy bow tie, and May the Fourth be with you for a Star . A. Give me an M. I' , Wars breakout game. Wear costumes or formal wear or come as you are! What s it spell? S.T.E.A.M.! What's it mean? Trivia Night at Tigard Taphouse Science! Technology! Engineering! Arts! Mathematics! Huh?... Join library staff at the Tigard Taphouse for an evening of friendly " Children's Story competitive trivia fun. Prizes will be donated by Tigard Taphouse, located at ti '< Times: More than 9230 SW Burnham St., Tigard. • A-B-Cs It's Saturday Behind the Scenes of • . International morning and the Rose Test Gardenchildren's room at Sunday, the Tigard Public Harry Landers, former curator of the Rose Garden, Library is hopping... will discuss the behind-the-scenes work necessary Take a look and let us know what to create the world-class garden in Washington Park, you think about these stories and home to more than 650 varieties of roses and 10,000 videos. _ rose plants. Become a Library Hero! EquipmentPublic Works Day: Fun With Heavy CommunityBurgess • •m & Library Parking Lot Celebrate National Public Works Week v ,......,.. (May 20-26) with some hands-on fun, .. 10.EM . both inside and outside the library! ••l Go high in the sky in a bucket truck. 1 . ' 21 Operate a backhoe. Get your own construction hat and get a closer look Fun with Heavy Equipment _ at tools, street signs and more fun , i� -- Join the Library Board. Apply for a activities in the library. �� i position on the Library Board and Zomba! • , • _ have a say in the Library's future. Tuesday, May I e 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Kids & Families The Library Board advises City Council on library policies, budget, a, Take a musical trip to a sunny place with the facilities and other needs. Read T warm acoustic sounds of Charles F. Tigard more... Elementary School's marimba ensemble. This marimba and drum ensemble Nuts & Bolts composed of fifth-graders will perform a variety of music from American folk songs The Library and the Levy to traditional Zimbabwean songs. our co m m u n itv TournamentSmash Club Saturday, • .m. 9 Ages 12-19 OUH [ UTURI Teen gamers of all levels unite for double elimination Measure#34-283:Police,Parks,Library a� Smash 4 and Melee tournaments coordinated by i - You may have heard about the Tigard High School's Smash Club. Bring your own RO upcoming Tigard levy on the ballot controller or use one of ours. Prizes (and bragging nne for the May 15 election. The levy rights) will go to the top players. Arrive at 12:30 p.m. primarily affects police, parks and to sign up. Tournament will begin at 1 p.m. sharp! library operations. Here are some Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library examples of how it would impact the library. Fairies and Friends Workshop If the levy passes, proposed levy 0 funds would be used to: - Room 9 Kids & Familie • Maintain current story times, Make felt fairies, cork critters and other little fluffy including weekend story times. friends. Explore and invent with lots of odds and ends. — • Provide children's programming Historyof Mt. Hood'sCabins on Thursdays • Add S.T.E.A.M. programs to help children develop science, Mt. Hood Museum curator Lloyd Musser examines the technology, engineering, arts and scope of Henry Steiner's work, sharing photographs of math skills to prepare them for his log cabins and their unique architectural features. I future careers From 1928 to 1953, Steiner and his family built about 100 • Maintain current program vacation getaways by hand on wooded land around the schedules for adults Pacific Northwest. f • Increase the number of programs Library TLC for seniors to better serve the aging population Puett ' • ' • If it does not pass, budget Teens, the library needs your TLC! If you are a library volunteer or are proposals call for reductions in interested in becoming one, drop in to help plan and prepare programs and the number of children's and adult displays. You can earn volunteer credit as you help the library be the best it programs. can be! Coding (, i p.m. Puett Room * Ages 8- 14 only, please nom' ■® Drop in and learn about coding or continue work j ICON , on a coding project! Work in Scratch or Code. N org, explore Makey Makeys or Snap Circuits, in a relaxed environment. Each session will feature NMI What's your name? . a special robot or tool to try! A librarian will The library is currently open --7-Adu facilitate, but we will all learn together. seven days a week like most other libraries in Washington County. LEGOO • ne The current schedule serves a broad spectrum of library users, f' x regardless of their work or school �. schedules. Drop in to build with our LEGO° bricks and - explore a featured tech toy. Each month will offer If the levy passes, proposed funds something different: coding, circuits, robots and would be used to maintain the more! We'll have all the supplies; you bring your curiosity and creativity! number of hours the library is currently open. If the levy does • • • N (Teens _ . • Outrageously • not pass, the library may need to reduce hours. Join this book discussion group for grades 6-12 and discover some fantastic reads while enjoying snacks, games and crafts. Registration required. Sign The library provides books, movies, up