HECK a bi-monthlyT newsletter UTof the C Corvallis-Benton I County OPublic Library ! Sep/Oct 2015 Volume 23 No. 5 RANDOM REVIEW September 9 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - Reviewed by David Grube October 14 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Reviewed by Penny Brassfield November 18 16 Schedule Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town - by Jon Krakauer - Reviewed by Patricia Lacy by Connie Georgiou and Debra Goldenberg December 9 2015 Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen ‘Tis the season to announce the 23rd Annual Random by Mary Norris - Reviewed by Jo Alexander Review Program. January 13 Random Review is a series of book reviews presented on In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage the second Wednesday of each month from September of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides through June. (With one exception this year, November 18.) Reviewed by John Byrne These reviews are quite different from book clubs. There is no expectation that audience members have all read the February 10 book to be reviewed. You may come simply to find out if you The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander would like to read the book or you may just want to know Reviewed by John Haroldson more about its subject matter. The reviewers are selected based on their expertise and March 9 experience on the topic of the book. If you would like to Damsels in Distress: Women in Classic Dystopian Novels listen to a sample of past Random Reviews you can find Reviewed by Alicia Bublitz podcasts of them on our page of the library website: April 13 http://cbcpubliclibrary.net/random-reviews/ Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian Reviewed by Margaret Manoogian May 11 Donations .................. 3 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert - Reviewed by Rebecca Terry Youth Activities ........................ 7 June 8 Adult Programs ......................... 8 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their INSIDE Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Library Hours ............... 2 Volunteer Spotlight ................. 9 Olympics by Daniel James Brown Library Closures ...................... 2 Reviewed by Susan & Bob Poole Book Sale & Quilt County ......... 9 Library Director’s Message ............... 2 J.A. Jance at Monroe ................ 10 Library Foundation Corner .............................. 2 Car-Free Storytime & Parade .. 10 Page 2 Library Director’s Message Our Library is blessed with many long time volunteers who have served in many different capacities. One of the most remarkable is retired OSU History Professor Tom McClintock, who served as Library Rawles Board Chair during the 1992 expansion. Tom and his wife Patty have both Carolyn given thousands of hours to our Library. His greatest accomplishment for our Library (other than the addition) was the research, writing, and publication of The Best Gift, 645 NW Monroe Ave a history of our library written a few years ago. In this issue Betty McCauley (another long Corvallis OR 97330 term volunteer and the first President of the Friends of the Library) devotes her Library 541.766.6926 Foundation article to the book, and our Library’s history. Copies of this wonderful volume www.cbcpubliclibrary.net are for sale at the Corvallis Library in the Library Foundation display area. HOURS Mon – Thu 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM Fri – Sat 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Library Foundation Corner Sunday 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM by Betty McCauley, Board Member Alsea Community Library This is a sample of an outstanding book women, they gave 19192 Alsea Hwy • Alsea OR 97324 in the library. It is The Best Gift: The History dances, card parties, 541.487.5061 of the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library, concerts, and other HOURS by Thomas C. McClintock, retired professor fund raisers to make Mon, Wed, Sat 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM of history at Oregon State University and the payments. Their Tue, Thu 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM longtime volunteer in our library. The title efforts brought out community support with comes from a 1963 editorialt by Rober C. more funds. A long GT editorial was headed Monroe Community Library Ingalls in the Corvallis Gazette‐Times: “ And with “HURRAH FOR THE WOMEN.” 