SOUTH SIOUX CITY VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 PUBLIC LIBRARY JUNE, 2014 South Sioux City Public Library

Special Points of Interest: • Iowa and the Afterlife • Adult Programs: Literary Elements • E-books and Summer Reading Go Together • Staff Recommendations

“IOWA GHOSTS AND THE AFTERLIFE” The South Sioux City Pub- investigated by Mr. Coast AM (nationally syndi- lic Library is proud to bring Fisk. He will share photos, cated with 20 million listen- Terry Fisk to the library on case histories, eyewitness ers). Saturday June 14th at 3:30 accounts, and lore. p.m. for “Iowa Ghosts and the Afterlife. Fisk co-hosted The Unex- plained radio talk show, Fisk discusses his confron- directed The Unexplained tations with the famous television series, lectures at skeptic and James conferences Randi. He also describes throughout the US, and has his ghost investigations co-authored seven popular with world-renowned me- books. dium Allison DuBois (the real-life inspiration for the Fisk has been interviewed hit CBS series, Medium) and featured on numerous Terry Fisk and Chip Coffey radio and television pro- (from TV’s Paranormal grams including Scariest State and Psychic Places on Earth (ABC Fam- Kids). This session exam- ily Network), Dakota Life ines some of the haunted (SD Public Broadcasting Inside this issue: locations in Iowa personally and RFD-TV), and Coast to Meet the Staff 2

Youth Activities 2 NEW FICTION (HORROR) Adult Programs 3 • The Winter People by Jen- • The Abominable: a novel by Karen Robards nifer McMahon Dan Simmons • Ghost Gone Wild by Caro- New Audiobooks/ 3 • Thirty Girls by Susan Minot • The Ghost of Mary Celeste lyn Hart DVD’s/Music CD’s by Valerie Martin • Joyland by Stephen King • Deeply Odd: an Odd Tho- The Military Family 3 mas novel by Dean R. • Steeped in Evil by Laura • This House is Haunted by Computer Koontz Childs John Boyne E-Books and Summer 5 • NOS4A2 by Joe Hill • The Accursed by Joyce • Ghost Bride by Yangsze Reading Go Together Carol Oates • Night Film: a novel by Cho Staff Recommendations 6 Marisha Pessi • The Last Kiss Goodbye by Page 2

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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES: MEET DAN NIEMAN Reference person for the ing one foot in the world of tech- who enjoys the history of the South Sioux City Public Library. nology and all things new. game, as well as the current I am a native Nebraskan, having game. graduated from South Sioux When I am not working my wife City High School, Wayne State and I enjoy traveling to areas of College and North American local historical significance; visiting Baptist Seminary (now Sioux the natural wonders of our rivers, Falls University Seminary). hills and plains; and visiting grave- yards. We enjoy finding drive-in, I enjoy being a librarian, be- riding on trains and visiting muse- cause I have a native curiosity ums. We are movie buffs, having about everything and am a natu- a significant movie collection. ral collector. I have always been interested in collecting I enjoy a broad variety of music and preserving old books. The including acapella, bluegrass, gos- library allows me to encourage pel and jazz. I am a baseball, foot- my interest in this, while keep- ball, hockey, and basketball fan,

SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS “There are worse Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit by Puppett by Todd Angleberger: crime fighter who uncovers an Chris VanDusen: Randy Riley, a "Dark times have fallen on evil plot to replace all the popu- crimes than science genius who loves base- McQuarrie Middle School. lar teachers with robots. ball but is not very good at it, Dwight is back--and not a mo- burning books. needs to use both his interests ment too soon--as Kellen, Sara, Monday with a Mad Genius by One of them is not to save his town from a giant and the gang face a new Men- Mary Pope Osborne. Jack and fireball that is heading their ace: the FunTime Educational Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and reading them. way. Program. FunTime is supposed to raise students' standardized spend a day helping Leonardo Ray Bradbury Fly Guy and the Frankenfly by test scores. Instead, it's driving da Vinci in the hope of learning Tedd Arnold: Buzz has a night- everyone crazy. The students another secret of happiness. mare that his best friend Fly turn to Origami Yoda for help" Guy has created a gigantic Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substi- Frankenfly monster. tute by Jarrett Krosoczka: The The Surprise Attack of jabba the school lunch lady is a secret

