September ~ October 2010

LIBRARY NEWS TCPL Mash-Ups = Another Fabulous Fall Wanted: Mark Twain Himself Active Explorers Richard Garey Live! Sunday, September 26, 2:00 p.m., Downtown For Knowledge Our “Afterschool Explorer” programs Enjoy this one-man show straight from the Planters for 7- to 11- year-olds are fun and Barn Theater in Hannibal, Missouri. Mark Twain was as famous informative. From September to for public appearances as he was for writing. See Garey recreate November these programs expand a Twain show from 100+ years ago. Travel from the Mississippi learning beyond the school day. Children to the American West and countries around the world. Hear tapW into the library’s resources to learn Twain’s wit and wisdom at stops on the journey. No tickets about the Earth. They discover how to or reservations required. More September “One Great Read” care for our limited water supply, recycle programs are listed inside. used goods into creative crafts, and raise awareness about endangered animals. Look for more details on the next page! Library Card Sign-Up Month September is Library Card Sign-Up Over two-thirds of Americans have Eight Great Ways Month. For schoolchildren, a library library cards (American Library card is an important school supply. Their Association). Actors such as Dakota To Use TCPL card gives them access to computers, Fanning, Taylor Lautner, and Corbin homework help, books, and supportive Bleu support local libraries. From the • Take a library computer, Internet, library professionals. Jonas brothers to Ne-Yo, musicians or database class. praise libraries. Microsoft’s Bill Gates • Find the best ways to prepare or For adults, a library card is a “smart and baseball’s Cole Hamels agree public update your resumé. card.” Checking out books, audiobooks, libraries are a winning idea. • View online resources and subscription databases, movies, back issues databases fromS home. N • Use library materials and of magazines, and more from your library A TCPL library card is free to county W drastically reduces out-of-pocket expenses. residents and property owners. You resources to plan a business. could receive your card within minutes. • Download free e-books and Free cards, no-cost materials, quality audiobooks from home. services, and entertaining programs – • Place holds and check their status no wonder people refer to library cards on TIPCAT. as “smart cards!” • Call library information desks when you have questions. • Get to know your librarian, the ultimate search engine @ TCPL.

Youth Programs • Jumpstart Read for the Record • TeenScene • Storytimes • Calendar • Friends Sale Director’s Notes • Foundation • Computer & Internet Classes • Database Training • Branch News Inside Book Clubs • Adult Programs New Magazines What’s The Common Element? Quality

N encouraged to register together for these information research skills workshops. Registration deadline is E September 14. Call 429-0119. September 21 – Downtown Develop brainstorming techniques. Learn search basics. Professional librarians help you find reference sources and valuable background W information. Search it. Find it. Use it. Three Locations – Three Tuesdays October 12 – Campus 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Explore advanced search techniques. S 2008 Indiana Library Federation Gain new skills using online databases. Collaboration Award Winner November 9 – Purdue Parents and students (ages 12+) are More information in the next newsletter! Afterschool Explorers Ages 7-11, all at 4:00 p.m. More programs in November Talk Like A Pirate Caring Paws Demonstration Registration is required for groups Storytimes Saturday, October 30 of five or more. Call 429-0119. Downtown, 3:00 p.m. Friday, September 17, 4:00 p.m. Roll over. Sit. Stay. No, please don’t stay Downtown, Klondike & Campus Endangered Animals home. Come learn how our very own Ahoy, matey. Time for pirate stories. Klondike: Friday, September 10 Reader Dogs from Caring Paws became Cast off for your library, hear our Campus: Monday, October 11 great volunteers. See demonstrations of finest tales, and then enjoy a pirate Why are these animals animal-assisted activities and learn to craft. disappearing? Learn about work as a team with your pet dog. endangered species with a game, activities, and a take-home craft. All About Abe Saturday, October 9 Jumpstart’s Recycled Crafts 11:00 a.m., Downtown Read for the Record Campus: Monday, September 13 He was born in Kentucky and raised Downtown: Wednesday, October 27 Thursday, October 7 in Indiana. In 1861 he became the 10:00 a.m., Downtown Don’t throw it away! Learn how to President who refused to let the United turn your trash into something fun Enjoy a special States be divided. Come hear Doyne storytime of The and new. Make a cork turkey or a Carson tell stories about Abraham pop can tab bracelet. Snowy Day by Lincoln. Ezra Jack Keats. Water Conservation Be counted Downtown: Wednesday, September 29 Creepy, Spooky, Not-Too- as part of the Klondike: Friday, October 8 Scary Storytime world’s largest shared reading How much water do you use? Friday, October 29, 4:00 p.m experience. Help us break last year’s Could you survive with less? Downtown, Campus & Klondike record of one million adults and Explore conservation with Bring your beloved little monsters to the children (including youth at TCPL) experiments and crafts. library. Let a new book with shivery tales reading Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry grab you. Then dip your paws into glue Caterpillar. After reading, create a and make a craft. puppet of Peter, the boy who enjoyed the snowy day.

