Authors @ Your Library - Roberta Simpson Brown

Be sure to join us this Saturday at 2:30PM when Roberta Simpson Brown, Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales, holds court at the Library & entertains us with spooky stories for the Halloween season.  Attendees in costume will receive a "treat."  Appropriate for TEENS & ADULTS.  For more information please contact the Library @ 624-1232.

4NBTween Today!

For grades 7th & 8th - Help make a marker out of stone for the Library and take home an individual stone project.  Today @ 4PM.  For more information please contact the Library @ 624-1232.

Teen Read Week

We're celebrating Teen Read Week!  Join us today @ 3PM for our Teen Tuesday program and create a bookmark for your chance to win a Mockingjay pin - just like the one worn by Katniss in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Or enter to win one of four different Twilight and Vampire Diaries board games. For more information, please contact the Library at 624-1232. 

Fire Safety Show

Join us tomorrow, October 13th @ 4PM for our Fire Safety Show.  This lively music show will cover all the basic fire safety skills while using very memorable fun songs. Lots of audience participation throughout the show with dancing, singing and playful silliness. Weather permitting, the event will be held on the front lawn of the Library, so don’t forget to bring your own seating.  For more information please contact the Library @ 624-1232.

Wacky Wednesdays begin TODAY!

Our monthly Wacky Wednesday program for grades 4th-6th starts today at 4pm.  Join us for some face painting fun!  For more information contact the Library at 624-1232.

Labyrinths

Join Sullivan University's Dr. Renee Rust-Yarmuth, Certified Wellness Director, for this stress relieving program in which participants learn about labyrinths, their history, and other practical uses.  This program is at 11am & 6:30pm tomorrow, October 6, 2011.  For more information please call the Library @ 624-1232.

October Tech Tools

September's inaugural Tech Tools program featuring Zotero was a great success!  Every last Thursday of the month features a new Tech Tool.  Join us Thursday, October 27, 2011 @ 11AM to learn more about LinkedIn, the social networking site for business.  Learn how to create your profile & develop a network of contacts.

November Lunch Bunch Book Discussion - The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter

The next Lunch Bunch Book Discussion is Wednesday, November 2, 2011 @ 11AM.  Join us for what's sure to be a great discussion on The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter. 

From Publisher's Weekly:
Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland, is a law professor at Elm Harbor University whose occasional Carteresque editorializing about politics and justice are saved from didacticism by his abiding existential loneliness. The mystery at the heart of the novel stems from Tal's father's disgrace: Judge Oliver Garland (a Robert Bork meets Clarence Thomas type) was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a Supreme Court seat, but brought down in the Senate hearings when it was revealed that he had a friendship with Jack Ziegler, a wild-card former CIA agent now rumored to be an organized crime kingpin. When the judge dies of what looks like a heart attack and Ziegler turns up at his funeral, Tal is initiated into a quest to uncover mysterious "arrangements" his father made in the event of his untimely demise. Various shady entities observe Tal chasing down the judge's clues, which include a cryptic note ("you have little time.... Excelsior! It begins!") and derive from chess strategy. Meanwhile, Talcott is going through a rough patch: his wife, Kimmer, a high-powered attorney, is probably cheating on him, his Elm Harbor law school colleagues are suspicious of him and a fake FBI man is following him around. As Talcott digs deeper, he uncovers a vein of corruption that runs all the way to the top, and his own life becomes threatened.

Million Minute Family Challenge!

Board games are one of the few activities that a cross section of the community can all enjoy together.  Games are intergenerational and offer economical entertainment in all communities and households.  On average, children spend just 38.5 minutes each week engaged in meaningful conversation with their parents compared to 1,197 minutes spent in front of TV, video games, or computers.  Increase your meaningful time together by playing a board game each week.  Then log your minutes at http://www.millionminute.com/.  Just click on the "Log My Minutes!" link in the upper right hand corner. 

User name:  BML
Password:  library

Let's see how many minutes Barr Library patrons can log!

Lunch Bunch Book Discussion

Be sure to join us tomorrow for our Lunch Bunch Book Discussion @ 11AM.  In the spirit of the spookiest month, we'll be discussing The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.