July / Aug 2005 Vol. 6 / Issue 4 Big Changes Are On the Way! a drink at the Leaky Cauldron. A Harry Potter What a blast this will be for the entire family! Introducing the Preble County District Library’s new automated circulation system, Sirsi Unicorn! Family Program T he program will be held at The library will unveil Sirsi Unicorn to the public on the Eaton Library on Satur- August 4th. The new system is tailored with YOU in I n celebration of the July day, July 16th from 5:30 to mind. It gives users greater freedom by allowing 16th publication of the 6th Harry 7 pm (after the library has them to access and maintain their own library ac- Potter Book, Harry Potter and closed for the day). counts. The new features will allow library card hold- the Half-Blood Prince, the ers to: Youth Department is hosting a Harry Potter Family Program. J oin us for a magical evening · Access My Account to: of good family fun! · Review My Account : Lets you see items you have checked out, lets you renew items in your U pon arrival, children will be checkout list, makes you aware of bills (fees & given a map that guides them fines) you may have accrued, & gives you a list of items you placed on hold, your position in the holds through various activity stations queue, and if the item is available for you to set up throughout the library. pickup! They can play a Quidditch game, · Make a User PIN Change Harry Potter computer games, · Renew My Materials (excludes items on make a wizard, receive a tempo- hold -- the system automatically lets you rary lightning bolt tattoo, make know if the renewal was successful!) an edible wand, get a crystal ball · Change My Address reading, test their Harry Potter knowledge, play bean bag toss, The new system also offers users other exciting features: and decorate a cupcake and get · Book cover graphics, summaries, table of con- tents, reviews, excerpts, publisher description, & author biographies Forecast FYI · The ability to place your own holds · Recommend items for the library to order Last Book in Jan Karon’s Mitford Series! · Create customized readers’ advisory lists Light From Heaven: All good things—even · Make reading lists that can be printed out or laughter and orange marmalade cake—must emailed to you come to an end. And in Light from Heaven, the long-anticipated This new automated system is going to improve your li- final volume in the phenomenally successful brary experience by offering you more personalized and Mitford Years series, Karon deftly ties up all the convenient services, by giving you easy access to more loose ends of Father Timothy Kavanagh’s information, and by making the entire experience as user- deeply affecting life. friendly as possible. You are going to LOVE it! On a century-old valley farm where Father Tim and Cynthia are housesitting, there’s plenty to Sirsi Unicorn Automated System say grace over, from the havoc of a windstorm Going Live August 4th! to a surprising new addition to the household and a mystery in the chicken house. It’s life on the mountaintop, however, that promises to give Father Please grant us one wish as library staff Tim the definitive challenge of his long priesthood. Can he step up learns the new system -- your kind patience to the plate and revive a remote, long-empty mountain church, and understanding. Thank You! asap? Or has he been called to accomplish the impossible? Fortu- nately, he’s been given an angel—in the flesh, of course. Publication date: 11/08/05 Request it today! he Eaton Library is proud to announce that Darci Ditmer is theT winner of the "Dragons, Dreams, and Daring Deeds" poster contest. D arci is in the eleventh grade at the Eaton High School. She received a free book and a poster-sized copy of her artwork. Her poster (along with all of the other entries) will be displayed at the Eaton Branch all summer long. Honorable Mentions Poster Contest Name School Grade here were so manyT great post- Josh Boggs Twin Valley South 11 ers that we chose Eaton HS 11 ten of them for Nick Schnelle honorable men- Chris Tucker Eaton HS 10 tion. They all re- Darci Ditmer accepts her prize as winner of the poster contest! She ceived a poster- won the book, Great Book of Dragons Patterns by Lora S. Irish. Lacey Potten Eaton HS 10 Pictured: (L-R) Teresa Deaton & Darci Ditmer sized version of Photographer: Becky Rogers their artwork. Teddy Renner Eaton HS 10 Yuki Sugiyama Eaton HS 11 f students wantI their posters Mike Eyler Eaton HS 12 returned, please Eaton HS 11 come to the Heather Ingram Eaton Library Haley Thurston Eaton HS 10 after July 31st. Emily Wassom Eaton HS 11 Medieval