CHECK IT OUT: July • August • September • Issue 7 CHECK IT OUT: July • August • September 2018 COLUSA COUNTY FREE LIBRARY’S QUARTERLY Princeton librarian Mary Beth Massa assists a patron. Photograph credit, Lloyd Green, Williams Pioneer Review. NEWSLETTER COLUSA • ARBUCKLE • GRIMES • MAXWELL • PRINCETON • STONYFORD • WILLIAMS HIGHLIGHTS Calendar of Events To stay up to date on library events, LEGO to the LIBRARY! programs, and branch closures, check out In partnership with Colusa Community in Unity Family Resource Center our events calendar! Page 4 Each Friday during the summer, the Provide a creative and attractive BECOME A FRIEND OF THE LIBRARY! Community in Unity Family Resource program for children to experiment The Friends of the Colusa County Free Library Center is hosting a Lego challenge club, and have fun. work toward generating community interest in called KIDS ON THE BLOCK LEGO CLUB. Provide a model and opportunity for the library’s services and facilities. As More like block party, the club has kids parents/caregivers to participate with ambassadors to the community, the Friends ages 5-13 working together on Lego their children in activities that believe that the library is one of our community’s building challenges. promote play and experimentation. greatest assets as it serves more people in all Increase the use of the library. walks of life than any other institution. To Despite a primary focus on play, at each collection by highlighting and become a Friend, pick up an application at the meeting participants are given a building promoting books and resources Main Branch Library in Colusa, or download one challenge, such as something built from related to each theme. from the Colusa County Free Library website: only two colors or something that grows; Facilitate discussion and sharing of www.counyofcolusa.org/library. working in groups the kids have built cities, creative ideas via verbal the Titanic and a Lego car launch! The only communication. FOL- BOOKWORM expectation is to explore the limitless Promote library resources and Visit the Friends of the Library used bookstore at possibilities offered by massive piles of programs to parents/caregivers and 440 Market Street, Colusa. Books range from interconnecting bricks, so a lot of endless young people. $.50-$1.00. All proceeds benefit the Colusa spaceship-building also happens. County Free Library. Promote foundation, early, and family What’s the connection between Legos literacy and numeracy skills in a non- Hours of Operation: and books, you ask? Promoting play threatening environment. Wednesday, 11:00 am – 3:00pm contributes to early literacy development Promote problem solving and learning Thursday, 11:00 am – 5:00pm by increasing attention span, memory, though tactile and kinesthetic means. Friday, 11:00 am – 3:00pm creativity, and language and vocabulary skills. It also lays the foundation for logical When the weekly summer Kids on the For questions, comments, or concerns about this mathematical thinking, scientific Block Lego Club ends on August 11, the newsletter or any library programs or events, reasoning, and problem solving—things format will change to monthly meetings, 458-0372. they’ll carry with them throughout their occuring on the fourth Saturday morning Be sure to check out our website at: school years. of each month. From 10:30am-12:30pm http://www.countyofcolusa.org/library kids are encouraged to stop by the main Facebook @colusacountyfreelibrary and The program aims to: branch and work each month’s theme with Instagram @colcolibre. friends and family members. CHECK IT OUT: | Issue 7 2 What’s New at the Library? VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual Reality (VR) is headed to the directly into a three-dimensional, library.st Oculus has teamed up with computer-generated world. Your dozens of California libraries to give head, hand(s), and sometimes patrons greater access to virtual reality body movements, are tracked to technology. The tech company sent out let you interact with what you see 100 Rift headsets as well as Oculus inside the headset. Ready PCs to 90 California libraries (about half of the state’s 184 library Explore: Experience our systems), along with compatible planet like you've never educational games and software. experienced it before! Travel around the world, Virtual Reality is an emerging to distant planets and technology that allows you to even back in time without ever Oculus Rift is only available for experience real or imaginary worlds in leaving the library. customers ages 13+. an immersive way. This means that it Learn: Discover more about the VR experiences may cause dizziness has a lot of applications for education ocean, outer space or the and disorientation. Those prone to and entertainment. Imagine being able human body through VR motion sickness should take care when to visit the art museums of Europe, experiences. using the Oculus Rift. microscopic cell structures, or the Create: Create works of art. VR will be available during special International Space Station all without Play: Try gaming as never programs and other events starting this leaving the library. before by immersing yourself in fall! For a complete list featuring Oculus a 3D environment. Rift gear, check out our website and Virtual Reality uses a computer, Facebook pages. headset, and sensors to place you Princeton Branch Library BRANCH SPOTLIGHT For more than 25 years the branch has A Princeton resident for a little over 8 been run by local resident Mary Beth years, Library Assistant Melissa Roach Massa. Having moved to Princeton in also loves the small town where she has 1957, Massa began working at the library worked for 2 years. “Everyone seems to in 1993 and initiated a money-raising really support the few things we have in Princeton Branch’s 1974 Re-Opening campaign to keep its doors open and the many ways. It’s nice to be able to come library thriving. Massa loves all aspects together to work towards common of working at the library, “especially with goals,” Roach commented. She enjoys Founded in 1850 by California pioneer the schools to provide what is needed working side by side with Massa, helping Dr. Andrew Lull, the town of Princeton for the students.” school children find books, and listening was named after Lull’s ivy-league alma to patron’s stories. mater. Likewise, in 1916, the Princeton The librarian also enjoys living in Branch Library was opened and between Princeton for the caring people, and To contact the Princeton branch, call 1916 and 1918 there were six custodians because its residents band together 439-2235. The Princeton branch is open of this library. In 1974 the Princeton when faced with a crisis. “It provided the Tuesdays from 8:00am-1:00pm and branch celebrated a grand re-opening funding to keep us open when faced Wednesdays from 8:00-5:00pm. where it was dedicated to Frank Miller. with closing. I love this small town!” CHECK IT OUT: | Issue 7 3 Patron Picks The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Lost Herd Charlotte’s Web by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Archie Joscelyn by E.B. White Genres: Adult Fiction, Mystery Genre: Adult Fiction Genre: Juvenile Fiction Patron says…”It is very intriguing.” Patron says…”Captivating book! I love Patron says…”It is a sad wonderful westerns so this was great.” story.” Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks The Hunger Games Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway Genre: Young Adult Fiction by Suzanne Collins by Jeff Kinney Patron says…”It is a diary of a troubled Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Genre: Juvenile Fiction teen. Great to read!” Patron says…”Pretty cool!” Patron says…”It is a fun book to read.” The Red Queen A Wrinkle in Time Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by Victoria Aveyard by Madeleine L’Engle by J.K. Rowling Genre: Young Adult Fiction Genre: Juvenile Science Fiction Genres: Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy Patron says…”It’s a 4-part series, Red Patron says…”If you like science fantasy, Patron says…”I like that Harry is not Queen being #1. If you enjoy Game of this book is for you!” afraid to stand up for his friends.” Thrones/Hunger Games then you’ll LOVE this!” Patron Picks are chosen at random from “The Book Jar” found at the Colusa Branch Adult Learner Book Club & Early Literacy Programs COLUSA COUNTY FREE LIBRARY LITERACY PROGRAM the weekly story time at the Grimes nursery rhymes told in their traditional library. printed form. Participants will then dive into the electronic versions of these Upcoming Raising A Reader schedule: stories using the nationally-renowned Raising A Reader is returning to the Grimes Storytime, Tuesdays, 8/21-12/11 Footsteps2Brilliance software, guided library! This 10-week story time and RAR bag rotation from 9/4-11/6 through reading comprehension games book-lending program for children ages *Registration from 8/21-9/18 and activities by the Literacy birth-5 and their parents/caregivers will Coordinator. There is no registration begin enrolling August 13 for its fall Fall Sessions, 9/6-11/9 necessary for NAPP Time, but attendees sessions at the Colusa, Arbuckle, Colusa, Thursdays, 10:00-10:45am will need to create a free F2B account for Maxwell, and Williams branches. Maxwell, Thursdays, 11:45am-12:30pm full app participation. Modeled after First 5 Colusa’s Talk, Arbuckle, Fridays, 10:00-10:45am Read, Sing campaign, participants Williams, Fridays, 11:45am-12:30pm Beginning August 16, Adult Literacy socialize, sing nursery rhymes, read *Registration from 8/13-9/17 Program Learners & Tutors are invited stories, and take home a weekly book to join the Literacy Program for a bag full of library books. The program CAPC Colusa Growing Start Program monthly book club.