For information call (765) 429-0119, visit any Youth Desk, or go to www.tcpl.lib.in.us. T.L.C. & m.s.L.G. Joint Meeting Thursday, September 2 7:00 p.m., Downtown Ages 11 & up Celebrate heading back to school by making school accessories out of multi- colored duct tape. Craft a pencil holder, cell phone case, or even a folder.

Teen Library Club (T.L.C.) Teen Read Week Thursday, October 7 7:00 p.m., Downtown October 17-23 Ages 14-18 Can you handle the escalating difficulty Zombie Lock-In of tasks? The creators of the TV show, Friday, October 22 Minute to Win it!, say it takes “nerves of Downtown, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. • Ages 11 & up steel” to win. Come, play, and see! Do you crave human brains? Skype after hours with Carrie Ryan, New York Times’ bestselling author of Forest of Hands and Teeth and Dead-Tossed Waves. Compete in the ultimate Middle School Library Guild (m.s.L.G.) battle between humans and zombies. Registration starts Thursday, October 14 October 1. Call 429-0119. 7:00 p.m., Downtown Ages 11-13 “Deceptively simple games” is how the Vote for the “Teens’ Top Ten” by September 17. creators of Minute to Win it! describe their challenges. Join us. See if you Go to www.ala.org/teenstopten. become a champion! Library Storytimes Storytime schedules are available at all TCPL libraries. To check our online calendar and visit youth web pages go to www.tcpl.lib.in.us.

Downtown Preschool Storytime, 3 ½- 6-year-olds Klondike Lapsit, newborn to 24 months 11:00 a.m., Tuesdays or Wednesdays Family Storytime, all ages Mornings: 9:30 a.m. Stories, songs, finger plays, and more 11:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m., Wednesdays Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Fridays 7:00 p.m., Tuesdays, September 21 Evenings: 6:30 p.m. Stories Under The Sculpture & October 19 Tuesdays, September 14 & 28 10:30 a.m., Saturdays, all ages Enjoy stories and October 12 & 26 Your chance to hear some of our songs, and have Rhymes, finger plays, songs, and more favorites! fun making a craft! Toddler Time, 24- to 42-month-olds Campus Mornings: 10:15 a.m. Family Storytime Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Fridays 10:30 a.m. or 2:00 p.m., Tuesdays Evenings: 6:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m., Fridays Tuesdays, September 7 & 21 Friends Program Room October 5 & 19 Enjoy stories, songs, finger plays, crafts, Books, rhymes, music, and more and fun for all ages.

For more information call 429-0119, visit any youth desk, or check online at www.tcpl.lib.in.us/teens or www.tcpl.lib.in.us/kids. Calendar TCPL programs are free and open to the public. For more information or special assistance, call 429-0100.

