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Home My WebLink About2003-03.5 il Library Beacon Oak Brook Public Library, 60o Oak Brook Road, Oak Brook, IL 63o-990-2222 Volume I, Issue 3.5 h..A 0 What Is the Value of Library Service ToYou? The Oa Brook Public Library is a valuable resource for the residents of our community. Below is the estimated value available to a child or adult who takes advantage of the materials and services offered. An adult might do the following: A child might do the following: Read the Chicago Tribune ($211/year) Attend a special program (valued at$10) Read the Wall Street Journal($189/year) Ask a librarian for advice on a good book to read (10 Look at Business Week Magazine($46/year) minutes valued at$10) Consult Value Line Investment Survey($798/year) Consult World Book Encyclopedia (valued at$850) Read Fortune Magazine($20/year) Read Sports Illustrated for Kids($30/year) Enjoy People Weekly($57/year) Do a specialized database search for homework Use the Internet(valued at$12/hour) information (valued at$20) Request a book from Interlibrary Loan (service valued at$25) Check out the following items: Consult an information specialist(10 minutes valued at$10) 15 books($200) Check out the following: 3 DVDs or videos($48) 3 books($90) 1 Kids Kit($25) 1 audio book($50) Total value of materials and services if purchased:$1,193 5 CDs(60) 3 DVDs or videos ($48) THE FREEDOM TO READ: PRICELESS!!! Total value of materials and services if purchased:$1,616 September Adult Programs Professor Weeerd's Magic Laboratory Sept.4th at 7 p.m. -Colon Cancer: Diagnosis and Join us on Tuesday, October 28th for a hands-on Prevention Presented by Richard V. Benya, M.D. who experience with mad scientist Michael Kett. This fun 60- will review the latest approaches for the diagnosis of minute class will be held in the Friends Meeting Room at colon cancer. 7:00 p.m. Participants can expect some great fun and Sept. 15th at 7 p.m. - Catch the Twain Warren Brown portrays Mark Twain in "an magic tricks and pranks just in time for Halloween. uproariously authentic characterization of Mark Activities will include the bone crusher, the decapitator, Twain's stories and lecture guaranteed to entertain." fortune telling fish,and rattlesnake eggs. Reservations Sept. 28th at 2 p.m. -Gershwin's to Now- Favorites are required. Call the Youth Services desk to conjure up from the 1930's to Today Singer and guitarist Cat a space. Suitable for children in first through fifth Catalani sings popular favorites from the 1930's to grade. A $2.00 lab kit fee is due at registration. today. Cat will feature The Gershwin's, Duke Ellington and Hoagy Carmichael and a few of her alternately hilarious and moving original songs. 4 . ` A. Special-Visitor All programs are provided free of charge,but do require a res- v, F MurieCDougCas's grand- ervation. Please contact the Reference Desk to reserve a seat. �daughter,Laura ist(er, from California stopped by the Library to see Jorie - Future Leader Do? In celebration of National Dog Week, Jorie and her trainer, Debbie Johnson, offer an opportunity to not only meet this puppy guide dog-in-training but to learn about "MurieCs Corner" the responsibilities of raising a puppy who will someday j 4 serve as a guide for a sight-impaired person. This program will be held on Monday, September 22nd at 4: 15 p.m. at the Library. All ages are welcome to attend. Please call for reservations. PAGE 2 LIBRARY BEACON VOLUME I, ISSUE 3.5 l i— t ` A Novel Idea 5ummerNot Not Oak Brook Public Library's book discussion group"A Novel Idea"has made their book selections and set the meeting dates for the Enough/or You??? fall of 2003. Join them each month on the third Wednesday at 1:00 pm or the following Thursday at 7:00 pm in"The Friends Meeting Room". Try one of these Members have been asked to bring a book that they read over the hot new movie releases: summer and share their thoughts on that book with the group at the September meetings. (Wednesday,September 17th at 1:00 pm or Thursday,September 18th at 7:00 pm.) (PdatedAugust 6th A bookmark listing the book club's choices is available at the 8 Mile Reference Desk at the library. Abandon 1 "A Novel Idea" is open to all Oak Brook Library patrons. AboutA Boy _ 4r About Schmidt Adaptation Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Auto Focus The Bourne Identity The first,very productive meeting of TAG took Place Brown Sugar Catch Me If You Can ------ on the evening of August 5th in the Friends Meeting ,,, _ 1 Dances With Wolves }zoom. TAG was formed to work as a liaison between ' i Daredevil the Library and the teen community to contribute to the ♦ Die Another Day creation and planning of Library programs and ''` Far From Heaven activities. Are you interested in becoming a part of Femme Fetale The Four Feathers TAG Members TAG• Stop by the Youth Services desk for more Gangs of New York information. The Good Girl Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets This Just In ... The Hours L A talante er q Fiction: Nonfiction: Maid in Manhattan �.y The Matrix The Pa Vinci Code- An Unfinished Life-Robert Dallek Minority Report A Arcst � �• Dan Brown A groundbreaking biography of John F. Moonlight Mile The murder of a cura- Kennedy full of new information from National Security tor at the Louvre leads to a trail of previously unavailable files. Nicholas Nickelby One Hour Photo clues found in the work of Da Vinci and to the discovery of a centuries-old se- The Tea/Mates-David Halberstam The Pianist Read My Lips cret society. The story of a friendship among four Rabbit Proof Fence men who played for the Red Sox in the The Ring Naked Prey-John Sandford 1940's:Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Shanghai Knights Lucas Davenport, now happily married Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr. Skins and working for the governor of Minne- Spy Kids 2 sota,investigates the apparent lynch- A Short History of Everything- Sweet Home Alabama Bill Bryson Talk to Her ing of a black man and a white woman. The Tuxedo From the Big Bang to Unfaithful The Guardian-Nicholas Sparks the 21st century: a cora- r��( The Way Home prehensible and fun tour White Oleander A young widow realizes that one of her 4 of the sciences and what Wings of Desire suitors may not be what he seems. c• they tell us about the t� ,. XXX a physical world. ( .