To Register / Para registrarse: Website: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org Phone: 815.338.0542 In Person: 414 W. Judd St. Woodstock, IL FALL 2018 / SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER = Registration Required Beginning Wednesday, September 5 = Discover what’s new at the Library! BLOOD DRIVE FRIENDS FALL WPL will host Heartland Blood Center. Donated PLANT SALE blood will benefit area hospitals. All donors must FRIENDS OF WOODSTOCK Join the Friends of Woodstock show a photo ID prior to donating. Please sign up for Public Library for their annual an appointment at www.heartlandbc.org or call the PUBLIC LIBRARY Chrysanthemum fundraiser. In library at 815-338-0542. Walk-ins are also welcome. JOIN THE FRIENDS addition to mums, a variety of fall Day/Date: Wednesday/November 28 The Friends of Woodstock Public Library plants will be on sale including kale, Time: 3:00-7:00 p.m. ornamental pepper plants, and is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, ornamental grasses. HALF-PRICE FINES WEEK AND dedicated to helping the library. Through annual membership drive and Sale Day/Dates: FOOD DRIVE Monday, September 10 through Sunday, several fundraising events a year the Friday/September 7 Friends actively support the library by 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. September 16, the library will reduce the amount of overdue fines by HALF. Pay only HALF the total funding programs and services, and Saturday/September 8 amount of your overdue fines, lost or damaged providing volunteers for library events. 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. charges, and collection agency fees. The library will Inquire at the library on how you can (or until sold out) waive the remaining charges. This discount covers become a part of the Friends. only Woodstock Public Library-owned materials. USED BOOKSTORE Those taking advantage of the half-price fines are Come in and check out the Friends encouraged to bring a donation of non-perishable Used Bookstore. Inventory is regularly food to the library for the Woodstock Food Pantry. updated and features best-sellers, classics, and new favorites for all ages. FREE GUITARS FOR FUTURE Music, movies, and audiobooks are also STARS CONCERT included. Bookstore proceeds benefit the Area students enrolled in this non-profit organization’s community by providing library programs, program, which provides lower-income children with services, materials, and much more. free guitars and weekly lessons, will entertain the crowd with their newfound musical skills. Day/Date: Sunday/December 9 DONATIONS Time: 2:00 p.m. ACCEPTED The Friends of Woodstock Public Library accept donations of gently DIGITAL EBOOKS AND used books, CDs, and DVDs at the SERVICES AUDIOBOOKS front desk during regular library Have you tried our new digital MyMediaMall, an Overdrive hours. Please do not place dona- audiobook and magazine service, contains thousands tions by the front door or in the service? RBDigital makes it easy of eBooks and audiobooks book drops. to download audiobooks and to download. Download the magazines. Simply create an Overdrive app and sign in with Please no textbooks or encyclopedias. account on the RBDigital website your Woodstock Public Library (https://woodstockil.rbdigital. card number and PIN (same PIN com/) using your Woodstock used to log on to the library’s computers and catalog). Library card number and then Need help getting started? Our reference staff download the app and sign in. is always available to answer basic downloading The RBDigital service also includes questions in person, on the phone, or by email. Transparent Language Online. If you require extra assistance, please drop-in at the Always wanted to learn a new library for a how-to download lesson. If you are unable language? TLO makes it easy. to attend one of these sessions, you can schedule a one-on-one appointment at 815-338-0542. FRIENDS OF WOODSTOCK Drop-in Download Sessions: PUBLIC LIBRARY Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 p.m. 414 W. JUDD ST Thursdays 10:00-11:00 a.m. WOODSTOCK IL 60098 To Register / Para registrarse: Website: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org 2 Phone: 815.338.0542 In Person: 414 W. Judd St. Woodstock, IL Come celebrate the 200th year of the state of Illinois ADULT COMPUTER CLASSES ILLINOIS at 200 at the library with these Illinois themed programs. Registration is required for all computer classes and begins Wednesday, September 5 by phone or in THE JOURNEY TO MCHENRY person at the library. Computer class fees must be MOLLIE’S WAR: COUNTY’S paid at least five days prior to the beginning of the WACS AND WWII TALES OF THE class. Saturday classes are from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Mollie Schaffer was a member of INTERRED Women’s Army Corps during WWII. The truth is stranger than fiction INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS Discover her experiences from basic when local history is discovered Students will learn basic computer functions, tools, and training in Florida to the moment when among the headstones. Spine skills. An overview of Microsoft Word will be introduced the Statue of Liberty came into view upon tingling true stories will be as well as web navigation, email, and resume templates. her return in November 1945. Mollie’s revealed from the pages of daughter, Cyndee Schaffer, created this local history books and from the $20 payable at registration or first class (four classes) Class Fee: presentation based on her mother’s letters microfilm of area newspapers. Registration: September 6-10 priority registration will be written during WWII. She will also discuss Local historian Laurel Mellien given to participants registering for all four classes. Beginning other WACs from Illinois, including two will take you on a thrilling stroll September 11, participants can sign up for individual sessions. based at Camp Ellis in Fulton County who through the past. served as telephone operators for the Day/Dates: Saturdays/September 22, 29, October 6, 13 Day/Date: Tuesday Roosevelt-Churchill Conference. October 23 MICROSOFT WORD Day/Date: Sunday/September 30 Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m. Class Fee: $10 payable at registration or first class Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. Day/Dates: Saturdays / October 20 & 27 EXCEL Class Fee: $10 payable at registration or first class Day/Dates: Saturdays / November 3 & 10 POWER POINT Class Fee: $10 payable at registration or first class THE GILDED AGE Day/Dates: Saturdays / November 17 & 24 As part of the Debs- EUGENE V. DEBS / Pullman Festival, the library CLASE DE INTRODUCCIÓN PULLMAN FESTIVAL will be showing the 2018 PBS On November 2 and 3 Woodstock documentary The Gilded Age. COMPUTACION: A LA INTERNET Celebrates, Inc. is hosting a Eugene Descubrir los usos de la Internet Discover the titans and barons of MICROSOFT WORD V. Debs/George Pullman festival in Es requerido registrarse para y sus beneficios. Es requerido the glittering late 19th century, Woodstock. All events will be free to todas las clases de computación registrarse para todas las clases whose materialistic extravagance the public, who would be encouraged por teléfono o en persona en de computación por teléfono contrasted harshly with the to donate for the specific purpose la biblioteca. Las clases deben o en persona en la biblioteca. poverty of the struggling workers of renovating Old McHenry County ser pagas por lo menos cinco Las clases deben ser pagas por who challenged them. The vast Jail. Complete list of events will be días antes de comenzar la clase. lo menos cinco días antes de disparities between them posted on https://www.facebook.com/ Los pagos pueden ser hechos comenzar la clase. Los pagos sparked debates still raging today. WoodstockCelebratesInc/. pueden ser hechos con tarjeta con tarjeta de crédito, dinero Day/Date: Saturday/November 3 de crédito, dinero en efectivo en efectivo o cheque. Costo de Time: 10:00 a.m.-noon la clase: $20 pagaderos en el o cheque. Costo de la clase: PULLMAN CAR momento de la inscripción. $10 pagaderos en el momento COMPANY de la inscripción. DISPLAY ART OF Dia/Fecha: Sábado / Octubre 6, The Illinois Railway CIVIL WAR 13, 20, y 27 Dia/Fecha: Sábado / Museum of Union will COMMEMORATION Hora: 2:00-4:00 p.m. Noviembre 3 y 10 be exhibiting select Learn about the origins and Hora: 2:00-4:00 p.m. artifacts from the Pullman Car Company. meanings of the symbols INTERMEDIO A LA INTERNET A prominent socialist Eugene V Debs found on both monuments Continuar descubriendo los usos de la Internet y sus played a significant role during the railway commemorating the Civil War, beneficios. Es requerido registrarse para todas las clases workers strike against Pullman in 1894. headstones of its soldiers, GAR de computación por teléfono o en persona en la biblioteca. Debs served six months in McHenry commemorative stained glass Las clases deben ser pagas por lo menos cinco días antes de County Jail in Woodstock for disobeying windows found in the Midwest, comenzar la clase. Los pagos pueden ser hechos con tarjeta a court order during the strike. and the history of government- issued military headstones. de crédito, dinero en efectivo o cheque. Costo de la clase: Day/Date: Saturday/November 3 $10 pagaderos en el momento de la inscripción. Time: Noon-5:00 p.m. Day/Date: Tuesday, Dia/Fecha: Sábado / Diciembre 1 y 8 Day/Date: Sunday/November 4 November 20 Hora: 2:00-4:00 p.m. Time: 1:00-4:00 p.m. Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m. = Registration Required Wednesday, September 5 3 FALL 2018 / September-December WOODSTOCK LOCAL HISTORY WALKING TOURS HISTORIC HOUSES In case of inclement weather, please contact library for tour This walking tour includes many historic confirmation or additional information. homes and buildings. Participants will enjoy stories about our community’s past residents and way of life.