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Ontario Public Library Week October 17-25

Me & My Library Dave Carley www.londonpubliclibrary.ca |feature: OPLW Ontario Public I am a reader. Library Week I am always on the hunt for my next October 13-24 read: a new book, an undiscovered Celebrate your reading book, an old writer new to me, the book Chose from your Library’s wide that will suit my particular mood... selection of books, magazines, movies In my work as a librarian, I meet people or music - be the lucky person to check every day that are also looking for ‘a out a chosen item and you could win a ballot to enter for a draw good book’ and part of my job is to help prize. Hint: both staff and customer them find it. I start by asking questions: recommendations may be eligible for a what do you like to read, who are your chance to win. For all ages. favourite authors, why did you like that particular book? Do you like a cozy October 17-25 British mystery, medical suspense, Celebrity check out literary award winners? I am always Local “celebrities” take on the role of meeting people who don’t know they honourary employees at most locations can ask library staff for help finding one day this week. Drop in for a chat at books to read, although they regularly the check out! ask a lot of other questions! The next October 17 time you are stuck, ask a staff member 2-4 pm - all locations for help. We have some wonderful Open Houses at all locations (except resources to help us help you, especially Masonville - Oct. 24, 2-4 pm) feature online databases such as NoveListPlus entertainment and light refreshments. for fiction & nonfiction, and NoveList At the Central Library ~ Light of the K-8. You can use this too - see the East Ensemble performs and sells CDs. Ontario Public “Celebrate the Reader” article on page 3. October 20 Library Week Some folks like to look for things Library Shorts 7-8 pm, Central Library, 3rd floor October 17-25, 2009 independently using our book displays, Back by popular demand - Library browsing the shelves, or checking out Shorts - six 10-minute plays set in the the “just returned” area. Library and written by local playwrights Others find our website very helpful. Len Cuthbert, Marion Johnson, Lynda If you haven’t looked yet, the Read Martens, Richard Nagel, Diane Vanden section provides a wonderful guide Hoven, Mike Wilmot. Three plays are to leisure reading and is full of great presented at Landon and Masonville on tools. You can sign up for one of our Thursday, Oct. 22. e-newsletters and get suggestions for October 21 the books you like to read delivered to Launch of the Contemporary your inbox. Find award winners and London Authors Collection fiction and non-fiction topical lists that 7:30 pm, Central Library, 3rd floor, include links to related websites. Staff This new collection features recently produce “We recommend…” lists by published fiction, non-fiction, poetry for topic and author. adults, and children, by local authors. October 22 Do you like to read on the go? Download a book to your iPod or Library Shorts 7:30 pm, Masonville & Landon MP3 player and listen in the car. I am branches - see October 20 information listening to a book right now and keep spending my lunch in my car, the book October 23-25 is so good! The ever popular Friends of the Library Book Sale at Special Events But one of my favourite spots on our Building, Western Fairgrounds website (for those that like to see things October 25 hot off the press) is our New Items Library Book Sale listing. Check out the upper right hand Buy a bag of books for $3 today only corner of our homepage. while supplies last! (continued on page 4) PAGE 2 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 feature: celebrate the reader|

Celebrate the reader? LPL Staff Blog on www.londonpubliclibrary.ca Let me count the ways Oh I loved, loved, loved this book! tightly into There are at least as many kinds of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the my open readers as there are genres of books Pie by Alan Bradley introduces us to mouth that and London Public Library appreciates, 11 year old Flavia DeLuce. She lives my nostrils celebrates and supports all of them. See with her father and two sisters in an old were left if you can match what the Library mansion in 1950’s England. The house unobstructed, offers in Column 2 with the kind of is full of nooks and crannies - and a and I was reader described in Column 1. Some old chemistry lab. Flavia practices able to draw answers are more logical than others, making poisons there. (yes poisons!) in one slow but no answers are wrong! Answers will She and her older sisters are constantly lungful after be posted during Ontario Public Library thinking of ways to torment each other. another of Week. Their eccentric father keeps himself the stale, Lynda Kirkham occupied with his philatelic obsession. musty air.” We are introduced to Flavia in the first Flavia escapes unharmed, but plans Column 1 Column 2 paragraph of the novel.... 1. avid a. audio books to pay her sisters back. However, 2. beginning b. “read alikes” lists “It was as black in the closet as the appearance of a dead bird with a 3. casual c. author readings old blood. They had shoved me postage stamp speared through it’s 4. early d. blogs on website in and locked the door. I breathed beak and her father’s horrified reaction 5. ESL e. book clubs heavily through my nose, fighting distract her. But it is the dead body f. book sale 6. far ranging desperately to remain calm. I tried found in the cucumber patch that 7. hi-tech g. comfy chairs counting to ten on every intake of really enthralls her. When her father is 8. intermittent h. Dog Tales 9. non-fiction i. E-books breath, and to eight as I released each arrested for the murder, Flavia sets out only j. large print one slowly into the darkness. Luckily to solve the crime on her own. 10. on-the-go k. Library staff for me, they had pulled the gag so continued on page 4 11. quick l. magazines 12. reluctant m. Quick Picks 13. screen n. R.E.A.D. Book Review know much about his family’s past, his 14. selective o. Read section on grandparents and ancestors. londonpubliclibrary.ca 15. shy I Am My Family: Photographic He began collecting facts and stories 16. slow p. 9-week renewals Memories and Fictions about his extended (Polish) family with 17. star struck q. short stories little surviving information to work 18. chatty r. storytimes by Rafael Goldchain 19. thoughtful s. Summer reading Chilean/ with. He had some memories from 20. thrifty programs Canadian elderly relatives, a few old photographs, 21. vision t. The Library Store photographer and some of his own recollections of impaired u. welcoming spaces Rafael parents and grandparents. Soon he came 22. voracious v. NoveList Plus Goldchain, to the realization that it was his duty as whose parents an act of remembrance to ensure that immigrated to the lives of his family members were NoveList Plus isn’t just for Chile before not forgotten. As a result, he has created librarians! the start of an unusual, yet moving fictional family Scroll past all the great resources in the the Second photo album from the 19th century on Read section of the Library’s website, World War, by transforming himself -- with the help to NoveList Plus, an online database describes his family history as one of in depth research, make-up, costumes that allows you to access information “defined by exile”. Some of his Polish- and digital retouching-- into his own about thousands of books, both fiction Jewish ancestors emmigrated to North ancestors. and non-fiction. You can find other and South America before the War. Most authors like your favourites, look up of his family, who stayed in Europe, Pearl Santopinto, LPL Librarian series and titles, use discussion guides perished in the Holocaust and much of for book clubs, read book reviews and his family’s memorabilia and history, author biographies. You can even pre- especially photographs of family On our Access cover... view the first chapter of a book and then members from the past were lost to him. Julie Homenuik’s entry entitled A Walk instantly link to the LPL catalogue to in a New World 2 took first prize in the see if we have a copy. NoveList Plus is When his son was born he became Literacy Clicks Photo Contest held this free and available 24/7. Need help? Ask increasingly interested in his own spring. any staff member or call 519-661-4600. personal history and realized he did not • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 3 |feature

Blog Troy’s London music picks... (continued from page 3) Kittie - Funeral For Yesterday Allison Brown - Everything That Shines Flavia is one of the most endearing, Two Minute Miracles - Lions Of Love captivating, curious, beguiling, Karen Schuessler Sings - Road To Freedom precocious characters I’ve ever Chris Hart - Magic Hour discovered in the pages of a book. The Olenka & The Autumn Lovers- self titled crime is interesting, but it is Flavia’s The Rizdales - Radio Country personality that is the real draw for me. Fraser - House On A Hill “Whenever I’m out of doors and find Oh!Fest compilation - myself wanting to have a first-rate think, featuring I fling myself down on my back, throw Davita G, Lava Lamps, my arms and legs out so that I look like A Horse & His Boy, State an asterisk, and gaze at the sky. For the Bird Of Idaho, For Love first little while, I’m usually entertained Or Money, Aaron by my ‘floaters’, those wormy little Lozynsky, Bryan Pole, strings of protein that swim to and fro Late Miss Mary Kingsley, across one’s field of vision like dark The Whipping Wind, little galaxies. When I’m not in a hurry, Handsome Dan, I stand on my head to stir them, up, and The Samuel Musical & then lie back to watch the show, as if it Olenka & The Autumn Lovers were an animated cinema film.” Although the idea of an eleven year old Local artists enrich Library music collections for a protagonist seems unusual for an adult detective novel, it just somehow With plenty of top-notch venues such as You’ll find music from a variety of local works. Harriet the Spy for grown ups. Aeolian Hall, The London Music Club bands, including Kittie, Olenka and the (I really wanted to be Harriet when I and Call the Office, London is the place Autumn Lovers, Chris Hart, Golden was younger!) to experience and enjoy live music. Death Music, The Dixie Flyers and Luanne Olivier The city hosts a number of great music local country stars The Rizdales. The LPL Staff Blogger festivals: LOLA, Sunfest, Home County library also features music from recent Folk Festival, and Oh!Fest. Whether it’s festival favourites Matthew and Jill punk, metalcore, indie rock, country, Barber, Allison Brown, Danny Michel, I am a reader. jazz or classical, London boasts a wide Fraser, Bellowhead, Vieux Farka Touré (continued from page 2) variety of talent, and attracts even more and Juno-nominee Michael Occhipinti. artists from around the globe. Drawing from the expertise of Troy Every month new lists are available and, The Library is now working with Hutchison and his staff at Grooves, once you have logged into your account, Grooves Record Store to provide a we’re proud to offer music that you can hop right to the catalogue great selection of music from local features the vibrant and varied music and place your hold (the items listed artists, as well as Canadian and community that is London Ontario! have all been received during the prior international artists touring our city. month). This is a great browsing feature. David McCord, Selection Librarian For example, you can see a list of all the new biographies, new non-fiction, Speaking of local talent... The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny DVD’s or Canadian Bestsellers that new Canadian fall fiction David: a novel by Ray Robertson were added to our libraries last month. I The Day the Falls Stood Still regularly place items on hold and there Bonnie by Cathy Marie Buchanan is always a new discovery coming in. Burnard Extreme Vinyl Café by Stuart McLean reads from Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong Libraries are reading places. Check out Suddenly Galore by Michael Crummey one of our book displays, ask a staff at 7:30 pm, Generation A by Douglas Coupland member for help, come to the library September Kanata by Don Gillmor and find something new. 28 at the The Last Woman by John Bemrose Central Celebrate your Library. Join with us Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard Library. this Ontario Public Library Week as we The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens Free - no celebrate the reader. Celebrate Reading. The Year of the Flood by tickets Read. Margaret Atwood Heather Heathcote required! East London Branch Supervisor Cheryl Dinsdale, Selection Librarian PAGE 4 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 teens|

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Tempted by P.C. Cast

Other Public Figure Splendor L.O.U.D. draws watchers, by Anna helpers, rockers Godbersen

The L.O.U.D. program has been Haunted by Barbara going strong for two and a half years Haworth-Attard at London Public Library, and the most recent event was no exception. Witch and Drawing over 400 people throughout Wizard by the day, L.O.U.D.’s In the Garden of James Patterson Readin’ event was a full day of outdoor music in the Central Library’s Rotary Hunchback Reading Garden. The event was a team Assignments effort to say the least. From sound by Arthur Slade equipment setup to clean up duty, staff, performers, and volunteers all worked United We Stand together to make sure the day ran by Eric Walters smoothly. Pop The fall L.O.U.D. season kicks off on by Gordon Saturday Sept. 12, with a performance Korman Ambitious Murphy by Dollydagger. Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz Even if you’re Perfect Mistake not a by Kate Brian musician, you can get involved as Compiled by a volunteer at a Linda Ludke L.O.U.D. Selection Librarian event!

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Cushion Concerts = Picture Book Picks Fantastic Fiction musical fun When Stella Was Very Very Small Desperate Road to Freedom: by Marie The Underground Railroad Louise by Karleen Bradford Gay A riveting tale of a brave family’s last Stella bid for freedom, and the price they pay always to find it. (Dear Canada series) sees the world with Magician’s wonder Elephant and by Kate curiosity. DiCamillo The author of How Do The Tale of Dinosaurs Say I Despereaux’s Love You haunting fable by Jane Yolen about trusting the Even when unexpected and dinosaurs are making the extraordinary come true. naughty, they are Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Violinist Mary-Elizabeth Brown presents always loved. Strings ‘n Things at Byron Branch Library by Jeff Kinney in January as part of the Cushion Concerts Greg’s summer for kids under age 6. vacation doesn’t Where’s Waldo: The Incredible Paper turn out like he Chase by Martin Handford hopes. Watch for Orchestra London musicians visit three In each scene the Diary of a Library locations to introduce classical your challenge Wimpy Kid movie music to young children. Each visit is to not only coming out in includes a performance, an explanation spot Waldo, 2010. of the instruments performed and an but also a interactive time with percussion hard-to-find Syren (Septimus instruments. piece of paper Heap series) torn from his by Angie Sage Special Library pricing is in effect: sketchpad. In this 5th book in the Magykal series, $5/person/concert OR Septimus ends up stranded on a 3-Concert Package beautiful island. for 2 (adult and child), $25; 3 people, Have I Got a $40, family (up to 6 people) $50. Mysterious Benedict Society and the Book for You Prisoner’s Dilemma Concerts run from 10 to approximately by Melanie by Trenton Lee Stewart 10:30 am on Saturdays Watt Reynie, Kate, • Oct. 17, Beacock Branch The bestselling Sticky & featuring the clarinet quartet, Licorice author- Constance embark Allsorts performing Three Billy Goats illustrator on a daring new Gruff and the Troll of Scaredy adventure that Squirrel threatens to force • Jan. 30, Byron Branch presents a them apart from featuring violinist Mary-Elizabeth character you just can’t say “no” to: their families, Brown and Strings ‘n Things salesman Mr. Al Foxword. friends, and even each other. • April 24, Landon Branch Roar by Robert Munsch featuring Trumpeter Shawn Spicer After their father reads them a story Wyrm King by Tony DiTerlizzi performing Toot, Toot, Terrific about lions, Elena and Isaac decide to In the final installment ofBeyond become lions too. the Spiderwick Chronicles, Nick and Tickets are on sale at the Orchestra Laurie face more giant troubles. London Box Office, 609 Wellington St. Monday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm, children’s booklists compiled by Linda Ludke, Selection Librarian 519-679-8778 PAGE 6 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 community connections| Library offers settlement services The London LSP (Library Settlement such as ESL classes, LINC classes, Partnerships) includes Citizenship and conversation circles, TOEFL Immigration Canada, London Public preparation, ESL book clubs Library, LUSO Community Services • library materials in many languages in partnership with Centre for Lifelong • basic computer classes Learning, the London Cross Cultural • public library computers Learner Centre, and the South London • housing Neighbourhood Resource Centre. • schools and education • health care Library Settlement Workers are on hand • legal issues at four Library locations to help those • immigration issues living in London with settlement issues. • translation services They provide information and referral • any other issues related to settling in services for: London • careers and employment options • volunteer opportunities Late breaking news! • language learning and assessment Watch for an Ontario Public Library Week event “LSP Day” on October 23. Details to follow! Where the LSPs are... Location Phone Staff Languages Hours available Mustafa Zahid, (r) works with client Kasic Nan Abuhalib Tues. Wed. & Thurs. ~ Beacock 519- Arabic Ljubomir. Mustafa, who provides backup for 11 am-8 pm Branch 451-8140 Questyn staff at the Central Library and Sherwood Spanish Fri. & Sat. ~ 9 am-5 pm Rodrigues Branch, speaks Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Hindi Central 519- Fran Carroll and understands Arabic and Persian. Spanish Central Library hours Library 661-5100 Jenny Elliot Jalna 519- Tues. ~ 1-9 pm Evelyn Diaz Spanish Branch 685-6465 Wed.- Sat. ~ 9 am-5 pm Arabic & Tues. Fri. & Sat. ~ Farsi Sherwood 519- Fadela 9 am-5 pm (understands Branch 473-9965 Ahmed Wed. ~ 9 am-4 pm & Urdu, Pashto Thurs. ~ 1-9 pm & French) Newcomers get more than ESL support at Beacock Branch

While participants receive assistance with language skills from Library Settlement Worker, Nan Abuhalib, they also develop friendships and share stories about their experience as newcomers. The classes are held at Beacock Branch Library on Fridays from 4-5:30 pm. • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 7 |spotlight It started with a hole in the ground in June, 2009, dug by (l-r) The countdown begins... YMCA CEO Shaun Elliott, Library CEO Susanna Hubbard Krimmer, Library Board Chair David Winninger, Mayor Anne Marie DiCicco-Best, Councillor Joni Baechler, YMCA Board Chair Sheila LeClair and London West MP Ed Holder. In late 2010, the spectacular North London Community Recreation Centre, YMCA and Library will open its doors.

