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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-08 Oak Brook Public IihrarLeaccn Library r 600 Oak Brook Road - Oak Brook, Illinois 60523 �"......' 630-368-7700 - www.oak-brook.org/library Volume 10, Issue 8 August 2012 Library Hours Adult Programs 9:30 am-9 pm Monday-Thursday 9:30 am-5 pm Friday-Saturday Registration is required for all programs. Please call 630-368-7725. 1 pm-5 pm Sunday* `closed Sundays between Memorial and Labor Day Wednesday, August 8 @ 7 pm Petra Van Nuis Quartet Department Numbers OPBL is pleased to welcome back jazz vocalist Petra Van Nuis. Based 2 ,t .il in Chicago since 2004, Petra opts for a straightforward, swinging -4ii Circulation 630-368-7702 delivery with an emphasis on feeling. Wherever she sings, Petra Reference 630-368-7725 connects with people. She regularly plays Chicago's prominent clubs, Youth Services 630-368-7733 - such as Katerina's, Green Mill, and Fitzgeralds. With "Far Away ': ~° Places," Petra's latest CD(available for check out at the library) being re -- Library Commission -released in Japan, she continues to spread her swinging sounds to Roberta Petz, President music lovers far and wide. Petra will be accompanied by Larry Harris on Anthony DiCanio piano, as well as by an upright bassist and drummer. Susan Epstein Jeffry Franklin Friday, August 10 @ 12:30 pm T'ai Chi Class Veena Mendiratta Join Personal Trainer Sandy Auriemma as she teaches T'ai Chi for Hope Sabbagha f beginners. An internal Chinese martial art, T'ai Chi is practiced for both its Sandra Wittrock defense training and its health benefits. Researchers have found it can Commission Meetings show some favorable effects on the promotion of balance control, flexibility, Tuesdays @ 7 platand cardiovascular fitness. September 18 Tuesday, August 14 @ 7 pm Bill Gramas: Insurmountable Global November 20 Debt Follow us online Finance expert Bill Gramas returns to OBPL to discuss the lingering global www.oak-brook.org/library economic depression. How can this be repaired? He explores the causes and offers a solution which will create a world-level playing field. This twitter @oakbrooklibrary informative program will help simplify the complex financial issues facing witt Facebook our nation today. and our youth services blog: Tuesday, August 21 @ 7 pm The Art of Living: Mind & Meditation oakbrookpubliclibraryblog.blogspot.com Workshop oakbrooklibrarypicks.wordpress.com Join The Art of Living for an introduction to powerful techniques that not • only reduce stress and increase health, but also create more ease and iii joy in personal relationships. These techniques can also improve self- iiiiiii esteem, provide a greater creativity and clarity of mind, and a deeper sense of community. Friday, August 24@ 12:30 pm Chair Yoga Class Exercise, Stretch, and Relax. Join Personal Trainer and Yoga Instructor Sand4 y '" Auriemma for a 45 minute class on Chair Yoga. Learn how to do basic stretches . = . 7, , ''" from the comfort and convenience of your own home! All ages welcome. . " Computer Classes Youth Services Registration and Internet Privileges Required Summer Reading Clubs Internet Basics - Monday, August 6 @ 3 pm 1 All reading must be reported by August 4, 2012, so finish Participants will learn to connect to the Internet, understand what those books, get the titles recorded and turn in your reading an Internet browser is, how to use the menu and toolbar, type in a logs! Great prizes await all who finish the program, web address to get to a specific site and use an Internet search engine. Read to a Dog August 3, 10 and 17 @ 2 pm Intro to MS Excel -Wednesday, August 8 @ 4 pm Youth Services Program Room ito, t This class will introduce the Excel spreadsheet. Areas covered will be the everyday commands found on the Ribbon; create a new 1 The Hinsdale Humane Society's ,_... workbook, save workbooks, insert and delete column and rows and R.E.A.D. (Reading Education Y enter text and numbers. Assistance Dogs) program brings us _ teams of trained owners and their ', Timm _, Intermediate MS Excel -Thursday, August 9 4pm Delta-registered dogs to work with '- g @ 9 � „ E We'll continue to examine the spreadsheet to organize and format children on reading skills. This is an your text and data. This session will also cover basic mathematical opportunity for children to practice their reading skills with the calculations using formulas. best and totally nonjudgmental listener of all. All ages welcome. 