Discover What’s New at Your Library Vol. 17 ◊ Issue 2 Mar / Apr 2016 The Preble County District Library Board of Trustees is excited to PC Room & PCGS Host Free Program April 2 announce that Lauren Robinson has been appointed Director of the About the Program: Contrary to popular Preble County District Library. beliefs, the Ohio frontier was not a remote backwoods devoid of style. Trade via the rivers and lakes, and later, the canals, provided easy access to all manner of goods produced in eastern urban centers and in Europe. While early Ohioans did import great quantities of Eaton Branch goods, they produced equally great quantities of goods as Monday, March 21 at 6pm well. Using both documentary evidence and surviving objects, we’ll The force will be strong at the Eaton library when we examine the wide range of goods both made and used on the Ohio offer a Star Wars Family Fun Night! frontier, and how trade networks and consumer choice played key roles in the furnishing of frontier homes. Play games, win prizes, and make cool Star Wars crafts! About Andrew: Andrew Richmond is the president and CEO of You’ll have lots of phot ops in front of our green screen! Wipiak Consulting and Appraisals in Sunbury, Ohio. With degrees in Come dressed as your favorite Star Wars history from Kenyon College and American Material Culture from character - parent too! the Winterthur Program/University of Delaware, Andrew’s passion is the decorative arts of Ohio. He has lectured and published widely on the subject and has curated two major exhibitions: Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts 1788-1860 and A Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts 1860-1945. He also serves on the boards of several museums and decorative arts organizations. A Lively Monthly Book Club We meet the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm at the Eaton Library. Join us for a lively discussion! Saturday, April 2 at 1 PM What we are reading: Library Admin Office 450 S. Barron St. March 17th: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Eaton, OH 937-456-4970 Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Library Admin. Office 450 S. Barron St. Eaton, OH 45320 (937) 456-4250 www.preblelibrary.org 2 News from the Reference Desk Lauren Robinson Database Highlight PCDL Director Spring is here and now is the perfect time to visit the Library adds new research tool unique branches of the Preble County District Library. Between baseball games and grilling in your backyard, Searching through Preble County District Library’s online visit the Preble County Room to learn about the resources just got a lot easier. You can now easily search Civilian Conservation Corps in the Dollar a Day Boys thousands of full-text digital resources using the same program. If you are more interested in attending a search you already use to find books, movies, and music. family program, stop by the Eaton Branch for our Star EBSCO Discovery Service combines many of the library’s Wars Family Fun Night. Adults can look forward to a tea academic journals, magazines, newspapers, reference e- party at the West Manchester Branch, crocheting at the books, and more into one search. You can search the West Alexandria Branch, and 3D origami at seven of library’s online resources the same way you search for our branches. Storytime programs (for children under books, movies, and music. After you search the catalog the age of 11) will be held at our Camden, Eaton, New online, you’ll now see a tab at the top of your results labeled Paris, and West Elkton branches throughout March “Articles & Journals.” Clicking that will show you the and April. journals, magazines, and e-books available for instant viewing. Most are in PDF form, so you can easily save, print, Programs are not the only service the library offers to or share your articles. the community. Remember to stop by one of our branches to check out our gardening books to get a The integration of EBSCO Discovery Service with the jumpstart on your vegetable or flower garden this year. library’s catalog makes researching a school paper easier Or find the perfect fiction novel to read from our vast and faster. Searching through the library’s online resources collection. gives you access to more credible resources faster than a Google search. PCDL has something for everyone - check out our Events Calendar @ www.preblelibrary.org to see just Check it out at www.preblelibrary.org. Click “Catalog/My Account” to begin searching. how much! Can’t think of anything new to read or watch? Try perusing the New Item premade catalog lists! NoveList is the perfect tool to use when deciding what Library Ed. to read next! 3 Library Admin. Office 450 S Barron St Eaton, OH 45320 Tues. - Thurs. 