SOUTH SIOUX CITY VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 PUBLIC LIBRARY MAY, 2015 South Sioux City Public Library Special Points of Interest: Dan Weber in Concert June 1st Tyler Barham Concert June 4th LearningExpress Has Responsive Design and More Staff Recommendations DAN WEBER CONCERT JUNE 1ST with energetic performances tory Review magazine wrote Dan Weber will be in concert and hilarious stories from the "Weber's writing is as strong on Monday June 1st at 6:30 roads he's traveled. None as any in the Contemporary p.m. other than legendary Folk Folk community. 'Goodbye to troubadour Ramblin' Jack El- Dad' is one of the best original Award Winning songwriter liott said "I love Dan's songs tunes that I have heard in a Dan Weber has been de- and he tells really good sto- long time." scribed as "The classic mid-life ries." overnight sensation." A gifted You can visit his website storyteller and inspiring per- His songs have been described at http:// former, in 2014 he Won 2nd as 'Timeless' and 'Authentic' www.danwebermusic.com/ place in the prestigious and his debut CD 'Ash and index.html. Woody Guthrie songwriting Bone' received accolades from contest and was honored to American Songwriter Maga- become a rare 2-time finalist zine and the UK's Maverick in the legendary Kerrville Folk Magazine said: "4 Stars: Has Festival 'New Folk' competi- you hanging on to every word. tion. In 2014 he also received That's the touch of a true several other national song- Dan Weber in Concert June 1st Master Craftsman songwriter." writing contest honors. There's also been recognition Weber began performing at from DJ's: "'Hank and Jesus' is 40 and in a few short years easily the best folk song I was winning over audiences Inside this issue: heard last year" and The Vic- Meet the Staff 2 Family Movies 2 NEW FICTION (CLASSIC FICTION) Tyler Barham Concert 3 Northanger Abbey by Jane Aus- The Man in the iron Mask by The Metamorphoses of Ovid ten Alexander Dumas The Jungle by Upton Sinclair New Audiobooks/DVD’s/ 3 Sense and Sensibility by Jane The Odyssey by Homer Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Music CD’s Austen Captain’s Courageous by the Sea by Jules Vernes Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bun- Rudyard Kipling April Computer Classes 4 House of Mirth by Edith Whar- yan Riders of Judgement by Freder- ton Collected Stories of Willa Cather ick Manfred AtoZ Database Training 5 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Death Comes to the Archbishop Animal Farm: 1984 by George Thornton Wilder by Willa Cather Orwell Staff Recommendations 6 Page 2 SOUTH SIOUX CITY PUB LIC LIBRARY STAFF BIOGRAPHIES: MEET ANGELA MELIA I am no doubt the loudest librarian on staff I really enjoyed that time I had to be with minute of my career choice and have even but I have found here. My name is Odessa and I am the Youth him while he was young. As he aged, I found started attending college again, but working my place in this Librarian. I have a love of working with that he didn’t “need” me as much, so I on my library science degree. world for this children and encouraging them to read and returned to the work force. I went to work current time in release their creative and imaginative side. for a public school district in Omaha and fell In-between my teens’ activities, my job, and my life. I enjoy in love with working with children. I knew my schooling I love to dig into my ancestry my job and have Right after graduating from South Sioux City that I had found a passion that I needed to and follow the trails of history. I enjoy read- a passion I hope High School, I thought technology was my follow. I stayed with that job for the next ing, but, I do not have a select genre that I to pass onto all chosen career and went to college for comput- four years, while I lived in Omaha. stick to. In the warmer months you may find the youth I work er programming. I discovered have a passion me in my flower garden loving my flowers to with in this for technology, but I didn’t want it to be my I missed being in my “home-town” of South death. My grandmother says I have a “brown community. job. So, I needed to find a different path for Sioux City and decided to move home. My