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Serving Alton, Godfrey & Foster Township Fall 2020 Introducing Book Bundles A New Readers’ Advisory Service at Hayner Library With limited access to the library’s book shelves, looking for your next great read could be challenging. Try our new readers’ advisory service! Are you trying to figure out what to read next? Let the Hayner Library staff do Things to Know... the browsing for you. We can help you find your next favorite author or genre. Book Bundles is a new Hayner Library adult book recommendation service to help you find books you like. About The Hayner Here’s how Book Bundles works: Public Library District Fill out the Book Bundles registration form on the Hayner Library website (located on the homepage, about halfway down the page). You can also call or email the Reference department at (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849 or MAILING LIST UPDATE [email protected]. The Book Bundles registration form allows you to specify your favorite reading The mailing list for the quarterly genres, authors, titles, and other reading preference information. Once you submit the registration form, our newsletter is being updated. staff will select three to four books for you based on your criteria. After we gather the books, we will give you a Please contact the library if your call and have them waiting for you at your preferred Hayner Library pick-up location. It’s simple! address has changed, a When you are ready for another set of books, just call or email the Reference department. Please let us know correction is needed, or you how you liked the books by filling out the Rate the Books form included in your Book Bundle. This will help us would like to be added to or make selections that best suit your tastes. deleted from the mailing list. For more information about the Book Bundles service, please call or email the Reference department at (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849 or [email protected]. HOLIDAYS The library will be closed for the Students! Teachers! Parents! following holidays: Hayner Library has online resources to help you with your research papers and more! Election Day – Nov. 3 MasterFILE Premier and Primary Search are go-to databases for information on a variety of topics. Veterans Day – Nov. 11 MasterFILE Premier and Primary Search offer a large collection of popular full-text magazines, reference Thanksgiving – Nov. 26, 27 books, and other highly regarded, authoratative sources. You can find primary source documents, photos, Christmas – Dec. 24, 25, 26 maps, and flags. Writing a paper? You will love the citation feature which gives users the correct format for New Year’s – Dec. 31, Jan. 1 citing information once you choose a citation style. You can access MasterFILE Premier and Primary Search from the Online Resources page of the Hayner Library BOARD OF TRUSTEES website (in the Education Resources category). As with all Hayner Library databases, MasterFILE Premier and Mr. Kevin Botterbush, President Primary Search are free resources and are available 24/7 from home. All you have to do is sign in with your Mr. Peter Tassinari, Vice President last name and Hayner Library card number. Ms. Karen McAtee, Treasurer Dr. Melissa Batchelor, Secretary Holds and Fines Notifications Dr. Jill O’Shea Lane The Hayner Public Library District has resumed text and email notifications for overdue items and almost Ms. Kim Shoemaker due items (sent three days before an item is due) to patrons who have signed up to receive text and email Ms. Mary Lou DeGrand Watson notifications from the library. We have also resumed text and email notifications for on-hold items once they are available for pick-up. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Hayner Library patrons are not being charged overdue fines while the library conducts curbside pick-up Bernadette Duvernoy service. However, patrons who keep overdue materials will be billed for the items once they are six weeks overdue. NEWSLETTER EDITOR If you currently have overdue materials, please return the items immediately to avoid being billed. The book Mary Cordes drop at our Hayner Library at Alton Square Mall location is open during mall hours and our Downtown Library book drop is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you have any questions regarding overdue items on your COPY EDITOR account, please contact the library at (618) 462-0677. Mary Cordes For complete details regarding library due dates and fines since March 17, 2020, please visit www.haynerlibrary.org. Ida B. Wells’ commitment to righting wrongs demonstrated she was Wreaths Across America 2020 a staunch believer in Frederick Douglass’s timeless words, “Power Wreaths Across America (WAA) is a grassroots movement which began concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Ida in 1992 by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester. The organization’s B. Wells let her voice be heard. We owe much to these women who made mission, “Remember, Honor, and Teach,” is carried out by wreath laying it possible for us to vote, a right to be cherished and preserved. ceremonies in cemeteries in all 50 states and beyond. Through the wreath laying ceremonies and other coordinated events, the organization Sources: spreads it message about the importance of Remembering the fallen, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Wiess. Honoring those who serve, and Teaching our children the value of History VS Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to freedom and the sacrifices made by veterans and their families. Know by Anita Sarkeesian. Thanks to local volunteers, this organization and its mission have been Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought For the active in Alton since 2007. This year on Saturday, December 19, 2020, Right to Vote by Susan Ware. our community will participate in this year’s National Wreaths Across America event. The ceremony will start at 11:00 a.m. at the Alton “400 Years of Blacks in America, Ain’t I [Still] a Woman?”, The National Cemetery, 600 Pearl Street, Alton, IL. The ceremony may look CrisisMagazine.com. MasterFILE Premier different this year as we deal with the pandemic but the mission will be For help finding more resources on social justice issues, please accomplished. Details are forthcoming. contact the Reference desk at [email protected] or call In 2019, through generous community donations, 560 wreaths were (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849. placed on the gravesites at our local national cemetery. Every dollar donated helps ensure each Veteran is remembered. You can help Readers’ Corner continue this tradition by sending a donation to Wreaths Across America, Need ideas for a good book? Come to the Readers’ Corner! P.O. Box 181, Alton, IL 62002. Each $30 received enables us to purchase 3 wreaths. Reading good literature offers us a chance to see the world through another’s eyes. African American literature gives us that opportunity, For the fifth year, our local WAA effort will offer a limited number of connecting us to our shared humanity. Major voices within African wreaths for families or friends to honor their veteran loved one at other American literature are Ernest J. Gaines, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni local cemeteries. These wreath reservations must be received by Friday, Morrison, one of the most celebrated authors today. Their works have left December 4, 2020, by calling Sue Fitzgerald at (618) 466-9017. an indelible mark in the literary world and have preserved the cultural Please support our community in carrying forward this mission to heritage of African American life during the twentieth century. REMEMBER, HONOR, AND TEACH. Join our nation in honoring our Gaines and Hurston’s novels are based in realistic settings in the rural veterans, many of whom forfeited their own Christmas celebrations for South. Gaines addresses issues of race, community, and personal identity. all of us. Hurston’s exuberant stories are based on Black folk culture. The vibrant For more information, call Margaret Hopkins at (618) 570-8804, or to folk speech of her characters portrays authentic human beings. Toni learn more visit the WAA website at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. Morrison novels are compelling, sometimes mythic stories, addressing sexism and racism. All of these authors write rich, deep novels that will What’s in Reference profoundly touch your soul. Women’s Right to Vote–Ida B. Wells You can find these great books at Hayner Library. Start with: • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the passage of the 19th • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to • Sula by Toni Morrison vote. After several decades of long-fought battles, the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920. Women marched, demonstrated, and were More African American classic authors: jailed to gain this right. It was not just granted. • Gloria Naylor: The Women of Brewster Place • Alice Walker: The Color Purple One prominent African-American woman in the suffrage movement was • James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain Ida B. Wells. Wells founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago to give • Richard Wright: Native Son voice to black women who had been disenfranchised in the movement. • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Born a slave in Mississippi during the Civil War, she became a journalist, • Ann Petry: The Street civil rights crusader, and suffragist. She published investigative • Octavia E. Butler: Kindred journalism on anti-lynching and became the most nationally recognized • Nella Larsen: Passing leader of the anti-lynching movement, giving fiery talks on the subject. • Margaret Walker: Jubilee She was a relentless crusader against injustice.