The 8,000 sq. ft. Library area design includes a defined children’s area, an inviting Teen Annex, non-fiction area, leisure reading area and Discovery Zone. There is a seamless connection to the Community Centre and views to the outdoor plaza in front of Library.

Built to LEED Gold specifications, a premier environmental designation, the cental area of the Library is flooded with natural light through a clerestory and is topped by a green roof.

Some young Londoners got a sneak preview of what life might be like at the new North London Community Recreation Centre, YMCA and Library when they participated in Roll and Read programs led by YMCA instructors and Libro Library Road Show host and Librarian Kevin Moore. The program pictured at right took place at Mother Teresa Secondary School at 1065 Sunningdale Rd. E., across the road from the new Centre, and was one of many Roll and Read programs attended by the Libro Library Road Show during July and August.

The Road Show’s off to the Western Fair!

Head for the family area in the North Park of the Western Fairgrounds near Kiddyland and a number of other family friendly attractions to get in on the Libro Library Road Show fun. We’ll be there during Fair hours, throughout the ten days from September 11-20.

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Listings by location Library programs are free and require no registration unless noted. For free programs which do require registration, you may register in person, by phone or online. To register online, go to www.londonpubliclibrary.ca and click programs/events. For programs requiring payment, you may register in person or by phone (with a credit card). See listings or back page for Library addresses and phone numbers. Please note that the Library has a NO REFUND policy for program fees.

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Computer Courses @ London Public Library New!! Computer Training Courses @ London Public Library! Check out some of our new and improved FREE computer courses. Check location listings for times, dates and registration info.

Date Time Location Register Starting Computer Basics Learn the basic functions of the computer in this hands-on session and learn about using computers at LPL Wednesday, Sept. 16 6 -8 pm Jalna Sept. 2 Saturday, Sept. 19 10-11:30 am East London Sept. 12 Wednesday, Oct. 7 2:15-3:45 pm Crouch Sept. 30 Wednesday, Oct. 7 2:30-4 pm Cherryhill Sept. 16 Thursday, Oct. 8 7-8:30 pm Central Sept. 8 Saturday, Oct. 17 10-11:30 am East London Oct. 10 Wednesday, Nov. 4 2:15-3:45 pm Crouch Oct. 28 Wednesday, Nov. 11 2:30-4 pm Byron Oct. 21 Saturday, Nov. 28 2-4 pm Beacock Nov. 20 Intro to E-Mail Learn the basics of how to set up a free Internet e-mail account, send, receive, and manage your mail. You will also learn about using computers at London Public Library. Thursdays, Sept. 17-Nov. 26 2:15-3:45 pm Crouch Sept. 10 Saturday, Sept. 26 10-11:30 am East London Sept. 19 Saturday, Oct. 24 10-11:30 am Central Sept. 8 Saturday, Oct. 24 10-11:30 am East London Oct. 17 Wednesday, Nov. 4 2:30-4 pm Cherryhill Oct. 14 Thursday, Nov. 12 2:30-4 pm Byron Oct. 22 Your Library An introduction to all of the services that the London Public Library website offers. You will learn how to find information, search our databases, and manage the special features in your account. You will also find reviews and booklists Wednesday, Sept. 16 10-11:30 am Byron Aug. 19 Saturday, Nov. 14 2-4 pm Beacock Nov. 6 Wednesday, Oct. 21 7-8:30 pm Pond Mills Oct. 1 Intro to Novelist Learn how to make efficient use of this exciting reading resource. You will learn how to identify the next book in the series you’ve been reading, find author read-alikes and recommended reads, discover new books and authors and create personalized reading lists. Plus there is lots more to discover! Thursday, Oct. 15 7-8:30 pm Byron Sept. 17 Thursday, Oct. 22 2-3:30 pm Pond Mills Oct. 1 Intro to Audio and E-Books This course will introduce you to the different types of audio and e-books available and show you how to find and download audio books onto a player, and how to download and read an e-book. Wednesday, Oct. 28 2-4 pm Masonville Sept. 26 Wednesday, Nov. 18 2:15-4:15 pm Crouch Oct. 21 Wednesday, Oct. 28 6:30-8:30 pm Masonville Sept. 26 Wednesday, Oct. 21 10-11:30 am Pond Mills Oct. 1

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Date Time Location Register Starting Computer Support for Newcomers Program A free program for adults where newcomers learn computer skills including Microsoft Windows XP/Vista, email and web searching. Thursdays, Sept. 3-Dec. 17 5-6:30 pm Beacock Aug. 4 Introduction to the Internet We’ll use Internet Explorer to show you how to get online and access websites. Learn about the various menus and toolbars, using a search engine, creating favourites lists, downloading and printing. Saturday, Sept. 26 10-11:30 am Central Aug. 4 Wednesday Nov. 18 6:30-8 pm Central Oct. 5 Googling to the Max - Internet Drop in to the Library and learn how to get the most out of Google. Discover how to make your iGoogle homepage, use image search, language tools, and Google Docs, Maps, News, Scholar, Suggest and more. 3rd Sat/month 10:30 am-noon Westmount Drop in Internet Surfing for Adults Learn the secrets on how to use the library catalogue, access our online databases, download audio books and much, much more. 3rd Wed/month 2-3 pm Westmount Drop in Your Personal Search Engine Are you confused about Google? This program offers personal, one-on-one advice to help tune up your Internet search strategies. 3rd Sat/month 2-3 pm Westmount Drop in Introduction to Excel 2007 Spreadsheets are everywhere. Learn how to set up and navigate worksheets, including simple formula composition. Cost: $21. Thursdays, Sept. 10-24 6:30-8:30 pm Central Aug. 4 Mondays, Nov. 9-23 6:30-8:30 pm Central Oct. 5 Introduction to Microsoft Word 2007 Learn the fundamentals of the number one word processing program. You’ll learn to create and manage your documents, and format, edit and print text. Cost: $21. Saturdays, Sept. 5 & 12 1:30-4:30 pm Central Aug. 4 Mondays, Oct. 19-Nov. 2 6:30-8:30 pm Central Sept. 8 Introduction to Computer Basics In a hands-on setting you will learn how a computer works, its main components, and how to use the Windows operating system. Cost: $21. Saturday, Sept. 5 &12 9:30 am-12:30 pm Central Aug. 4 Wednesday, Sept. 30, Oct. 7 & 14 2:15-4:15 pm Crouch Sept. 23

One-on-One English Mentors Needed We need your help this fall! Contact Ellen Hobin for more information. [email protected] 519-661-2300

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| Beacock I’m Home (10-12) ESL Support for Newcomers 1280 Huron St. Sept. 24-Oct. 15, Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm Ongoing-Dec. 18, Fridays, 3-5 pm 519-451-8140 Register starting Sept. 10. $30. Call 519-452-1466 to register. A program designed to support parents in A free program where newcomers learn preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to the English language including speaking, Storytimes are offered here! Search move successfully from supervised before writing, reading and ESL homework help. “Storytimes” in our online program database and after school care, to safe, home-based We provide language support to families or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. self care. Parent attendance is required for and individuals who are new to Canada the first and last weekday evening sessions to help them successfully integrate into Beacock Community Playgroup (birth-6) OR the afternoon of the Saturday session, Canadian society. Co-sponsored with LUSO Ongoing-Dec. 17 from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may Community Services. For more information Thursdays, 1-3 pm & 9:30 am-noon be available, please inquire at registration. visit Nan at Beacock, email her at nan@ Parents, caregivers and children participate Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. lusocentre.org or call 519-452-1466. in interactive early learning activities. Presented by Ontario Early Years Centre, Orchestra London Cushion Concerts for Walk for the Fun of it! London North-Centre (519-434-3644). Young Children Sept. 1-Oct. 22, Tues. & Thurs., 7:15-8 pm Oct. 17, Saturday, 10-11 am Call 519-451-8140 to register Shared Beginnings (birth-6) “Three Billy Goats Gruff and the Troll” Spend some time walking and talking. Do Sept. 9-Dec. 15, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 am presented by Clarinet quartet “Licorice it for fun, do it for your health, do it to meet Enjoy crafts, play games, sing songs, hear Allsorts”. See page 6 for ticket info. new people. This program is in partnership stories and much more. Please contact with NELCE. LUSO Community Services at Hallowe’en Storytime (family) 519-452-1466 for more information. Oct. 31, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Beacock Book Club Register starting Oct. 17 Sept. 2-Dec. 2, 1st Wed/month, 7-9 pm Just Beginning Come in costume for some spooky stories Call 519-451-8140 to register Sept. 11-Oct. 2, Fridays, 9am-noon and an even spookier craft. Children under Book Discussion. Call 519-451-8140 for Call 519-663-5317 x2378 to register 3 must be with a caregiver. book titles. A free 4-week series of classes for new moms with a baby birth - 6 months of age. PA Day Movie Self-Growth Lectures Bring your baby to a relaxed and supportive Nov. 6, Friday, 2-3:30 pm Sept. 8-Oct. 6, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm setting and meet other new moms. Talk Come in and watch a recently released Register starting Aug. 25 about your baby’s growth, learning and play, movie on our big screen! Call the branch to This series will focus on self-growth topics ask questions and learn about community see what’s playing. including how to find peace of mind, resources. Co-sponsor: Middlesex-London meaning in your life, and happiness. Health Unit. Literacy and Basic Skills Program Participants will learn ways to uncover their Ongoing-Aug. 18, Tuesdays, 5:30-9 pm true potential, to connect to the power within The Gamers’ Guild (11+) Call 519-452-2660 to register. them, to overcome fear and anger, and to Sept. 11-Dec. 4, Fridays, 4-5:30 pm Literacy London offers a part-time, one to truly love themselves. For adults 18 and up. Bring your friends to the library for an one/small group adult literacy program. afternoon of multiplayer video gaming. Work English Conversational Circles together with other youth to complete goals ESL Book Club Sept. 9-Dec. 16, Wednesdays, 6:30-8 pm in a game or wander through fantastical Ongoing-Dec. 17, Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm Celebrate diversity through friendship worlds all by yourself. In between sessions, For people who want to practice English and cultural exchange. All newcomers have fun playing board games with your reading and conversation. Newcomers are welcome. Register through the Cross friends! welcome. We read one or two chapters of Cultural Learner Centre at 519-432-1133 to a book per week. Volunteers interested in participate or to become a volunteer mentor. meeting newcomers to Canada are also Co-sponsor: LCCLC. Funded by Citizenship welcome to attend. Books are provided. and Immigration Canada.

Korean Language Fun Sept. 19-Dec. 5, Saturdays, 10 am-noon Come meet other families who are interested in exploring the world of Korea! We will be learning the basic level of Korean language. We will also have singing and storytime. All families are welcome!

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Prenatal Classes |Byron Book a Librarian Sept. 23-Oct. 21 or Nov.4-Dec. 2 1295 Commissioners Rd. W. Sept. 1-Nov. 28, during Library hours Wednesdays, 6:30 pm 519-471-4000 Make an appointment with our Librarian to Call 519-663-5317 ext 2377 to register. $55. answer your questions, assist with research, Learn what to expect during pregnancy or even build a booklist. Think of Library staff and how to care for your new baby. Please Storytimes are offered here! Search as your own personal search engine! register early in your pregnancy. For “Storytimes” in our online program database information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Ontario Public Library Week Open House or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm waived and partial fees accepted. I Spy At Byron Co-sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. during Library hours Prenatal Classes Come in and check out our permanent I Spy Oct. 20-Nov. 17, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Fully Alive centre. See if you can find all the items! Call 519-663-5317 to register Oct. 13-Dec. 15, Tuesdays, 1-3 pm Learn what to expect during pregnancy Call 519-661-1621 to register. $10. Ontario Early Years Playgroup and how to care for your new baby. Please A chance for seniors to learn about building Ongoing, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 am register early in your pregnancy. For more on their strengths and expanding their life. OEYC Community Playgroup (Birth—6 years information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 of age) Parents, Caregivers and children or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be Ontario Public Library Week Open House participate in interactive early learning waived and partial fees accepted. Oct. 17, Saturday, 12-4 pm activities. Presented by the Ontario Early Co-sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. Years Centre, London West. Are you going to be financially OK? Yoga for Beginners-Byron Oct. 24, Saturday, 2-3:30 pm Come and Paint Nov. 4-Dec. 9, Wednesdays, 7-8 pm Current economic conditions may have you Ongoing, Thursdays, 1-4 pm Register starting Oct. 1 in person. $50. asking some hard questions. Learn how to Bring your own paint supplies for an informal An introduction to Hatha style yoga. create a financial plan for peace of mind afternoon of painting. No session Oct. 22&29. in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will Community Displays at Byron Library |Carson show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. Ongoing-Dec. 31, during Library hours 465 Quebec St. Questions & answers to follow. Do you have a collection that you would 519-438-4287 like to display? The Byron Library has two A Community Toddler Event locking display cases that are available. Oct. 29, Thursday, 9:30-11:30 am Contact Sarah for more details. Storytimes are offered here! Search Parents, caregivers, and children 18-36 “Storytimes” in our online program database months are invited to join in fun activities Byron Creative Craft Circle or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. together. Learn more about your child’s Ongoing-Dec. 10, Thursdays, 9 am-noon growth and development, safety needs, Come and join us as we work on our own Voting for Carson Movie play and available community resources. projects. For more information, contact Oct. 20-31, during Library hours Co-sponsored by Middlesex-London Health Lorrie at 471-0893. Vote for the movie you want to see at Carson! Unit in partnership with Ontario Early Years, CPRI, All Kids Belong, tyke Talk and other community partners. R.E.A.D. Volunteers Needed We need your help this fall! Raw Food 101 Contact Ellen Hobin for more information. Nov. 7, Saturday, 1-3 pm When you think Raw Food do you think [email protected] salad...salad...and more salad??? Well, think 519-661-2300 again! Think soup (yes,warm), think noodles and sauces, think chocolate brownies... Delicious! All of these tasty favourites have been created raw-food-style! Imagine, healthy, raw vegan cuisine the whole family will enjoy! Want to learn more? Join us as we embark on a Raw Food Journey.

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PA Day Movie Shake, Rattle & Read (3-5) Braille Workshop for Beginners (8+) Nov. 6, Friday, 2:30-4:30 pm Sept. 14-Oct. 5 & Nov. 2-30 Oct. 1, Thursday, 7-8 pm Come in and watch a recently released Mondays, 10-10:30 am Have you ever wondered what Braille is? movie on our big screen! Call the branch to Roll on into the library for books and music 2009 is the bicentennial of the birth of Louis see what’s playing. that rock. Braille, inventor of the Braille Code. Blind, Deaf-Blind and Low Vision people who Socrates Cafe@Carson L’heure du conte des tout-p’tits / French cannot read print use this unique system to Sept. 17, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm storytime for tots (0-3) read and write. Come learn how to read and Come to Carson Library’s very first Socrates Sept. 18-Oct. 16 & Nov. 6-Dec. 4 write the Braille alphabet. There will be a Cafe where we will be asking: Should Fridays, 10-10:30 am video and other fun activities including arts and culture receive public funding Venez nous rejoindre pour une demi-heure Braille word searches and Braille Scrabble. during tough economic times? An informal du conte pour tous les bambins de 0 a 3 Bring an empty cardboard egg carton. discussion for everyone who likes to listen, ans! Nous partagerons des comptines, des Instructor: Mary Ann Marchand, CNIB. think and talk about life’s big questions! chansons, des jeux de doigts, et des petites Co-sponsored by CNIB - Southwest Region. Teens welcome too! histoires, le tout en français. Tous sont les bienvenus -- des familles francophone ainsi Thanksgiving Storytime (family) Are you going to be financially OK? que des familles qui désirent découvrir Oct. 10, Saturday, 2-2:30 pm Oct. 8, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm ensemble la langue français! Aucune Listen to stories, sing songs, and learn Current economic conditions may have you inscription n’est requise. Come join us for a rhymes about Thanksgiving. Under 3’s must asking some hard questions. Learn how to half-hour storytime for your little one bring a caregiver. Starts promptly at 2pm. create a financial plan for peace of mind between 0 and 3 years old! We’ll share in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon rhymes, songs, finger plays, and picture Witches, Pirates or Ghosts to Fear: and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will books, all in French. All are welcome -- guess which costume we will wear show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. families who speak French at home, and this year Questions & answers to follow. those who want to discover the French Oct. 15-29, during Library hours language with their child! How will the Children’s Library staff disguise themselves for the Hallowe’en Costume | Autumn Storytime (family) Party this year? (We’ll give you a hint. It Central Sept. 19, Saturday, 10-10:30 am won’t be any of the above.) Fill out a ballot 251 Dundas St. Get ready for fall with stories, songs and with your guess at the Children’s Help Desk. 519-661-4600 rhymes. Under 3’s must bring a caregiver. You don’t have to attend the party to make a Program starts promptly at 10 am. guess, but the first drawn name with the correct answer will be announced then. |Spriet Family Children’s ESL Book Club for Children (8-12) Library Sept. 22-Oct. 27, Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm Ogemaa Benese shares his Delaware Do you like to read? Need to practice your stories (4+) Storytimes are offered here! Search English? Read some great stories and Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-2:45 pm “Storytimes” in our online program database practice your English skills. Mike Hopkins, Sr. Coordinator, Aboriginal or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Healing and Wellness Strategy, of the Dog Tales (reluctant or shy readers 7-13) N’Amerind Friendship Centre of London, will Saturday Craft Club Sept. 26, Oct. 31 & Nov. 28 share stories of our Grandmothers and Ongoing-Dec.19, Saturdays, 10 am-2 pm Saturdays, 1-2:30 pm Grandfathers. He will sing, play the drum, Be Creative and make a craft to take home Register for a 15 minute session and read to teach some words in Delaware and Ojibway, Sandy in the library. Sandy is a St. John and bring Sacred Items like bear teeth and Writing Help for Children & Teens (9-15) Therapy Dog who has been assessed to eagle feathers. Under age 7 must come with Sept.14-Dec.7, Mondays, 7-9 pm read with children. Call the library for more a caregiver. Register starting Sept. 1 in person. information and to register for a session. Do you have a child or student who would Celebrate Ontario Public Library Week benefit from help with school writing Spooktacular Booktacular Book Club Oct. 18-24, during Library hours assignments in a relaxed and friendly Oct. 1-31, during Library hours Fill out a star telling us about your favourite atmosphere? An enthusiastic university Pick up book club cards starting Oct. 1 children’s book and you could win a stellar student and future teacher with a contagious Pick up a club card and start reading prize. love of learning will make writing more mystery, Hallow’een or scary books. Each enjoyable while addressing specific time you read a book get your card stamped grammatical and structural concerns. and pick out a creepy prize from our black Assistance in English or French is available. cauldron. Completed cards will be entered into a draw for an even creepier prize. PAGE 14 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 central: children’s, teens|

