Alsip-Merrionette Park Public Library Newsletter

Winter 2009 Vol. 26, No. 1

Something Thanks for the support! to Shout As our economy struggles to recover, the Alsip-Merrionette Park About! Public Library wishes to express its gratitude to the Institute of Dedicated employees are an asset Museum and Library Services and Illinois Congressman Bobby to our organization and the Alsip- Rush for securing grant money for our library. Merrionette Park Public Library These funds are part of a congressional initiative that have wants to extend its congratulations allowed the library to purchase materials and offer additional to library staff members who are programming. The Youth Services Department has added twenty celebrating special anniversaries:

new book and puppet literacy kits. These kits are available for 20 years check out to parents and caregivers who would like to add Doris Trela enrichment activities to their home or school. A new bilingual Circulation and Technical Spanish-English family story time will also be added with money Services Departments from these funds. The grant has also helped to fund computer 10 years instruction for adults. Denis Hoge Again we want to thank Congressman Rush and the Institute of Museum and Library Maintenance

Services for their continued support Kathleen Alberts

of public libraries! Circulation Services Department

5 years

Jennifer Cutshall Computer Classes @ your library Adult Services Department John Hojek will be back at the library to teach beginning computer Rita Romanowski classes next year. Our first class, Beginning Computer, will meet on Friday, February 26 from 10 A.M.—2 P.M. The fee for the class is Technical Services Department

$10. Our sign-up procedure has changed. Registration will not be We applaud their taken ahead of time. Instead, the first 15 people at the door will get in the class. Meeting room doors will open at 9:30 A.M. If you have hard work and questions, please call the Adult Services Department. loyalty to our library.

Serving the communities of Alsip, Merrionette Park, and Garden Homes

Book Adult Services Discussion Winter Registration Group

Call the Adult Services Department at 708-371-5666 ext. 108 for program details. February 4 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory Federal Taxes and the Alsip Library American Recovery Antiques Show 2010 March 4

Reinvestment Thursday, February 25 Suite Francaise 7:00 P.M. by Irene Nemirovsky Act of 2009 If you have always Thursday, January 21 April 1 wondered how much your 7:00 P.M. The Children’s Blizzard treasured antique is worth, this by David Laskin Harry J. Fitzsimmons from is your chance to find out! Rex the Internal Revenue Service Newell of Rex’s Antiques will be May 6 will discuss the highlights of the at the library to give you the American Recovery and answer. He will appraise and The Book Thief Reinvestment Act of 2009 discuss “hand-held” antiques and by Markus Zusak

(ARRA), signed by President collectibles brought in by the Obama. The presentation will If you are interested in audience. The first 40 people to joining the Book Discus- include information on the Make sign in at the door can have one sion Group, just sign up at Work Pay Credit, Economic item appraised. Doors open at the Adult Reference Desk. Recovery Payment, and other 6:30 p.m. Rex specializes in art, Our meetings are the first pertinent credits and deductions time pieces and 1950s modern that are part of this bill. items. Please do not bring any Thursday of each month Registration required. Native American or Oriental and begin at 7 P.M. pieces. All are welcome to attend.

Book, Please! The War SEAL Warrior: Death in the Dark: by PBS Home Video Vietnam 1968-1972 Military History Produced and directed by Ken Burns by Thomas H. Keith by Jenny Cutshall This testosterone-laced memoir Adult Services Librarian and Lynn Novick, this seven episode series tells the story of ordinary depicts an admirable member of an people in four American towns and elite navy SEAL unit and his service in Vietnam. ~ Publishers Weekly merican military history has examines the ways in which the 959.704 KEI long been a popular subject Second World War touched the lives A among our library’s patrons. Here of every family on every street in are a couple of new suggestions and every town in America. On Hallowed Ground: a couple of old favorites for you to DVD 940.54 WAR The Story of Arlington National check out: Cemetery by Robert M. Poole

Battle Cry Freedom: The Washington Post: “Like the D-Day: The Civil War Era nation itself, Arlington bears the The Battle for Normandy by James McPherson scars of its history, as Poole so by Anthony Beevor eloquently shows. Today, black and McPherson won a Pulitzer Prize and Whether you’re familiar with the great acclaim for this civil war story. white, officer and enlisted, male and names and events of 1944 or curious This book’s “political and economic female, recent arrivals from the to learn more, Beevor’s D-Day is a discussions are as engrossing as the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan comprehensive and thoroughly descriptions of military campaigns as well as…Civil War comrades, lie engaging journey back through time. and personalities.” ~ Library intermingled on those grassy slopes ~ Book Page 940.5421 BEE Journal 973.7 MCP overlooking the Potomac, in their melancholy democracy of the dead.” 973.099 POO Programs run January 25 through March 6. Registration is required unless otherwise noted.

