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Featuring Ernest J. Gaines RESOU R C E S • S E R V I C E S • E VENTS FEB R UA R Y 2 0 0 9 Inside the Writer’s Workshop: Featuring Ernest J. Gaines he Library proudly comprehensive program, which announces the Gala will strengthen our community and Tkick-off for the Spring bring our diverse region together. 2009 Big Read: One Book/ Louisiana has an overall literacy One Community program, rate of 27%, and that includes the sponsored by The Big Read, Baton Rouge population. This East Baton Rouge Parish Library and the Baton Rouge modern classic by Louisiana’s Area Chamber. The event will begin with a soulful own native son Ernest Gaines is reception featuring a flavor-filled menu, continue with a particularly good choice for our a conversation with Ernest Gaines, and follow with a region, long plagued by a history of presentation of the classic film based on Gaines’ novel, low-literacy rates, racial injustice A Lesson Before Dying. The Gala will be held at the and unrest. A Lesson Before Dying’s topics of heroism, Baton Rouge Community College Magnolia Performing personal responsibility, compassion, forgiveness, social Arts Pavilion, on Thursday, February 12, at 6:00 p.m. justice, and dying with dignity are all subjects which After the FREE movie screening, audience members will cannot be separated from any exploration of the human participate in a moderated panel discussion. Admission experience. is free and open to the public. Copies of A Lesson Before Dying, accessible in a The Big Read: One variety of formats including print, audio, and movies, Book/One Community are available not only in libraries, but also in classrooms, is a community-wide churches, clubs, community centers, and businesses reading program where throughout the nine-parish area. Reading Discussion people from all walks of Groups can meet at libraries, bookstores, coffee shops life including middle and and cafes, businesses, churches, schools, clubs, and high school students are homes. The Big Read: One Book/One Community encouraged to read and website, www.ReadOneBook.org, includes a master then discuss important schedule of events and toolkits for teachers and issues raised by one book. discussion leaders. The Library and the Library Director David For more information on participating in the Chamber have partnered Farrar and Baton Rouge program, and for businesses and organizations with libraries, school Mayor-President Kip Holden who wish to partner with the Library and the systems, religious and community organizations, and Chamber, visit www.ReadOneBook.org, or call key leaders of industry and commerce to implement this (2250 231-3710. Collaborative partners include, Adult Basic Education Program, Adult Literacy Advocates, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Ascension Parish Library, Audubon Regional Library, Baton Rouge Community College, Bernard’s Pralines, BREC, Catholic Schools Diocese of Baton Rouge, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Baton Rouge, Council on Aging (COA), East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Foundation for Historical Louisiana, Greater Baton Rouge Literacy Coalition, Interfaith Federation, Iberville Parish Library, Juvenile Detention Center, Library Services of Angola, Livingston Parish Library, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Louisiana State University, Odell S. Williams Now and Then Museum of African American History, Pointe Coupee Historical Society, Pointe Coupee Parish Library, Southern University, State Library of Louisiana, Sunshine Pages, West Baton Rouge Museum, West Baton Rouge Parish Library, West Feliciana Parish Library, Wurtele Foundation and YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge. Major sponsors are the East Baton Rouge Parish Library and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. Inside: Big Read Events • Black History Month • ACT Test • Mardi Gras Programs What is Why Choose A Lesson Before Dying? The Library and our partners throughout the nine-parish region the NEA? selected A Lesson Before Dying for the Spring 2009 Big Read. Set The National in our own locale, it includes themes and characters with which E n d o w m e n t our entire population can relate and as such, is perfect to promote for the Arts, or a positive dialogue in our very diverse region. Baton Rouge, in NEA, is a public addition to being part of the longest running school desegregation agency dedicated suits in American history, has played other important though to supporting excellence in the often overlooked roles in civil rights history—such as the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus arts - both new and established - Boycott and the sit-in in 1960 by the “Southern Sixteen.” These are appropriate bringing the arts to all Americans, topics for discussion in our community, which is still struggling with issues and providing leadership in arts related to the “Jena 6” and other current racially–charged cases. education. Established by Congress Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have further exacerbated tension between in 1965 as an independent