I’m Home (10-12) Meditate/Create (7-12) Coffeehouse for Young Writers: Focus on Oct. 19-Nov. 9, Mondays, 7-8:30 pm Nov. 6, Friday, 2:30-3:30 pm Poetry Register starting Sept. 21. $30. Register starting Oct. 19 Oct. 14, Wednesday, 7-9 pm A program designed to support parents in Learn to meditate with Datri from the Happy Register starting Oct. 1 preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to Monks. Explore how fun and powerful Bring your poetry to share, and/or make move successfully from supervised before meditation can be. Meditation allows us to poetry by yourself or with your friends. and after school care, to safe, home-based relax and have a ‘happy heart’ no matter Coffee and snacks will be provided. self care. Parent attendance is required for what’s going on. Then create your very own the first and last weekday evening sessions Zen Garden. Wear loose, comfortable Make a Striped Friendship Bracelet (12+) OR the afternoon of the Saturday session, clothing. Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may Register starting Oct. 1 be available, please inquire at registration. Lest We Forget Storytime (family) School has started and you are hanging with Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. Nov. 10, Tuesday, 10-11 am old and new friends. Make them a friendship Join us for songs and picture books about bracelet to show them how much they mean Reading Rocks! (family) war and peace. to you. Oct. 24 & Nov. 28, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for Superstitious Scavenger Hunt The Central Gallery - Youth Art Workshops school-aged children and their families to Nov. 13, Friday, during Library hours Oct. 22-Nov. 19, Thursdays, 1-3 pm celebrate and encourage reading together. Find a “Friday the 13th” in the Library and Register starting Oct. 1 There will be games, crafts, books, food and win a prize. Are you between the ages of 14-24? Do you prizes, so drop in for this special event. love art and want to learn more about your Themes are Oct. 24: Eat it Up!, Nov. 28: The Universal Children’s Day Celebration favourite art form? Do you want to show, but World of Science! Sponsored by EDPRO Nov. 21, Saturday, 2-4 pm don’t have the space or the stuff? Bring your Energy Group Inc. Call 519-521-5921 for Young musicians show off their talent in the creativity and willingness to learn to any one more information. Children’s Library. Drop in and see some of our 5 workshops. Oct. 22 - Pottery, Oct. inspiring school aged musicians. If you or 29 - Urban Expressionism (Graffiti), Nov. 5 - Bats In Your Hair! (family) your students are interested in performing, Woodworking, Nov. 12 - Photography, Nov. Oct.28, Wednesday, 7-8 pm please register at the Children’s Library 19 - Manga/Comic Drawing. Instructor and Author Dr. Brock Fenton (Department of before Nov. 1. art supplies will be provided. Once all the Biology, UWO) will talk about all things batty, workshops are completed there will be an art including what bats eat, where they live, and showing in the Teen Annex, so that you can the good they do. He will also discuss |Central Teen Annex show off all your beautiful work! Co- echolocation, our perceptions of bats, and sponsored with AIDS Committee of London how we can conserve and protect them Teen Advisory Committee (12-18) and made possible by the generosity of The Ongoing-Nov. 25 Optimist Club of Downtown London, Inc. Halloween Costume Party (family) 2nd & 4th Wed/month, 3-4 pm Oct. 30, Friday, 10-11:30 am Interested in helping to shape the library’s Halloween Beaded Safety pin patterns Join us for our annual Halloween Bash! services to teens? Come to one of our Oct. 26, Monday, 7-9 pm Wear your costume for crafts, stories & trick- meetings and bring your ideas and opinions Register starting Oct. 1 or-treating through the Central Library about current teen trends and interests. We Make a Halloween safety pin badge and welcome your ideas to help create a space wear it out with your Halloween costume or Jack-o’-lantern Hunt that you and other teens will find appealing, give them out as a treat for your friends and Oct. 31, Saturday, during Library hours as well as suggestions for programs, popular family. Find two matching Jack-o’-lanterns in the books, music and movies, and our Teen Children’s Library and win an orange prize Annex website. Members of TAC can use L.O.U.D. (London Ontario Underground their time spent on this group as part of their Dimensions) PA Day Craft community volunteer hours. Oct. 29 & Nov. 19, Thursdays, 7:30-8 pm Nov. 6 & 13, Fridays, 10 am-4 pm Talented and exciting teen indie bands Make a Craft. Teen Internet Scavenger Hunt perform live in the Library! Drop in and bring Oct.3, Saturday, 2-4 pm your friends. If you have a band and are Jewelry Fun (8-12) Register starting Sept. 14 interested in doing a L.O.U.D. gig, contact Nov. 6, Friday, 10:30 am–noon Test your surfing skills! Win PRIZES! 519-661-5100 ext 5139. Register starting Oct. 19. Nov.13, Friday, 2-3:30 pm Register starting Oct. 26. Create earrings and bracelets with beads and other fun stuff. All materials provided. • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 15 |central: teens, general interest

Urban Legends Trivia Game: Fact or Spanish Conversation Health and Wellness for Women Folklore? (12-18) Ongoing-Dec. 7, Mondays, 7:30 pm Ongoing, Last Tues/Month, 7-8:30 pm Nov. 14, Saturday, 2-4 pm Register starting Sept. 1. $30. Speakers will come in to discuss women’s Register starting Oct. 26 For participants who have already taken one health topics such as menopause, libido or Have snakes been used as weapons in or more courses of Spanish language, who breast health. You can also suggest a topic hold- ups? Does your hamburger contain can at least make simple sentences. The for us to consider. This series of talks is a worm meat? Is there a ghost haunting a group is usually divided into two parts: partnership between the Middlesex London Toys R Us? YOU decide! There will be intermediate and advanced. Health Unit and the Central Library to prizes for the top legend busters! provide health information and resources to ESL Book Club women. Come in to learn more about your Ongoing-Dec. 19, Saturdays, 10-11:30 am mind, body and spirit. |General interest programs For people who want to practice English reading and conversation. Newcomers Science Fiction London Book Club Sexual Health Drop In welcome. We read one or two chapters of a Ongoing, 1st Sat/month, 1:30-4:30 pm Ongoing-Dec. 14, Mondays, 4-6:30 pm book per week. Volunteers interested in Discuss books with other sci-fi enthusiasts. A sexual health nurse from the sexual health meeting newcomers to Canada are also Book lists available at the library. For more promotion team of Middlesex London Health welcome to attend. Books are provided. information visit the Science Fiction London Unit will be on site at Central every Monday website at http://sfl.london.on.ca from 4-6:30 pm. MLHU will have information English Conversational Circles regarding health and sexuality, offer Ongoing-Dec. 14, Mondays, 7-8:30 pm Spanish Mutual Aid Program for Parents services including condoms, pregnancy Register by calling 519-432-1133. Ongoing-Dec. 14, Mondays, 12-2 pm tests, emergency contraceptive pill (ECP), Celebrate diversity through friendship and The Spanish Mutual Aid Program provide referrals and offer counseling. cultural exchange. All newcomers are for Parents (M.A.P.P) is a non-profit welcome. Call the Cross Cultural Learner professionally led self-help group. The Literacy and Basic Skills Program Centre at 519-432-1133 to participate or to group is committed to facilitating positive Ongoing -Dec. 17, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm become a volunteer mentor. Co-sponsor: changes in the lives of parents and children. Register by calling 519-452-2660 x69712 LCCLC. Funded by Citizenship and Spanish MAPP strives to empower families Literacy London offers a part-time, one to Immigration Canada. Free for most. to increase their self-esteem through one/small group adult literacy program. parenting, education, life skills development, Japanese Language leadership skills, and greater community ESL: Communicating in the Workplace Ongoing-Dec. 8, Tuesdays, 7:30-8:45 pm awareness. Child care provided. Ongoing-Dec. 22, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Register starting Aug. 1. $30. Co-Sponsor: Children’s Aid Society. Register by calling 519-452-2000 x69674. Instruction in Japanese for low-intermediate Is speaking English in the workplace students. Socrates Cafe sometimes a challenge? Do workplace Ongoing, last Mon/month, 7-8:30 pm idioms confuse you? This course will help to Mandarin for Beginners An open forum in the informal environment improve your workplace English through Ongoing-Dec. 1, Tuesdays, 7:30 pm of the Library’s cafe for everyone who attention to business vocabulary and idioms Register starting Sept. 1. $30. enjoys listening, thinking and talking about and conversation dialogs. The topics of If you have learned some Mandarin life’s big questions. Teens are welcome, phone conversations, email, meetings, previously, you should be in the Monday too! Topics: Sept. 28: Which forms of mass social conversations, and presentations will evening “Mandarin Language” class which media most influence your life and in what be covered. The class will also address begins on Sept. 14. ways? Oct. 26: Are you worried about the some of the specific workplace language new flu viruses? Has Government and concerns of the participants. Free for most. Couples Apart/Parents Forever media response been appropriate? Will you Ongoing-Dec. 15, 3rd Tues/month, 7-9 pm take newly-developed vaccines to prevent Knitters Helping Knitters Register at the Family Law Information infection? Nov. 30: Do you think that the Sept. 9-Dec. 16, Wednesdays, 10 am-noon Centre at 519-660-3001. United States has an imperialist agenda? Get together with other knitters to share Free information and support about issues knitting interests. relating to separating families. French Conversation Ongoing-Dec. 1, Tuesdays, 7:30-8:45 pm Register starting Sept. 1. $30. This 12-week program is for adults and young adults who have already taken one or more courses in French. Participants must be able to speak at least in simple sentences. Usually the group is divided into more and less advanced sections. PAGE 16 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 central: general interest|

Korean Language Cultural Evolution of Technological Significance of Dreams in our Busy World Ongoing-Dec. 3, Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm Artifacts Sept. 16, Wednesday, 7-9 pm Register starting Sept. 1. $30. Sept., 9, Wednesday, 7-9 pm When is the time when we listen to that For beginners or low-intermediate students. Does culture evolve? The genes play a which comes from within us? Throughout crucial role in biological evolution. Are there history, great scientists, artists and spiritual Mandarin Language cultural analogues of the gene? This talk leaders have honoured their dreams as a Ongoing-Dec. 7, Mondays, 7 pm attempts to answer these questions by source of wisdom and insight. Dr. James Register starting Sept. 1. $30. considering the evolution of technological Schmeiser will include examples from some This is a continuing group for people artifacts in the context of mass production. of the greats and offer a reflection on how who have already had some Mandarin we can be more attentive to this source of instruction. A Beginners’ class is offered on Live Long and Healthy: How to Create a wisdom. Tuesday evenings. Disease Free Future Sept. 10, Thursday, 6-8 pm Middle Eastern Belly Dance London Badminton Display Dr. Brian Clement, Director of Hippocrates Information Night Sept. 1-Nov. 30, during Library hours Heath Institute, will explore 50 years of Sept. 16, Wednesday, 7-9 pm London badminton enthusiast George Olley clinical research and human experience Join Aphrodite for an introduction to the shares his knowledge and memorabilia on the subject of disease prevention and beautiful world of Belly Dance. Bring your in an exhibit featuring the history of local life extension. He will explain how each of friends and enjoy a night of movement, fun players and the sport in the Forest City. us can lengthen our life span, increase the and learning. The display in the London Room will be quality of our health and well-being, prevent renewed throughout September, October premature aging, disease, and its resulting Italian Conversation and November. unhappiness. Gain the strength to become Sept. 16-Dec. 2, Wednesdays, 7:30-8:45 pm fully responsible for every aspect of your life. Register starting Sept. 1. $30. Searching for Work For people who have studied or learned Sept. 2, Oct. 7 & Nov. 4 Chinese Painting some Italian. Practice speaking with a native Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 pm Sept. 14-Oct. 26, Mondays, 7-9 pm speaker. Not for beginners. This Job Search Information Session offers Register starting July 27. $17. information on current trends in resume This 6 week introductory course uses Prenatal Classes and cover letter writing, how to create a list traditional materials: rice paper, special Sept.16-Oct. 14 or Nov.11-Dec.9, of potential employers, how to research a brushes, inks, and water colours. Co- Wednesdays, 6:45-8:45 pm company, how to prepare for interviews, and sponsor: Chinese Canadian Council, London Call 519-663-5317 x2262 to register. $55. the services of the Library’s Employment Chapter. Learn what to expect during pregnancy Resource Centres and how to care for your new baby. Please Ask the Experts Your Questions About register early in your pregnancy. For more Corruption in Science Thyroid Cancer information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 Sept. 15, Tuesday, 7:30-9 pm or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be Part 1 - Junk Science: How Corporate Join us for a panel discussion and question waived and partial fees accepted. Science Deceives Consumers session about thyroid cancer. Speakers: Co-sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. Sept. 2, Wednesday, 6:30 pm Dr. Irina Rachinsky, Nuclear Medicine Dr. What has happened with scientific integrity? John Yoo, Head & Neck Surgeon Dr. Terri Inspirational Films @ Central Join Pam Killeen for an informative seminar Paul, Endocrinologist Dr. Jason Franklin, exposing just how junk science could be Head & Neck Surgeon. Moderator: Dr. Ambition to Meaning undermining the quality of our lives. Merrill Edmonds, Endocrinologist. Part of the Sept. 17, Thursday, 6-9 pm Thyroid Education Series presented by the Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey Part 2 - Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Thyroid Foundation of Canada. from ambition to meaning, and the shift from Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol emphasis on achievement and accumulation Cause Heart Disease. Buddhist Spirituality - Why Buddhism? to a more purposeful life focused on Sept. 3, Thursday, 6:30-8:30 pm Sept. 16, Wednesday, 7-9 pm following one’s own soul. In this 2-hour DVD, “The Oiling of America: Buddhism continues to flourish in North How the Vegetable Oil Industry Demonized America. This evening will provide an The Power of Intention Nutritious Animal Fats and Destroyed the overview of the development of Buddhism in Oct. 21 , Wednesday , 6-9 pm American Food Supply,” Dr. Enig and Sally the West and what draws people to it. There Wayne Dyer explains how each person Fallon now tell you the truth about how that will be a teaching on the Four Noble Truths possesses the potential and power to co- happened. and an opportunity to meditate. create the life she or he desires.

