THE ROTUNDA F ALL 2 0 1 8 E XPLOR E • D ISCOV E R • C ONN E CT EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR WORLD, OUR COMMUNITIES, AND OURSELVES See Pages 4 and 9 Contents Fall 2018 Vol. 19, Issue 1 Library News "Hands Off 0ur Friends to Honor Library Champions Libraries!" General Information On Saturday July 21, Forbes posted an Adriance Memorial Library The Friends of the Library District announced in June that the recipients opinion piece by Long Island University 93 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 of this year’s Adriance Honors will be Mark and Julie Nelson and Jodé economist Panos Mourdoukoutas with the (845) 485-3445 Millman. The presentation of the awards will take place on Monday, headline “Amazon Should Replace Local Mon-Thurs: 9 am-9 pm October 15, at Locust Grove beginning at 5:30 pm, with Chris Silva Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money.” It 4 7 8 Fri & Sat: 9 am-5 pm Sun: 2-5 pm serving as Honorary Chair. If you would like to receive a printed invitation, received such an impassioned backlash from Free parking and easy access off Noxon Street. call 845-485-3445 x3371. You may make your reservation online at library lovers that by Monday morning, Adult Programs GPS locator: 22 Noxon Street. http://bit.ly/2018AdrianceHonors. Forbes had taken it down. Boardman Road Branch Library 3 Adriance Honors 8 Adulting 101 In his article, Mourdoukoutas argued 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 Jodé Millman is that local libraries are no longer useful. If 4 Becoming American 16 Library Treasures (845) 485-3445 a lifelong resident Mon-Thurs: 9 am-9 pm of Poughkeepsie, libraries closed, he wrote, taxpayers would 6 Literature 18 Public Computer Center Fri & Sat: 9 am-5 pm Sun: Closed and her close save money, and Amazon could open 7 Art Scene 20 Programas en Español The Auditorium relationship bookstores to provide those communities 105 Market Street, Poughkeepsie with the Library with physical books. The social media response was NEA Big Read Location Key District began during junior high 10 ADR - Adriance BRD - Boardman Road school when she volunteered at immediate and impassioned. “The elitist 9-15 Pull-out Section AUD - The Auditorium Adriance library. Jodé received ignorance here is staggering,” tweeted @ 9 Authors Friends' Book Store her BA from Syracuse University Mark and Julie Nelson grew peterhartlaub. “Public libraries are refuge— from, among many other things, the spread 10 Programs 141 Boardman Rd, at rear of Library and her JD from Syracuse College up just five miles from each other (845) 485-3445 x 3423 of Law. Jodé obtained her MA in on Long Island. Mark (a native of corporate monoliths advocated in this 12 Calendar Tues, Thur, Sat: 10 am-4 pm English Literature from Eastern of Queens Village, NY) and Julie piece. Please let the response be a tripling Donating See poklib.org>Your Library Michigan University and has been (hailing from Mineola, LI) met at down of commitment to preserve free community spaces.” 17 On the Web poklib.org an Adjunct Professor at Detroit the Polytechnic Institute of New 21 22 Lemeritus@ Email [email protected] Mercy Law School and Marist York through mutual friends. Mark College. moved to Poughkeepsie in 1982 to LemeritusPrime Facebook wrote, “Libraries Poughkeepsie Public Library District Jodé has served on numerous join IBM and Julie joined Mark in boards including the Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie when they married are beyond value, Library Director Tom Lawrence Public Library District (1991- in 1987. sir. They are often Board of Trustees 1994). Currently, she is a Trustee Mark and Julie have become the beating hearts Dianne Blazek, Town of the Dyson Foundation, and familiar faces at the legendary of the communities Youth Programs Moira Fitzgibbons, City they serve and have Amy Haight, Town the Board Chair of the Millman FPPLD Giant and Holiday Book Harris Romano Foundation, both Sales as well as volunteers at the always been one of 17 Teen Connection 21 Early Learning 22 Children & Tweens Edna Lyons, City Tom McGlinchey, Town, Treasurer of which have provided generous FPPLD Book Store. Mark served the best uses of my tax dollars. There can be Fall Closures Mary E. Moore, Town, President support to the Library District. for several years as the Secretary no debate on this worth having.” Joan Nicholls, City, Secretary Jodé is the author of the Broadway of the FPPLD Board of Directors @gwenckatz compared her own Labor Day Weekend: Sat-Mon, Sept 1-3 Thanksgiving: Thurs-Fri, Nov 22-23 Margaret Prescott, Town taxes to the retail price of borrowed books: Staff Development Day: Fri, Sept 28 Christmas Eve: Mon, Dec 24 (12:30 pm) guide SEATS: New York and her and is the current Volunteer Patricia Ryan, Town “Cost to individually buy the six books I Columbus Day: Mon, Oct 8 Christmas Day: Tues, Dec 25 debut thriller novel, The Midnight Coordinator for the FPPLD