1 Internet Searching - Monday, August 13 @ 3 pm This class will provide the tools to better search the internet and find more closely the information they are seeking. Topics included Monday, August 13 @ 2:30 pm in this class are: pros and cons of various search engines, Youth Services Program Room assessing the authority of websites, exploring the Library's databases, and much more. Skill Prerequisite: Must be familiar (.=Airs Stepping Into Etiquette presents this with basic Internet Explorer function to take the class. entertainingand interactive program p 9 - - teaching children the importance of Book Drop Moved! t having good manners and how Hasusing manners will improve their '`--"c- relationships with their friends, The Library has moved one of the book drops to the newly family and teachers. Ages 5 & up. constructed island near the entrance of the parking lot. This new location will hopefully provide greater ease when Our Sponsors returning materials. If all goes well, two new book drops will We wish to thank the following sponsors of our summer be installed there in the future. So tell us what you reading program: think of the new book drop location. If the book drop on the island is full, there are two more book Brookfield Zoo returns near the entrance of the Library. Please Buona Restaurants Classic Cinemas remember that all materials can be returned in any Culver's Lombard of the book drops. They are not only for books! DuPage Children's Museum Friends of Oak Brook Public Library rks Movie Matinees GaKuipers'ewoFamily Farm Ravioli Oli son ONATRUE STORY; Big Miracle Wed., August 15 @ 2 pm New Library Blog! BIG MIRACLE t In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his oakbrooklibrarvpicks.wordpress.com ex-girlfriend-a Greenpeace volunteer-on a Need some new authors to read? Can't think of a movie campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped to watch? Tired of the same old music?The Library has by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. started Staff Picks, a new blog that gives recommendations Rated PG, 107 minutes. on books, music and movies from our collection by library staff members. Check out our blog and find new things to The Hunger Games discover about the Library! Wed., August 29 @ 2 pm N "'E Set in a future where the Capitol selects a 4tf C3 ft BOOS Donated t0 Nboy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to 3 i the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen ` •r. ' Oa( Brook Library volunteers to take her younger sister's place E in the month of July for the latest match. Rated PG-13, 142 minutes. Michael McNamara donated a subscription to Air&Space Magazine. Miss Jennifer's Picture Book Parade for August - Sampling of New and Upcoming Materials On My Way to the Bath by Sarah Maizes You can place your own "hold" on items checked out or on order Wild imaginations reign in the pages of On My Way to the through our website www.oak-brook.lib.il.us or stop by the Bath by Sarah Maizes where you will find a quirky, Reference Desk for assistance. spritely little redhead whose dislike for baths causes her gooks mind to wander. As her mother kindly chides her to bath time in graphic-novel style word balloons, the girl Fiction continues her mission by creating an uproarious array of Amirrezvani,Anita Equal of the Sun: A Novel situations, characters and animals in a quest to ignore Arsenault, Emily Miss Me When I'm Gone that darned bath. She'll slither like a snake, become a Brookmyre, Chris Where the Bodies Are Buried world-class gymnast and even sing like diva as her bath Flynn, Gillian Gone Girl time adventure continues. After"getting her feet wet" in Guittari, Michele A Death in Tuscany 'k -' the cursed bath her imagination Klaussmann, Liza Tigers in Red Weather ' ,Q31 , $ soars to new heights. This story's Lane, Harriet Alys,Always t ' s.tou=. delightfully bubbly conclusion will 'Lasser, Scott Say Nice Things About Detroit t Mich.i�-akeu. "wash" away the blues and make Loomis,Jon Fire Season f' - children want to go on their own Mallery, Susan Summer Days 4 flf c __ bath time expeditions. Make sure to Smith, Frank In the Shadow of Evil r `4' enjoy this