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Forgotten Stories of London 2009 Tenants rights: the latest developments Meet the “Kalejdoskop” - Spotkanie z Sept. 17-Oct. 22, Thursdays, 7-9 pm Sept. 22, Tuesday, 7-9 pm “Kalejdoskopem” Established local historians look at Join Neighbourhood Legal Services lawyers Sept. 26, Saturday, 2-4 pm fascinating aspects of London life lost in for the latest in the series of updates on Zapraszamy na spotkanie z twórcami the sands of time. Sept. 17: London Police tenant protection law. Come learn the popularnego miesięcznika polonijnego Boys Band with Anita McCallum, London latest developments tenants ought to know Kalejdoskop. Będzie okazja do poznania Public Library Librarian Sept. 24: SOHO about their rights and responsibilities - from autorów artykułów i nowel jak Walter District with Alice Gibb, local historian the Landlord & Tenant Board to London’s Pomarański i Eva Gudrymowicz-Schiller, Oct.1: London Firsts with Dan Brock, local proposed landord licensing bylaw. Bring tych, którzy swoją wiedzą zawodową czy historian Oct. 8: London’s Lost Architecture your questions and get some free legal zainteresowaniami pomogli w powstaniu with John Lutman, head of The Regional advice. popularnych artykułów - jak Tomasz (Tom) Collection, UWO Oct.15: Lost Libraries Kaczor,a także ciekawych osób, które with Arthur McClelland, London Room Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed pojawiły się na łamach Kalejdoskopu Librarian Oct.22: The Traction Line with the World - jak profesor Wilson, Amerykanin z Mike Baker, Elgin County Museum Curator. Sept. 23, Wednesday, 7-8:30 pm pochodzenia, uczący przez wiele lat języka Co-sponsored by Continuing Education at See page 36 polskiego na uniwersytecie w London, czy Fanshawe College. profesor Grzegorz Danowski, autor pracy Buddhist Spirituality - Buddhism and doktorskiej na temat Jacka Kaczmarskiego Stroller Café Your Spiritual Journey (autora m.in. piosenek “Mury” i “Obława”). Sept. 17-Oct.3, Thursdays, 10:30-11 am Sept. 23, Wednesday, 7-9 pm Parents and children under 18 months join This evening will explore the many Emotional Wellness and Diabetes representatives from the Middlesex-London ways Buddhism can contribute to the Management Health Unit to discuss some important contemporary spiritual journey regardless Sept. 26, Saturday, 1-2:30 pm issues about infants and toddlers including of one’s personal spiritual or religious Social worker Colleen Eckert-Denver will immunization (Sept.17), post partum orientation. There will be a teaching on be discussing how to keep yourself well adjustments (Sept.24), feeding your baby the Eightfold Path and an opportunity to emotionally when you have diabetes. For (Oct.1), Sleep (Oct.8), Physical activity meditate. more information, please contact 519-646- (Oct.15), safety and your child (Oct.22), and 6000 Ext. 67269. This is a Diabetes London Child development (Oct.29). Japanese for Beginners education series. Sept. 23-Dec. 9, Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30 pm Attracting Peace Register starting Sept. 1 Resume Workshop Sept. 21, Monday, 7-9 pm If you have some knowledge of the Sept. 28, Monday, 10-11:30 am see page 36. Japanese Language, you should consider Unlock the secret to having your resume our other Japanese program, which is read by employers. Find out how to create Belly Dance Classes - Beginners offered on Tuesday evenings. a resume that will have impact and get Sept. 21-Nov. 2, Mondays, 7-8 pm employers to want to know more about Register starting Aug. 10. $25. Angie Aristone: Psychic Medium what you have to offer them. This workshop Appropriate for ages 16+. Strengthens Sept. 24, Thursday, 7-9 pm will give you the tools you need to create core muscles, increases balance, builds Call 519-661-5122 to order tickets starting such a resume. Samples and handouts self esteem and it is fun! Your instructor, Aug. 24. $15 advance/$20 at door. will be available. Presented by the London Aphrodite (Joan Sherrin) will teach you Angie Aristone has been bringing people Employment Help Centre. basic moves and a brief choreography. together with departed loved ones for over seven years. She holds degrees in both Gentle Yoga For Seniors (60+) Buddhist Meditation for the Beginner Anthropology and Art history, as well as Sept. 28-Nov. 9, Mondays, 10-11 am Sept. 22-Oct. 27, Tuesdays, 7-8 pm being a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Register starting Sept. 1. $30. Register starting Aug. 10 and brings a wealth of knowledge and Practice simple movements, breath A weekly meeting for beginning meditators skills to her readings. She is also a regular awareness and relaxation. Suitable for and those interested in learning Buddhist guest speaker at Kings College. Expect complete beginners and for those with prior meditation techniques. Will introduce the unexpected, and join us for an evening experience. Led by certified yoga instructor Shamata, Vipassana, Maitri, and walking of messages from the other side. Angie Angela Savory. Please bring a yoga mat or meditation and look at the Buddhist will be doing gallery readings of random towel to class. No class Oct. 12. understanding behind these practices. Open audience members at this event. Everyone to anyone looking for support and guidance in attendance should be open to contact. to establish and maintain a daily meditation practice. Chairs will be provided bring cushions or benches if you have them.

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Author Reading: Bonnie Burnard Oct. 29: The Soloist Gaia Grooves Sept. 28, Monday, 7:30-9 pm In this Hollywood film, columnist Steve Oct. 7, Wednesday, 7-9 pm Join us for a reading from award-winning, Lopez discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally Free tickets available Sept. 1. Canadian author Bonnie Burnard. She will ill, homeless street musician who possesses Everyone is welcome to this evening of be reading from her new novel “Suddenly”. extraordinary talent. song and dance presented by London’s Book sale and signing to follow. Light Women’s groups such as Ogitchitaw Kwe refreshments served. Introduction to Hiking Og, the Sudanese Women, Las Chicas Oct. 1, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm De Rumeras and others. Come and enjoy Postcard Views From Above Introduction to Hiking: Tom Friesen from this community celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 1-Dec. 30, during Library hours Hike Ontario will present information that October 7th, 7-9 pm at the Central Library’s London postcard collector Gordon will answer your questions about Hiking Wolf Performance Hall. Free tickets McDonald presents a view of London few - a safe, inexpensive and environmentally available at the Community Outreach and of us get to see in person, both aerial views friendly way to enhance your health & Programs desk, Central Library. and the scenic views from the tops of tall quality of life. buildings. This well researched postcard Philosophy and the Emotions Series exhibit located in the London Room will be Raw Food 101 Oct. 7-28, Wednesdays, 7 pm changed monthly during October, November Oct. 1, Thursday, 7-9 pm and December. When you think Raw Food do you think Oct. 7: What Can Our Emotions Tell Us salad...salad...and more salad??? Well, About Ethics? Windows into the Mind Mental Health think again! Think soup (yes, warm), think It is often assumed that ethical questions Film Series noodles and sauces, think chocolate concern only what we should do, not how Oct. 8-29, Wednesdays, 7-9 pm brownies... Delicious! All of these tasty we should feel. This talk challenges such A film series aimed at exploring lives favourites have been created raw-food- a view by calling into question the picture touched by mental illness as portrayed in style! Imagine, healthy, raw vegan cuisine of emotions as irrational, involuntary, the movies. A discussion with guest speaker the whole family will enjoy! Want to learn and passive and exploring the invaluable will follow each film more? Join us as we embark on a Raw contribution our emotions make to our Food Journey. capacity to live ethically sound lives. Oct. 1 : The Medicated Child FRONTLINE continues its investigation into Protect Yourself from Fraud and Scams Oct. 14: Our Inner Nag: Conscience, Shame the controversial practice of medicating kids. Oct. 3, Saturday, 2-4 pm and Guilt Cosponsored with the Canadian Mental Register by Sept. 30. Our conscience nags us into doing what we Health Association, London. Counterfeit bills. Credit card fraud. Bogus think we morally ought to do by threatening cheques. Identity theft. We’ve got the us with shame or guilt if we do otherwise. Oct. 8: Dialogues with Madwomen facts on how you can avoid the fraud trap. This talk discusses whether this description In this film, filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Join representatives from London Police of conscience is correct and what moral Saraf have coaxed seven “madwomen” Services and the Bank of Canada for a value our conscience might have, given that - including Light herself - into telling free information session on how to protect we don’t always agree with what it tells us to their stories. Winner of an Emmy and a yourself from frauds and scams. do or not do. Sundance: Freedom of Expression Award. Introduction to EFT Oct. 21: Reason and the Passionate Mind Oct. 15: Men Get Depression Oct. 6, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm It is common to think of reason and emotion This one hour documentary explores the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is an as two distinct motivating powers in the corrosive effect of depression on the self, emotional form of acupuncture, without the human mind, often at odds with each other relationships and careers through the use of needles. The procedure is painless, and battling it out for ultimate control over intimate profiles of real men including a uses no drugs, and often works where other our actions. This talk will offer some reasons former NFL Quarterback, a Fortune 100 therapies fail. EFT can help you resolve for thinking that reason and emotion cannot CEO, and an Iraq War veteran. trauma symptoms, PTSD, phobias, grief, be thought of as being at odds, but are anger, fears as well as physical symptoms rather intertwined and interdependent in Oct. 22: The Released such as pain, headaches, asthma, etc. EFT offering human motivation. What happens to the mentally ill when they is the ultimate tool for tapping your way leave America’s prisons? Why do they to total well being. Come and learn how return at such alarming rates? The intimate to release the pressure within you using stories of the released-along with interviews acupressure and affirmation. with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists-provide a rare look at the lives of the mentally ill as they struggle to stay out of prison and reintegrate into society. • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 19 |central: general interest

Oct. 28: From Eros to Agape: Love in Lunch and Learn Lectures Give Yourself the Gift of Loose Tea Ancient and Medieval Times Oct. 14 & Nov. 25, Wednesday, 12-1 pm Oct. 26, Mon, 7-9 pm There have been different views of love Lunch & Learn Lectures are presented Sample the wonderful taste and aroma of through the ages. The contrast between by Orchestra London and London Public tea, and discover the environmental and eros or sexual/passionate love and agape Library. Guest speaker Morgan Jones leads health benefits of loose tea. Learn how tea or unconditional/self-less love have informative discussions about the musical is grown, graded and properly brewed, as long dominated Western society. This works that will be performed on the Ovation well as the history behind various types and presentation traces some of the more series concerts. Oct. 14: Opening night traditions. Embrace tea as it was meant to be. important views developed in Greek thought romance features Brahms’s Piano Concerto and transmitted into the Christianity through no.2, Nov. 25: Italian Symphony features Jazz for the People the Bible and the Church Fathers and Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 4 “Italian”. Oct. 28 & Nov. 25, Wednesdays, 7:30-9 pm discuss what use these traditional views of A free concert series featuring local and love still have in our modern fragmented The Awakening: an uplifting perspective regional jazz musicians. Oct. 28: The Jim society. on our present and future world. English 5, Nov. 25: Ron Walker & Ken Varley. Oct. 14, Wednesday, 7 pm Introduction to Ayurveda - The Science Shedding light on the positive implications Managing High Cholesterol (Diabetes of Life of our current world events, William Meader London Education Series) Oct. 8&22, Thurs, 7-9 pm discusses and explores the role of crisis in Oct. 31, Saturday, 1-2:30 pm Registration starts Aug. 24. $25. facilitating the evolution of consciousness Dr. Tisha Joy will talk about how to manage Ayurveda is the traditional medicine of India. and suggests practical spiritual techniques your high cholesterol when you have Used for thousands of years as a system we can all utilize at this remarkable time in diabetes. For more information, please of health care, Ayurveda is full of common human history. contact 519-646-6000 Ext. 67269. sense ways to identify subtle imbalances in the mind-body connection. It teaches us Your Job Search Portfolio Abraham’s Cafe: why forgive? how to bring ourselves back to healing and Oct. 19, Monday, 10-11:30 am Nov. 3, Tuesday, 7-9 pm balance through the use of colour, music, Portfolios are an excellent way to showcase Does forgiveness mean the same thing in herbs and diet. Come and learn the ancient your skills and abilities to potential Judaism, Christianity and Islam? How can wisdom that Ayurveda has to offer. employers. Whether you are looking for we truly forgive? Why should we? Another work or actively managing your current fascinating three-way discussion with Dr. Your Right to a Healthy Life: career, this tool can help you get ahead. Wael Haddara, Fr. Michael Bechard and Mr. Empowerment and Action Day for People Join staff from Job Search Strategies to Art Benjamin, hosted by former CFPL TV with Disabilities, 2009 learn how to create and use your own and radio personality Ross Daily. Bring your Oct. 8, Thursday, 8:30-3:30 pm portfolio. willingness to learn. Register between Sept. 1 & Oct 1. The City of London’s Accessibility Advisory Energy Medicine It’s Your Life, So Start Living It! - An Committee and London Public Library Oct. 20, Tuesday, 6 pm introduction to meditation invite Londoners with disabilities, their See page 36 Nov. 3, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm friends, families, and those who work with Join us and learn how meditation can bring persons with disabilities to the 15th annual Contemporary London Authors more Peace and Joy into your day-to-day Empowerment and Action Day. Topics Collection Launch life. Get a little taste of how peaceful and covered include: Access to medical care Oct. 21, Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 pm simple meditation really is, and experience and government support programs, holistic In celebration of our local authors, London the aliveness that life has to offer! Facilitated health care and natural medicine, eating Public Library is pleased to invite you to the by Datri, an Ishaya monk who has devoted well on a budget, sexual health. Lunch is launch of the Contemporary London Authors her life to consciousness and bringing more provided. NOTE: Please notify Library staff Collection during Ontario Public Library peace into the world. at time of registration if you require dietary Week. Local authors of fiction, poetry, and or other accommodations. plays for adults, teens or children have Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies been invited to donate a copy of their a People - Film & Discussion recently published book for inclusion on our Nov. 4, Wednesday, 7-9 pm Contemporary London Authors shelf. Books As part of Media Literacy Week we will will be listed in the London Public Library present the film Reel Bad Arabs: How catalogue and will be available for borrowing Hollywood Vilifies a People. There will after the Launch. be a discussion forum with speakers and participation from the audience after the film.

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Over Here: Women, Work & World War II What Pathologists Look For To Determine Travelling with Diabetes Nov. 4, Wednesday, 12-1:30 pm Thyroid Cancer - In Terms Nov. 28, Saturday, 1-2:30 pm A free slide illustrated lecture in honour of You Can Understand Dr. Hala Mosli from the Department Remembrance Day, which examines the Nov. 17, Tuesday, 7:30-9 pm of Endocrinology & Metabolism at the contributions of women to the war effort. Dr. Bret Wehril, Pathologist, University University of Western Ontario will talk Johnnene Maddison is a gifted London artist Hospital, will talk to you in language you can about travelling when you have diabetes who has used her work to explore women’s understand about what pathologists look for - everything you need to know! For more issues. She has used oral history as a when determining thyroid cancer. Part of the information, please contact 519-646-6000 means of gathering information from women Thyroid Education Series presented by the Ext. 67269. Part of the Diabetes London who agreed to share their experiences. Her Thyroid Foundation of Canada. Education Series. exhibition of the same name is currently travelling in Ontario. Paris 1919 (film) Mastering the Interview Nov. 19, Thursday, 7-9 pm Nov. 30, Monday, 10-11:30 am London Jazz Orchestra For six fateful months in 1919, Paris was Do you know how to answer those tough Nov. 5, Thursday, 7:30-9:00 pm the centre of the world. Inspired by Margaret interview questions? What questions should The London Jazz Orchestra performs MacMillan’s masterful work of popular you ask? What should you do when the popular selections of Big Band, Swing and history, “Paris 1919” revisits the event with a interview is over? Find out answers to these Jazz music. Ralph de Luca directs the 18 vivid sense of narrative and reflects upon the important questions and more. Presented by piece stage band. great missed opportunities of history. Join us staff from Leads Employment Services. for a screening of this compelling film that Are you going to be financially OK? blends re-enactments with archival images. Art Exhibits@Central Nov. 5, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm All exhibits are open for viewing during Current economic conditions may have you Healthy Vision Day Library hours. asking some hard questions. Learn how to Nov. 21, Saturday, 8:45 am-2 pm Sept. 2-30 - Jim Fitzgerald Fire Fighting create a financial plan for peace of mind Register starting Sept. 1 Memorabilia in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon Hear from doctors, educators and individuals Oct. 2-29 - Shelley Malcolm and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will on topics including: Age Related Macular Oct. 2-30 - London District Weavers and show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. Degeneration, Treatment for Glaucoma, Spinners Group Questions & answers follow. Gene Therapy, Access to Free Health Oct. 2-30 - Parkwood Hospital Information, Rights for the Visually Impaired Oct. 2-30 - Gladys Funk Digital Media: the New Democracy and Coping with Vision Loss. Along with the Nov. 2-29 - Jean Rosati Nov. 5, Thursday, 7-9 pm wonderful speaker series, there will also Nov. 2-29 - Mahdi Ali From Agora to Blogosphere and Beyond! be exhibits of over 25 services, community Nov. 2-30 - Sandra Collins. Come for a discussion about the ways in groups, health professionals and more. This which digital media is changing the nature of program is suitable for anyone who has public discourse and the structure of society. been affected by vision loss. Co-sponsor: |Cherryhill Will the transformation be as profound as CNIB, St. Joseph’s Health Care, the Ivey 301 Oxford St. the first dawn of democracy? How can we Institute. 519-439-6456 make the best use of these new platforms and tools? Writing Your Life and Other True Stories Nov. 28, Saturday, 10 am-4 pm Storytimes are offered here! Search Blast From the Past Register starting Sept. 21. $45. “Storytimes” in our online program database Nov. 12, 19, 26, Thursdays 7-9 pm Have you ever considered writing your or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Register starting Aug. 10. $30 for all 3 weeks memoirs or family history? This workshop or $12 for an individual class. will introduce you to the tricks and Cherryhill Community Playgroup (birth-6) Take a nostalgic trip back to the eras of Big conventions of telling true stories and show Ongoing-Dec. 22, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 am Band, Rock’n’Roll and the Twist. Dance to you how to use the techniques of the novel Parents, caregivers and children participate the wonderful music of the 40’s, 50’s and to recount actual events. in interactive early learning activities. 60’s at this 3 week program. Join Cathy Presented by Ontario Early Years Centre, Stephens in a Blast from the Past dance London North-Centre (519-434-3644). class. Each week features a different dance style. Week 1: 1940’s and Big Band. Week 2: 1950’s Rock’n’Roll. Week 3: The Twist era. Appropriate for ages 16+.

