Junior Board Cancer Resource Library newsletter

Library Location April 2014 The Junior Board Cancer Resource Library(JBCRL) is located off the lobby in the East Wing of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute (Room 1106) on the Christiana Hospital campus Hours & Contact Want to borrow books, CDs, DVDs? Monday through Friday 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM 302-623-4580 Stop in today! e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.christianacare.org/cancerlibrary Join the library for free with your picture ID.

Mark Your Calendar al New! in He g Poetry Writing Workshop I n 2 & Reading s e page p its se i ion K Wed. May 28 rat & Wed. June 4 pg. 3 for details New Clinical Books Cancer drug design and discovery 2nd ed. Evidence-based anti-cancer materia medica New Books 100 questions and answers about biliary cancer The anti-breast cancer cookbook Artful bras: a quilt guild’s fight against breast cancer The “CAN” in cancer The diarrhea dietitian Emotional support through breast cancer: the alternative handbook Fast facts: skin cancer Healthy eating during chemotherapy Juices & smoothies: 150 irresistible recipes Just get me through this: a practice guide to coping with breast cancer The prostate cancer revolution 1 New! Healing Ongoing. Healing Inspiration at the Library: Creative Journaling Inspiration Kits We have created several kits available to We now have over 25 participants in this check-out by library members. Some kits ongoing activity. On Thursday, May 1 from include coloring pages or 5:00-6:30 p.m. we will have a casual blank coasters that can be get-together for participants in the program kept. The kits can also who want to share their journaling include workbooks, cards, experiences. Refreshments will be colored pencils, crayons served in the Junior Board Cancer or pens th at are Resource (JBCR) Library. borrowed. Please RSVP by April 29 to Some of the kits are: 302-623-4580 or email [email protected] Creative awakenings: envisioning the life of You can come by the JBCR library to your dreams through participate in Distance Creative art Journaling . Participants can pick up general ideas for starting a creative Creative coloring journal. Also pick-up journaling prompts kits: healing inspira- to inspire alternative ways to respond to tion from the library thoughts, dreams, fears and feelings. Healing cards: a daily practice for maintaining spiritual balance Creative journaling is a way of recording your experiences using a variety of The Zentangle: untangled workbook creative outlets.

This journaling activity was developed by Wendy Wallace, Healing Through Art teacher.

Photography On Display Come see the photos of lighthouses by award winning photographer, Gary Walter, now on display at the JBCRL. One thing seems common to all human beings: Lighthouses depicted are from New Jersey, Maryland, and Maine. A passion for significance. Mr. Walter is a member of the -Mark Sanborn- Delaware Photographic Society and Photographic Society of America. 2 Thank you tea for our Poetry Writing volunteers Workshop & In April we hosted a thank you tea for our eight volunteers who in 2013 gave about 200 Poetry Reading hours of their time to help with library tasks Do you enjoy poetry? Explore writing poetry and projects. Many of the volunteers are on with Maggie Rowe, award-winning poet and the Christiana Care Junior Board and also teacher at the Cancer Support Community, contribute their time in other areas. on Wednesday, May 28 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in her Poetry of Wellness workshop . The num - Their time and talents are appreciated! ber of participants for this free workshop on May 28 is limited to twelve. Pre-Registration required. All are welcome. To sign-up, call the staff at the Junior Board Cancer Resource Li - brary (302) 623-4580. The workshop will be held in the small conference room of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute’s conference center in the East wing.

The following week, on Wednesday, June 4 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. there will be a poetry reading with Maggie Rowe, other poets and readers. This free event is open to all and reg - Pictured are library volunteers (from l. to r.) Tina Lake, istration is not required. The reading will be Joanne Spence, Louise Senior, and Marie Rule. held in the large conference room of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Selection of poetry and writing books Institute’s conference center in the East wing. Bare root : a poet's journey with breast cancer The cancer poetry project There will be refreshments at both events. Drops of emptiness: songs, chants, poetry from Plum Village Every riven thing by Christian Wiman A healing journey:...personal journaling April is Hope through heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek National Poetry Month It’s probably nothing...a memoir in poems by Miki Myers Living on the margins: See our display of poetry & pick-up women writers on breast cancer a poem for your pocket to celebrate Poems of shadows and light: Poem-in-your Pocket a Wellness Community collection Day Poetic medicine: the healing art of poems The Power of memoir: how to write your Thur. April 24 healing story Radiant: prayer/poems by Diane Scharper The radiation sonnets by Jane Yolen Without: poems by Donald Hall Writing my way through cancer

Junior Board Cancer Resource Library on the web at 3 http://www.christianacare.org/cancerlibrary New Movies An evening at the Improv: the best of the original The Big City (Bengali) : himself Bill Cosby…far from finished Christmas collector’s set: vol. 7 La cage aux folles (French) Last love Matt’s chance New Audio-Visuals Bella Tuscany: music inspired by Tuscany The best of Bill Cosby CD Chocolat: music form the motion picture For now I am winter CD Laugh off stress: laughter yoga exercise DVD Leslie Sansone Walk: walk it off in 30 day DVD Junior Board Cancer Resource Library Moonstruck: music from the motion picture What we can do for you The next step: restorative exercises after breast cancer vol. 1 DVD We can help you, patients, families and Tell my sons: a father’s last letters visitors find reliable , easy to read , CD audiobook multi-lingual consumer health and clinical information on a variety of topics including cancer and other diseases, medications and medical tests, wellness and prevention, Let Us Save You Time! stress management, exercise and nutrition.

Expert Searches of the The collection includes pamphlets , books, clinical & consumer health literature to support health, fitness journals, newsletters, DVDs , CDs, anatomical and patient care & education models and charts.

Contact your The library is free and open to the public . Community Health Librarian 302-733-1122 Two computers with Internet access are [email protected] available.

Pathfinders are available in stands through - out the cancer center, in the library, and online . http://www.christianacare.org/pathfinders

Expert Searches of the clinical and consumer health literature.

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