agency various socio-economic groups, ethnic groups, and even residents of different of the federal government, the NEA localities throughout the entire region. Recent criminal cases involving members is the nation’s largest annual funder of local law enforcement, allegations of unfair treatment, as well as the continual of the arts, bringing great art to all Katrina “fallout” make it more important than ever to help members of our 50 states, including rural areas, community achieve common understanding using the shared experience of inner cities, and military bases. reading such a work as A Lesson Before Dying. The NEA launched The Big For more information, call (225) 231-3710. Read to “revitalize the role of literature in American society,” and, “to bring the transformative power of reading into the lives of • BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS • Americans.” A new study, Reading on the Rise (found at www.NEA. Clementine Hunter: org), shows a marked improvement of the amount of leisure reading by A Gallery Talk the American public. According to As part of The Big Read: One Book/One former NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, Community, Thomas Whitehead will give gallery if cities nationally unite to adopt talks on Clementine Hunter at two libraries. The Big Read, our community- Whitehead is an author, lecturer, and was a wide reading program, together we personal friend of Hunter. He has lectured can restore reading to its essential extensively on Hunter’s life and works as well as place in American culture. Call me consulted on documentaries based on her. naïve, but I can actually envision an Whitehead will discuss the Library’s America in which average people Clementine Hunter collection on Saturday, talk about To Kill a Mockingbird February 21, at 2:30 p.m. at the Scotlandville and The Great Gatsby with the Branch. The Collection is housed at the same enthusiasm as they bring to Scotlandville Branch as part of the Black Heritage Lost or Desperate Housewives.” Collection. On Sunday, February 22, at 2:30 p.m., For more information about the he will host a gallery talk at the Pride-Chaneyville NEA or The Big Read, visit their Branch. He will showcase several of Hunter’s website, www.neabigread.org. paintings from his personal collection that represent various classifications of her work. For more information, call either participating Cajun Dance Fest library. Kick up your heels and pass a good time with the Cajun French Music Association! Members will present a program on Cajun dance in Louisiana. This free program will be held at the Jones Creek Regional Branch on Tuesday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m. All ages are invited to attend. For more information, call (225) 756-1150. The Source, February 2009 East Baton Rouge Parish Library African-American Heroes: Abraham Lincoln As a continuation of Dr. Charles Vincent’s African-American Heroes series, and in conjunction “Mama always with the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial, a program on Abraham Lincoln will be presented. The said…” documentary Abraham Lincoln: Birth of a New Freedom will be shown in its entirety at the Baker African-American Branch on Saturday, February 7, at 10:00 a.m. Genealogy Narrated by Andrew Young, this documentary follows Lincoln’s journey in bringing an end to basics slavery in the United States as well as Frederick Discover your family history Douglass’s influence on his decisions. Following the film, Dr. Vincent will lead with this free genealogy class! a discussion on Lincoln’s role in African-American freedom, the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the role of African-American troops in the Genealogy librarian, Cassie Fedrick, military. will go over how sources such as Dr. Vincent is a professor of history at Southern University, a Baker City census records, vital records, church Council Member, and community activist. The first 20 participants will receive records, cemetery records and free school supplies, Black history magazines, and other amenities. For more more can help uncover your past. information, call (225) 354-7550. Learn about the available online and printed resources the library Leadership Qualities of Abraham Lincoln has to offer, like Ancestry.com and In celebration of the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, Dr. HeritageQuest Online. The class Richard White will discuss “The Leadership Qualities of Abraham Lincoln” at will be held at the Pride-Chaneyville the Main Library on Wednesday, February 4, at 7:00 p.m. Anyone in a leadership Branch on Monday, February 16, position, or who aspires to such a position, can benefit from this discussion of at 1:00 p.m.; at the Bluebonnet the qualities of Abraham Lincoln, who is considered by many to be the greatest Regional Branch on Wednesday, of all United States Presidents. February 25, at 10:30 a.m.; and at Dr. White is the Marjory Ourso Excellence in Teaching Professor at Louisiana the Baker Branch on Wednesday, State University (LSU) where he teaches in the Public Administration Institute.
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