South Sioux City Public Library Named Read a Loud Community for 2014-2015 South Sioux City Public Library one of the most important things Cake Pals, and Toddler Time. joins several communities adults do to help children improve The library facility offers par- across the state that has their vocabulary, enhance listening ents and teachers a place in earned the designation of skills and develop positive atti- which to choose books and “Read Aloud Community” for tudes toward reading and learn- read-a-loud to their children 2014-2015. Read Aloud Com- ing,” says Mark Claussen, chair- independently of library pro- munities are required to pro- man of Read Aloud Nebraska. grams. The Youth Library staff mote November as “Read “We are proud to support “Read has promoted Read Aloud to Aloud to a Child Month” Aloud Communities” throughout Child Month activities for sev- among citizens throughout the Nebraska as they share the joy of eral years. We are proud to Any book that helps a child to form community as well as to engage reading with people of all ages.” receive this recognition. a habit of reading, to make reading in a variety of read-aloud activi- The South Sioux City Public Li- one of his deep and continuing needs, ties throughout the year. brary offers many read-a-loud is good for him. “South Sioux City has made opportunities for parents and Maya Angelou the commitment to promote children each week. These in- reading aloud to children as clude Preschool Story Time, Pat-a- Page 3

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NEW AUDIOBOOKS/ DVD’S /MUSIC CD’S

Audiobooks DVD’s Music CD’s • Forgiven Never Forgotten • My Accidental Jihad by • Bachman Turner Overdrive • Pete Seeger the Power of Bachman Turner Overdrive II Krista Bremer Song • Frozen Movie Soundtrack • Trouble in Mind: Collected • The Poseidon Adventure • Simon and Garfield the Co- Stories vol 3 by Jeffery I am the Assistant Director/ lumbia Recordings, 1964-1970 Deaver • Anchorman 2 • Shatter me by Lindsey Stir- • Game of Thrones Season 3 • Frog Music by Emma Don- ling • Catching Fire: The Hunger • Thrive by Casting Crowns noghue Games • 10,000 Towns by the Ed • Bob Dylan: The 30th Anni- • Dakota by Gwen Florio Young Band versary Concert Celebration • The Outsiders by Eric • The Fate of Mercy Alban by • God Save Our Farm Church Wendy Webb • Gravity • Shine by Sarah McLachlan • Free Birds

THE MILITARY FAMILY COMPUTER Families of military personnel Sioux City Public Library, the both the cost and the impor- “Part of the mission of the can contact their loved ones city of South Sioux City and tance of communicating with South Sioux City Public through the South Sioux City generous donors who want to family at home. We are happy Library is to provide Public Library help support our troops and to be able to provide this ser- services for the community their families back home. vice to the families of those utilizing a variety of The computer is equipped with who are serving in other parts a camera and voice over inter- Library Director said this of the of the world.” technologies.” net capabilities to allow military donation: families to communicate with http://www.youtube.com/ their loved ones who are serv- “Part of the mission of the watch?v=ACdVj- ing in Iraq, Afghanistan, or South Sioux City Public Library mIkII&list=UUXaMLWUx2J- other fields of service through- is to provide services for the REK9qD5aSREw&index=19 out the world. This computer is community utilizing a variety of dedicated to this single pur- technologies. As a former vet- pose, as a service of the South eran, I know from experience

