Fall 2015 Volume 11, Issue 4

Library Connections Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library

www.bismarcklibrary.org Back to School Success Begins @ the Library Upcoming Events

Summer has come to a close, and students are back in school. Area Lobby Display students, from grade school through college, are regular visitors at the Dakota Woodturners Library. They take advantage of the great resources and services we

offer, as well as our quiet areas for studying. Adult Programs Oct. 6 Reader’s Voice Book Discussion - Bloody We have open table areas for studying and doing research, and Mohawk 7:00 PM multiple study rooms, both single and group sized. The larger study Oct. 9 Computer & Internet Basics 1:00 PM rooms include large monitors so groups may collaborate on projects Oct. 10 Coloring & Cookies 2:00 PM together. We have a Oct. 15 Great Books Discussion 7:00 PM comprehensive, up-to-date Oct. 18 Haunted Gingerbread Decorating 2:00 PM collection of over 240,000 items to Nov. 3 Reader’s Voice Book Discussion – Dead help students conduct research, Wake 7:00 PM learn about our world, and cultivate Nov. 6 Beginning Email 3:00 PM a love of reading. Our public Nov. 10 Ancestry Library Edition 2:30 PM computers and wireless Internet Nov. 14 Coloring & Cookies 2:00 PM connection are available for Nov. 19 Great Books Discussion 7:00 PM working on assignments and Dec. 1 Reader’s Voice Book Discussion – The Boom research projects. 7:00 PM Dursitu R. says she loves studying Dec. 12 Coloring & Cookies 2:00 PM

at the Library because it offers a Dec. 17 Great Books Discussion 7:00 PM Through the Library, students have quiet space, computer access, and a great book collection. access to a number of fantastic Tech Time—Drop-in technology help online resources to help them with Thursdays 11:00 AM—12:00 PM (through Nov. 19) all aspects of their school work. TutorND offers free online tutoring and other educational resources from Tutor.com. Students (K-College) Children’s Programs and adults can get help from professional tutors in math, science, Sept. 26 Backstage Pass: Introduction to Theatre social studies, English, writing, and more. Tutors are available online 10:00 & 11:00 AM (Preregistration required) from Sunday through Thursday, 3:00 PM - 10:00 PM Central Time. Oct. 22 Ali LaRock Performance Art 1:30 PM The LearningExpress database offers resources to help students Nov. 29 A Christmas Carol—live theatrical prepare for the ACT, SAT, and other standardized tests. For “life performance 2:00 PM students” of all ages, Universal Class offers free online courses on a Dec. 14-17 Santa at the Library (See p. 5 for times) wide variety of topics, from cake decorating and dog grooming to computer basics, personal finance, and much more. These and many View the Children’s Activity Calendar for the full other helpful online resources can be accessed through the eResources list of programs. section of our website. For details on these events, as well as all other Come see us at the Library—we have what students need to make this events sponsored by the Library, please see our school year a success! Library Events Calendar. Director’s Corner Christine Kujawa - Library Director

Greetings Friends of the Library!

This past August we held the Library’s Annual Part-Time Service Award Ceremony to honor part-time employees Contact Us celebrating 5-year increment anniversaries. We honored 515 North Fifth Street two employees this year: Marilyn Schneider (10 years) and Bismarck, North Dakota 58501 Karen Thompson (5 years). We appreciate their dedication (701) 355-1480 and the strengths they each bring to the Library. www.bismarcklibrary.org

The topic of customer service came up on more than Mission Collecting, organizing, and one occasion. Our employees cited the joy of working providing open access to as a team to meet our goals and serve the public. The educational, informational, Library’s continued success and ability to evolve to recreational, and cultural resources meet the changing needs in our community is, in large part, due to the ongoing commitment and outstanding Vision work ethics of our employees. It is an added bonus that Offering information, ideas, and many of our employees share their talents and creative pursuits in the workplace, personal enrichment to all which often results in the varied programs and events offered at the Library. We are truly committed to meeting the needs of the citizens in Bismarck and Burleigh Hours County and working toward our vision of offering personal enrichment to all. Monday-Thursday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Check Out a Magazine Newsletter via Friday-Saturday @ the Library 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Email