380 N 5th St • Monroe OR 97456 the best gift we can give to our children However it was not until 1930 that the 541.847.5174 besides first rate schools is a first rate City Council, under pressure, finally put a HOURS library.” bond measure in the general election for Mon 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM This book is itself a gift to the $25,000 to build a library. It passed with Tue, Thu 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM community, a chronicle of the years of 60% voter approval. Wed 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM development and the efforts of uncounted Within weeks Doyle and Associates, a Sat 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM volunteers and professional staff dedicated Portland architectural firm with Pietro to an outstanding library. Thanks to Tom’s Belluschi as its architect, contacted Corvallis Philomath Community Library meticulous research we have the whole about building its library. The firm was 1050 Applegate St • Philomath OR 97370 story, even going back to the 17th century! experiencing the effect of the 1929 crash and 541.929.3016 As he said to a GT writer, “My training, you to survive they were aggressively seeking HOURS put things in context.” So he gives us in‐ new commissions. The firm was accepted Mon, Tue 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM depth understanding of our culture of and the building was completed by Wed – Sat 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM learning. November 1931. The Corvallis Woman’s However, this isn’t a book to read and Club was on the stage in Corvallis High A publication of the Corvallis‐Benton County simply shelve. It’s a resource to keep at School ewhen th library was dedicated. Public Library, Friends of the Library and the hand, to dip into to see how our library grew Tom goes on with chapters on the Library Foundation. Refer questions and input to one step at a time. Our history goes back to phenomenal growth of the library, of its two the Library Administration Office at the 1800’s when the women of the Coffee additions, about the relationship of the city 541.766.6928. Club’s first purpose was to have coffee ready and county, of coming to terms with funding Printed with soy ink on recycled, for volunteer firemen after they had fought a and services in rural Benton County including post‐consumer waste paper. fire. They made the coffee, but at the same Philomath, Alsea and Monroe. Chapters are time the women established a Coffee Club devoted to the final acceptance of a library Library. The firemen, in gratitude to the district, to the challenges of the age of the e‐ club, gave a party for the benefit of the book plus the many reference services now Library. The Coffee Club eventually became online. The last chapter is a look into Library Closed the Corvallis Woman’s Club that worked entering the Twenty‐first Century. toward the concept of a free public library. Thank you, Tom, for a great book! It is a September 7th They anticipated the need of a building, so in tribute to all the volunteers and the Labor Day 1921 the Woman’s Club made the $1,000 professionals on the staff that pursued down payment on the lot at 7th and Monroe. nothing but the best library! Now it is up to It had a house on it to be temporary space us to continue as volunteers to support it! for the library. Then being enterprising CORVALLIS‐BENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Page 3 THANK YOU! We wish to thank everyone for their generous contributions to the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library, the Friends of the Library, and the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library Foundation. Below are the names of our donors from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. BENEFACTOR ($10,000 OR MORE) Franklin Conklin Foundation Debra Goldenberg Norman & Esther Bolker Estate Martha Fraundorf Barbara & Everett Hansen Ruth V Dippell The Gregory Family Fund Gregory Hayes Margaret E Hull Advised Fund Fred Heil & Leslie Redpath Edward & Kathleen Heath of the Oregon Community Foundation Harold & Charlene Hunter Kenneth & Lise Hedberg Nancy Lyford Trust Kaye Lavender William & Ann Hetherington In memory of Anne Elizabeth Sellers Dr Chuan‐Pu Lee Terrance & Judith Hill Mary Anne Sellers Robert* & Sue Mason Marshall & Sheryl Hill‐Tanquist Nicholas* & Thea Yonker Betty Miner Jay Holavarri Leslie Richards Stewart Holmes & Maya Abels SUSTAINER ($5,000 ‐ $9,999) Bond & Marilyn Starker Roderick & Katherine Inman State of Oregon Richard Johnson In memory of Stephen Hawkes Walter & Gail Thies Susan Keiser Stephen* & Pamela Hawkes Diana Thompson Kenneth & Paula Krane Spencer & Shirley Peterson In memory of Alexis Walker John & Judith Ladd Louis Roberts Barbara Landau SPONSOR ($200 ‐ $499) In memory of David Landau PATRON ($1,000 ‐ $4,999) Anonymous Robert Latham & Connie Georgiou Karyle Butcher John & Beverly Arthur Dennis & Elizabeth Lazaroff Eric & Bonnie Helpenstell Joyce Asbury League of Women Voters Hewlett‐Packard Audrey Jean Bach Larry Lev & Ann Shriver Kiilsgaard‐Greene Fund Robert & Charlaine Beschta John & Jan Liebeskind of the Oregon Community Foundation Marc Betz & Rosalind Hutton Roger & Whitney Lindquist Valeen King John & Alice Block Wenso & Grace Lo Carol Krakauer* Beatrice Boedtker David Low & Linda Becerril Low In memory of Craig B Leman Robert & Wendi Bracken In memory of Lily Malnick Marfa Levine Hal & Lida Brauner In memory of Stephen Maze An Advised Fund Doug & Ann Brodie James & Betty McCarty of the Oregon Community