thumb” because my plants usually die. Scrap- my life. family is all close to this city and I missed booking, digital photography, baking, crafting them while living in Omaha. I decided to take and sewing are all other time fillers for me. I moved to Omaha and was a stay at home a move out of the public schools and applied mother and volunteered with my sons’ school. for my current position. I have loved every I never expected to be a librarian by trade, FAMILY MOVIES The Princess Diaries (May 2 Lorean invented by his friend, 6:00 p.m., May 23rd @ 1:00 @ 1:00 p.m.) Mia Thermopolis Dr. Emmett Brown, and must p.m.) The story of the legend- has just found out that she is make sure his high-school-age ary outlaw is portrayed with the heir apparent to the parents unite in order to save the characters as humanoid throne of Genovia. With her his own existence. animals. friends Lilly and Michael Mos- covitz in tow, she tries to Back to the Future II (May Music Man (May 30th @ navigate through the rest of 11th @ 6:00 p.m., and May 1:00 p.m. A con man comes 16th @ 1:00 p.m.) After visiting to a Midwestern town with a her 16th year. 2015, Marty McFly must repeat scam using a boy's marching Back to the Future (May 4th his visit to 1955 to prevent band program, but things disastrous changes to 1985... @ 6:00 p.m., May 9th @ 1:00 don't go according to plan. p.m.) A young man is acci- without interfering with his first dentally sent 30 years into the trip. past in a time-traveling De- Robin Hood (May 18th @ YOUTH ACTIVITIES 5/1 @ 10 am Toddler Time 5/14 @ 10 am Pat-a– Cake Pals 5/30 @ 6 pm Music Man 5/2 @ 1 pm Family Movie: The 5/15 @ 10 am Toddler time Princess Diaries 5/16 @ 1 pm Family Movie: Back 5/4 @ 1:30 pm Tell Me a Story to the Future II 5/4 @ 6 pm Family Movie: Back 5/18 @ 1:30 pm Tell me a Story to the Future 5/18 @ 6 pm Family Movie: Rob- 5/5 @ 6:30 pm Night of FUN in Hood 5/6 @ 4:30 pm Tell Me a Story 5/19 @ 6:30 pm Night of FUN 5/7 @ 10 am Pat-a-Cake Pals 5/20 @ 4:30 p.m. Tel me a Story 5/8 @ 10 am Toddler Time 5/21 @ 10 am Pat-a– Cake Pals 5/9 @ 1 pm Family Movie: Back 5/22 @ 10 am Toddler Time to the Future 5/23 @ 1 pm Family Movie: Rob- 5/11 1:30 pm Tell me a Story in Hood 5/11 @ 6 pm Family Movie: Back 5/26 @ 6:30 pm Night of FUN to the Future II 5/27 @ 4:30 pm Tell me a Story 5/12 @ 6:30 p.m. Night of FUN 5/28 @ 10 am Pat-a-Cake Pals 5/13 @ 4:30 pm Tell ma a story 5/29 @ 10 am Toddler Time Page 3 VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 NEW AUDIOBOOKS/ DVDS/ MUSIC CDS Audiobooks DVD Music CDs The Girl on the Train by Birdman Celloverse by 2Cellos Paula Hawkins Boyhood I’ll Be My Own Soundtrack Last One Home by Debbie Dear White People by Glen Campbell Macomber Dumb and Dumber to What a Terrible World/ Fluke, a Novel: Or I Know What a Beautiful World by Foxcatcher Why the Winged Whale the Decemberists The Homesman Sings by Christopher American Beauty/ American Moore Horrible Bosses 2 Psycho by Fall Out Boy Unlucky 13 by James Pat- The Interview Remedy by the Old Crow terson Lucy Medicine Show The Girl on the Train by The Arab Winter Comes to One Hundred and One Dal- Moonshine in the Trunk by America The Truth About the matians Paula Hawkins Brad Paos;eu War We're in by Robert Outlander Season One X by Ed Sheeran Spencer Song of the Sea Title by Meghan Trainor The tale of the Princess Kaguya TYLER BARHAM CONCERT JUNE 4TH, 2015 Tyler Barham will perform a zeman and raised in Florence, him to a worldwide audience. veterans John Griffin and Dave Flint, concert on Thursday June Montana, Tyler began singing Tyler released an independent self- 4th at 6:30 p.m. when he was nine. Although he In 2008 Tyler made the leap titled EP that reached No. 39 on the enjoyed singing different styles from computer screen to TV iTunes Country Album Chart. His If in today’s music environment, of music, it did not take him screen as a finalist on Great follow-up EP, titled Twenty-One, online followings are the foun- long to realize his heart (and American Country’s nationwide which was released on dation of an artist’s career, then eventually his baritone voice) talent search, Next GAC Star, March 21st 2011, his 21st birthday, Montana native Tyler Barham is belonged to country music.