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Reading Rocks! Cherryhill Book Club ESL/LINC Class for the Older Adult Sept. 5 & Nov. 14, Saturday, 1:30-3 pm Ongoing-Dec. 9, 2nd Wed/month, 7-8:30 pm Sept. 10-Dec. 17, Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for Read each book in advance and join a Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:15-11:45 am school-aged children and their families to lively, informal discussion. Phone Cherryhill Call 519-452-2000 ext. 69674 to register celebrate and encourage reading together. Branch Library at 519-439-6456 for Classes specially designed for the older There will be games, crafts, books, food upcoming titles. Books are available one immigrant focus on the language necessary and prizes, so drop in for this special event. month prior to each meeting. New members for use in everyday living with an emphasis Themes: Sept. 5: The World of Science! welcome. on Canadian customs and culture. Lots of Nov. 14: Get a Clue! Sponsored by EDPRO opportunity to talk with English speakers. Energy Group Inc. Call 519-521-5921 for Couples Apart/Parents Forever Partially funded by the Federal Citizenship & more information. Ongoing-Dec. 3, 1st Thurs/month, 7-9 pm Immigration Ministry. Register at the Family Law Information Painting program for Children (6-12) Centre 519-660-3001. Thursday Movies Sept. 19, Saturday, 2-3 pm Free information and support about issues Sept. 10-Oct. 29, Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm Register in person starting Sept. 5. $2. relating to separating families. A selection of movies and travel films shown Come and paint. Learn about mixing colours at Cherryhill Branch Library. For a list of to create your own masterpiece. ESL Book Club titles phone Cherryhill Branch Library at Ongoing-Dec. 17, Thursdays, 3:30-5 pm 519-439-6456. Hand Painted Scarf Program (6-12) For people who want to practice English Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-3 pm reading and conversation. Newcomers Watercolour Painting-Beginners Step II Register starting on Oct 3. $2. welcome. We read one or two chapters of Sept. 18-Nov. 6, Fridays, 9:30 am-noon Here’s your chance to make your very own a book per week. Volunteers interested in Register starting Aug. 1. $60. hand painted organza scarf. meeting newcomers to Canada are also Helen Bruzas, a member of the Gallery welcome to attend. Books are provided. Painting Group, will be sharing her Halloween Storytime (3-6) enthusiasm and knowledge in this class for Oct. 31, Saturday, 10-10:45 am Mixed Media Painters those with some previous experience and Register starting on October 17. Ongoing-Dec. 29, Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30 pm understanding of painting in watercolour. Join us for spooky songs, stories, and a Painters of any media and experience are Participants bring their own supplies. Cost craft. Don’t forget your costume! invited to join together for an afternoon of of materials not included in course fee. painting. Bring your own materials. Halloween Film Watercolour Painting-Intermediate/ Oct. 31, Saturday, 2 pm Stitch ‘n Time Advanced Get in the trick or treating mood. Drop in Ongoing-Dec. 16 Sept. 18 - Nov. 6, Fridays, 1-4 pm and watch the film on the big screen. 1st & 3rd Wed/month, 9:30-11:30 am Register starting Aug. 1. $60. Bring your own needlework or knitting for a Helen Bruzas, a member of the Gallery PA Day Movie morning of sharing. Painting Group, will be sharing her Nov. 6, Friday, 2-3:30 pm enthusiasm and knowledge in teaching this Come in and watch a recently released English Conversational Circles class for intermediate to advanced painters. movie on our big screen! Call the branch to Sept. 8-Dec. 15, Tuesdays, 6:30-8 pm Participants bring their own supplies. Cost see what’s playing. Register with LCCLC at 519-432-1133 of materials not included in course fee. Celebrate diversity through friendship and Design Your Own Potholder (8-12) cultural exchange. All newcomers are Ontario Public Library Week Open House Nov. 21, Saturday, 2-2:45 pm welcome. Call the Cross Cultural Learner Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm Register starting Nov. 7. Centre at 519-432-1133 to participate or Looking for a unique gift? Create a design become a volunteer mentor. Co-sponsor: Prenatal Classes and transfer your artwork onto a potholder. LCCLC. Funded by Citizenship and Oct. 29-Nov. 26, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Makes a fantastic gift. Immigration Canada. Register at 519-663-5317 x2262. $55. Learn what to expect during pregnancy Mother and Daughter Book Club Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates and how to care for your new baby. Please Ongoing -Oct. 31. Sept. 9-Oct. 28, Wednesdays, 1-2 pm register early in your pregnancy. For Cherryhill’s first Mother and Daughter Book Register starting Aug. 1. $40. information on the prenatal classes and how Club - we are just in the planning stages An instructor from the Phoenix Tai Chi to register, please call 519-663-5317 ext. and we are looking for interested people. Centre leads the class. Classes suitable for 2262 or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can to meet one evening a month. If you are both beginners and intermediates. Fee is be waived and partial fees accepted. Co- interested call 519-439-6456 and leave your non-refundable unless course is cancelled. sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. name & phone number.

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Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates Spooktacular Halloween Craft Mystery Book Club Nov. 4-Dec. 16, Wednesdays, 1-2 pm Oct. 24, Saturday, 2-3 pm Ongoing-Nov. 26, Thursdays, 7-8 pm Register starting Oct 14. $30. Drop in and join us in making a great Add a little mystery to your life! Join us as An instructor from the Phoenix Tai Chi Halloween decoration. we discuss great mystery novels. Centre leads the class. Classes suitable for both beginners and intermediates. Crouch’s Spook Spectacular! Women’s Wellness Oct, 31, Saturday, 2:30 pm Sept. 4, Fridays, 2-4 pm Continence and You Calling all ghosts, ghouls and goblins! Join Join staff from the Crouch Neighbourhood Nov. 18, Wednesday, 1:30-3 pm us for our Spook Spectacular party and Resource Centre and London Public Library Having trouble ‘holding it in”? Sue O’Hary enjoy great holiday games and crafts! for a series of different topics each Friday and Christine Sleegers, Advanced afternoon especially for women. Discover Practical Nurses, Specialized Geriatric Gifts for Giving! (5-12) more about your mind, body and spirit. Services, Parkwood Hospital let you Nov. 21 & 28, Saturdays, 2:30-3:30 pm know what treatments and options are Create perfect little gifts to give to family and Job Search Strategies Information Session available to you if you are dealing with friends this holiday season. Sept. 16, Wednesday, 10 am-noon incontinence. This presentation is part of the Staff from Job Search Strategies will be on Educational Opportunities for Seniors series Teen Tuesdays (11+) hand to provide information on services and cosponsored by CARP London Chapter, Ongoing-June resources they offer for job seekers. the Council for London Seniors, London 2nd & 4th Tues/Month, 6:30-8:30 pm Public Library, and Third Age Outreach, St. Bring your friends and join us for a variety of Are you going to be financially OK? Joseph’s Health Care, London. activities. Arts and crafts, gaming and new Oct. 22, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm movies on the Big Screen! Current economic conditions may have you Art Exhibits@Cherryhill asking some hard questions. Learn how to All exhibits are open for viewing during Runescape Rampage (11+) create a financial plan for peace of mind Library hours. Sept, 29, Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 pm in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon Sept. 1-25 - An Eclectic Exhibition of Works Join us for a night of nothing but Runescape! and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will by Lynda Montgomery New and experienced players welcome. show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. Sept. 29-Oct. 30 - Many Moods of Art by Questions & answers to follow. Cathy Spiegler English Conversational Circles Nov. 4-27 - Helen Bruzas and Friends. Ongoing-Nov. 24, Tuesdays, 6-8 pm Celebrate diversity through friendship and |East London cultural exchange. All newcomers are 2106 Dundas St. |Crouch welcome. Call the Cross Cultural Learner 519-451-7600 550 Hamilton Rd. Centre at 519-432-1133 to participate or to become a volunteer mentor. Co-sponsor: 519-673-0111 LCCLC. Funded by Citizenship and Storytimes are offered here! Search Immigration Canada. “Storytimes” in our online program database

Storytimes are offered here! Search or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Literacy and Basic Skills Program “Storytimes” in our online program database Ongoing-Dec. 11, Fridays, 9 am or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Family Math (3½-6) Register by phone 519-452-2660 x69712 Oct. 7-28, Wednesdays, 9:30-11 am Literacy London offers a part-time, one to Saturday Cinema (Family) Call 519-455-2791 to register. one/small group adult literacy program. Ongoing-June 5, 1st Sat/month, 2:30 pm Math is everywhere! Enjoy games and

Bring your friends and refreshments and activities to develop math skills and concepts Crouch Library Artists join us for a recently released movie on our with your child. Co-sponsored with the Ongoing-Nov. 20, Fridays, 1-4 pm Big Screen! Call the Branch to see what’s Ontario Early Years Centre. Join our group of independent artists. Bring playing. your own paint and supplies. All levels. Hallowe’en Storytime (family)

Reading Rocks: Eat It Up! (family) Oct. 28, Wednesday, 2-2:30 pm Crouch Knitting Group Sept. 26, Saturday, 2-3:30 pm Come in costume for some spooky stories Ongoing-Nov. 26, Thursdays, 7-9 pm Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for and an even spookier craft. Children under 3 Learn to knit, improve your skills, complete school-aged children and their families to must be with a caregiver. a project, or help someone else. Share celebrate and encourage reading together. patterns and ideas. Co-sponsored by There will be games, crafts, books, food Keeping Kids Warm. and prizes, so drop in for this special event.

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Reading Rocks: The World of Science! Ontario Public Library Week Open House Rock Band (8+) Nov. 6, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm Nov. 6, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for Bring a friend, enjoy some snacks and rock school-aged children and their families to out on Rock Band. celebrate and encourage reading together. |Jalna There will be games, crafts, books, food 1118 Jalna Blvd. PA Day Movie and prizes, so drop in for this special event. 519-685-6465 Nov. 13, Friday, 2:30 pm Sponsored by EDPRO Energy Group Inc. Come in and watch a recently released Call 519-521-5921 for more information. movie on our big screen! Call the branch to

see what’s playing. Storytimes are offered here! Search PA Day Movie “Storytimes” in our online program database Nov. 13, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Eid Al Adha Craft (7+) or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Come in and watch a recently released Nov. 21, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm movie on our big screen! Call the branch to Come in to the library to make a craft in Fanoos Frenzy (7+) see what’s playing. Celebration of Eid Al Adha. Sept. 12, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm

Make a special Fanoos - A Ramadan Adult Book Club Jalna Book Club Lantern to help celebrate the holiday. Oct. 7-May 5, 1st Wed/month, 10-11 am. Ongoing-Nov. 19, 3rd Thurs/month, 7-8 pm

Join our monthly Wednesday morning Read each book in advance and join a Thanksgiving Day Drop in Craft discussion group. We will share our love of lively, informal discussion. Book titles are Oct. 10, Saturday, 9 am-5 pm reading, our thoughts on the month’s book, available one month in advance. Drop in to the library to make a and enjoy some light refreshments. Each Thanksgiving day craft. month we will discuss a different book. Prenatal Classes

Books will be available at East London Sept. 3-Oct. 22, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Just Beginning Branch Library one month prior to the Call 519-663-5317 x2262 to register. $55. Oct. 14-Nov. 4, Wednesdays, 1:30 pm meeting date. Learn what to expect during pregnancy Register by calling 519-663-5317 x2378. and how to care for your new baby. Please A free 4-week series of classes for new Tai Chi register early in your pregnancy. For more moms with a baby birth - 6 months of age. Sept. 8-Nov. 24, Tuesdays, 7:30-8:15 pm information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 Bring your baby to a relaxed and supportive Register starting Aug. 18. $40. or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be setting and meet other new moms. Talk Learn a series of flowing movements that waived and partial fees accepted. Co- about your baby’s growth, learning and play, tone muscles, loosen joints, increase sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. ask questions and learn about community circulation, improve digestion, and reduce resources. Co-sponsor: Middlesex-London stress Are you going to be financially OK? Health Unit. Oct. 13, Tuesday, 7 pm

Protect Yourself from Fraud and Scams Current economic conditions may have you I’m Home (10-12) Sept. 24, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm asking some hard questions. Learn how to Oct. 21-Nov. 11, Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm Register by Sept. 21 create a financial plan for peace of mind Register in person starting Sept. 29. $30. Counterfeit bills. Credit card fraud. Bogus in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon A program designed to support parents in cheques. Identity theft. We’ve got the and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to facts on how you can avoid the fraud trap. show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. move successfully from supervised before Join representatives from London Police Questions & answers to follow. and after school care, to safe, home-based Services and the Bank of Canada for a self care. Parent attendance is required for free information session on how to protect Ontario Public Library Week Open House the first and last weekday evening sessions yourself from frauds and scams. Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm. OR the afternoon of the Saturday session,

from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may Socrates Café@East London be available, please inquire at registration. Oct. 14, Wednesday, 7-8:30 pm Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. Have you read Harry Potter? Have you seen the movies? Or are you wondering what all Spooktacular Halloween Party (family) the fuss is about? Come to the East London Oct. 31, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Library for a Socrates Café where we will Goblins, ghosts and ghouls, oh my! Put on be asking: “Does Harry Potter Matter?” your costume and join us for our Halloween Moderated by Bill Paul. NOTE: Socrates Bash. There will be games, snacks, stories Café is for Adults and Teens but children and a craft! who have read Harry Potter are welcome!

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|Lambeth Child’s Hand/Footprint of Clay! |Landon 7112 Beattie St. (3 months-5 years with caregiver) 167 Wortley Rd. 519-652-2951 Oct. 24, Saturday 519-439-6240 9:30-10:15 am or 10:30-11:15 am Register in person starting Aug. 15. $11. Lambeth Community Playgroup (birth-6) Capture your little one’s hand OR foot Storytimes are offered here! Search Ongoing-June 16, Wednesdays, 9:30-11 am impression forever in CLAY using your own “Storytimes” in our online program database Parents, caregivers and children participate “2Hands”. Kids grow up in the blink of an or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. in songs, games, crafts, and interactive play eye and a clay print/impression keeps the with qualified ECE instructor. Presented memory alive for years to come. Kids are Just Beginning by Ontario Early Years Centre, London- always amazed to see how their hand gets Oct. 27–Nov. 17, Tuesdays, 1:30 pm Middlesex-Elgin. Call Branch for details. bigger! The Clay impression is ready for Register by calling 519-663-5317 x2378 pickup in a few weeks at the library ready to A free 4-week series of classes for new Harvest Storytime (3-6) hang or display. Footprints for 2 years and moms with a baby birth - 6 months of age. Sept. 12, Saturday, 1:30-2 pm under only. Bring your baby to a relaxed and supportive Register starting Aug. 10 setting and meet other new moms. Talk It’s Lambeth’s Harvestfest - Don’t miss our Halloween Parade (3-6 with caregiver) about your baby’s growth, learning and play, very special Harvest Storytime with Linda Oct. 30, Friday, 2-3:15 pm ask questions and learn about community Ludke. Songs, fingerplays, and special Come in costume and enjoy some witch’s resources. Co-sponsor: Middlesex-London stories will be part of this 30 minute program. brew and make a spooky craft too. Don’t Health Unit. forget your camera! Storytime with Karen and Friends (3+) Spooktacular Halloween Storytime Sept. 14-Oct. 8, Thursdays, 1:30-2 pm Black Cat Halloween Party Oct. 31, Saturday, 10:30-11 am Register starting Aug 21 Oct. 31, Saturday, 1:30-3 pm Join us for spooky stories and play This 4 week program is designed for the Register in person. $15. Halloween BINGO! We hope you’ll wear a older preschooler to attend with caregiver or Celebrate Halloween in a safe and creative costume! parent. Enjoy exciting and funny stories with way. Come to our “black cat” stuffing party! Karen and her puppets friends. Audience The afternoon will include a peanut free PA Day Movie participation is required. snack and lots of fun! Recommended for Nov. 6 & 13, Friday, 2:30-4:15 pm children 4 yrs and up with caregiver. Each Come in and watch a recently released Just Beginning participant will stuff and take home a lovely movie on our big screen! Call the branch to Oct. 2-23, Friday, 1:30-3 pm plush black cat. see what’s playing. Call 519-663-5317 ext.2378 to register. A free 4-week series of classes for new PA Day Movie Landon Book Discussion Group moms with a baby birth - 6 months of age. Nov. 6, Friday, 1:30-3 pm Ongoing, 2nd Tues/month, 7-8:30 pm Bring your baby to a relaxed and supportive Come in and watch a recently released Local writer, Jean McKay, leads an setting and meet other new moms. Talk movie on our big screen! Call the branch to informative and lively discussion of literature. about your baby’s growth, learning and play, see what’s playing. ask questions and learn about community Painting with Peter Lam resources. Co-sponsor: Middlesex-London Lambeth Thursday Nite Book Club Sept.16-Nov. 4, Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 am Health Unit. Ongoing, 2nd Thurs/month, 7-8 pm Register starting Aug. 15. $64. Join us for an informal book discussion. London artist, Peter Lam, provides guidance Bedtime Storytime for Families Titles are available for you to sign out at for artists of all levels. Bring your own Oct.15-Nov. 5, Thursdays, 6:30-7:15 pm the meeting. Upcoming title for September : materials. Register starting Oct. 1 Eat, Pray, Love, October:Angry Housewives Come in your pajamas for stories, songs, Eating Bon Bons, November: Clara Callan, Reading : Martha Baillie bedtime snack and a craft too. Don’t forget December: The Gathering. Sept. 23, Wednesday, 7:30-8:30pm to bring your teddy, blankie and a bedtime drink. Lambeth Wednesday Afternoon Book Club Ontario Public Library Week Open House Ongoing-2nd Wed/month, 1:30 pm Oct.17, Saturday, 2-4 pm Join us for an informal discussion. Upcoming titles for September: Radiance, October: Dead Man In Paradise, November: Loving Frank, December: The Bright Forever.