Sensory Story Time Wednesdays 3:45—4:30 P.M.

NEW! This story time is especially designed for children with sensory The library offers story times for children at specific ages and stages of integration issues. If your child development that provide emergent literacy activities as well as social has difficulty sitting through one of interaction. the library’s other story times, this may be just what you are looking Mother Goose Time Toddler Time for. This story time will enhance Mondays 10—10:30 A.M. Tuesdays the literacy experience for 10—10:30 A.M. developmentally delayed children, A lap-sit time as well as those preparing for for babies (ages Toddlers ages 2—3 years preschool, by engaging in multiple birth through and their caregivers are sensory activities. twenty-three invited to share books, songs, fingerplays, and sensorimotor months) and their Tale Time favorite grownup. Stories, music, activities. Tuesdays 3:45—4:15 P.M. nursery rhymes, and unstructured play will be shared by all. Toddler Art Kindergarteners, 1st- and 2nd- Thursdays 9:30—10 A.M. OR graders can come in from the cold 10:15—10:45 A.M. and have fun with books, games, Baby & Toddler Music Class Come join us with your 2—4 year old music, and crafts. for a story, songs, and a process- Thursdays 11—11:30 A.M. oriented art project. Be sure to dress BINGO Each week babies and toddlers to get a little messy! Fridays 3:45—4:30 P.M. (6 months — 36 months) and their January 29, February 2 and 26 caregivers will sing a storybook, play Story Time Kindergarten through 5th-graders games, and enjoy a variety of small Wednesdays 11—11:30 A.M. are invited to come to the library instruments while the instructor Preschoolers (independent 3—5 year and play BINGO. sings and plays guitar. olds) can enhance pre-reading and social skills as they enjoy stories, Kidzread Book Club music, and simple crafts. Thursdays 3:45—4:15 P.M.

Attention 3rd-, 4th- and 5th- graders! Join us as we mix books, games, crafts and other hands-on Spanish/English Story Time activities each week. Hora de Cuento en Español/Inglés

Wednesdays 6:30—7 P.M./Miécoles de 6:30—7 P.M. Scrapbooking Mondays 3:45—4:15 P.M. Join us each week for stories, songs, games, and crafts in Spanish! All ages are welcome, but best for age 7 and younger. Each week kids from 9 years old through 8th grade will bring their Únanse a nosotros cada semana para compartir historias, canciones, photos and their imagination to juegos y hacer artesania. Todas las edades son bienvenidas pero nues- create a 12 x 12 tra recommendación es que tengan siete años o menos. scrapbook This program is funded through an Institute of Museum and Libraries Services page. grant secured by Congressman Bobby Rush (see story on front page). Youth Services Winter Valentine’s Day Card Paul Lee Registration Making Class Magician will begin Thursday, Saturday, Saturday, January 9 February 6 February 4 for residents of Alsip, 11 A.M. Merrionette Park and 3:45—4:15 P.M. A family show for all ages Garden Homes. Kids in grades 3 and featuring lots of audience Non-resident registration up can make a Valentine’s participation. Live animals will begins Saturday, Day card as well as a “Special be transformed through the world January 16. Someone” and Spring card. of magic and illusion! PLEASE NOTE: Children must have a valid library card to register. A fee will be charged to all non-residents.

who do not Parents wish their children (under age 18) to have access Family Fun Night Drop In Story Time to the Internet at our library may sign a form to that effect and the child’s Mondays 7—7:30 P.M. Thursdays Internet access will be blocked. 6:30—7 P.M. The forms can be obtained in the Join us as we present a different activity, theme, or event each Join us for stories, Youth Services Department on the lower level of the library. week. activities, and a craft. Best for age seven Make It/Take It Crafts and younger. Tuesdays 4—9 P.M. OR Fridays all day long Movies and Popcorn

Stop by the Youth Services Saturdays Dates and times to be announced department and pick up a craft to make on your own in the library— Come join us for popcorn and a fun while supplies last. kid’s movie. Check in at the library Guitar Hero® to see what our feature film will be! Saturdays January 30, February 13 & 27 2—3 P.M.