17 Teen Read Week, all libraries! All libraries closed Labor Day, September 6, 18 Mondays Are Murder, 6:30 p.m., Campus and open Columbus Day, October 11. 20 Chekov & Tolstoy, 7:00 p.m., Downtown 21 Wind Power, 7:00 p.m., Downtown September Night Fire Book Group, 7:00 p.m., Klondike 2 Twain: Writings On Eden, 12:00 p.m., Downtown 22 Zombie Lock-In, 5:30 p.m., Downtown Combined T.L.C. & m.s.L.G., 7:00 p.m., Downtown 23 Author Jeffrey Brown, 2:00 p.m., Downtown 7 TCPL Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Downtown 25 Film: “War and Peace”, 7:00 p.m., Downtown 8 Twain Book Discussion, 12:00 p.m., Campus 27 Recycled Crafts, 4:00 p.m., Downtown 9 Twain Film, 6:00 p.m., West Lafayette Public Library 28 Authors Haunted Lafayette, 7:00 p.m., Downtown 10 Endangered Animals, 4:00 p.m., Klondike 29 Creepy, Spooky, Not-too-scary Storytime, 4:00 p.m., 13 Recycled Crafts, 4:00 p.m., Campus three libraries Basic TCPL Database Class, 6:30 p.m., Campus 30 Caring Paws Demonstration, 3:00 p.m., Downtown 14 The Diaries of Adam & Eve, 7:30 p.m., Civic Theatre 15 Frank Lloyd Wright, 7:00 p.m., Downtown November-Sneak Peek 16 Advanced TCPL Database Class, 6:30 p.m., Campus 1 Water Conservation, 4:00 p.m., Campus Night Fire Book Group, 7:00 p.m., Klondike TCPL Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Downtown 17 Talk Like A Pirate Storytimes, 4:00 p.m., three libraries (Monday meeting due to Election Day.) TAF/One Great Read Gallery Walk, 6:00 p.m., Main Street 4 Teen Library Club, 7:00 p.m., Downtown 20 Mondays Are Murder, 6:30 p.m., Campus 21 Search it. Find it. Use it., 6:30 p.m., Downtown 22 Death of the Dinos, 7:00 p.m., Downtown 23 Twain Film, 6:00 p.m., West Lafayette Public Library Harvest Home Friends Sale Brazilian Capoeira, 7:00 p.m., Downtown Friday, September 10, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. 26 Mark Twain Himself, 2:00 p.m., Downtown Members only night. 28 Twain Marathon Read, 6:00 p.m., K. Dees Coffee Saturday, September 11, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 29 Water Conservation, 4:00 p.m., Downtown Sunday, September 12, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. 30 Halley’s Comet & Twain, 7:00 p.m., Downtown All items half price. Monday, September 13, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. $2 a bag. Bags provided. October Shop online at www.tcpl.lib.in.us/friends. 4 Basic Internet Class, 6:30 p.m., Campus 5 TCPL Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Downtown 7 Jumpstart Read for the Record, 10:00 a.m., Downtown Teen Library Club, 7:00 p.m., Downtown 8 Water Conservation, 4:00 p.m., Klondike 9 All About Abe, 11:00 a.m., Downtown 11 Endangered Animals, 4:00 p.m., Campus Intermediate Internet Class, 6:30 p.m., Campus 12 Search it. Find it. Use it., 6:30 p.m., Campus 14 Middle School Library Guild, 7:00 p.m., Downtown

