a bi‐monthly newsletter of the HECK T UT Sep/Oct 2013 HECKCorvallis‐BentonT County Public LibraryUT C I O !Volume 21 No. 5 NEW Random Review Schedule RRANDOMANDOM RREVIEWEVIEW by Connie Georgiou, Random Review Co‐Chair 2013-14 SCHEDULE D R U M R O L L !!! Coming soon to your Library: the 2013‐14 Random Review series of lunchtime book reviews SEPTEMBER 11 on the second Wednesday of each month. The Random Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Review selection committee met in June for an afternoon of Reviewed by Craig Leman lively debate and deliberation and selected this coming year’s ten books and reviewers. Now that they are all confirmed, you OCTOBER 9 can be the first to see them! And our very literary committee The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media members are already starting the process of reading a wide by Brooke Gladstone Reviewed by Hasso Hering variety of books for consideration for next year. The work of this committee is carried out behind the scenes, but you may NOVEMBER 13 be interested to know who they are: Mary Braun, Bonnie Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Brzozowski, John Byrne, Shirley Byrne, Victoria Fridley, Tiffany Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Jordan, Craig Leman, Judy Li, Cheryl Maze, Tammy Rider, and Reviewed by Larry Landis co‐chairs Debra Goldenberg and Connie Georgiou. DECEMBER 11 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen For a complete listing of audio files from previous Greenblatt Random Reviews, check out the Random Reviews Reviewed by Paul Farber page on our web site under the “Explore CBCPL” link. JANUARY 8 Aubrey‐Maturin Napoleonic War novels by Patrick O’Brian Reviewed by Gerald Krantz Message from Library Director FEBRUARY 12 My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor Carolyn Rawles-Heiser Reviewed by Maria Chavez‐Haroldson MARCH 12 The Library is starting our new The Round House by Louise Erdrich fiscal year with budget cuts which Reviewed by Beth Rietveld will unfortunately result in some APRIL 9 service reductions. To meet our The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by budget targets, we eliminated one Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt librarian position, substitute hours, Reviewed by Courtney Campbell and $60,000 from library materials. MAY 14 We don’t have many options in Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent making cuts, since many of our by Gabrielle Walker costs are relatively fixed and not Reviewed by Andrew Thurber under our control. The good news is we are not making any hours cuts this year! You may, however, JUNE 11 experience slower service as we have fewer people to staff our The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne service desks, and we will not be able to offer as many programs Reviewed by Mary Nevin for children and adults. I encourage you to use our self‐service options for checkout and fine payments. Our self‐check machines Random Reviews begin at 12:00 pm in the Main Meeting Room of the Corvallis Library and now accept most debit and credit cards. are sponsored by the Friends of the Library SEE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE | PAGE 2 Library Foundation Corner by Betty McCauley, Honorary Foundation Board Member As she had done every time she had moved to a new city in Washington, California, or Virginia, Martha Foster went first to the 645 NW Monroe Ave Corvallis Public library and applied for a Corvallis OR 97330 library card. She also offered to be a volunteer, 541.766.6926 and we are happy that she is now a co‐ www.thebestlibrary.net secretary of the Foundation. But she has HOURS served in many capacities since that day in Mon – Thu 10:00 am – 8:00 pm 1985. One thing she learned when she Fri – Sat 10:00 am – 6:00 pm joined the Foundation Board is that it takes Closed Sun many skills (besides asking for money) to make a successful Foundation project. Her first task was to make a thermometer sign Alsea Community Library to record contributions to the Complete the 19192 Alsea Hwy • Alsea OR 97324 541.487.5061 Block campaign! Martha came to the Foundation as a Foundation Board Member Martha Foster HOURS retired teacher, first of preschoolers who Mon, Wed, Sat 10:00 am – 4:30 pm needed stories to keep them quiet at rest again the next day and corrected her if she Tue, Thu 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm time, and finally of the LBCC staff training told it differently. parents and teachers. Her first library When asked about what she believes is Monroe Community Library volunteer job (pre‐computers) in the most important about the Foundation, Martha 380 N 5th St • Monroe OR 97456 children’s room was organizing check‐out did not hesitate: “I