9-5 / Fri 9-3 / 1st & 3rd Sat. 9-5 Upcoming Events Buy Local or By River presented by Andrew Richmond on Saturday, April 2 at 1 pm. Join us at the Library Administration Office (450 S Barron St, Eaton). The program is hosted by the Preble County Room and Preble County Genealogical Society. Night Owl Prowl Family History Lock-in: Saturday, May 7th from 5pm - 10pm. Join us for an evening of research and camaraderie! Bring a treat to share! Research Projects being conducted by the PC Room staff: The Campbell Family The VanAusdal Family Korean War Books Access the library catalog to search for books, movies, music and more! Sad News Place/cancel holds, check due dates, renew items, and The literary world lost two stellar authors on view your account balance. February 19, 2016: Harper Lee at the age of While shopping, use BookLook to scan the ISBN of any 89, and Umberto Eco at the age of 84. book to see if it is available from the library. Things to look forward: Download eBooks & audiobooks The stage rights to Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Search digital resources such as Chilton Library, Mockingbird, were obtained by producer Scott Rudin, with EBSCO Discovery, Salem Press, and more! screenwriter Aaron Sorkin handling the stage adaptation. The play Locate any PCDL Branch using Google Maps. is scheduled for the 2017-18 Broadway season. The Italian version of Umberto Eco’s last book, Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society, was released in February. Neither the publication nor the release date for an English translation has, as yet, been set. Developing... Novels by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960); Go Set a Watchman (2015) Novels by Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose (1980); Foucault's Pendulum (1989); The Island of the Day Before (1995); Baudolino (2002); The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005); The Prague Cemetery The West Alexandria Library gave patrons the opportunity (2011); Numero Zero (2015) to get creative with adult coloring as part of their Be a Kid Again series. So far, Lego-building and playdough- sculpting have been part of the fun! 4 Visit the library wearing your duck slippers… download an eBook right from home! Your PCDL card gives you access to loads of digital magazines! Users have two options for browsing and borrowing magazines—Zinio and the Ohio Digital Library. Download popular titles for FREE! Love Zinio is accessed directly through the library’s to watch movies? Ohio Digital Library website. All you do is set up an account through offers streaming and downloadable your device. Currently, 47 different types of videos! magazines are available. Try it out at preblelibrary.org. Click on the Zinio for Libraries ohioebooks.org link on the left side of the page. Is the item you’re interested in unavailable? Keep in mind that returns are automatic, so the wait may not be too awfully long. Items can be returned early too! Magazines offered through the Ohio Digital Library (ohioebooks.org) are accessed through Nook Periodicals. You can download magazines to your Nook or download the Nook app to your mobile device. From there you can set up an account. Users can borrow up to 3 magazines from The Ohio Digital Library at a time. Currently there are 118 titles in the collection. You What Look Multiple users can check out magazines at the same time. Magazines do not need to be returned (no loan period), but can be manually removed, if needed. Check it out at ohioebooks.org B T F Books to Film in 2016 ’ ll Find! The rights to Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series has been acquired by Lionsgate to be made into feature films. The first movie will be based on the 29th book in the series, Christmas in Camelot. No word yet on a title or release date. Mary Pope Osborne will executive produce along with her husband, Will Osbourne. Developing… The film, Me Before You, based on the book by Jojo Moyes, will debut in theaters on June 3. It stars Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Sam Chafin (Hunger Games). The endearing sequel, After You, was released in September, 2015. Both books are guaranteed to please! The movie will most certainly Nook Periodicals reignite reader interest. To read a digital magazine, you will be prompted to download the Nook app to your computer or mobile device 5 May Sneak Peek 15th Affair / James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club) The Girl from Summer Hill / Jude Deveraux (Summer Hill Novel) Night Shift / Charlaine Harris (Midnight, Texas, 3) City of the Lost / Kelley Armstrong (Casey Duncan series) Debut When Breath Becomes Air / Paul Kalanithi: At the Fatal Thunder / Larry Bond (Jerry Mitchell, 5) age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a The Apartment / Danielle Steel decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Troublemaker / Linda Howard Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.