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QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE July/August 2016 | Volume 2, Issue No. 4 THURSDAY JULY 14, 2016 | 6:00 P.M. QUEENS COLLEGE, COLDEN AUDITORIUM AT KUPFERBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS LEARN ABOUT OUR 65-30 KISSENA BOULEVARD, FLUSHING, NY 11367-1597 NEW AMERICANS PROGRAM Happy & CITIZENSHIP SERVICES CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD Independence LIBRARY AWARD WINNERS! FIND OUT ABOUT OUR DIGITAL SERVICES + MEDIA Day! MEET OUR STAFF! MAY 2015 2 QUEENSLIBRARY.ORG A Message from the President and CEO Even though the summer months are a time for students to relax and enjoy their vacation, they also provide an important opportunity to ensure our children build upon the academic achievements Queens Library Magazine they have worked so hard for during the school A Queens Library Publication year. 89-11 Merrick Boulevard As someone who has spent much of his career Jamaica, NY 11432 in education, I can attest to the problem of the QueensLibrary.org “summer slide,” the learning loss that happens when children at every grade level do not actively Produced by pursue educational activities during the summer. Queens Library When I was New York City Schools Chancellor, the Marketing and Communications Department of Education created several initiatives in conjunction with the Department of Youth and Community Development to address the summer slide. Editors Yves H. Etheart The summer slide is generally estimated at a full month of educational loss, but Joanne King for lower-income children, it can be even greater, with one study suggesting Tabitha Laffernis that they lose more than two months in reading achievement compared to their middle-class peers. Also, educational opportunities for lower-income students are Layout and Design greatly reduced once the school year ends. Jay Eom Mingzhen Li That’s why the Summer Reading Program at Queens Library is so essential. It provides entertaining activities for kids of all ages, motivates them to read as Marketing many books as they can during the summer months, and (like all our programs) Amanda Beekharry is free of charge and close to home. We’re proud to do our part—with our partners at Astoria Bank, the New York Mets, the New York State Library, and the New Production York State Education Department—to meet the challenge of providing continual Vincent Sgaglione education for the children of Queens. Please contact the Editor Families often struggle to find productive activities during the summer, but from with any questions or concerns. Google CS First and Summer Reading to our many events designed for adult and senior customers, we provide something enriching for everyone, six days a week. E-mail [email protected] I hope you have an enjoyable July and August, and that you will spend a large part Phone of the summer with us at the Library! Dennis M. Walcott 718-990-0859 Admission is free to all programs. Some Sign-language interpretation is available Follow us programs require preregistration. Please by request for most library programs. preregister with the library where the event is Call Special Services at least two weeks in facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc taking place, or sign up at queenslibrary.org/ advance at 718-990-0853; TTY 718-990- events if online registration is offered. 0809. Please note that Queens Library will try to accommodate your sign-language twitter.com/queenslibrary Programs are subject to change without interpretation needs; however, this service notice, and some may not appear in this may not be available for all programs. instagram.com/queenslibrary magazine. For the most up-to-date listings, call the library where an event is taking place, All Queens Library locations, with the or go to queenslibrary.org/events. exception of Astoria, Glendale, and plus.google.com/+queenslibrary Queens Village, are fully or partially Get our Biweekly Newsletter, with highlights accessible to the handicapped. For more queenslibrary.tumblr.com of upcoming programs and events, and links details on handicapped accessibility, visit to full listings, in your email inbox. Go to queenslibrary.org or inquire at your local pinterest.com/queenslibrary queenslibrary.org and click on Signup for library. Updates at the top right side of the page. Contents July/August 2016 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE 6 Magazine 2 What’s Happening Now at Queens Library? 3 Don’t Miss Our Great Summer Programs! 4 Cover Story Queens Library Welcomes New Americans 6 Sharing Our Success! Queens Library Wins LibraryAware and NYC Neighborhood Library Awards 7 A World of Enriching Services for You at Queens Library 9 Access More Than 7,000,000 Digital Media Items 10 10 Librarian Profile Ms. Susan’s Silly Stunts Inspire Summer Readers! Queens Library Has the Recipe for This Customer’s Success 11 Congratulations to an Incredible Library Customer! 