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Get Lots Saddle up... of Free for The Big Read LEARN HOW TO GET THEM page 9 WITHOUT LEAVING HOME Movies page 3 Max, Carmen & Get Zoe enjoy movie night at home Free in Topeka Music DOWNLOAD MUSIC FROM THE LIBRARY page 6 TOPEKA & SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FEBRUARY-MARCH2015 SOCIAL The Library is Open Monday–Friday 9 AM–9 PM | Saturday 9 AM–6 PM | Sunday 12 PM–9 PM Facebook.com/ TopekaLibrary Your library is both a physical place and a digital space. You can access both with your card. It’s your key to entertainment, information, resources and tools you can utilize to enrich your life. Twitter.com/ How to TopekaLibrary Your library card gives you access to a massive collection of books, yes. But it’s also your portal to media, technology and movies. With your card, you can gather the materials that help you learn, play Get a and laugh. Your library card is small, but it is mighty. Flickr.com/ TopekaLibrary Library Get your card at tscpl.org. Youtube.com/ TopekaLibrary Card Pinterest.com/ Ask a 24/7 Library TopekaLibrary Librarian tscpl.org Got questions? Talk to us. Got internet? Then you’ve got the library at home. 580-4400 You can download/reserve books, movies, music text us • 783-0096 or video games. Discover the best new memoirs Goodreads.com/ and novels or find the resources you need to group/show/50549-topeka- email • [email protected] shawnee-co-public-library complete a DIY project. TOPEKA & SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS 2 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015 Free movies Hoopla Free movies! Download Grab the popcorn video direct to your computer or device. Plus, TV shows available. tscpl.org/video MOVIES PICK UP YOUR HOLDS on’t leave the neighborhood. This is not the kind of weather for going out in search of entertainment. & RESERVES AT: D Hy-Vee® The library doesn’t want you to catch cold. The library wants what’s best for you. When you and your family get 2951 SW Wanamaker Rd bored this winter, know this: the library’s got your back Oakland Community Center with new and awesome entertainment. Better yet, we’re 801 NE Poplar St free. Best of all, you don’t have to travel too far from home. Smartlockers make getting your library With Hoopla, all you need to get movies is your library card and an Internet connection. Got it? Ok, let’s get some movies. materials convenient. Select the Smartlocker destination when you Go to hoopladigital.com and enter your library card info. Once reserve your books, music and movies–the items you’re in, you have access to hundreds of thousands of movies check out when you pick them up from the locker. you can stream on your device, desktop or laptop. It’s that simple. And you didn’t even have to lace up your boots to melt your family’s boredom away. Reserve the hottest new titles online and have them delivered to your neighborhood on the Bookmobile. Let us do all the driving when it’s icy or slushy. Or choose to pick your movies up at the HyVee® or Oakland Community Center Smartlockers. Stay warm with library entertainment. It’s going to be a cozy winter after all. TOPEKA & SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS 3 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015 Book Club101 et a gang of friends together and start gabbing about books Gright away. Reserve a Book Group in a Bag kit. Walk into your next group meeting fully prepared, 10 copies of a book and discussion resources slung over your shoulder. There are so many books to choose from, including hot new titles, classics and everything in between. Your group gets to keep them for 6 weeks. Reserve any title up to a year in advance. Plan to overlap your reservations; you can distribute the next book and collect the last book at the same meeting. To view available books and make a reservation, go to bgib.tscpl.org and get your group all set in a matter of minutes. ook, Book, Goose! is a book club that meets at the Tell us what Bbar. It provides a unique atmosphere for a lively discussion exploring the world of interesting literature, you need authors, fun people, good food and monthly book- Beer & Books themed drink specials. You and your book-loving adult How do you get friends are invited to share your impressions, opinions, information from us? celebrations and experiences with moderator Amber Think about when you’ve Bonnett (contact at [email protected] for the current needed info and decided to titles) and other spirited characters the first Thursday of use the library to find it. Share every month. The club meets at one of Topeka’s oldest your experience by completing neighborhood bars, the Dutch Goose