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 Lake
Bluff Public Library
123 E. Scranton
Avenue Lake Bluff, IL 60044
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Highlights for January 2011
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Happy New
Year! 2011 is going to be a great year for the Lake Bluff Public
Library. Planning continues for our upcoming renovation project this
spring. See our previous newsletter
for a full description, or attend our January 11 Board Meeting for an
update.
MyMediaMall
usage is increasing - find out why! Download audiobooks and ebooks
for your iPod, Nook, iPad, PDA, or smart phone. Our ever-growing
digital collection has over 9,000 items available. There are no
fines, late fees, or items to return. Try it today.
Download music
for free at Freegal. Three
free songs every week. It's fast, legal, and offers a great selection
of music. All you need is a Lake Bluff library card.
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We're
looking for ideas for our book clubs for the coming year. A poll,
with a list of specific titles, has been added to the library's
website: http://www.lakeblufflibrary.org/2011BookClub.htm
This poll is completely anonymous, and includes an option to write-in
titles not already listed. Thanks for your participation!
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Bring the
coupon found on the front page of the most recent
print newsletter into the library for one free book sale item in
the Spruth Room. One coupon per household. Please use by January 15,
2011.
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Popular New Fiction Releases
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Is
your favorite author coming out with a new book? Ask a
helpful staff member to place a hold for you before the item even
arrives! Or, you can click on any title that has a hyperlink to
access the item record in the library catalog and place a hold online.
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10 Most Popular Adult Fiction Titles
October 1 to December 31, 2010
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10 Most Popular Adult Nonfiction Titles
October 1 to December 31, 2010
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Adult Programs
Registration
is requested, but not mandatory.
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Authors of
Mysteries Visit the Library
Saturday, January
8 at 11:00am
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 Lake
Forest Book Store has partnerships with many local organizations
including Lake Bluff Public Library. We have joined together for an
author event open to the public in the library's adult programming
room. The mini-conference will host three mystery writers, Julie Hyzy,
Robert Goldsborough and Henry Perez. Ms. Hyzy is the
author of the White House Chef
Mystery series and her brand-new book, Buffalo West
Wing (1/4/2011). Cuban born Perez wrote
both Mourn the Living
and the thriller, Killing Red.
A former editor of the Chicago Tribune, Robert
Goldsborough is author of Murder in E Minor and Three
Strikes You're Dead. All of the authors live in the Chicagoland
area.
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Monday, January
10 at 7:00pm
(meets the third
Monday of each month)
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 This
program is an ongoing adult gathering that usually meets the third
Monday of each month. Our circle of needle artists gets together to
share stories, solve problems and to work on our current projects.
Wool Gatherers is open to all skill levels and registration is not required.
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Friendship Force of
Northern Illinois
Monday, January
17 at 7:00pm
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Lake Bluff residents, Brian and Joan Harrington, are
representatives of Friendship Force, an international citizen
diplomacy organization promoting global understanding across barriers
that separate people. The local couple will explain how they pursue the
organization's mission of 'changing the way you see the world.'
Members belonging to Friendship Force clubs welcome visitors from all
over the world into their homes for a week-long stay, and in
exchange, schedule similar outbound visits to homes overseas. Within
a standard exchange budget, a number of scheduled group trips
and activities are planned, as well as some time reserved for hosts
and guests to do other things.
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General Aviation:
Opportunities in Aviation
Monday, January 24 at
7:00pm
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 In
a 90 minute presentation,Jason Unger, a chief flight instructor for
Flight World, introduces all that general aviation has to offer
including not only small, propeller driven aircraft but large jet or
cargo planes as well. Mr. Unger began
teaching at Flight World in 2003, after serving four years in the
U.S. Navy and graduating from Southern Illinois University. He
is, also, the coordinator of Hangar Talk, Flight World's free
monthly safety seminar and a representative of FAASTeam (FAA Safety
Team). Flight World is located in North Wheeling, IL.
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Showtime! Movies at
the Library
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All movies start at
6:00pm to allow time for discussion afterwards. Refreshments are
served.
 Monday, January
3 at 6:00pm
(Rated
R, 100 minutes, 2010)
Seventeen-year-old
Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up
for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she
and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging
her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks
through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives
and begins to piece together the truth.
 Thursday, January
20 at 6:00pm
Splice
(Rated
R, 104 minutes, 2010)
Two young
scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to
create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical
boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce
human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new
era.
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Adult Book Clubs @ the Library
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Attend
a book club and share your comments with other book lovers. A
librarian leads the open-ended and insightful discussion. Your ideas
about the book are welcome and they may change!
Use your library card, not your credit card. No need to buy the book.
All of the books for the discussions are available in print and audio
for check-out at the circulation desk. Some of the titles can be
downloaded from MyMediaMall.
 Nonfiction
Book Club
Saturday, January
15 at 2:00pm
Discussion
led by Carlen DeThorne
(Nonfiction, 400
p., 2007)
Raised in a
secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern
world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally
as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten
Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But
also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing
clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers. The resulting
spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and
irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history's
most influential book with new eyes. Jacobs wrestles with seemingly
archaic rules that baffle the 21st-century brain, and he discovers
ancient wisdom of startling relevance. (From publisher description.)