at the Children's Reference Desk and get your FREE copy of the book music and more to all ages for while supplies last. education and entertainment. The collection helps people learn to Sponsored by Friends of the Tigard Library read, prepare for a test, learn new software and get tips on starting a The Weight of Feathers small business, just to name a few, by Anna-Marie McLemore as well as provide movies and music Tuesday, May 15 • 4:30 - 6 p.m. • Grades 6- 12 for education and entertainment. J The Palomas and the Corbeaus are circus families that If the levy passes, proposed levy _nF ave been feuding for generations, but that doesn't funds would be used to maintain stop Lace Paloma from falling for Chuck Corbeau in this the library's collection of books novel take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. and other materials so that patrons would have access to timely COMPUTER materials on contemporary topics. If the levy does not pass, budget 85S proposals call for reductions in the Classes are held in the Technology Room on the l SCC library's collection. second floor on a first-come,first-served basis, f unless otherwise noted.Stop by the ReferenceThe levy rate would be $1.18 per Desk to pick up a ticket and claim your spot a few11 $1,000 of the assessed value (not minutes before classes begin. market value) of a property. If the levy does not pass, city property Microsoft Word - Level 1 taxes would remain unchanged Tuesday, May 1 • 1 - 2:30 p.m. and Tigard would begin reducing programs funded through the city's Learn basic MS Word processing skills including inserting/deleting text, general fund, beginning July 2018. rearranging text, formatting text, spell checking, finding, replacing, printing and saving your document. Microsoft Word - Level 2 Tuesday, May 15 • 1 - 2:30 p.m. Holly Campbell-Polivka, Youth Services Librarian Build on basic word processing skills from the Level 1 class. Learn about Holly leads page layout options, line layout options, inserting graphics and other the library's miscellaneous capabilities. family story times on E-Book Clinic Friday and Wednesday, May 16 • 2 - 3 p.m. Saturday Do you need help setting up your e-reader or mobile device to download mornings. free e-books and e-audiobooks successfully? Learn about OverDrive and She has Libby, our digital download services! Registration required. Sign up at the worked at the library for ten Reference Desk or call 503-718-2517. years, where she also is in charge of the popular Dogs and Tales Ask Anything About Gadgets! program and selects juvenile Friday, May 18 • 3 - 4 p.m. world languages, juvenile DVDs Attend an open session to get answers to technology questions about and Blu-rays for the children's using your gadget. Want to know about settings? Apps? Downloads and file collection. A Tigard resident, she management? Bring in your tablet' phone laptop or other digital gadget and also contributes to her community in other ways. She served on the bring your questions! The library will have some devices for practice, too. Parks and Recreation Advisory Open Learning Labs Board for eight years. Sundays 2 - 4 p.m. 1) Why are story times No appointment necessary. Drop in any time during lab hours! Staff and important? volunteers will assist you with computer questions or guide you as you First of all, they're sort of a big practice. gateway to the library. People who may not use the library hear Check out more of our computer classes about story time. They want to or sign up for one-on-one assistance. come to the library and then they discover all of the other things that the library has to offer. All programs will be held in the There's a lot of early literacy George and Yvonne Burgess Community Room involved with story times and unless otherwise noted. early literacy doesn't mean a two- Additional parking is available in the evenings at Tigard City Hall,13125 SW Hall Blvd., year-old knowing how to read. It's and afternoons and evenings at the Tigard Senior Center,8815 SW Omara St. skills that kids have in order to learn how to read. READING ROOM As a person who offers story times, I model for parents or It Takes a Community caregivers how to practice early literacy with their kids. I also offer one early literacy tip each time, like share rhyming books Summer Hours at the Robbers Library: a novelbecause words that rhyme teach kids how to play with sounds. In by Sue Halpernl -=- order to be able to read, they -r-= This delightful story features quirky characters, abookish - need to be able to recognize the setting and an underlying mystery or two that are slowlySOMMERNf�o� distinctions between sounds. revealed. Fifteen-year-old "no schooled"teen Sunny is ROBBER S sentenced to community service at a library in her small, LIBRAR 2) What do you think the biggest benefit is for children economically depressed town for shoplifting a dictionary. New and reclusive reference librarian Kit is disconcerted and parents? when Sunny is assigned to her, but gradually she, Sunny Story times encourage kids to and a down-on-his-luck stock trader build relationships enjoy books because it's in a that are transformative. fun environment. Everyone is Reviewed by Ann-Marie Anderson,Adult Services Librarian enjoying themselves while they're reading. It's important while Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work they're learning to read later that they do enjoy books. And by Dave Isay _P .P°,E- just being exposed to words and literacy and books is a big art of This inspiring collection of honest, heartfelt StoryCorps Y 9 p interviews demonstrates how work can be about much C A L L I N G S story time. more than just making a living. We meet a young man "°'°°°'°°° One big benefit of story times from the South Side of Chicago who became a teacher to AVEI S AY 9 is the social part of it. A lot of help at-risk teenagers, like the ones who killed his father, .