Sports Bar and our online survey. Grill, 3203 SW 10th Ave. Sample questions R How do connect with the library R What information do you want R A researcher’s BFF Are you satisfied with the library t’s 10 p.m., and you’re still looking for the perfect article for your psychology class paper that addresses the topic, Why men and Iwomen prefer certain hair colors. You could drive to the university, or with your library card, you can access Academic Search Provide your answers at: Premier at tscpl.org. Type in hair color and you’ll find an extensively researched 15-page scholarly article with numerous references. tscpl.org/survey You can download, email or print the article in full-text. Academic Search Premier contains over 4,700 journals. Check out this, and other databases available at your library: tscpl.org/research/databases. TOPEKA & SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS 4 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015 Want to start a small business? Terry can help with that. The library: [email protected] The best place to get a book! ook, it’s 2015. We’re over the Dewey Decimal System. Well, admittedly, we’re not entirely Lover Dewey. But we’ve devised an ingenious system to make it more easy to browse through thousands of books without having to yank open a cabinet or even look up a title on the catalog. It’s called neighborhoods. Neighborhoods make the library more like a book store. You will find your favorite subjects grouped together in sections by genre and interest at the library. Are you a craft-a-holic? Good news—all the best books about crafting are located in one place. Let a colorful cover pull you in, and flip through the pages a bit. Tuck it under your arm as you breeze through the exit, assured that this is the one that will inspire you. The book won’t cost you a cent. But you’ve still had the beauty of the bookstore moment. Want to start your spring garden this winter? Whatever your interest, we’ve got it covered. Get into the library and start doing stuff. Erin can help with that. Cook, garden, exercise, budget, find your newest fascination. Wandering through our [email protected] Neighborhoods can be the beginning of the next chapter of your life. Health ■ Cooking ■ Lawn & Garden ■ Pets ■ Home Visit the Collectibles ■ Arts & Crafts ■ Sports & Leisure ■ Weddings Neighborhoods Jobs & Careers ■ College & Testing ■ Adult Learner Divorce ■ Money ■ True Crime ■ Travel Want to get to know your great- great-great grandpa? Sherri can help with that. [email protected] TOPEKA & SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS 5 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015 Freegal Music to your ears! Download 4 free music tracks each week. Warning: Sundays will soon become your most rockin’ day. ways to get music tscpl.org/music 2 MUSIC Zinio From Cosmo to Runner’s World, check out hundreds of magazines online. Take all your favorites with you when you travel. 3 tscpl.org/magazines s the album dead? Google it, and, yes, there’s quite a bit to your music library. There are so many songs to choose Iof speculation that the lengthy song progression of the from in every genre you can imagine (and even some you traditional album has gone the way of the land line and box- can’t). It’s entertaining in itself to browse and choose your shaped television sets. weekly songs. topeka.freegalmusic.com Sure, some people still cling to the old ways, but most up- For the geezers and the geezers-at-heart, the library’s got a and-coming generations are downloading straight to their great collection of good ol’ fashioned albums in CD format. devices, one song at a time. Hit shuffle, listen to an array of Cruise our catalog for classic and new albums. We’ve got genres and artists in no particular order: it’s the new way everything from Alternative to Zydeco. tscpl.org/catalog to listen to music. Thankfully, your library has both the old school and the new school covered. With Freegal, enter your MAGAZINES library card information and download 4 free songs a week TOPEKA & SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS 6 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2015 How to Donate The Library Books Foundation 2015 Friends of the Library he Library Foundation is key to its Tis busy supporting the success. Our onating books and other items to the Topeka and Shawnee County new chair DFriends of the Library makes a huge Public Library by completing is Becky impact on the library. Thank you! a very successful 2014 annual Holmquist, Before items can be transformed into fundraising campaign. a vice- easy steps financial support, our tireless Friends president at volunteers must clean, sort and shelve.