Check our web calendar for the latest information on library programs and events. Always online @ www.tcpl.lib.in.us. Director’s Notes & Foundation News 500-Word TCPL Letter A public library is many world news. All of these things help Once a year the Tippecanoe County things to many people. inform and connect people – two of the Public Library Foundation writes a Yet we realize we most important goals of public libraries. letter. We call it our “annual appeal.” cannot be everything Of course, you can make a gift to the to everyone. When some TCPL customers are unable library any time. We encourage and Within its services, to walk right in, sit right down, and welcome gifts all year. policies, programs, start to use a computer, they express and allocation of everything from disappointment Still, we only send one letter and limit resources, TCPL has generally focused on to shock. If the public perception ourselves to one page. We cogitate, traditional library roles. about libraries fulfilling all computer communicate, and start writing. technology needs continues to grow, I truly believe it is our creative approach you can understand our concern. We describe our financial goals and to traditional library responsibilities include a reply card/envelope for your that helps keep us successful in many Immediate access is only part of the convenience. We remind you your areas. However, to continue to serve our challenge. Today’s users expect library library system operates through public community to the fullest, there is an computer resources to be available, support, but it also relies on individual area where TCPL must achieve more. plentiful, convenient, and new. They and corporate gifts. Because gifts to Thinking about this need prompts the also want up-to-date software, plus high- the library are tax deductible, we make following question: “How much has speed connectivity. sure you see the letter well before technology influenced the role of public December 31. libraries?” A more specific question is: Clearly public technology needs and costs “How much has the Internet influenced are becoming a daunting expectation The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit the role of public libraries?” to fulfill. Given our other financial organization. We oversee an endowment obligations, is it realistic to hope we fund that’s your investment in the st In this 21 century, it is sometimes can satisfy growing customer needs? future of our literary community. challenging for our staff and library If we answer “yes,” the question then users to remember a library without becomes how can TCPL realistically You may pick up the appeal at all TCPL computers. However, the practice of meet this expectation? When will we do libraries or print your own from the making computer technologies readily it? What resources will be allocated? web at www.tcpl.lib.in.us/foundation. accessible through public libraries is How can we improve in technologies Amy Paget, Assistant County Librarian, relatively new. A widely distributed and maintain a reasonable measure will be happy to answer any questions. April 2010 study* indicates libraries of success for customers with more She’s at 429-0101 and amypaget@tcpl. only began offering computer services traditional library needs? lib.in.us. as recently as the late 1990’s. In fact, the study asserts that in 1996 less than Right now, we don’t have all the answers, This article is less than 200 words. The 30 percent of public libraries offered but I truly believe there is merit in asking Gettysburg Address is less than 260. Internet access. the questions. As we research advancing What would Abraham Lincoln or Mark technologies and anticipate future Twain write? What would inspire a gift The same study says: “Internet use is customer needs, I will do my best to from you? now one of the most sought-after public answer these questions. This is an exciting library services and is used by nearly and innovative time for public libraries. half of all visitors.” I would expand upon that statement. For many users Internet Our challenge continues to be how to keep access is their primary reason to visit it all affordable. Will our reputation for the library. However, use of library creativity in other areas also apply to TCPL computers goes far beyond access to technological capabilities? Stay tuned! the Internet. Library customers use computers to: research a variety of * Opportunity for All: How The American topics; search for jobs; communicate Public Benefits from Internet Access at with state, local and federal agencies; U.S. Libraries maintain blogs; and keep updated on http://impact.ischool.washington.edu/ documents/OPP4ALL_ExecSumm.pdf

For more about your libraries go to www.tcpl.lib.in.us/history. Remotely Different. Equally Satisfying. Mobile Library Adds Klondike Brings Two New Stops. People Together

Residents in the Stonewick and Teasdale From January to June, the Tempest neighborhoods may now enjoy Mobile Homes Meeting Room continued to be Library service. Additional stops in the a popular gathering place for hundreds surrounding area include Bristol Park, of people in the northwest corner of our Bradford Place, Buckingham, Claystone, county. The majority of public meetings Book Clubs Coppergate, Prairie Oaks, Spring Garden were about education. Groups gathered and Twyckenham. If you live on the to discuss everything from learning Downtown Library southside, check the Fall Schedule for Chinese to studying the violin to Eclectic Book Club time and date changes. preparing for math team competitions. Meets third Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. From garden clubs to school alumni September 16: Crossing to Safety, New Mobile Schedule At All Libraries associations to 4-H clubs, community Wallace Earle Stegner & Online – For the closest stop in and special interest groups also found October 21: Shanghai Girls, Lisa See your area pick up a new schedule; call the room useful. Health awareness, Campus Library 429-0169; or go to www.tcpl.lib.in.us/ spiritual issues, and civic leadership Murder By The Book mobile-library. were topics at additional meetings. It is Meets fourth Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. a room where township, county, state, September 22: David Baldacci and federal government decisions were October 27: Phillip Marlowe series, Computer & Internet discussed, too. Raymond Chandler Classes, Campus Library The Tempest Homes Meeting Mondays Are Murder Room is large enough for groups of Now at 6:30 p.m.! Register at any library or by calling approximately 100 people. Not-for-profit Meets third Mondays (765) 269-5380 organizations may reserve the space September 20: David Baldacci for up to six times per year. To make a October 18: Phillip Marlowe series, Basic Computer Tutorials reservation, call 765-429-0100. Raymond Chandler One-on-one sessions, 2:00 pm. Klondike Tuesdays: September 7, 14, 21, and 28 The Klondike Library is at the intersection Fireside Book Club Thursdays: September 9, 16, 23, and 30 of Lindberg and Klondike Road. It is Meets first Mondays, 2:00 p.m. Tuesdays: October 5, 12, 19, and 26 accessible from U.S. Highway 52 and State All ages welcome. Thursdays: October 7, 14, 21, and 28 Road 26. Both the #4B and #8 Klondike September 13: Fugitive Pieces, Express buses stop at this location. Anne Michaels Database Trainings October 4: The Shadow of the Wind, Two group sessions, 6:30 p.m. Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Basic TCPL Database Night Fire Book Group Monday, September 13 Meets third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. • Advanced TCPL Database September 16: The Complete Short Thursday, September 16 Stories of Mark Twain October 21: Too Much Happiness, Internet Trainings Alice Munro Two group sessions, 6:30 p.m. • Basic Internet Monday, October 4 BookClique Blog • Intermediate Internet Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Got an Monday, October 11 opinion about a book you’ve read? Share it! Always online at www.tcpl.lib.in.us. Just click “Book Clique Blog” on the home page menu under “Find a Good Book.”