Subscribe to our free, Sunday eco-friendly newsletter, Has a magazine article caught your eye, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM and the latest news about but you didn’t have time to read it or make the Library will be delivered directly to a copy? Well, now you may check out past Telephone Numbers your inbox! To subscribe just send an issues of adult and teen magazines. Over Main Desk 355-1480 email to [email protected] the past year, our serials staff and Administration 355-1484 and you will be added to our list. volunteers have been barcoding old issues Bookmobile 355-1491 once the new issue arrives. These Youth Services 355-1489 “archived” magazines are kept on shelves Interlibrary Loan 355-1485 Hidden Object! in the Library’s lower level and in the teen Foundation 355-1494 area. Generally, past issues are retained for Friends 355-1483 Find the Bookworm! one or two years, but some titles are Meeting Room Locate the bookworm in retained for five or more years. Reservations 355-1484 the pages of this newsletter, and you could win a gift Current issues of adult and teen Library Board of Directors certificate from the Gifted magazines, located on the main level, still Michael Schaff, President Bean Coffee House! If you find it, email may not be checked out. Archived issues Joyce Hinman, Vice President [email protected] with the with a Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Michael Fladeland specific location. The first person to Library barcode on the front cover are Pat Grantier respond correctly wins! available for checkout, and all children’s David Ripley magazines may be checked out. The Christine Kujawa, Director checkout period is seven days, and five magazines may be borrowed at a time.

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Contact Us Updates From Your Friends Friends of the Greetings from the Friends of the Bismarck Public Library! Bismarck Public Library 515 North Fifth Street Bismarck, ND 58501 As the season turns from summer to fall, we look ahead to our [email protected] major fundraiser of the year, the fall used book sale. The sale will take place October 1-3 in the Library’s meeting rooms—See the Mission newsletter insert for complete details. We have a fantastic Increasing awareness and use of the Library through selection of high quality used cultural, educational, and social activities, and raising books ready for the sale, and we funds to supplement and enhance Library programs and hope you are as excited as we are services to kick things off at 7:00 AM on

October 1! Join Us The Friends of the Bismarck You are invited to the Friends’ monthly business Public Library sponsored a meetings, held the 2nd Tuesday of each month in the Library’s Missouri River Room at 7:00 PM. number of fantastic programs and No meetings July & December projects at the Library over the summer. We were pleased to be Friends of BPL Board of Directors able to sponsor the appearance of Jason Matthews, President Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pulitzer Prize-winning author Beth Schatz-Kaylor, Vice President Elizabeth Fenn Elizabeth Fenn, who spoke to a Michael Weisbeck, Treasurer full capacity crowd about her book Don Allen, Membership Encounters at the Heart of the World: a History of the Mandan People. Aaron Barth Another large audience was entertained by folksinger and Meme May autoharpist Adam Miller, who presented a program of songs and Pat Ness stories in honor of Labor Day. Local author Norma Knapp gave Noreen Olson a talk about her memoir Scoria Roads. The Friends also funded the Carolyn Twingley purchase of six new laptop computers to be used for public computer training and other Library-sponsored workshops. Library Staff Representative Elizabeth Jacobs, Assistant Director

Become a Member of the Friends of the Bismarck Public Library

Yes ______Annual Membership Categories: I’ll be a Friend! Name ___ Individual $10.00 ___ Family $20.00 ______Contributing $50.00 Street ___ Individual Life $100.00 Renew ___ Couple Life $150.00 My Support! ______Best Friend $250.00 City State Zip

I’m interested in participating in the following Fill out this form and make ______Semi-annual Book Sales Phone your check payable to: ___ Book Sale Committee

___ Ice Cream Social Friends of the ______National Friends of Libraries Week Bismarck Public Library Email ___ Nominating Committee Receive newsletter by email? Yes No FRIENDS OF THE BISMARCK PUBLIC LIBRARY 515 North Fifth Street ~ Bismarck, ND 58501

3 Offering information, ideas, and personal enrichment to all What’s Cool About Your Burleigh County Library Card? by Keli McDonald, Head of Bookmobile Services September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month, and with the start of a new school year, we are busy registering library cards to all of the new students. It has been a perfect opportunity to ask students what’s cool about their Burleigh County Library Card. Here are a few of their responses:

Donations Accepted DatabaseConnect by Kate Waldera, The Library is happy to receive donations of newer or Head of Reference Services gently used books and audiovisual items year-round. However, we ask that you refrain from donating the Do you need to brush up on your math, grammar, or following items: writing skills? Are you interested in cake decorating, candle making, improving your vocabulary, or learning how to use Microsoft Word? We’d like to introduce  Items that are torn, dirty, or in otherwise poor you to our newest database offering, Universal Class! It condition is an online educational service with over 500 courses.  Moldy or water-damaged items or items with an odor  Textbooks and Encyclopedias You can be enrolled in no more than five classes at one  Reader’s Digest Condensed Books time and have six months to complete each one. If  Issues of magazines, journals, or newspapers necessary, you can withdraw from a class. There is a  Loose-leaf papers or documents waiting period of 60 days before you can re-enroll in  VHS and cassette tapes that same class.

The Library does not provide a A listing of the available classes can be found at valuation of donated materials for http://tinyurl.com/UniversalClassList. This free tax purposes, but will provide a database is available through the “Test Prep & certificate of receipt of donated Training” category on our eResources page and goods upon request. Material requires nothing more than your library card number donations are accepted only during and PIN. business hours. If you are planning to bring in a large donation, please call ahead to notify our staff.

Thank you for your continued support of the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library!

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Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Library has received a new original art piece by Bismarck artist Ric Sprynczynatyk through the Santa will be back this holiday season Library Foundation, Inc. Bird Woman features a beautiful portrayal of to share stories and holiday cheer at Sacagawea and her baby Pomp. This eye-catching work of art is located on these special story time events. Kids the main level of the Library near the of all ages are welcome! Gifted Bean Coffee House. While you’re at the Library to take a look at Monday, December 14 the painting, check out one of these 6:30 PM titles to learn more about Sacagawea and her role in the Lewis and Clark Tuesday, December 15 Expedition: 9:30, 10:15 & 11:00 AM

Sacagawea Speaks: Beyond the Shining Wednesday, Mountains with Lewis & Clark by Joyce December 16 Badgley Hunsaker (2001) 9:30 & 10:15 AM

The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro- Thursday, American Legend by Donna J. Kessler December 17 Bird Woman and artist Ric Sprynczynatyk 9:30 & 10:15 AM (1996)

Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau by W. Dale Nelson (2003)

Change of Scenery for Fall Reading by Lora Rose, Head of Technical Services

Armada by Ernest Cline Zack Lightman goes from daydreaming in a classroom to saving the earth using the skills he’s learned by playing a popular video game.

The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo Debut author DeCarlo brings a novel about Mattie, who is broke, pregnant, and has all her worldly possessions in six giant trash bags. With nowhere to go, she heads for her mother’s birthplace, a place her mother left thirty-five years ago. What happened so long ago that made her mother leave and never return?

Tech Time Help In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware Free one-on-one help with your British author Ruth Ware’s debut novel twists a weekend in the tablet, cell phone, and other English countryside into a psychological thriller. Leonora is a gadgets—No appointment needed reclusive crime writer who reluctantly visits a friend for a weekend in the English countryside. Two days later she wakes Thursdays 11:00 AM—12:00 PM in a hospital bed wondering what she has done and trying to remember secrets from her past. Missouri River Room

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Puppets Speak Movie Night @ the Library by Colette, a Puppet Friend of the Children’s Library Seven Brides for Seven What a busy summer it was! It is hard to believe that fall Brothers (1954/G) is here and we are donning warmer jackets. For our part, Tuesday, October 6 we puppets have been cleaning up all the Lego bricks Avengers: Age of Ultron from the club meetings and big build-off during the (PG -13) summer. We have also Thursday, October 13 been helping count numbers for those summer Johnny Belinda readers—they were busy: (1948/NR) 237 children participated in Tuesday, November 3 Summer Reading, collectively reading 388,408 Max (PG) minutes!! Wow!! And now Tuesday, November10 we are ready to embrace the autumn season. The Jurassic World (PG-13) dogs will be returning to Tuesday, November 24 read with kids in our Guess Who’s Coming to B.A.R.K. program, the Dinner (1967/NR) book club will be Tuesday, December 1 discussing some fun titles, and Ali LaRock will once Lego Club was active this Tomorrowland (PG) summer! again be painting a picture Tuesday, December 8 for us—this time the theme is everyone’s favorite wizard, Harry Potter. Northern Inside Out (PG) Plains Dance will visit in December to treat us to a Tuesday, December 22 preview of their performance of The Nutcracker. We puppets have also heard a rumor that Santa Claus will be Free and open to all—Movies back to the Library this December, so we are pretty begin at 6:00 PM and are shown excited about that. We are already making our wish lists!! in Meeting Room A.