} _ friendships have developed in get on the right track. We meet a man from the barrios - story times. Many parents whose of Texas who was inspired to become a public defender kids may not be in pre-school because of his experiences in a family of migrant farm workers. The and may not have a lot of contact characters at the center of these true-life stories share how they overcame with other parents come to story challenges and found their calling in helping others. times. They make friends. The Reviewed by Allison Arnold,Adult Services Supervisor children make friends; they learn how to socialize with other kids. A Decade of Hope: 3) Any anecdotes about how Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 you've seen a particular child Families and Friends develop after being in story by Dennis Smith OF times for a couple of years? Published a decade after 9/11, this compilation of stories F1 0 11 E One little boy in particular comes focuses on the brotherhood of Ground Zero rescue a I to story times with his older sister firefighters, police and others who directly responded and baby brother. He is now 4 and to the disaster in 2001. Brooklyn Fire Operations Chief has been coming since he was a Dan Nigro recalls running for his life when the South baby. His sister is now 7, and his Tower collapsed around him. New York Fire Department lung specialist brother is almost 3. His sister was David Prezant dug himself out from falling debris to manage a triage area always very verbal, and though for the seriously wounded. A moving tribute to the heroes of 9/11, these he often sat in the front row, he courageous stories of people selflessly risking their lives to save others are was fairly quiet and...See how this awe-inspiring. story ends... Reviewed by Allison Arnold,Adult Services Supervisor Plugged In Teens It's Your Business Are you ready to start a business A List of Cages and want to find out more about * your competition? Or perhaps by Robin Roe ***•*` you're a consumer looking for a Eighteen-year-old Adam and 14-year-old Julian are *****� particular business? Reference former foster brothers who are unexpectedly reunitedA[IST�FgGEs USA is here to help! 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Reviewed by Holly Campbell-Polivka, Youth Services Librarian Tinyville Town Gets to Work! B,I_mm 111AYr'L11 I A Super Rockin' Summer by Brian Biggs (Picture Book) T WN ., Tigard Public Library's Summer Something isn't right in Tinyville Town. The bus is late, Teen Volunteer Program begins the bakery hasn't opened, and the garbage isn't being picked up. Turns out there's a traffic jam! The only Saturday, June 23, and rocks on solution is to build a new bridge. So the mayor, city -- until Saturday, August 25. If you're GETS to WORK! a new or returning teen volunteer planner, engineer and public works folks all get together between the ages of 12 and 18, to make it happen. sign up now for your preferred Reviewed by Holly Campbell-Polivka,Youth Services Librarian shift. These volunteers will shelve and pull patron requests in the Whose Equipment Is This? Circulation Division, as well as by Amanda Doering Tourville (Juvenile Non-Fiction) assist with event and program { preparation in Youth Services. Who wears a uniform, keeps people safe and sometimes has a partner who is a dog? (I'll let Teens can volunteer on Mondays and you in on a secret if you promise not to ruin the a Wednesdays from 2 - 4:30 p.m. and game for your child before you read it: It's a police Saturday from 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. officer.) Enjoy not only reading, but also playing a You can sign up for specific sessions guessing game with your child in this installment of ahead of time. You do not need the Community Helper Mysteries series. to attend every session, but please Reviewed by Holly Campbell-Polivka, Youth Services Librarian commit to volunteering for at least 20 hours throughout the summer. For more information, contact Katie at KatherineN@Tigard-OR.gov or 503-718-2516. Summer Teen Volunteer packets are available at the Welcome Desk. They include event calendars, applications and FAQs. The Summer Reading theme is Libraries Rock. Come rock along with us! The volunteer program at Tigard Public Library will take a summer break from recruiting new adult volunteers. The last New Volunteer Orientation before summer will be on Thursday, May 10, at 6 p.m. in the upstairs conference room. If you'd like to attend, please contact Katie! New Volunteer Orientations will resume in September 2018. LIBRARY HOURS 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.