TCPL book discussion clubs and groups always welcome newcomers. For program details visit www.tcpl.lib.in.us/find-a-good-book. No Two Alike. All Totally Tempting.

Pow! Wind Power to the Rescue! All at the Downtown Library Thursday, October 21 Alfred J. and Dorothy N. McAllister Meeting Rooms 7:00 p.m., Downtown Meet Travis Murphy from the State Office of Energy Development. Learn Experiencing Frank Lloyd Wright how Indiana wind farms operate, how Wednesday, September 15 power is generated from windmills, and 7:00 p.m., Downtown why renewable energy sources are such Join us for an introduction to the life a hot topic. and work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Bob Actual 1907 stereopticon slide of Mark Nixon, docent at the Samara House and Writer & Artist Jeffrey Brown Twain from the Library of Congress longtime Wright enthusiast, talks about Saturday, October 23 photography collection. this hidden treasure in West Lafayette. 2:00 p.m., Downtown Learn about Wright’s design principle of Twain: Writings On Eden Jeffrey Brown employs his training as organic architecture. Thursday, September 2 a master of fine arts painter to create 12:00 p.m., Downtown comics with titles such as Funny Death of the Dinos Misshapen Body, his memoir. Brown Tuesday, September 14 Wednesday, September 22 was featured in MOME Summer 2005 7:00 p.m., Downtown Twain: Diaries of Adam & Eve Vol. 1; Drawn and Quarterly Showcase; Purdue Earth and Atmospherics Civic Theatre Staged Reading “Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Professor Henry J. Melosh discusses the 7:30 p.m., Monon Depot Theatre Concern” McSweeney’s #13; and, The giant asteroid believed to have caused Best American Comics 2007. the extinction of Earth’s dinosaurs 65 TAF/One Great Read Gallery Walk million years ago. Is Chesapeake Bay an Friday, September 17 Film: “War and Peace” impact crater? Are meteors the source of 6:00 p.m., Downtown Monday, October 25 microbes and bacterial spores found in 7:00 p.m., Downtown Earth’s granite? Twain: Marathon Read Leo Tolstoy died 100 years ago. Join us Tuesday, September 28 for excerpts from an Academy Award 6:00 p.m., K. Dees Coffee Brazilian Capoeira and Golden Globe- winning version of Thursday, September 23 his novel. It took over seven years to 7:00 p.m., Downtown Mark Twain Himself complete and cost over $100 million. Purdue professor Floyd Merrell will Sunday, September 26 One battle scene required over 120,000 discuss Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian 2:00 p.m., Downtown extras (Guinness Book of World A live theatrical performance by combination of martial arts and folk Records). Richard Garey, Planters Barn dance movements. Developed around Theater, Hannibal, MO. 500 years ago, once criminalized and Haunted Lafayette prohibited in Brazil, studios around the Thursday, October 28 world now teach Capoeira. Halley’s Comet & Twain 7:00 p.m., Downtown Thursday, September 30 Meet the authors Dorothy Salvo Davis 7:00 p.m., Downtown Chekov & Tolstoy and W.C. Madden. Hear their ghastly, Wabash Valley Astronomical Society Wednesday, October 20 ghostly tales about the history of our leads a discussion about the arrival 7:00 p.m., Downtown twin communities, plus of Halley’s comet in 1910, and the Purdue Literature Professor Zinaida neighboring counties. prediction Mark Twain made about Breschinsky celebrates the birth of Bring a friend to keep his own death. Anton Chekhov 150 years ago and you safe as you head the 100th anniversary of the death home into the dark of Leo Tolstoy. What accounts for night! their enduring popularity? Why did Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe respect them so?

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