Library and Friends Participate in L3ND Institute

The Library, along with the Friends of the Bismarck Public Library and other local organizations, was fortunate to be accepted into a special program sponsored by the Otto Bremer Foundation. L3ND (Libraries and Literacy Leadership North Dakota) is a leadership institute that offers education and mentoring to participants with the goal of helping to build the strength and integrity of libraries and literacy programs within Bremer Bank communities. There is also a grant awarded to all participants in the Institute. The Library’s partners for the Institute are: The Adult Learning Center (Bismarck Public Schools), Bismarck Global Neighbors (a New Americans support organization), and the Friends of the Bismarck Public Library. Representing the Library at the various meetings and training sessions are Reference and Adult Services Librarian Sarah Matthews and Head of Youth Services Traci Juhala.

After the initial meetings in May, the Bismarck partners decided on three goals for the Institute: 1) Developing community conversation groups for English language learners to practice their new skills; 2) Completing a community literacy needs assessment to determine the greatest needs; and 3) Promoting digital literacy. The first goal is being implemented this fall. Community conversation groups of native English-speakers and English language learners are meeting on Monday evenings at the Library through November 16. For more information about the Institute or the programs being developed, please contact either Sarah ([email protected]) or Traci ([email protected]).

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Marilyn Schneider (10 years) and Karen Thompson (5 years) were honored for Folksinger, storyteller, and autoharpist Adam Miller entertained a crowd of their service to the Library at this year’s Part Time Service Award Ceremony. concert-goers with a program in honor of Labor Day. Pictured with Library Board members Mike Fladeland and Joyce Hinman.

Colette and Miss Sparkles took story time down the road to Urban Harvest for several well-attended outdoor sessions over the summer. Local teens had a great time playing Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Injustice: Gods Among Us on the big screen during our first teen video game tournament in July.

Fall Programs for Adults by Sarah Matthews, Adult Programming/Reference Librarian Article byColoring Sarah Matthews,and Cookies Head Saturdays of InterLibrary October Loan10, November 14, December 12 2:00 PM-4:00 PM (feel free to come and go) - Meeting Room C ArticleJoin us textfor stresshere... free and relaxing coloring sessions-only for adults 18+! Coloring clubs are sprouting up all over the United States as a way for adults to relax and be creative.. Drop in to do some coloring with provided sheets and coloring material or bring your own

materials to work with. Enjoy some cookies while you color!

Haunted Gingerbread Decorating Event Sunday, October 18 2:00 PM-5:00 PM - Meeting Room A Get in the Halloween spirit by creating a spooky haunted gingerbread house. Floramay Miller will be providing tips and tricks to make your gingerbread house creepy. This will be a joint adult and teen event open to ages 13+. There is no charge to attend the class, however registration is required. Groups of 2-3 are encouraged to sign up together; a limited number of pre-baked houses are available.

For more information or to register, call 355-1485 or email [email protected].

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515 North Fifth Street Bismarck, ND 58501-4057

Published by Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library

Sponsored by the Friends of the Bismarck Public Library

Library Connections editor: Elizabeth Jacobs

2015-2016 Reader’s Voice Book Discussion

The group meets at 7:00 PM in the Library's Missouri River Room on the 1st Tuesday from September through May (excluding January). Everyone is welcome, and there is no charge to attend.

Selections for 2015-16

October 6 - Bloody Mohawk by Richard Berleth November 3 - Dead Wake by Erik Larson December 1 - The Boom by Russell Gold February 2 - Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown March 1 - The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn-Beer April 5 - Silas Marner by George Eliot May 3 - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee