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MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM’S QUARTERLY NEWSMAGAZINE SUMMER 2018 | E 2 U ISS | 0 1 E M U L O V PLUS: ★ PROFILE ★ CALENDAR ★ BOOK REVIEW library.marioncountyfl.org words 1 wordsMarion County Public Library’s Quarterly Newsmagazine Volume 10 | Issue 2 | Summer 2018 a Marion County Public Library 2720 East Silver Springs Blvd. word Ocala, Florida 34470 352-368-4507 FROM THE email: [email protected] website: library.marioncountyfl.org DIRECTOR Library Director: Julie Sieg By Julie Sieg Director, Marion County NEWSMAGAZINE STAFF: Public Library System Publisher: The Friends of The Ocala Public Library Editor: Karen M. Jensen Library Community Liaison Salsa, Night Moves Writers: Erin Arnold, Jerome Azbell, and Kenny G Karen M. Jensen, Karen Kociemba, Music frames and memorializes moments in our life. Think about some Ben Hunter, of your most heart-felt memories and you’re likely to associate them to Marian Santiago, a particular song or musician. Think about happy times as a child, your Photos: Pat Lakin angst filled teenage years, your first love or broken heart, singing with your children, or hearing lyrics that really spoke to you when you needed it most. My entire life has been filled with music, from violin in elementary school, ON THE COVER: flute in middle and high school marching and concert band, community Celebrate summer at your public library. orchestra, theatre orchestra and minoring in music in college. Yet even being surrounded by music there are still musical memories that evoke such powerful emotions – a sense of happiness and well-being, nostalgia, and peace, love and contentment. When I was a little girl my dad would pick me up and dance with me to the rhythm of Salsa music. I remember giggling with a sense of joy, feeling like I was a “big girl” and the feeling of love and everything being right with the world. To this day I love the beat of Latin music that takes me back to a carefree, joyous, uninhibited time. Whenever I hear Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band I am taken back to high school and college when I would crank up the volume and rock out to the album “Nine Tonight” and especially Night Moves. His music was my coming-of-age soundtrack. And Kenny G. Twenty years have gone by yet I start swaying just hearing in my mind his gentle, soothing saxophone. When my son was a baby I snuggled him and rocked him to sleep each night to Kenny G, The Moment CD. I can still feel him in my arms as he gradually relaxed into slumber. Take time to appreciate the music and moments that have framed your life. The Marion County Public Library System is a department of the Marion County Board of County Commissioners and is funded by them through general funds. The WORDS newsmagazine is funded by the Friends of the Ocala Public Library, Inc. FIND THE LIBRARY ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER! 2 words Summer 2018 Enjoy A Delicious Summer Break AT YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY BY KAREN M. JENSEN oes this sound familiar? You and your children are enjoying one of the many summer reading Dprograms at your public library. Suddenly, er your little one leans over and whispers those two little Summ words—“I’m hungry!” This summer, that crisis can Summ be averted at many of your area Marion County Public ARY Library System locations. LIC LIBR UR PUB Children and teens 18 and younger can enjoy a AT YO program and a free meal at your public library! Meals, provided by the Shores Assembly of God Church through the USDA Summer Food Service Program/Summer Belleview Public Library Fort McCoy Public Library Break Spot, will be part of the public library’s summer Family Flicks movie Libraries Rock programming beginning in June. See calendar for details programs Tuesdays 10 a.m. See calendar for details In 2017, 1,227 meals were served at several Marion June 5-Aug. 7 Saturdays 1 p.m. County Public Library System locations in conjunction SummerBreak Time: June 16-July 21 Noon- lunch SummerBreak Time: with Pastor Delcamp and his crew of dedicated staff Noon- lunch and volunteers through the USDA approved summer Ventriloquist Mark Wade Freedom Public Library feeding program. When asked about this partnership Sat., June 2 Libraries Rock effort with the Marion County Public Library System, SummerBreak Time: programs Pastor John Delcamp had this to say, “Impacting our Noon- lunch See calendar for details community is only possible when we work together. The Dunnellon Public Library Wednesdays 2 p.m. June 6-July 11 partnership with the Marion County Library System Family Flicks movie SummerBreak Time: allows access to feed the children of our communities a See calendar for details 1 p.m.- lunch Fridays 10:30 a.m. free, hot, nutritious meal at least once a week during the June 8-July 27 Headquarters-Ocala summer months. It also encourages them to engage in SummerBreak Time: Public Library 12:30 p.m.- lunch activities that will impact them for the rest of their lives. Family Film Fest The Marion County Public libraries and the Summer Forest Public Library movies Feeding Program/Summer BreakSpot may only impact Summer See calendar for details Fridays 1 p.m. Cinema movie June 8-July 20 the children in a small way, but it is the little things that See calendar for details produce the biggest results.” SummerBreak Time: Fridays 10 a.m. 12:30 p.m.-lunch The following table is a listing of days, times and June 8-July 20 SummerBreak Time: Reddick Public Library locations at the Marion County Public Library System Noon- lunch where the summer break spot is available. The USDA Libraries Rock programs Summer Food Service program is an equal opportunity See calendar for details provider. Mondays 10:30 a.m. June 4-July 23 SummerBreak Time: For more information, call 352-671-8551, 11:30 a.m.- lunch or visit the public library’s website at library.marioncountyfl.org. library.marioncountyfl.org words 3 Finding Your Groove With Creative Commons Music BY JEROME AZBELL hat music do you turn on when you need to process easy. There are charts of the site’s most popular clean the house, work on an idea, exercise music, along with lots of information on how it can be W or just relax? Odds are, it’s either from a used. If you’re looking for background music for your service you’ve already paid for or another source where latest YouTube video, this is the place to find it. Genres you’re distracted with commercials every few minutes. include everything from sound effects to heavy metal The constant stream of ads or monthly payments may albums, but creating playlists can be a bit clunky. be only a minor annoyance, but it’s the price we pay for For Jamendo, the focus is squarely on individual on-demand music, right? streaming. The company offers some licensing options Creators of royalty-free music disagree. These artists for the music it carries, but any downloads for personal work under Creative Commons, a form of copyright, use are still free. Jamendo really shines when it comes where musicians or “content creators” share their work to streaming, carrying various “stations” for play both freely for playback and remixing. This means that sites in-browser and through their easy-to-use smartphone that only stream Creative Commons music can do so app—which doesn’t require a sign-up. legally and commercial-free. While Creative Commons music is an excellent Several sites that offer free music are linked on the choice for most music lovers, easily-accessible, high- Creative Commons website (www.creativecommons.org); quality recording equipment has led to a wave of new however, the best sources for streaming are definitely independent talent, many who just want to make and the Free Music Archive (www.freemusicarchive.org) and share their music. The open platform of Creative Com- Jamendo (www.jamendo.com). Both of these sites host mons has also meant fewer restrictions on the artists albums, offer downloads and play music in-browser, all themselves. So flip through one of these sites and see for free and without commercials. what royalty-free music can mean. You might just dis- Free Music Archive provides music for video creators cover a new favorite! and remixers, and the site is designed to make that Cover and page art courtesy of publisher(s) and/or author(s). 4 words Summer 2018 book Books That Rock @ The Library! reviews BY KAREN KOCIEMBA rom hearing our first lul- than Bob Dylan who then didn’t laby, attending a symphony, even attend the medal ceremony. For hearing the magic of the We may not all agree on whether Beatles for the first time, music a singer-songwriter should have has been, and is, an important been awarded that prize, but we part of our lives. With such a wide may glean additional thoughts variety of musical genres from by reading “Why Bob Dylan which to choose, there is some- Matters” by Richard F. Thomas. thing for everyone to enjoy. Today Thomas, a Harvard professor, I would like to highlight a selec- who teaches a popular “Dylan 101” tion of books featuring rock and seminar, shares his vast knowl- edge of all things Dylan. his life, and this autobiography is brutally honest about the per- sonal struggles that have shaped his music and that famous song. I recommend listening to this book on audiobook. Bruce narrates his own book, and with that trade- mark raspy voice, I felt like Bruce was sitting next to me sharing his life’s history.