 Evening Book Club
Thursday, January
13 at 7:00pm
A
true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who
at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home
to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a
vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods,
the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but
despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of
indomitable spirit. (From publisher description.)
 Afternoon Book Club
Tuesday,
January 18 at 1:30pm
Discussion led
by Carol Carter
Pearl of China
by
Anchee Min
(Fiction, 304
p., 2007)
In the small
southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth
century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong
daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on
a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most
tumultuous periods in Chinese history. (From publisher description.)
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MarioKart Tournament (Ages 13-16)
Sunday, January 2 at 3:00pm
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 Teens
can join us for the last of 4 tournaments. The finalist will
receive a $20 gift card to Game Stop and can compete in the
battle royal at 4:30 to decide the grand
champion. The grand champion will receive a $50 Gift card to
buy a game of their choice at Game Stop. Registration is required.
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Thursdays, January 6 and 27 at 7:30pm
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Teens,
if you have ever had an interest in knitting, this is the group for
you. Beginners are welcome in this relaxed, informal group.
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Sundays, January 23, February 6 and February 20
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 Ms. Rachel is
back! Brighten your winter doldrums by joining Ms. Rachel for 3
more exciting scrapbooking sessions. Registration is
required.
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Ends Saturday, May 7 2011
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Earn
yourself a reading badge (or 2 or 3 or 4) this winter. In our
newly designed club, grades 3-8 can earn their badge by reading only
5 books on a theme. Grades 1-2 can earn their badges by reading
only 10 books.
This program is designed for independent readers in grades 1 through
8 and runs Saturday, October 2 through Saturday, May 7, 2011.
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MarioKart Tournament (Ages 9-12)
Sunday, January 2 at 1:30pm
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Young
Adults ages 9-12 can join us for the last of 4 tournaments. The
finalist will receive a $20 gift card to Game Stop and can compete in
the battle royal at 2:30 to decide the grand champion.
The grand champion will receive a $50 Gift card to buy a game of
their choice at Game Stop. Registration is required.
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Parent/Child Reading Club
Thursday, January 20 at 7:30pm
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Boys
and girls in grades 4-6 can bring a parent to our reading
group. We will meet once a month to discuss a different
book. Copies of the books will be available at the children's
desk.
 The 13th Floor: A
Ghost Story
(Fiction, 228 p., c.2007)
A rollicking ride, this tale by the Newbery Medalist casts off into
comic adventure with the young orphan Buddy, his lawyer sister, and a
magical elevator that whisks them 300 years into the past. Fleischman
deftly juggles several equally entertaining story lines, one
involving a pirate ship and a hidden treasure, another focused on a
10-year-old girl accused of witchcraft in Puritan Boston, and a third
revolving around Buddy and his sister's present-day struggle to pay
off their recently deceased parents' debts and keep the family home.
Liberally laced with dry wit and thoroughly satisfying-in
Fleischman's world, villains always get their just deserts and
endings are as happy as they are unexpected-readers could hardly ask
for more. (From Publisher's
Weekly).
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Preschool Storytime
Tuesdays, From January 4 to February 12, at 10:30am
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6
Consecutive Tuesdays starting January 4 , 2011.
2 year
olds
11:15 -- 11:35 For 1 child with 1 adult
3-5
year olds 10:30
-- 11:00 For children w/out adult
Registration
is required for all storytime programs.
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Sunday, January 23 to Saturday, January 29
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 Get
ready for the Chinese New Year.
2011 is the year of the rabbit, drop in and make
a Chinese New Year craft to take home.
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Enter to Win 4 Tickets to the New Cirque du Soleil
Production
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 Tickets
are for the Thursday, January 27th at 7:30
performance; tickets are not refundable or exchangeable.
Drawing will be held Monday, January 10.
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Board of Library
Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, January
11 at 7:00pm at the Library
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The Board of Library
Trustees meets every month, regularly scheduled for the second
Tuesday. Meetings are open to the public and follow the guidelines of
the Open Meetings Act of Illinois.
Judith Nickels,
President
John Marozsan, Vice
President
William Raymoure,
Secretary
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Friends of the Library Meeting
Saturday, January 8 at 10:00am
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The
Friends of the Library meet each month at the library.
If you have any questions or wish to support the Friends, contact the
new president, Linda Schwartz, by email at: friends@lakeblufflibrary.org
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The Friends welcome donations.
Please consider a show of support in the form of gift to
the Friends of the Lake Bluff Library, c/o Secretary Mary Dahlman,
123 E. Scranton Avenue, Lake Bluff IL 60044.
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Announcements
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Library
Hours:
Monday
and Thursday 10:00am to 9:00pm
Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday 10:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday
10:00am to 4:00pm
The library will be closed Saturday January 1.
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Statement
of Program Content at the Library:
Library programs are presented to offer differing
viewpoints by individual speakers and/or groups and are not intended
as an endorsement by the library.
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