ADULT PROGRAMS: LITERARY ELEMENTS So You Don’t Like Science Fic- Spear. 6:30 p.m. tion?: is a look at the history of science fiction, as well as some Last Words Author on June 745.5 Club will teach partici- of the most popular science 19th: Frederick Blanch, author pants how to make Stepping fiction books and movies at the of Last Words, will be at the Stones on Thursday June 26th at library. This talk will be held library on Thursday June 19th at 6:30 p.m. and Friday June 27th at on Monday June 2nd at 6:30 6:00 p.m. Last Words is a mov- 10:30 a.m. p.m. ing, hilarious story of the au- thor’s life. The book has been Cover to Cover will discuss Summer Movies: We will show nominated for the Minnesota The Paris Wife by Paula McLain the following movies this summer: Book Award. During the eve- on June 9th and 26th at 3 pm. • Ghost Busters ning the author will speak, take • Jurassic Park questions and sign books. Real to Reel June 14 at 2 p.m. and June 17th at 6:30 p.m. • 2001: a Space Odyssey and Library Eats will focus on • The Librarian: Quest for the grilling on Thursday June 12th at Page 4

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TECHNOLOGY CLASSES WEEK 1 AND 2 Mon June 2- 3pm: E-book Thurs June 5- 11am: Setting Up Computer Reader An Email Account Tues June 10- 3pm: Windows Mon June 2- 5pm: Know Your Thurs June 5 - 2pm: Online Book- 3 Computer marking and Note Keeping Tues June 10 - 4pm: Setting Up Mon June 2- 6pm: E-book Thurs June 5- 3:30pm: Using Ref- An Email Account Reader erence Sources Tues June 10 - 5:30pm: Clean Tues June 3- 10am: Excel 1 Thurs June 5- 5pm: Tech Thurs- Up Your Computer Tues June 3-12:30pm: E-book day Wed June 11 - 5:30pm: Job Reader Mon June 9- 3pm: E-book Reader and Career Accelerator Tues June 3- 2pm: Word 3 Mon June 9- 5pm: Keyboard Thurs June 12- 10am: How to Tues June 3- 3pm: Windows 2 Mouse Skills Search the Internet Tues June 3 - 4pm: Know Your Mon June 9- 6pm: E-book Thurs June 12- 11am: Face- Computer Reader book Basics Tues June 3 - 5:30pm: Key- Tues June 10- 10am: Excel 2 Thurs June 12 - 2pm: Blogging board Mouse Skills Tues June 10- 12:30pm: E-book Basics Thurs June 5- 10am: Clean Up Reader Thurs June 12- 3:30pm: Every- Your Computer Tues June 10- 2pm: Know Your thing Google April Technology Classes

TECHNOLOGY CLASSES WEEK 3 AND 4 “Be a yardstick of Thurs June 12- 5pm: Tech Mouse Skills Thurs June 19- 5pm: Tech quality. Some Thursday Tues June 17- 3pm: Excel 1 Thursday Thurs June 12- 6pm: E-book Tues June 17 - 4pm: Yahoo Thurs June 19- 6pm: E-book people aren't used Reader Messenger Reader to an environment Mon June 16- 3pm: E-book Wed June 18 - 5:30pm: Clean Mon June 23- 3pm: E-book Reader Up Your Computer Reader where excellence is Mon June 16- 5pm: Windows Thurs June 19- 10am: Search Mon June 23- 5pm: Windows Basic Engines 2 expected.” Mon June 16- 6pm: E-book Thurs June 19- 11am: Publisher Mon June 23- 6pm: E-book Reader 1 Reader Steve Jobs Tues June 17- 10am: Excel 3 Thurs June 19 - 2pm: Pub- Tues June 24- 10am: Know Tues June 17-12:30pm: E-book lisher 2 Your Computer Reader Thurs June 19- 3:30pm: Pub- Tues June 24-12:30pm: E-book Tues June 17- 2pm: Keyboard lisher 3 Reader

SPANISH TECHNOLOGY CLASSES We offer multiple technology Habilidades con el Teclado y el classes this week. Some of Raton: Doble-click, click dere- them are: cho, Arrastrar… si se deja con- fundir por saber lo que ve. En- Conosca su computadora: Le tre a esta clase y aprenda como gustaria aprender cosas muy usar el raton en la computa- basicas de su computadora? dora. El teclado y la computa- Como incrementar el vocabu- dora son el camino que se lario de la computadora? Esta comunica con la computadora. clase le va enseñar cosas muy Mientras mas sepa, su computa- basicas de su computadora. Se dora trabajara mas por usted. le permitira sentirse seguro al (taught in spanish) conocer todos los compo- nentes que estan en su compu- tadora (taught in spanish)