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Prenatal Classes Are you going to be financially OK? Halloween Storytime (3-6) Sept. 29-Nov. 3, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Oct. 29, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm Oct. 30, Friday, 11-11:45 am Call 519-663-5317 x2262 to register. $55. Current economic conditions may have you Register starting Oct. 16 Learn what to expect during pregnancy asking some hard questions. Learn how to Join us for spooky songs, stories, and a and how to care for your new baby. Please create a financial plan for peace of mind craft. Don’t forget your costume! register early in your pregnancy. For more in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will PA Day Movie or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. Nov. 6 & 13, Friday, 2:30-4 pm waived and partial fees accepted. Questions & answers to follow. Come in and watch a recently released Co-sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. movie on our big screen! Call the branch to see what’s playing. Poetry London Workshop |Masonville Sept. 30, Oct. 21 & Nov. 25 30 North Centre Rd. Mother/Daughter Teen Book Club (11+) Wednesdays, 6:30 pm 519-660-4646 Sept. 16-May 19 The Poetry London Workshops, facilitated 3rd Wed/month, 7:30-8:30 pm by Michelle Doege of Fanshawe College, Register mother & daughter starting Sept. 1. are open to anyone who enjoys discussing Join us once a month as we read and share Storytimes are offered here! Search poetry. The workshops provide an our favourite books. Snacks are provided! “Storytimes” in our online program database opportunity for participants to take a closer No class in December. or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. look at the work of that evening’s featured poets, and to share their own poetry in a ESL Book Club Wacky Word Fun! (7-12) mutually supportive atmosphere. Ongoing, Saturdays, 10:15-11:45 am Sept. 12-Dec. 5, Saturdays, 10-11:30 am For people who want to practice English Improve your English skills the fun way! Poetry London reading and conversation. Newcomers Drop in, meet new friends, and play a Sept. 30, Oct. 21 & Nov. 25 welcome. We read one or two chapters of variety of games and activities designed to Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30 pm a book per week. Volunteers interested in help your language skills. No class on Sept. Poetry London celebrates accomplished meeting newcomers to Canada are also 19, Oct. 3, 17, or Nov 21. local poets, and also cooperates with welcome to attend. Books are provided.

Toronto’s Art Bar, The Hamilton Poetry Just Beginning Centre, Ancaster’s Redeemer College, and Chinese Painting Sept. 15-Oct. 6, Tuesdays, 1:30-3 pm London’s Fanshawe College to provide Sept. 10-Oct. 15, Thursdays, 6:45-8:45 pm Register by calling 519-663-5317 x2378 nationally acclaimed poets a multi-stop Register in person starting Aug. 13. $17. A free 4-week series of classes for new Ontario tour. This 6 week introductory course uses moms with a baby birth - 6 months of age. traditional materials: rice paper, special Bring your baby to a relaxed and supportive Fall Plant Exchange brushes, inks, and water colours. Co- setting and meet other new moms. Talk Oct. 10, Saturday, 9:30-11:30 am sponsor: Chinese Canadian Council, about your baby’s growth, learning and play, Calling all gardeners! Bring in your extra London Chapter. ask questions and learn about community seeds, bulbs, plants and cuttings to resources. Co-sponsor: Middlesex-London exchange with other gardeners. Please Prenatal Classes Health Unit. label plants. Sept. 24-Oct. 22, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm

Call 519-663-5317 x2262 to register. $55. I’m Home (10-12) Art Exhibit: London Public Library Staff Learn what to expect during pregnancy Oct. 3, Saturday, 9:30 am-4 pm Art Show and how to care for your new baby. Please Register starting Sept. 12. $30. Oct. 10-30, during Library hours. register early in your pregnancy. For more A program designed to support parents in Ever wonder what your Library Staff are information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to up to on their off-hours? Come in and see or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be move successfully from supervised before a wide variety of arts and crafts created by waived and partial fees accepted. and after school care, to safe, home-based your favourite staff across the city! Please Co-sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. self care. Parent attendance is required for call ahead to ensure that the gallery is open the first and last weekday evening sessions for viewing. Ontario Public Library Week Reception OR the afternoon of the Saturday session, Oct. 24, Saturday, 2-4 pm from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may Drop in and join us in celebrating Ontario be available, please inquire at registration. Public Library Week! The winners of Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. our children’s poster contest will be announced at 3 pm. All are welcome to enjoy refreshments and camaraderie as we celebrate our library. PAGE 26 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 masonville, northridge, pond mills|

You’re Grounded for Life! |Pond Mills Halloween Storytime (3-6) Nov. 17 & 24, Tuesdays, 6:45-8:45 pm 1166 Commissioners Rd. E. Oct. 31, Saturday, 10-10:30 am Register by calling 519-663-5317 x2378. 519-685-1333 Register starting Oct. 1 A workshop for parents of children aged Join us for spooky songs, stories, and a 11-15 years. Join us to discuss the common craft. Don’t forget your costume! challenges parenting brings. This 2-session Storytimes are offered here! Search workshop addresses teen behaviour, “Storytimes” in our online program database PA Day Movie communication and setting limits and or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Nov. 13, Friday, 2:30-4 pm discusses some of the common challenges Come in and watch a recently released of parenting teens. Workshops will be Reading Rocks! movie on our big screen! Call the branch to facilitated by a Public Health Nurse. Sept. 19, Oct. 3 & Oct. 17 see what’s playing. Co-sponsor: Middlesex-London Health Unit. Saturdays, 2:30 pm Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for Just Beginning Art Exhibits@Masonville school-aged children and their families to Nov. 25-Dec. 16, Wednesdays, 1:30-3 pm All exhibits are open for viewing during celebrate and encourage reading together. Register by calling 519-455-2791. Library hours There will be games, crafts, books, food A free series of classes for new moms with Sept. 29-Oct. 29 - Quiet Conversations by and prizes, so drop in for this special event. a baby birth-6 months. Bring your baby to Nancy Latchford and Dasha Kovar Themes: Sept. 19: In the Wild! Oct. 3: a relaxed and supportive setting and meet Nov. 2-25 - Karla Starek Eat It Up! Oct. 17: The World of Science! other new moms. Talk about your baby’s Sponsored by EDPRO Energy Group Inc. growth, learning and play, ask questions Call 519-521-5921 for more information. and learn about community resources. |Northridge 1444 Glenora Dr. I’m Home (10-12) Teen Gaming Excitement 519-439-4331 Sept. 26, Saturday, 9:30 am Nov. 6, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Register in person starting Sept. 5. $30. Drop in to the library to play some of the latest video games! A program designed to support parents in

Drop In Crafts preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to ESL Book Club Ongoing, Fridays, 9 am-noon move successfully from supervised before Ongoing, Saturdays, 11 am-12:30 pm Drop in craft for preschoolers and after school care, to safe, home-based For people who want to practice English self care. Parent attendance is required for reading and conversation. Newcomers Thanksgiving Day Craft the first and last weekday evening sessions welcome. We read one or two chapters of Oct. 10, Saturday, 10-11:30 am OR the afternoon of the Saturday session, books per week. Volunteers interested in Join us and create something special to from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may meeting newcomers to Canada are also celebrate this holiday! be available, please inquire at registration. welcome to attend. Books are provided. Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection.

Spooktacular Halloween Craft English Conversational Circles Oct. 31, Saturday, 10-11:30 am Spooktacular Halloween Craft Ongoing-Dec. 10, Thursdays, 6:30-8 pm Drop in and join us in making a great Oct. 31, Saturday, 2-4 pm Register by calling 519-432-1133 Halloween decoration. Drop in and join us in making a great Celebrate diversity through friendship Halloween decoration. and cultural exchange. All newcomers PA Day Movie are welcome. Register through the Cross Nov. 11, Wednesday, 2:30-4 pm Cultural Learner Centre at 519-432-1133 to Come in and watch a recently released participate or to become a volunteer mentor. movie on our big screen! Call the Co-sponsor: LCCLC. Funded by Citizenship branch to see what’s playing. and Immigration Canada.

Hey Kids! Like Soccer? Pond Mills Book Club Recreational Soccer Day - Sept. 5, Saturday, 10 am-2 pm Ongoing-Nov. 25 TVDSB fields, 1250 Dundas St. (Highbury & Dundas) last Wed/month, 7:30-8:30 pm Register online, by phone or in person at any Library location by Sept. 3. We want you! This is a new Book Club London Public Library, GOLS Soccer School, YMCA and the City of in need of participants. Whether you’re London invite all youth between the ages of 4 to 16 years of age to a a veteran Book Club Member or a first FREE fun-filled soccer day. Free barbecue lunch provided to participants timer, you are welcome to join our informal by GOLS Soccer School. Lunch $2 for family and friends. discussion group. Register yourself or Drop In. Contact the branch for more information.

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Prenatal Classes |Sherwood Sherwood Book Club Sept. 8-Oct. 6 or Nov. 3-Dec. 1 1225 Wonderland Rd. N. Ongoing, 1st Tues/month, 2:15-3:15 pm Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm 519-473-9965 New members register in person at Call 519-663-5317 x2262 to register. $55. Sherwood or by phone. Learn what to expect during pregnancy Read each book in advance and join a lively, and how to care for your new baby. Please Storytimes are offered here! Search informal discussion on the first Tuesday register early in your pregnancy. For more “Storytimes” in our online program database afternoon of each month. Please phone the information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. branch for titles and more information. or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be waived and partial fees accepted. I’m Home (10-12) Prenatal Classes Co-sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. Oct. 24, Saturday, 9:30 am-4 pm Sept. 9-Oct. 7 or Nov. 18-Dec. 16, Register starting Sept. 26. $30. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Tai Chi A program designed to support parents in Call 519-663-5317 ext 2262 to register. $55. Sept. 10-Nov. 26, Thursdays, 7:30-8:15 pm preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to Learn what to expect during pregnancy Register in person starting Sept. 1. $40. move successfully from supervised before and how to care for your new baby. Please Learn a series of flowing movements that and after school care, to safe, home-based register early in your pregnancy. For more tone muscles, loosen joints, increase self care. Parent attendance is required for information call 519-663-5317 ext. 2262 circulation, improve digestion, & reduce the first and last weekday evening sessions or go to www.healthunit.com. Fee can be stress OR the afternoon of the Saturday session, waived and partial fees accepted. Co- from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may sponsor: London-Middlesex Health Unit. Pond Mills Film Club be available, please inquire at registration. Oct. 2-30, Fridays, 2:30-5 pm Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. Tai Chi for Health - Wu Style Register starting Sept. 1 Sept. 16-Oct.28, Wednesdays, Calling all movie lovers, film buffs and Pumpkin Decorating (family) 10:30-11:30 am. Cost: $30 (7 weeks) cinema aficionados! Join us for a Friday Oct. 31, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Sept. 17-Nov.5, Thursdays, afternoon film screening and discussion. Register starting Oct. 23. 7:30-8:30 pm Cost :$40 (8 weeks) Contact the branch for more information. Decorate your own pumpkin to take home. Register starting Sept. 1 Wear your costume for a costume parade Tai Chi is an effective exercise for health Meet Linda Bailey throughout the library. which originates from the martial arts in Oct. 7, Wednesday, 4:30-5:30 pm China. It helps to improve flexibility and Register starting Sept. 16 Reading Rocks: The World of Science! posture, strength and balance, and the Q&A with multi-award-winning Linda Bailey, Nov. 21, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm integration of body and mind. The instructor author of Stanley’s Party, Stanley’s Wild Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for will be Norm Lam, who has been a Tai Chi Ride, Stanley’s Beauty Contest and dozens school-aged children and their families to instructor for 15 years. of other books for children. This is a session celebrate and encourage reading together. for adults only. In a casual interactive There will be games, crafts, books, food Watercolours for Beginners, Part 2 format, Linda will answer audience and prizes, so drop in for this special event. Sept. 22-Nov. 10, Tuesday, 6:15-8:45 pm questions about how she became a writer Sponsored by EDPRO Energy Group Inc. Register starting Sept. 1. $64. and the pleasures and pitfalls along the way. Call 519-521-5921 for more information. This class is intended for beginner painters With financial assistance from The Canada who have had some previous instruction in Coucil for the Arts through The Writers’ Homework Centre basic watercolours. The instructor, Helen Union of Canada. Ongoing, Tues-Thurs 3-9 & Fri 3-6 & Sat 9-5 Bruzas, is an active member of the Lambeth Sherwood Library’s 8 station IBM Art Association, Brush and Palette Club, and Ontario Public Library Week Open House Homework Centre is available to students the Gallery Painting Group. Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm for homework use. Computers are equipped for printing. No registration required. Log Protect Yourself from Fraud & Scams (55+) Are you going to be financially OK? on with your library card for a maximum of Sept. 23, Wednesday, 1:30-3 pm Oct. 20, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm 90 minutes a day. Available for homework Register by Sept. 18 at 519-661-1620 Current economic conditions may have you specific use, 3-9 Tuesday-Thursday, Friday Counterfeit bills. Credit card fraud. Bogus asking some hard questions. Learn how to 3-6, Saturday, 9-5. There is limited free cheques. Identity theft. We’ve got the create a financial plan for peace of mind printing for students from these computers. facts on how you can avoid the fraud trap. in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon Join representatives from London Police and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will Services and the Bank of Canada for a show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. free information session on how to protect Questions & answers to follow. yourself from frauds and scams. Part of St. Joseph’s Health Care Educational Opportunities for Seniors series. PAGE 28 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 sherwood, westmount|

Ontario Public Library Week Open House Pizza Box Solar Cooker Child’s Hand/Footprint of Clay! Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm Sept. 26, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm (3 months - 5 years with caregiver) Learn about solar energy and create your Nov. 11, Wednesday, 10-11 am PA Day at the Movies! (family, rated G) own pizza box solar cooker. Register starting Oct. 6. $11. Nov. 6 & 13 Friday, 2:30-4pm Capture your little one’s hand OR foot Register starting Oct. 1 Thanksgiving Day Drop in Craft impression forever in clay using your own Bring your family and friends and enjoy a Oct. 10, Saturday, 9 am-5 pm “2Hands”. Kids grow up in the blink of an movie on the big screen! Call the branch for Drop in to the library to make a Thanksgiving eye and a clay print/impression keeps the titles. Snacks ok, but water only, for drinks day craft. memory alive for years to come. Kids are please. always amazed to see how their hand gets Turkey Scavenger Hunt bigger! The Clay impression is ready for Are you going to be financially OK? Oct. 10, Saturday, 9 am-5 pm pickup in a few weeks at the library ready to Nov. 28, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm Find the hidden turkeys, solve a puzzle and hang or display. Footprints for 2 years and Current economic conditions may have you win a prize. under only. asking some hard questions. Learn how to create a financial plan for peace of mind Where the Wild Things Are...at I’m Home (10-12) in retirement. Presenters Brock McLearon Westmount! Nov. 19-Dec. 10, Thursdays, 7- 8:30 pm and Peter Coutts of Investors Group will Oct. 17, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Register starting Oct. 27. $30. show how to avoid future financial shortfalls. Take a trip with Max to the place where the A program designed to support parents in Questions & answers to follow. wild things are. To celebrate the release of preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to the movie, come hear a reading of this move successfully from supervised before Art Exhibits@Sherwood classic children’s story, make your own wild and after school care, to safe, home-based All exhibits are open for viewing during things costume, and more! self care. Parent attendance is required for Library hours. the first and last weekday evening sessions Oct. 2-30 - Gladys Funk Westmount’s Annual “Guess the Weight OR the afternoon of the Saturday session, Nov. 29-Jan. 3 - Sara Parsons of the Pumpkin” Contest from 12:30-4 pm. Financial assistance may Oct. 27-31, during Library hours be available, please inquire at registration. Due to popular demand, our Guess the Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. |Westmount Weight of the Pumpkin contest returns. 3200 Wonderland Rd. S. Just the Guys (10+) 519-473-4708 Pumpkin Decorating (family) Ongoing-Dec. 16, 3rd Wed/month, 7-8 pm Oct. 29, Thursday, 6:30 - 7:30 pm Once a month join other guys as we talk Register starting Oct. 1 about your favourite books and read some