Re-Enactment also displays showcasing examples Read More About It! Program of the arts. There were demon- Life in Medieval Times strations for Medieval weaving, jewelry-making, and calligraphy. Medieval Knowledge with DK Books! n Saturday, June 25th the O The most crowd-pleasing event · Medieval Life / Andrew Langley Preble Co. District Library · Castle / Christopher Gavett that took place was actual sword hosted a demonstra- · Knight/ Christopher Gavett battles fought by the knights. This tion program put · You Wouldn’t Want to be A Medieval had drivers stopping along the on by the Society Knight / Fiona MacDonald road and pulling into the Library for Creative office’s parking lot to watch! Anachronism (SCA). It turned The SCA also set up an informa- out to be a very tive display of books about Medie- exciting (and val life that visitors were able to hot!) day. All of the browse. SCA members were in period cos- tume, including their children. The SCA members were also available Baroness presiding over the event to answer question -- of which even sat on her own throne during there were many! the festivities. Overall, it was a fun-filled, family- The main event showcased friendly day -- just what you’ve knights demonstrating the use of come to expect from a library Medieval weaponry. There were sponsored event! American Nostalgia Author John T. Edge Celebrates American Culture The Best Years of Our Lives: They were the With Fried Chicken and Apple Pie, writer John T. Edge best years of our lives. The World War was over, launches a series of unforgettable short books on selected and so was the Great Depression. The GI Bill put icons of American food. In it, he celebrates the foods that millions of returning servicemen and women in conjure childhood and comfort, that compel us to hit the college -- the largest proportional boom in col- road in search of the greasy grail, that call us to the lege ranks in history. The growing economy was kitchen - the ones everybody thinks their mom made best. equaled by a growing populace as wartime In doing so he discovers the story of America itself, using sweethearts married and started a boom of their food as a lens through which to view history and culture own -- the Baby Boom. Maybe peace wouldn't and reveal a rich social landscape. last forever, but we thought it would. And in those golden days we enjoyed the best years of · Apple Pie: An American Story our lives. · Fried chicken: An American Story The War Comes to Plum Street / Bruce C. Moore: The War Comes to Plum Street brings to life the Second World War through the eyes of a small group of neighbors from a Midwestern town. Bruce C. Smith presents their stories just as they happened, without explanation or interpretation. To experience the war as they did, insofar as it is possible, we must understand how they perceived everyday events and recognize the incompleteness of their knowledge of what was taking place in Europe and the Pacific. The inhabitants of Plum Street in New Castle, Indiana, resemble many other average Ameri- cans of their day. As we discover how they experienced those fateful years, these Americans may have something to teach us about how we live in our own turbulent time. On the Nostalgic Fiction Front Carry Me Home / Sandra Kring: 1940. Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl "Earwig" Gunder- To Your Health man is not like other boys his age. Fiercely pro- tected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town The Stroke Book / June Biermann & Barbara Toohey: and the world around him through the prism of his ...With stroke now the leading cause of serious, long-term own unique understanding. He sees his mother's disability in the United States, Biermann and Toohey's opti- sadness and his father's growing solitude. He sees mistic, user-friendly guide to living well after an attack is a his brother, Jimmy, falling in love with the most vital tool for recovery. beautiful girl in town. And while Earwig is unable to make change for customers at his family's store, he The Other Midlife Crisis: Arthritis and all those aches is singularly well suited to understand what other and pains / Michael R. Wilson: Dr. Wilson explains with people in his town cannot: that life as they know it is about to change; clarity and humor where arthritis and all those aches and the coming war will touch them all." For Jimmy will enlist in the mili- pains come from, what treatment strategies actually work tary. And Earwig will watch his parents' marriage buckle under the and what doesn’t work. With plain language and his own strain of a family secret.