think the Foundation’s 541.847.5174 cards by the date. But then her real love as a voice is in looking to the future. In these story teller was needed in the bedtime story days of budget crises, the community can HOURS Mon 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm hour. She belongs to the local story telling depend on the Foundation to be in the back‐ Tue, Thu 10:00 am – 4:30 pm group called Wonderkeepers. She has a ground supporting the long run. Our task is Wed 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm repertoire of stories to tell and still adds to keep the Library’s Foundation resources Sat 10:00 am – 3:00 pm new ones. She first knew that she had to and to tap into the Corvallis community for memorize stories when her young listeners skills needed to maintain the Library for were so attentive that they begged for a story generations to come.” Philomath Community Library 1050 Applegate St • Philomath OR 97370 541.929.3016 Director’s Message HOURS Mon, Tue 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Continued from front page Wed – Sat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Losing $60,000 from the materials they need. Unfortunately, interlibrary loan budget is a blow to the Library and the is expensive, with the software alone close A publication of the Friends and Foundation of the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library. Refer community because it means that over the to $9,000 annually. This does not include questions and input to Janelle Cook, Check It Out past several years, we have lost almost staff time nor mailing or courier costs. We Editor at 541.766.6928. $220,000 in funding for library materials. were unsuccessful in negotiating with our Printed with soy ink on recycled, post‐consumer Our community really values books and vendor a lower price that would make waste paper. reading and uses the Library heavily. We continuing the program feasible. We began have had to reduce the number of online a small usage fee a couple of years ago to databases and magazine subscriptions and help recoup our costs, but usage declined, will buy fewer books, CDs, DVDs, and other making the per transaction cost even items. This means we all will wait longer higher. Items borrowed from other libraries for popular materials, and some items for our patrons dropped from about 4,000 Library Closed requested will not be purchased. per year to only about 400 last year. It was One cut that was particularly hard to too expensive to justify, especially in light September 2 – Labor Day make was to eliminate the interlibrary loan of other cuts. I am very sorry about this, October 16 – Staff In-Service Day program. For decades, libraries have told and I hope eventually we will be able to our users that we can get materials from reinstate this service. other libraries if we don’t own the item CORVALLIS‐BENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Youth ACTIVITIES Teen Writing Group Teen Makers Teens ages 12—18 interested in writing are If you can imagine it, you can build it! TORYTIMES invited to join the Teen Writing Group. Led SparkFun Inventor kits provided. Feel S TORYTIMES by local Young Adult author, Bryan Bliss. free to bring your own laptop. S Every Tuesday 6:00 – 7:00 pm September 11, 25 6:00 – 7:00 pm Youth Activity Room October 9, 23 6:00 – 7:00 pm All Storytimes are offered weekly at Youth Activity Room 10:00 am in the Youth Storytime Room at the Corvallis Library unless other‐ wise noted. Raising My Rainbow Author Visit Infant Storytime (Birth to 18 mo) Wednesdays Lori Duron is the author of Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son. The first parenting memoir to chronicle the Wobbler Storytime (12 – 24 mo) journey of raising a gender non‐conforming child, the book is based on her Fridays blog of the same name. Early October (details to be announced) Toddler Storytime (18 – 36 mo) Main Meeting Room Tuesdays Preschool Storytime (3 – 5 yrs) Thursdays Family Music Fun Upcoming Teen Events Bedtime Storytime (all ages) Family participation music and movement The Animanga Book Club and the NEW Mondays 7:00 pm program for all ages, led by experienced Make‐Your‐Own‐Plushie Club will alternate music instructors. meeting the first Monday of every month during the school year. For teens ages 12‐18. ¡los CUENTOS! (all ages) September 21 11:00 am More details on time and location will be (Family bilingual storytime) October 19 11:00 am available soon on the Library web site. Second Saturday of each month Storytime Room 11:00 am | Main Meeting Room Man with the Yellow Hat (Birth to 3 yrs) First Saturday of each month at Geisel Book Club Chapters Book Club 11:00 am For beginning readers in kindergarten to For kids in grades 1 —4 who are reading grade 2.