Decorate your own pumpkin to take home. new ones too! Every month make a new Storytimes are offered here! Search Wear your costume for a costume parade alternative, creative creation. “Storytimes” in our online program database throughout the library. or pick up a Storytime flyer for details. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Book Club (11-14)

Pom Pom Critters PA Day Craft Ongoing - Dec. 22, 4th Tues/month, 7-8 pm Chess Club (8+) Nov. 6, Friday, 10:30 am-noon Come to the library meet new people, make Ongoing-Nov. 24, Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 pm. Design and build your own pom pom critters. a craft and talk about cool books starring Learn to play or improve your chess game. some amazing girls! Our instructor, Steve Demmery, Master, from PA Day Movie the London Chess Club will be on hand to Nov. 6 & 13, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Teen Theatre (12-19) assist all players. Boards and playing pieces Come in and watch a recently released Ongoing-Dec. 19, 3rd Sat/month, 2-4 pm provided. movie on our big screen! Call the branch to Bring a friend and come to the library to

see what’s playing. watch a movie on the big screen! Call 519- Westmount Community Playgroup (0-6) 473-4708 to find out movie title. Ongoing-Dec. 10, Thursdays Reading Rocks: The World of Science! 10-10:50 am & 11am-noon Nov. 7, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm Locker Organizer The Ontario Early Years Centre (OEYC) Fun, interactive and hands-on activities for Sept. 12, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm hosts a drop-in playgroup every Thursday school-aged children and their families to Get organized for back to school! Create morning at Westmount. Join Deb for games, celebrate and encourage reading together. your own personalized locker organizer. crafts, songs and rhymes as well as valuable There will be games, crafts, books, food and resources on parenting. This program is run prizes, so drop in for this special event. in conjunction with library storytimes. Sponsored by EDPRO Energy Group Inc.

Call 519-521-5921 for more information.

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Research Help for Teens Euchre on Fridays Ontario Genealogical Society Nov. 28, Saturday, 2:30-3:30pm. Ongoing, 2nd & 4th Fri/month, 2-4 pm Ongoing, 1st Tues/month, 7-9 pm Register starting Nov. 1 Make Westmount your location for relaxing Everyone is welcome to attend the meetings Don’t know where to start when your afternoon games of Euchre every second of the London & Middlesex County Branch teacher assigns a research project or and fourth Friday of the month. Playing of the Ontario Genealogical Society. Sept: essay? Not finding what you need on the cards provided. Making Power Point presentations for internet? In this hands-on session, learn to Genealogy presentations, Oct: Genealogy search a variety of databases at the library Library Orientation Tours and Youth, Nov: Producing family history to find online, full text articles in magazines, Ongoing, 2nd Sat/month, 11 am-noon books, Dec: Christmas Banquet journals and encyclopedias. We offer a friendly tour of the Westmount library to help you find what you’re looking Robert Q & Westmount Library Travel Talks Geocaching at Westmount for and see what services are available for Ongoing -Nov. 18 Ongoing-Dec. 19, 3rd Sat/month, 9-10 am you or your group. 3rd Wed/month, 7:30-9 pm Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting Travel and tour information from Robert Q game in which the participants use a Global Book and a Movie Club Travel. Sept: Exploring Jamaica, Oct: River Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other Ongoing, 1st Sat/month, 1:30-4 pm Cruising, Nov: Hawaii Island. navigational techniques to hide and seek Read a book and watch the movie containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) adaptation. Books available at the library. Ancestry Library.com anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a Ongoing, 1st Sat/month, 2-3 pm small waterproof container containing a Macintosh Computer User Group (Muglo) Anyone who is interested in learning how to logbook and “treasure,” usually toys or Ongoing, 3rd Tues/month, 7-9 pm research his or her family tree is invited to trinkets of little value. Today, well over If you have questions about Macintosh join us for a demonstration of the library 480,000 geocaches are registered on computer systems, drop in and ask the group. database: www.ancestrylibrary.com. various websites devoted to the sport. Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 Movies from Around the World Are you a Luddite? countries around the world and on all seven Ongoing, 2nd & 4th Sat/month, 2-4 pm Ongoing, 4th Sat/month, 11 am-noon continents, including Antarctica and Join us for some international entertainment. Does technology have you confused? Westmount Library. Westmount Please phone the library for movie titles one Check out Westmount’s Are you a Luddite co-ordinates: N 42° 55.5’ W 81°16.542’ week before the showing 519-473-4708. program. The only program which tries to help make sense out of technology related Be a Book Critic Networking Club to the information age. No Dec. session. Ongoing-Dec. 31, during Library hours Ongoing, 1st & 3rd Fri/month, 2-3 pm Have you ever read a book review and Searching for work? The networking club Bookcrossing @ Your Library thought, “I can do better than that!” This is shares leads, tips, and advice in a supportive Ongoing, 4th Sat/month, 10-11 am your opportunity to share your opinion about environment for people searching for BookCrossing is a project that tracks the books you have read -- both fiction and non- employment. Refreshments are provided. movement of books that are left in unusual fiction. Give some recommendations to your places. Check out www.bookcrossing.com fellow Westmount patrons and help them United Empire Loyalists (UEL) and come to the library to find out more! avoid the duds. Fill out the book review Ongoing, 2nd Tues/month, 7-9 pm form, give it a thumbs-up or down and hand United Empire Loyalist’s Association, English Conversational Circles it in at the Circulation Desk. Prizes will be London and Western Ontario. Ongoing, Thursdays, 6:30-8 pm awarded on a monthly basis as we Register by calling 519-432-1133 recognize the critical (or amusing) talents of Revisiting Your Youth Adult Book Club Celebrate diversity through friendship and our reviewers. Let us know what you think of Ongoing, 4th Thurs/month, 7-8 pm cultural exchange. All newcomers are books you have read. Ask for a form at the If you enjoyed reading classical and welcome. Call the Cross Cultural Learner Westmount Circulation desk. contemporary books in your youth, join us Centre at 519-432-1133 to participate or to for an informal, relaxed discussion of become a volunteer mentor. Co-sponsor: Community Group Displays at children’s favourites. Books may be picked LCCLC. Funded by Citizenship and Westmount up at the Westmount circulation desk. Immigration Canada. Ongoing, during Library hours If you are a community group and have a Westmount Friday Morning Book Club Knit n’ Stitch display you would like to set up at our Ongoing, 3rd Fri/month, 10-11 am Ongoing, Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm branch, please give us a call. Space is Join us for a lively discussion of current and Looking for time to knit, crochet or stitch? limited if you are looking for a particular date classic fiction and non-fiction titles on the Need some help on your project? Come join please contact the library (519-473-4708) as 3rd Friday of every month. Please pick up the Knit n’ Stitch group at Westmount. soon as possible. current book selection at the meeting or at the Westmount circulation desk. PAGE 30 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 westmount|

Westmount Tuesday Evening Book Club Growing With Our Teens Ontario Public Library Week - Ongoing, 2nd Tues/month, 7-8 pm Oct. 7-Nov. 11, Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Westmount Library Trading Cards Love to read? Want to chat with other book Register at 519-663-5317 ext. 2280 Oct. 20-24, during Library hours lovers? Please inquire about the book A free education and discussion program for October 20-24 is Ontario Public Library discussion group by calling 519-473-4708 Spanish speaking parents of teens. Each Week. With every program you attend this and ask for Sherry. week, a one hour educational session will be week at Westmount, you will receive a followed by an informal discussion with other limited edition Westmount Library Trading Did you know? parents, facilitated by a Spanish speaking Card. There are three cards in the set. Ongoing, 2nd & 4th Wed/month, 2-3 pm counselor and educator. Topics include: Learn about interesting Internet databases communication the teen brain, secondary Ontario Public Library Week - Library Films and web sites. Sept. 9: Catalogue Plus, school information library resources for Oct. 24, Saturday, 2-4 pm Sept. 23: Genealogy, Oct. 14: Hollowe’en, parents, sexual health, immunization and Come and see a special selection of feature Oct. 28: Military History, Nov. 11: Online public health nurse services. This program is films about people who work in libraries. Shopping, Nov. 25: Health and Wellness. offered by the Middlesex London Health Unit in partnership with London Public Library Halloween Movies PAF (Personal Ancestry File) User Group and London’s Spanish speaking community. Oct. 31, Saturday, 10 am-4 pm Sept. 9 & Nov. 11, Wednesday, 7-9 pm Come in and watch some of the classic films Find out how to use the Personal Ancestry Your Library Card is Good for More than of Hallowe’en and be scared. Call the branch File program from the Family History Centre Just Books! for details one week in advance. to track your family genealogy. Oct. 7, Wednesday, 1:30-3 pm Come learn how to access online books, Ist Hussars Military Museum Happy Birthday Westmount! databases, MP3’s, electronic books and Nov. 3-28, during Library hours Sept.19, Saturday, 2-4pm. more at your Library and at home. This Photographs and paintings from the 1st Come and celebrate Westmount’s 7th presentation is part of the Educational Hussars Military Museum, dealing with Birthday! It is hard to believe - we are seven Opportunities for Seniors series London’s oldest military regiment. years old in this location in September. Join cosponsored by CARP London Chapter, the us for some birthday activities and see Council for London Seniors, London Public The World at War Jingles the Clown perform. Library, and Third Age Outreach, St. Nov. 5-19, Thursdays, 7 pm Joseph’s Health Care, London. Westmount Library will be showing history Learning More About Aging films related to Canada’s involvement in the Sept. 16, Oct. 7 & Nov. 25 DVD and Video Swap First and Second World Wars. There will Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 pm Oct. 10, Nov. 28, Saturdays, 1-4 pm also be selected short films from the 1st Join us for an educational series presented Bring in DVDs and VHS tapes that you Hussars Museum. Please call the branch by Central Park Lodge Retirement would like to trade with others. Material in one week before the program date for movie Residence. Public display opens at 6:30 pm, good condition only please. titles. presentations from 7-8 pm followed by a question and answer period. Topics: Sept. Ontario Public Library Week Open House Art Exhibits@Westmount 16: The What, the Why and the When of Oct. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm All exhibits are open for viewing during Medications: Myth Busters, Oct. 7: Stop Library hours. Suffering in Silence: Bladder Health, Nov. Ontario Public Library Week - Booktalks Sept. 1-30 - Ana Tirolese 25: Depression and Delirium: Understanding Oct. 17, Oct. 24, Saturday, 2-4 pm Oct. 1-31 - Pearl Giles the Impact on Older Adults. Call Central Park In celebration of Ontario Public Library Nov. 1-28 - Gail Jongkind & Barbara Ludgate Lodge for more information: 519-434-4544. Week, join the Westmount staff as they present booktalks on favourite books and Fall Plant Exchange authors. Throughout the two hours, each staff Sept. 27, Saturday, 9 am member will share and discuss their picks! Calling all gardeners! Bring in your extra seeds, bulbs, plants and cuttings to exchange Ontario Public Library Week Tours with other gardeners. Please label plants. Oct. 20-24, Daily, 2-3 pm See how the Library works!

• www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 31 |tech talk Introducing... Catalogue Plus • easier, faster, richer results We searched for “dog” and look what we got!!

1,410 titles, 289 titles with “dog” as a subject, and 9 “authors” named dog, mainly musical groups like Three Dog Night and Dr. Dog. We found that 558 are non-fiction, 392 are fiction, 319 are picture books, 241 are compact discs, 149 are videos, 81 are easy reader, 67 are large print, 44 are musical scores, 39 are word cassettes, 38 are audio books, 37 are word CDs, 15 are kits, 3 are general EBooks, 2 are programs and 2 are magazines or periodicals. We’ll leave it to you to explore this page, learn more from the e-tutorial online, or just to try it out yourself at http://catalogue.londonpubliclibrary.ca/ • Availability: Easily discover what’s “at the library” or “online” • Place: Find materials related to a particular place in the world • Related Searches: Select a new search from a “cloud” of suggested related topics • Existing Holds: See immediately the status of holds on a particular title • Link out to Google Maps: See where the library branch is located by clicking on the Branch link. • Click on the Library’s Logo to get back to where you started • Single Account Login between Catalogues: Login into My Account in either Catalogue Plus or the Classic Catalogue and you are logged into both and can also place holds and access the Research Pro databases without having to login again!

PAGE 32 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 spotlight| Watch for more great additions to the catalogue: Reading Rocks on... • E-Commerce!! Through My Account, you’ll be able to pay fines online, pay for programs or tickets when you register or make a donation. • Visual/Kid’s Catalogue

Last winter, the Library began a series of family literacy events called Reading This is the result of a Catalogue Plus Rocks at 10 neighbourhood libraries. search - a whole lot more that just Built around four themes - In the Wild, titles for you to discover! Includes Eat It Up, Get a Clue and The World new features like Related Searches, of Science - these fun and interactive and more (see story opposite). programs are designed to get families reading together in unique ways.

From science experiments and CSI- type investigations to puzzles and word games, each activity is literacy-based and designed to demonstrate simple and inexpensive ways that families can encourage and develop skills at home. With give-aways and draw prizes, these drop-in programs have proven to be We knew them when... the origins of the Civic holiday she very popular with attendance as high contacted the London Room. Staff Vaughn Martin, Western Mustangs as 85 in some cases. Since January, were able to provide information the Reading Rocks team has delivered team member who enjoyed a shift as showing that the holiday, in the form of 28 of the events to over 1000 kids and celebrity checkout person at the Central a picnic, has been celebrated in London Library last yearduring Ontario Public regularly since 1856, tendng to confirm their families and at each one they Library Week. Vaughn was drafted by the notion that London “invented” the come away brimming with enthusiasm the National Football League earlier Civic holiday! and ideas on how to make them even this year. better. With another 12 planned before Max Trower who works at the Central year end, the Library looks forward to Library as a student page, was captain welcoming even more families. of the Central Secondary School Reach for the Top team which won the It was just one year ago that EDPRO National championship . The students Energy Group Inc. generously pledged won a trophy, medals, many books, to support this family literacy initiative $1,500 entrance scholarships to the at the Library for 5 years and as we University of Western Ontario and “a look ahead to planning more Reading lot of glory,” Trower said. Rocks events, we thank them for their It’s nice when a leading authority turns help. to the Library for help! When Gail Julie Brandl, Kudelik of the Canadian Encyclopedia Children and Youth was looking for infromation about Services Coordinator • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 33 |friends

Annual General Meeting

7 pm, Wednesday, September 30 Central Library Stevenson & Hunt Room with Mary Rubio & Elizabeth • 519-661-2448 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca Waterson, Registered Charitable #: 89347 2886 RR0001 authors of The YOUR EXECUTIVE Selected Journals Past Co-Presidents: Secretary: Newsletter Editor: A Book for of L.M. Suzanne O’Neill, Peter Geigen-Miller Len Carey Every Child®: Montgomery. Connie Sullivan Library Board Liaison: Booksale Gail Turpin President: Gina Barber Coordinator: Speaking with Friends: All welcome! Carmen Sprovieri Director, LPL: Don Menard Carmen Sprovieri Vice-President: Margaret Mitchell Library Store Receptions: Don Menard Membership: Co-Managers Karen Payne Holiday campaign begins Treasurer: Joan Sheffield Jackie Looper November 7 Mike Queale Pat Dunsire The 2008 A Book For Every Child® A traditional event for campaign was a great success. London and area book Record setting financial donations were lovers, the Friends’ Book received, thanks in part to the staff Sale attracts thousands each year and benefits the at Westerns’ bookstores. Over 5500 community as well in terms London children were given new books of support for London because of such generosity. Public Library. The 2009 holiday campaign runs Nov. 7 We expect to have a wide to Dec. 19 and we’re expecting another variety of material, great year. However, it’s never too early including many vintage or too late to make book donations. items from the children’s One kind Londoner has already donated collection, items related to more than 150 new books. Studies local history and even some indicate that children who own books vinyl recordings. are more likely to grow up to be readers. Perhaps your gift of a book or We are always interested in acquiring more materials for sale in either the Library financial donation to A Book For Every Store or at the annual sale. If you’re downsizing your collection, please contact the Child® will be the magic key to a Friends for information about where to take items you no longer need or want. If the life-time of literacy for a child. volume is large we can assist in picking them up. Don Menard, Booksale Coordinator Gail Turpin Lend a hand at the Book Sale! Whether you have volunteered for years Interested?? ? or want to try something new, we would love to have your help in making the Please contact me by e-mail at 2009 Book Sale another huge success. [email protected] or leave a clear concise message on Friends’ Hotline We’re looking for help with the 519-661-2448. Scheduling begins in Thursday morning set-up as well as the September and I am looking forward to days of the sale. Families are welcome hearing from you. and students may use this event for their Connie Sullivan community service hours.