12 High School Equivalency Students Graduate 13 Connect with Your Police and Your Community During National Night Out! 14 Celebrating 50 Years of Central 16 Our Kids Showed Their Skills at Our Second 14 Annual Spelling Bee! 17 Giving Our Thanks to Our Adult Tutors! 18 Happy National Seniors Day! 19 Sitting Down with Daymond John Events 21 All Ages 30 Adults 41 Mail-a-Book 42 Job & Business Academy (JBA) 46 Other Languages • • • • по русски • 國語 • Español 51 Teens 57 Children 17408-6/16 What’s Happening Now at Queens Library? Need a Necktie? Come to the “Tiebrary” Our Adult Learners are Literary Winners! You can add “a necktie for your next interview” to the long Congratulations to our Adult Learning Center students list of things you can borrow from Queens Library! Use Anchulee Chen, Saima Haque, Shawnia Harry, and Lixia your library card to check out a tie (for up to three weeks) Zhang, whose stories were selected for the latest issue of to wear to job interviews New York University’s Literacy Review, an annual journal and other important of writing from adult literacy programs throughout New events. Each necktie comes York City. ALC students Xiong Xuan and Ginny Zhang also in a box with illustrated had their creative works chosen to be part of Symphony instructions on how to tie a Space’s All Write! Adult Literacy Program. Thanks to the half-Windsor knot and a list instructors at our Central, Elmhurst, and Peninsula ALCs of job interview tips. You for encouraging and nurturing all six of these wonderful can borrow a tie from the writers! ■ “Tiebraries” at our Arverne, Central, Laurelton, and South Jamaica library loca- tions. If you get a job while wearing one of our ties—or would like to donate ties to the Tiebrary program—call us at 718-990-8625. “A Proper Man, as One Shall See in a Summer’s Day:” Shakespeare in Queens Continues Our Shakespeare in Queens series of staged performances presented by TITAN Theatre Company continues with A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Monday, August 1, at 5:30 p.m. at Queens Library at Ridgewood, 20-12 Madison Street. (Weather permitting, we’ll hold that performance outdoors!) Lenny Banovez, Artistic Director of TITAN Theatre Company, Central Adult Learning Center student Saima Haque with her teacher will join us for “Talking Shakespeare,” a behind-the-scenes Mark Mehler. discussion of Troilus & Cressida, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, on Monday, August 8 at 6:00 p.m. at Queens Library at Flushing, 41-17 Main Street. We’re also working on the schedule for Year Two of our Shakespeare in Queens series! For more details, visit queenslibrary.org/shakespeare. Tech Classes and Help for Mature Job Seekers In July and August, our Job & Business Academy at Flushing Community Library will be booming with technology classes. Students can learn computer basics, beginning and advanced Microsoft Office, how to get the most out of social media and Google, and even how to set up an e-commerce business! This summer, you’ll find a class to help you master most job-related technology. And on July 20 and August 24 at Flushing, adults who feel stuck in their job search can come to our “Job Search for the Mature Adult” workshop, where they will learn skills to boost their chances of getting more interviews and the jobs they want. To learn more and Elmhurst ALC student Ginny Zhang with her teacher register, call 718-661-1200 or visit jobmap.queenslibrary.org. James McMenamin. 2 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Don’t Miss Our Great Summer Programs! Summer is truly underway—and Battle of the Bands we want to remind you about all This year, the competition is fiercer than ever, and the best bands in Queens and New York City will rock out at Queens the great free activities at Queens College’s Kupferberg Center for the Arts on Thursday, Library! July 14. Free tickets are available at queenslib.org/ battleofthebands16, where you can also hear songs from our finalists and tell us who you think will win. Whether it’s Summer Reading 2016 jazz, pop, hip hop, or rock, get ready to watch the best bands Visit your community library and pick up book lists and in Queens show what they’ve got! reading logs for adults and children of all ages. You can also visit summerreading.queenslibrary.org to create an online account, see the book selections located there, and track your reading. There are special Summer Reading events at all our library locations; visit the Programs section at queenslibrary.org or check the Events listings in this issue of Queens Library Magazine. Summer Poetry Contest Keep sending us your haikus, limericks, sonnets, and more Booklists for All Ages for a chance to be published in Queens Library Magazine! The theme of our Summer Poetry Contest is “Get in The Game,” and the deadline for submitting your poem of 250 words or less is July 31.