squeaky clean tale that 4 ), Toyne, Simon The Key can't be beat! Turtledove, Harry Coup d'Etat Winslow, Don The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages Electronic Recycling Event Young,Tom The Renegades The Library will be hosting a community electronics Nonfiction recycling event on Saturday, September 29, from 9:30 am Alther, Lisa Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys until 12:30 pm in the parking lot. The Library is working Bader, Sarah The Lavender Lover's Handbook with CRS Company, an electronics recycler that holds the Blehm, Eric Fearless:The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice DuPage County contract. There is no cost to either the of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown customer or the Library for this service. Brinkman, Rick Dealing With People You Can't Stand The types of items that will be accepted Cohen, Rich The Fish That Ate the Whale:The Life and Times of include: office equipment, electronic America's Banana Kin equipment, computers, computer •ecyc= 9 • monitors, computer accessories, small Horowitz, Barbara Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health household appliances and cell phones. and the Science of Healing Murphy, Paul Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy COMMEMORATE THE 200TH ANNIVERSARYOF THE FALL OF Rather, Dan Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News FORT DEARBORN DURING THE WAR OF 1812 Rich,Jason How To Do Everything iCloud A Living History Program presented by Riley, Kathleen The Astaires: Fred&Adele The Fullersburg Historic Foundation Sander, Peter The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy 2012 www.fullersburq.org Schonwald,Josh The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Saturday,August 18 @ 1:30 pm at the Oak Brook Public Library Food Talbot, David Season of the Witch: Enchantment,Terror, and Presenter: Jack MacRae, Naturalist Deliverance in the City of Love Forest Preserve District of DuPage County Two hundred years ago, before Illinois was a state and Chicago DVDs , was a city, Fort Dearborn was the furthest outpost of the Battleship ";>`"� . government of the US on the wild North American frontier. Boardwalk Empire-Season 2 In 1812,the US was at war with Great Britain and Native American Darling Companion tribes loyal to England. The Illinois territory became a fierce Dexter-Season 6 " battleground over land and resources. The Five-Year Engagement Homeland Season 1 Jack's presentation will focus on the actual events which led to theThe Hunger Games ' building of Fort Dearborn, why the August attack on the Fort's l The Lucky One �« C � garrison by native forces took place, the fate which befell American 'r C A Separation , soldiers,their families and the Pottawatomi engaged in the battle Sons of Anarchy-Season 4 C NE and what years of decline followed the battle which impacted the beginnings of the new city of Chicago. Music Join us for an in-depth look at one of the key stories of Chicago's Awolnation Megalithic Symphony birth at the shores of Lake Michigan on the Illinois prairie and what Louis C. K. Hilarious led to the Chicago we know today. Gossamer Passion Pit For more information about this free educational program call: The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania 630-512-7336 or 708-865-8736 Various Drive Soundtrack SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT4 1 2 34 o Read to a Dog 2 pm Summer Reading Clubs end 0 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 LIBRARY Computer Class: Knit Pickers 7 pm Computer Class: Computer Class: o Read to a Dog 2 pm Internet Basics 3 pm intro to MS Excel 4 pm Intermediate MS Excel CLOSED 4 pm Tai Chi Class Petra Van Nuis Quartet 12:30 pm 7 p 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 LIBRARY © Manners Do Matter Knit Pickers 7pm Movie Matinee 2:30 pm Big Miracle 2 pm o Read to a Dog 2 pm CLOSED Bill Gramas: Computer Class: Internet Insurmountable Searching 3 pm Global Debt 7 pm 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2 LIBRARY The Art of Living: Mind and Meditation Chair Yoga Class CLOSED Workshop 12:30 pm 7 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm 0 26 27 28 29 30 31 Adult programs LIBRARY Knit Pickers 7 pm Movie Matinee O Children's The Hunger Games Young Adults CLOSED 2 pm All ages in black