Boardman Road Branch Library Opens April 12
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NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE Th e PAID NEWBURGH, NY PERMIT #2290 Rotunda SPRING 2015 Vol. 15, Issue 3 P OUGHKEEP S IE P UBLIC L IBRARY D I S TRICT E XPLORE • D I S COVER • C ONNECT COMPUTER PRESCHOOLER TEEN CLASSES DE FREE! CLASSES LEARNING CENTER MEDIA LAB ESPANOL PAGE 3 INSERT, PAGE 2 INSERT, PAGE 4 PAGE 8 Boardman Road Branch Library Opens April 12 The story of Poughkeepsie’s public helped celebrate the reopening converted to a single large room libraries begins a new chapter of Adriance Memorial Library with a seating capacity of 125. The on April 12 when the Boardman in October 2009. The library is room features a professional audio Road Branch Library opens its at 141 Boardman Road, between system and devices to assist the Tom Chapin doors for the first time. With four Poughkeepsie Day School and Our hearing impaired. Children will to Perform at program rooms, 30 computers, Lady of Lourdes High School. have their own program room and and more than twice the space of 11 computers, while the teen area Opening the current branch, this beautiful The branch is designed to will feature six computers and new facility will significantly meet popular information and comfortable seating. The spacious The New York Times called increase the Library District’s recreational needs, with an adult property also offers landscaping Tom Chapin “one of the great capacity to serve the community. collection of popular fiction and possibilities, including a children’s personalities in contemporary folk music,” while The celebration will begin at 2 non-fiction books and a complete garden. Come and see for yourself Billboard called him “the best family artist around”. pm with a performance by popular children’s collection. The three on April 12! On Sunday, April 12, starting at 2 pm, Chapin and his folk artist Tom Chapin, who also adult program rooms can be band will help celebrate the opening of the Boardman Road Branch Library. As a music-maker, Chapin has maintained two long and productive parallel careers, as a highly respected contemporary folk artist and as a pioneer in the field of children’s music. In the former role, Chapin has established a reputation for insightful, heartfelt songcraft and charismatic live performances. In the latter, he continues to engage the hearts and minds of young listeners with witty, life-affirming original songs Inside the main entrance Children's program room delivered in an array of musical styles. Front lobby “Writing family music,” he observes, “has been a wonderful course in songwriting. You have a dual agenda: keep it understandable and fun for kids, but well-written and intelligent and musical enough to keep adults listening as well. Within these parameters, we’ve found an enormous amount of topics and approaches and that continue to excite us to keep coming back and doing it again.” Adult wing Meeting rooms Main entrance ORPHAN TRAIN Author to Speak Orphan Train at the New Branch Library Origins As part of our Grand Opening celebrations at the Boardman It is estimated that in New York City Road Branch, the Library District welcomes bestselling author in the 1850s there were no fewer than Christina Baker Kline to Poughkeepsie. Ms. Kline will speak New Monthly 30,000 homeless children. They shared a grim existence, living in the about her book, Orphan Train, on Saturday, April 18, at 2 pm World Affairs city’s streets and slums with little or no hope of a successful future. in the Boardman Greene Room. Discussion These orphans were a result of deplorable living and work conditions. Orphan Train tells the story of foster teen Molly, who is Details on Page 8 performing community service work for the elderly widow, Tenements often housed ten or more persons to a room and as the Vivian. As they go through Vivian’s cluttered attic, Molly number of immigrants increased, jobs became scarce and labor was is surprised to find herself drawn to Vivian’s childhood tale of hardship and cheap. Job safety was not a priority, resulting in many men being displacement as an orphan. The novel is based on historical fact. The Orphan killed in work-related accidents. Diseases from living in unsanitary Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned quarters led to early deaths of overworked mothers. Orphanages were and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster built to care for as many children as possible but youngsters could homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated only be housed as long as an adult could pay for their care. between 1853 and 1929, relocating about 250,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. Charles Loring Brace, the founder of The Children's Baker Kline's Orphan Train quickly became a sensation in Aid Society, believed that by 2014, selling more than 1.5 million copies and giving new life removing these youngsters to Kline’s other novels, Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, from the poverty of the city Desire Lines, and Sweet Water. streets and placing them in farm families, they would Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well have a chance of escaping a lifetime of suffering. He proposed that as in the American South and Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Friends they be sent by train to live and work on farms out west. They would Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow Book Sale be placed in homes for free but they would serve as an extra pair of in Fiction Writing. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English hands to help around the farm. The Orphan Train Movement lasted literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Fordham University, Yale, New April 24-28 from 1853 to 1929. York University, and Drew University. She currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey, Details on with her husband and their three boys. Page 7 Join us on Friday, April 17 at 7 pm, for a screening of the documentary The Orphan Trains (details on page 4). Your Library Today E XPLORE • D I S COVER • C ONNECT BOARD OF Word from On the Hunt TRUSTEES the Director with ARTEMIS PRESIDENT ANNE CONSTANTINOPLE First off, many of you have kidded me that my photo Database Spotlight VICE PRESIDENT looked like the Just for Men version of me and that I had Need a great love poem for your Anniversary? Writing a paper on an author? Interested in MARY E. MOORE photoshopped out my increasingly grey hair. So, here you literary criticism on a particular work? Never fear! Artemis is here… TREASURER will find a more recent photo of me with my hair closer to its actual color (or lack thereof!). TOM MCGLINCHEY The Library District is proud to announce the addition of an exciting new humanities SECRETARY Everything keeps on rolling forward and gets better. We database to our roster of digital resources. The database, called Artemis, is a brand new JOAN NICHOLLS open the Boardman Road Branch Library on Sunday, April offering from the reputable folks at Gale. Named for the Greek goddess who symbolizes CITY OF POUGHKEEPSIE 12 at 2:00 pm with a family concert by Tom Chapin; we new ideas, discovery, power and the hunt, it compiles several popular humanities collections LILA LYNCH celebrate National Library Week with Pete the Cat on (LitFinder, Literature Resource Center and Literature Criticism Online) in one convenient EDNA LYONS Wednesday, April 15 at 6:00 pm at Adriance Memorial search interface. Artemis gives you access to literary works including speeches and plays and FRED TIMM Library; and we conclude that celebratory week with an up-to-date biographical information, literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE appearance by New York Times bestselling author Christina Kline Baker, author of Orphan Train, on Saturday, April GRACE CALELLA Remote access is limited to Poughkeepsie residents with library cards or for anyone at any SONDRA FARGANIS 18 at 2:00 pm at the Boardman Road Branch Library. On time the library is open using one of the reference computers on the main floor. A librarian MARGARET PRESCOTT Friday, April 17 at 7:00 pm at the Boardman Road Branch can personally assist you with this resource while using the reference computer. Online MIRIAM ZIMET-AARON Library, we will explore the orphan train movement with a screening of The Orphan Trains, a PBS/American Experience access is through our database page at the PPLD website. Just go to the Reference tab on the LIBRARY DIRECTOR production. It will be a big week of big events! Please take top and select Online Databases, then look under the Literature subject for the link. TOM LAWRENCE the time to join us in celebration of the opening of the new You can download or email the articles you find as well as listen to MP3 versions of them. branch library as well as National Library Week! VISION Along with our standard fair of outstanding early literacy, THE POUGHKEEPSIE PUBLIC elementary, teen, and adult programs, Spring brings the LIBRARY DISTRICT WILL following to the Library District: New Yorkers HAVE VIBRANT LIBRARIES WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO • An art history lecture series that looks at the news, Support Their BE. IT WILL MEET THE styles, music of the last century’s decades starting with NEEDS OF A DIVERSE AND the 1920s.