Book Fred Timm, City Call, will be released by Immortal Store. Julie is a cashier at the have on hold this week: $70. Amount the Veteran's Day: Sun-Mon, Nov 11-12 New Year's Eve: Mon, Dec 31 (12:30 pm) Miriam Zimet-Aaron, Town, Vice President Works Publishing in 2019. She holiday sale and the book store. Altadena Library Special Parcel Tax cost me Editorial Staff Cancellation Notifications also co-hosts the recently launched With their daughters Nicole and this week: 75¢.” Editor: Gareth Davies Backstage with the Bardavon podcast, Brenna, they are a proud family of Richard Auxier, a researcher at the There are times when the Library District needs to cancel a program Assistant Editor: Jewel Ratzlaff which is available on ITunes. readers. Tax Policy Center calculated that if public due to weather or presenter/room conflicts. Effective September 1, the Designer: Julie Hering libraries were to be cut and all funding Library District will post building closings and program cancellations at Vision were to be divided up among Americans, cancellations.com. Patrons can get immediate email notification of closings and The Poughkeepsie Public Library District Vote on November 6 each person would receive a paltry $36. cancellations by registering at cancellations.com. will have vibrant libraries where people After two days, Forbes surrendered. want to be. It will meet the needs of a The Library District’s annual budget and diverse and growing constituency by “Libraries play an important role in our Photography Policy: The Library often photographs or videotapes programs Trustees vote will be on the same ballot as providing services and partnering with other other candidates on General Election Day. For society,” a Forbes spokesperson said in a for use in publicity materials. By being present during these activities, you community organizations. The Board of statement. “This article was outside of this consent to use of your appearance or likeness by the Library, and its licensees, designees, or further information, contact the Library District’s Trustees and the staff will work together contributor’s specific area of expertise, and assignees, in all media, worldwide, in perpetuity. To ensure the privacy of individuals and to serve the public and to respond to the Administrative Office at (845) 485-3445 x3306. children, images will not be identified using names or personal identifying information changing nature of library services. has since been removed.” 2 without written approval from the photographed subject, parent or legal guardian. 3 Becoming American ADR: Adriance BRD: Boardman Road Global Perspectives Adult programs do not require registration unless noted. A Film and Discussion Series Words of War Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Words of War is an ongoing collaboration between the Library District Series on Our Immigration Experience is designed and the FDR Presidential Library and Museum designed to mark the to engage and enlighten audiences by screening 100th and 75th anniversaries of WWI and WWII respectively, and documentary films that represent a selection of diverse the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. immigration experiences drawn from both the past Doughboys, The and the present. This series is made possible by a grant Great War, and the from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An Evening with Jamie Ford Dr. Miriam Cohen will be our moderator and discussion leader. Dr. Cohen is Remaking of America the Evalyn Clark Professor of History at Vassar College where she teaches American Lecture: Immigration Thursday, September 13, Friday, November 2, 7 pm, BRD history, including immigration and industrialization. and Identity, the Urgency 7 pm; Wallace Center, FDR NYT best-selling author Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Becoming American Presidential Library of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost, Love and Other Select Wednesdays, 6:30 pm, ADR in a Time of War Jennifer Keene, professor of history at Chapman University, is Consolation Prizes) comes to town for a lecture on his October 24: The Century Sunday, Nov 4, 2:30 pm, ADR a specialist in the American experience during World War I. work and the writing life. Books will be available for of Immigration: 1820-1934 In announcing the US declaration She has written several books on the war including Doughboys, purchase and signing. Registration encouraged. Examining the period when 40 million immigrants of war against Germany in April the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001). Keene’s entered the U.S., making immigration a major and research interests include the American soldier experience, 1917, President Wilson called on Local History defining aspect of American life. [Films: New York: A every, man, woman and child to African-American soldiers, veteran political activism, war culture, and propaganda. Registration encouraged.