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Fall 2009 Feature: Celebrate the Reader| F A L L 2 0 0 9 Feature: 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.
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