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Tues June 24- 2pm: Excel 2 Tues June 24- 3pm: Excel 3 E-BOOKS AND SUMMER READING GO TOGETHER Thurs June 26- 11am: Your Library Web Page Summer is on th e way and so who support the availability of Summer Reading Program for Thurs June 26 - 2pm: Ne- is this year’s Big Library Read eBooks and audiobooks at your Adults, “Literary Elements”.. braska Access sponsored by OverDrive. The local library. This year’s book Thurs June 26- 3:30pm: Face- Big Library Read allows readers is A Pedigree Recliner Book Club : One book for Your Business to read the same e-book at the . In related e-book news, the final thing while we are on the Thurs June 26- 5pm: Tech same time. Many of us have library is participating in the topic of e-books, we have just Thursday purchased e-readers, but never OverDrive Challenge to raise created the Recliner Book Thurs June 26- 6pm: E-book used them. The Big Library our circulation by 25 percent. Club. The Recliner Book Club Reader Read allows all readers to That means we are shooting for is a place where we can discuss Mon June 30- 3pm: E-book check out the same book at the 359 checkouts of audio or e- the e-books we are reading. Reader same time. It is a great time to books during the month of Sign-up on the library website Mon June 30- 5pm: Windows dust off that e-book reader and June. If you have access to a www.southsiouxcity.org/library 3 begin e-reading. computer, smart phone or a and join us on Good Reads and Mon June 30- 6pm: E-book By participating in the Big Li- tablet you can participate with Facebook. The Recliner Book Reader brary Read, you can join a us. Your e-book and Club: Because e-books and audiobook reading totals will easy chairs were meant for global movement of passionate readers and library patrons also counts for points for the each other.

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STAFF RECOMENDATIONS

Badass by Bill Thompson. son is the first book in the Long- out, but can he stop it? Hey everyone! Welcome to mire series and also inspiration summer! I’m going to start this for the TV show Longmire! summer’s reading reviews off Over the break I read a few of “In the Heart of the Sea ” by with a bang! Don’t let the title of his books and they are fantastic! Nathaniel Philbrick recounts the this review book scare you My favorite part is that they all tragedy of the whaleship Essex. away, “Badass” by Ben Thomp- feature a dog, who very unimagi- This is the true-life story that son is a thrilling non-fiction read! natively is named “Dog”. Each “Moby Dick” was based from. In This book consists of 40 short book is set in a small town in 1819, the Essex set sail from stories depicting history’s tough- Absaroka County, Wyoming Nantucket on a routine voyage est warlords, Vikings, samurai, where Walt Longmire has spent for whales. The ship journeyed pirates, gunfighters, military twenty-four years as sheriff. This into the farthest reaches of the commanders and more. Packed modern story has all sorts of old South Pacific, farther than any- with short action packed stories timey western flair, which fans one had gone before. And that’s In the Heart of the Sea: this book can be read in pieces of westerns, mystery and sus- when disaster struck, the ship of as a whole, making this a awe- pense will enjoy. At the begin- was rammed and sunk by a the Tragedy of the some beach time read! If you’re ning of the story Walt is called sperm whale. The twenty-man Whaleship Essex looking for some excitement, or to a murder scene on the Chey- crew stuffed themselves into maybe just a way to dip into enne reservation. The murder three small boats and tried to by Nathaniel Philbrick non-fiction without accidentally appears to be related to a case a sail for the South American wallowing into something long few years back, in which all four coast. These sailors eventually and boring, check out “Badass”! suspects were given suspended traveled 4,500 miles in three sentences. Could this be some- months. This book holds their one out for revenge or some- story. “The Cold Dish ” by Craig John- thing more? Only Walt can find