PAGE 34 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 community connections| Plain old-fashioned family fun at Beacock ... Family Fun Day at the Beacock Branch Library was a huge success with about 150 participants. In partnership with LUSO Community Services and NELCE (Northeast London Community Engagement) the Library helped provide a free BBQ, games, scavenger hunts, multi-cultural storytimes, face painting, an obstacle course, music from 97.5 EZ Rock, registration for the summer reading program, crafts, and Jingles the clown with balloon animals.

Adult literacy programs get provincial boost... People involved in Literacy London’s one-to-one program, which takes place every Tuesday at Beacock Branch, were certainly at the right place at the right time as London North Centre MPP Deb Matthews dropped into announce $560,000 worth of funding for London area literacy programs, part of the provincial government’s $25 million total package. Last year, Literacy London helped 149 people upgrade their skills and improve their lives. With a core funding increase of 46%, from $105,000 to $152,825, Executive Director Irene Wilmot said “Now, we’ll be able to make a much bigger impact in our community by helping more people to keep their jobs or to get jobs, given the current economic conditions. Of course, we will continue to assist people with the skills involved in everyday All literacy programs in London, including Literacy London’s one-on-one program received reading and writing, but our focus will additional funding - Collège Boréal, the Catholic and Thames Valley school boards, Nokee be employment.” Kwe, Fanshawe College and the CNIB.

Academic All-Stars bring summer math success... Learning loss over the summer can be how to do integers and ratios as I am a problem for many students as they going into grade 6.” leave the books behind for summer fun. LPL’s TD Summer Reading Club helps Students benefited from the one-on-one address the reading issue, and this year attention from the instructors, but also at Westmount Branch, there was a free from the group learning with their peers. 5-week Summer of Success Math One student, Christine, said “I liked program to curb the loss of math skills. how they helped you when you didn’t understand a question.” Instructors Matt and Hector, from Academic All-Stars London, taught 20 Academic All-Stars London provides students between grades 6 to 8, concepts educational coaching and tutoring to in such areas as fractions, geometry and the London area covering the majority statistics. One of the students was very of subjects for kindergarten through to happy with her new skills: “now I know university and college students. • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 35 program alerts|

Small Biz: Eden & Feinstein give talk on Photo: Book of War, 1st century CE, Cave 11, 1956. Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Learn from the experts Energy Medicine October 20 Four of London’s leading small Donna Eden, who has been described business experts return to the Library as the world's most sought, most October 20 to conduct a free, joyous, and most authoritative ROM scientist to speak on full-day series spokesperson for energy medicine, Dead Sea Scrolls of talks to get and David Feinstein, Ph.D., a clinical The Royal Ontario Museum in you started in psychologist, pay a visit to the Central Toronto is hosting a display of many business. When Library’s Wolf Performance Hall 6 to rarely and never-before-seen Dead asked if they 8 pm, October 20. Eden’s abilities as Sea Scrolls and artifacts, one of the would be willing a healer are legendary. She has taught greatest archaeological finds of the to donate their some 50,000 people worldwide how 20th century until January 3, 2010. expertise again, to understand the body as an energy Among the texts are some of the these mentors system. Her book, Energy Medicine, earliest records of biblical patriarchs didn’t hesitate. is the classic in its field, available in and prophets known to Judaism, “Wouldn’t miss it” said more than a dozen languages. Feinstein Christianity and Islam. one. “Count me in” said another. It is the author of The Promise of Energy sounds as if they enjoy teaching as Psychology: Revolutionary Tools for Join Dr. Robert Mason, an much as we enjoy learning. Dramatic Personal Change and The archaeological scientist from the Mythic Path: Rituals for Living and ROM, on September 23 as he gives John Anagnostou of the Small Dying. an illustrated presentation on the Business Centre helps you answer the Dead Sea Scrolls. No tickets are question “Have I got what it takes?”. Come and learn how to restore required. Dennis Ensing from TechAlliance your energy, sharpen your memory, looks at “Financing from the ground strengthen your immune system and As a special bonus, the ROM is up” and Carmen Gicante, also from increase an overall health with a providing a $5 discount on timed- TechAlliance addresses “Marketing 5-minute daily routine. No tickets or entry tickets bought online to see for success”. Finally, David Canton of registration required. the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, and for Harrison Pensa discusses “Legal issues general admission to the ROM. To for small business.” Register online, at take advantage of the offer, see “Buy any Library branch or by calling Attracting Peace your tickets online” from www.rom. (519) 661-5122. 7-9 pm, Sept. 21 on.ca/ - General Admissions, and type in the discount code: LPLROM. ERC hosts Careers in Uniform Information Session The Employment Resource Centre at Crouch Branch is being invaded at 10 am, Saturday October 3 by How to create a disease-free future the Ontario Brian Clement, PhD, LNC, a leading Provincial expert in the natural health field and Police, London internationally renowned speaker comes Police Services, to the Wolf Performance Hall at 6 pm, September 10. London Fire This year’s event includes the award- Department, Royal He explores 50 years of clinical research Canadian Mounted Police. winning film The Day After Peace, by and human experience on the subject of the Canadian Forces and London- Jeremy Gilley which chronicles his ten disease prevention and life extension. Middlesex Emergency Services. year journey to establish a world-wide, Dr. Clement has dedicated his life’s UN-designated, official day of ceasefire work to educating Don’t be alarmed by the police vehicle and non-violence. Following the film is and helping others parked outside. It’s all part of an a guided meditation aimed at Attracting maintain youth, innovative program to showcase career Peace, on International Peace Day, vitality, and options within local community service September 21, because one day of stamina. Come, organizations. peace is a great first step. Please join listen, ask your us, along with millions of others around questions, become No tickets or registration are required - the world, in celebrating. enlightened! just drop in between 10 am and noon. No tickets required. PAGE 36 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 a look back|

Pond Mills helps Summerside celebrate!

Parade fun translates to more world language books Look for more children’s materials in world languages as a result of the collaboration of the Library and Whemton Productions to produce the first Carnival Parade event. Parade partcipants included members of several cultural organizations, and a Library precision book cart team disguised as a very hungry caterpillar. Two weeks later, There was no doubt what was being donated world-language books were celebrated at the Pond Mills Branch Booth offered for sale at the Central Library. The parade ended at Victoria Park where in the Summerside area June 27! Along there were activities for the whole family. with a guessing contest and Wii games, participants got ready for Canada Day. crafts were very popular! Tail-wagging good tales...

You are invited to attend the London Reads Literary Lunch with William Neil Scott, author of this year’s winner, WONDERFULL , Joan Barfoot and Joseph Kertes to celebrate our community reading program. What do Misty (Lab), Sandy (Sheltie) participate in the “DogTales” program. Noon - 2 pm and Igor (Pug) have in common? They The program gives shy or reluctant November 12 all enjoy visiting the library and having readers the opportunity to read aloud to Museum London, children read to them! a trained therapy dog (and handler) in a Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth relaxed and non judgmental atmosphere. Community Gallery These dogs and their owners are part The dogs are very accepting of all Tickets are $50 and include lunch and a book selection of the St. John Ambulance Therapy readers - sometimes they are asked to from the 2009/10 Dog program. The dogs are trained and help sound out difficult words! London Reads shortlist. specifically assessed to be able to work with children in a “one-on-one” setting. There’s also time for the children to During July and August, these three interact with the dogs. Igor loves to therapy dog teams visited the Sherwood demonstrate his tricks, Misty prefers and Central Children’s libraries to hugs and pats, and Sandy loves to cuddle! • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 37 |the last word

by Dave Carley

I grew up in Peterborough, Ontario and I took steps. My brother - I won’t and the library of my youth was a name him because he is a respectable noble, Carnegie structure in the main professional now - was older and tougher Playwright Dave Carley was LPL’s Writer-in-Residence downtown square. The library faced the and he’d stand at the head of that 9 am from October 2008-April, 2009. cenotaph and was flanked by a United lineup and hold the boys back, cuffing Church and City Hall. The YMCA was and restraining the competition as long Folks joining the Friends often write kiddy-corner. Legislation, a liberal God, as possible. Taking advantage of the half of the impact the books had on their healthy bodies, heroic sacrifice and minute head-start, I’d dash up the stairs lives, and their joy in reading them as books – all within spitting distance. and grab the books we wanted that week. children. We got a letter from a fella Sometimes I could do all that before the As you might expect in a hockey-mad living in southwestern Ontario and other lads had even begun their ascent. I his opening lines went something like town settled by brawling Irish, my was fast and literate. first encounters with the library were this: “I loved the books but never got violent. On Saturday mornings, the to read the entire series. I grew up in young boys of Peterborough (or at least The children’s Peterborough and there was this tough those of a reading bent) hopped on their department was up kid who beat the crap out of us while CCMs and Raleighs and beat it down four flights of stairs and his skinny little brother ran up the to the library. We were unchaperoned; stairs and hogged all the good titles.” parents in those days did not helicopter when finally the their offspring and were probably librarian unlocked the It is a cliché perhaps to describe only too happy to get rid of them on a the public library as a beacon of a Saturday morning. door, we’d fly by civilized society but it’s one of those her and up. true cliches, except perhaps at the We would arrive at the library just children’s door to the Peterborough before 9 am and assemble in a jostling Flash forward a couple of decades. In branch. London is, of course, a much queue at the side door. The children’s the mid-1980s I discovered that my more evolved burg than Peterborough department was up four fights of stairs beloved Freddy books were out of but, nevertheless, you might want to and when finally the librarian unlocked print. A librarian in Toronto told me she elbow your way into the children’s the door, we’d fly by her and up. was trying to keep her last copies in department and take out a Freddy or circulation by binding them with hockey two. Your children will thank you There was urgency. At that time, a tape - how Canadian was that? The but if you don’t have any kids handy, great many of us were addicted to a author’s widow sent me the names of not to worry. You’re never too old to series of novels about a talking pig, the some fans, and I wrote to them, hoping pack your imagination and travel into “Freddy” books, by Walter R. Brooks. to informally trade copies. ‘The Friends another world… and there’s no better The 26 volumes detailed the adventures of Freddy’ was formed. And then, like guide than the Freddy books, and no of a clever pig and a cast of unsavoury Topsy, it “grewed”. There are now over better tour bus than your library. humans. Due to demand, we were 500 members in Friends of Freddy restricted to two Freddys per week, not internationally; we have conventions nearly enough to satisfy the habit. In every other year in Brooks’ home turf fact, the furious competition meant we in upstate New York; and, best of all, were in danger of not getting any books Overlook Press has reprinted the entire at all, let alone the particular volumes series in hardcover. Many of these are we craved that week. So my brother available at London Public Library. PAGE 38 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 Community Borrowing Late Charges Periods London Public Library has a policy of Outreach Books & paperbacks 21 days collecting late charges on overdue • Meeting room rentals Bestsellers 14 days materials to encourage prompt return. Central Library ~ 519-661-5120 CDs 21 days Overdue materials are charged on a (8:30 am-5:30 pm, Mon-Fri) High demand materials 7 days calendar day basis, including Sunday, Branches ~ call location for rates Information file material: at all locations. An electronic or phone & availability. Central Branch 7 days message will be left about overdue items 6 days after the due date. • Distribution of community materials all other locations 21 days NOTE: Give us your e-mail address (for cultural, educational, non-profit/ Magazines 21 days and we’ll send you a notice before your charitable organizations) Quick Picks 7 days materials are due! Drop materials off at the Welcome Videos/DVDs 7 days

Desk, Central Library during regular Downloadable books 14 days per item max. per day per item hours for distribution to Library ADULT MATERIALS locations. Materials will be posted Renewals only if space is available - staff will DVDs, Quick Picks Materials may be renewed try to accommodate as many requests & bestsellers $ 2 $ 10 as possible. • in person, at any Library All other materials 30¢ $ 9 • on-line through “My Account” in our CHILDREN’S MATERIALS Interlibrary catalogue: DVDs & bestsellers $ 1 $ 6 www.londonpubliclibrary.ca All other materials 15¢ $ 6 or call 519-661-4600 Loan SENIOR CITIZENS (65+) • limit of 3 renewals You can borrow materials from many DVDs, Quick Picks other library systems through the • 7-day materials & items with holds & bestsellers $ 2 $ 10 Library’s Interlibrary Loan service. cannot be renewed All other materials 15¢ $ 6 Visiting Library Returns You may return materials to any London Service Public Library - not just the one from starting September 8, 2009: Anyone unable to use standard library which they were borrowed. Even when we’re closed, material return chutes facilities may request home delivery by Monday - Thursday calling 519-661-6444. Visiting Library are open for your use. Please check to 10 am - 6 pm Service also oversees the distribution of make sure that video or CD cases are not Friday 10 am - 5 pm CNIB “Talking Books”. empty! Saturday 10 am - 4 pm Employment Resource Centres London Public @ your Library Library Board Meets on Thursday evenings once a Call, or e-mail us a question: Looking for employment? We are here month in the Central Library Board [email protected] to help! Employment Resource Centres, Room (unless otherwise noted). staffed with facilitators, are located in Public session begins at 5:30 pm six Library locations to assist with A facilitator can help you proof and Chair: Councillor David Winninger your job search. This service is a joint format your resumes and cover letters, Vice-Chair: Jan Lubell initiative of Employment Ontario and print up to ten copies, and guide you Members: London Public Library. with web-based job searching. Controller Gina Barber Councillor Nancy Branscombe Beacock Branch 519-661-5100 x7415 Jerry Colwell Central Library 519-661-5100 x5834 Gloria Leckie Crouch Branch 519-661-5100 x7420 Svetlana MacDonald Jalna Branch 519-661-5100 x7425 Josh Morgan Pond Mills Branch 519-661-5100 x7430 Joanne Tilley Westmount Branch 519-661-5100 x7435

• www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009 PAGE 39 Locations Hours Central & Children’s Mon. 9 am-9 pm Tues. 9 am-9 pm Wed. 9 am-9 pm Thurs. 9 am-9 pm Fri. 9 am-6 pm Sat. 9 am-5 pm

Beacock, Byron, Cherryhill, Crouch, East London, Jalna, Landon, Masonville, Pond Mills, Sherwood, Westmount Tues. 9 am-9 pm Wed. 9 am-9 pm Thurs. 9 am-9 pm Fri. 9 am-6 pm Sat. 9 am-5 pm Glanworth Tues. 7-9 pm Sat. 10 am-noon Carson, Lambeth, & Northridge Tues. 1-5 & 6-9 pm Wed. 9-noon & 1-5 pm Thurs. 1-5 & 6-9 pm Fri. 9 -noon & 1-5 pm Sat. 9 -noon & 1-5 pm

Sunday Service - TBA

Ramped, level or elevator access to Library materials is available at all locations except Glanworth.

Get a Card! Get in Touch! Library cards are free to residents of • Library information: 519-661-4600 London, and to members of county • TTY: 519-432-8835 libraries in Elgin, Middlesex & Oxford, • fax: 519-663-9013 Produced by the Marketing & except Woodstock & Tillsonburg. • mail: 251 Dundas St. Development Department London, ON N6A 6H9 Christina Nurse, Cards are issued on presentation of Marketing Manager personal identification and proof of London or county residency, as detailed Meeting room rentals Comments? • Central Branch ~ 519-661-5120 Advertising inquiries? above. Non-residents may obtain a Please contact Library card for a fee of $25/year. • All other branches ~ call location for rates & availability Lynda Kirkham, Editor Visitor’s cards cost $5/month, to a 519-661-5121 maximum of $25. [email protected] Report loss of a Library card immediately, Graphic Design: Betty Lueddeke just as you would a credit card. The 519-661-5100 x5118 Replacement Card fee is $5 for adults ISSN 0710-0132 Vol. 19, # 3 and $3 for children & seniors. www.londonpubliclibrary.ca PAGE 40 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2009