Kids in grades 6—10 can let loose their inner guitar Snow Better Time to Read! hero and rock out with friends. The weather outside may be frightful, but

reading is always delightful! Join our special six Make It and Wear It: week reading program and win great prizes. Stop Simple Fleece Scarf by the Youth Services Department for all the Saturday, January 30 3:15—4P.M.

details. Open to children birth through 8th grade. Kids in grades 6—10 can join the fun and wrap yourself in a toasty warm fleece scarf. All materials will be provided. New Books DECEMBER Coming Attractions

Stephen Coonts Disciple Books • Movies • Music

Michael Crichton Pirate Latitudes New DVDs Reserve Your Copy! Sue Grafton U is for Undertow • 500 Days of Summer coming soon Go to www.alsiplibrary.net and click on J.A. Jance Trial by Fire • All About Steve coming soon Search the Collection Alexander McCall La’s Orchestra • Angels & Demons Smith Saves the World • Bruno New Music Fern Michaels Deadly Deals • A Christmas Tale Michael Buble Crazy Love Joseph Wambaugh Hollywood Moon • District 9 coming soon Colbie Caillat Breakthrough JANUARY • Extract coming soon Memoirs of an • Food, Inc. Mariah Carey Mary Balogh Matter of Class Imperfect Angel • Four Christmases Barbara Delinsky Not My Daughter David Gray Draw the Line • Funny People Jude Deveraux Days of Gold • The Hangover coming soon Gloriana Gloriana Julie Garwood Sizzle • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Whitney Houston I Look To You Prince coming soon Jack Higgins Wolf at the Door Toby Keith American Ridge • I Love You, Beth Cooper Deeper Than the Tami Hoag • Inglourious Basterds coming soon Steve Martin The Crow Dead • Is Anybody There? Owl City Ocean Eyes Jayne Ann Krentz Fired Up • International Paramore Brand New Eyes John Lescroart Treasure Hunt • It Might Get Loud coming soon Stuart Woods Kisser • Julie & Julia coming soon The Twilight Saga: • My Sister’s Keeper Soundtrack FEBRUARY New Moon • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Louise Erdrich Shadow Tag Smithsonian Barbra Streisand Love is the Answer Kristin Hannah Winter Garden • Northern Lights Various Woodstock 40 Years On

Kay Hooper Blood Ties • Paper Heart New Holiday Music • Public Enemies coming soon Michael Palmer The Last Surgeon Christmas from the • Shorts David Archuleta Robert B. Parker Split Image Heart • Spread Christmas in the James Patterson Worst Case Bob Dylan • Star Trek Heart J.D. Robb Fantasy in Death • The Taking of Pelham 123 Ultimate Christmas Jackson 5 Dana Stabenow Night Too Dark • Taking Woodstock coming soon Collection Danielle Steel • Terminator Salvation Big Girl Sting If On a Winter’s Night • The Ugly Truth Adriana Trigiani Brava, Valentine • Up Sugarland Gold and Green

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Library Hours Monday-Thursday 9 A.M.-9 P.M. Friday-Saturday 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Drive-up book return open 24 hours Library Closed Christmas Eve—December 24, 2009 Christmas Day—December 25, 2009 New Year’s Eve—December 31, 2009 New Year’s Day—January 1, 2010 Postal Patron Presidents Day—February 15, 2010 Alsip, IL 60803

Library Board Mary E. McKendree, President Judy Buergel, Vice President Mary Jane Schneider, Secretary Sandy Cerretto, Treasurer Marilyn Engelbrecht, Trustee Kevin Pickar, Trustee John Woodville, Trustee

Ruthann Swanson, Library Director

Library Board meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month. Minutes and agendas are posted on the library’s website. The public is welcome. Library Board members are elected by Any individual who needs a special accommodation for a program should residents of Alsip, Merrionette Park and Garden call the library (708-371-5666) at least 5 days in advance. Homes. All library board positions are unpaid.

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