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Home My WebLink About2013-02 Oak Brook Public Library L eaccn Library AI\ 600 Oak Brook Road - Oak Brook, Illinois 60523 630-368-7700 - www.oak-brook.org/library Volume I I, Issue 2 February 2013 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* The Oak Brook Public Library Book Discussion is moving! "closed Sundays between Memorial and Labor Day Starting this February,the Book Discussion will meet the 4th Tuesday of the month at 8pm. Department Numbers For the remainder of the book club season,the meetings will be: Circulation 630-368-7702 Tuesday, February 26, 8 pm Tuesday,April 23, 8 pm Reference 630-368-7725 Tuesday, March 26, 8 pm Tuesday, May 28,8 pm Youth Services 630-368-7733 We hope you can join us for some interesting conversation and perspectives about good books. The books are available at the Circulation Desk. Library Commission Roberta Petz, President A Look at R. Harold Zook's Unique Architecture Anthony DiCanio Susan Epstein Sunday, February 3 @ 2 pm Jeffry Franklin Veena Mendiratta The work of R. Harold Zook has been recognized as historically significant, particularly in Hinsdale, Hope Sabbagha Sandra Wittrock where he resided for 26 years. Betty Green, author of A Look at R. Harold Zook's Unique Architecture,will discuss Zook's work in Fullersburg Woods, Oak Brook and Hinsdale. Ms. Green Commission Meetings will also be signing copies of her book,which will be for sale. Tuesdays @ 7 pru Dr. Mark Moy: First Aid - Monday, February 4 @ 3 pm March 19, 2013 Dr. Moy continues his series of programs on Medical Emergencies with First Aid:lacerations, May 21, 2013 abrasions,sprains and strains. July 16, 2013 Sahaja Meditation - Tuesdays, February 5, 12, 19 & 26 @ 4:30 pm September 17, 2013 Sahaja is a unique method of meditation based on an experience called Self Realization.An inner November 19, 2013 transformation takes place through this process, resulting in a more balanced individual. Follow us online T'ai Chi Class - Friday, February 8 @ 12:30 pm www.oak-brook.org/library Join Personal Trainer Sandy Auriemma as she teaches T'ai Chi for beginners. Researchers have twitter @oakbrooklibrary found it can promote balance control,flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. Facebook Julea Joseph: The Secret to Smart Home Accessorizing Saturday, February 9 @ 2 pm youth services blog: Are you accessory challenged?Do you fall in love with accessories while shopping,only to bring oakbrookpubliclibraryblog.blogspot.com them home and not know what to do with them?Break your shopping and accessorizing fear! Learn how and where to shop for great pieces and how to pull them together. Get designer tips and tricks staff picks blog: for creating a beautiful room and understand the 11 essential elements to every room. oakbrooklibrarypicks.wordpress.com Our Lady of Angels School Fire of 1958 Sunday, February 17 @ 2 pm A presentation by Jim Gibbons on the 1958 tragedy in which 92 children and three nuns perished in ' ' �ti�= the fire at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago. Chair Yoga Class - Friday, February 22 @ 12:30 pm -- Join Personal Trainer and Yoga Instructor Sandy Auriemma for a 45 minute class on Chair Yoga. Learn how to do basic stretches from the comfort of your own home! All ages welcome. Learn to Draw Birds - Sunday, February 24 @ 2 pm -§ Christine presents the art of John James Audubon,celebrated 19th century American painter and ornithologist who set out to paint every kind of bird in America. Learn how Audubon approached this challenge then choose one of his paintings to copy for your own colored pencil study. Computer Classes Youth Winter Reading Clubs Registration and Internet Privileges Required When the winter chill sets in join up and Cross Country Read! The reading ' , Thursdays @ 4:30 -5:30 pm program runs through March 2. We 411/ - February 7 -Intro to Gmail welcome and offer incentives to little Have a Gmail account but don't know how to utilize Google's best ones who enjoy a good picture book, features? Topics included in this class are: attaching and our emerging readers, as well as those t downloading files, creating labels and folders, organizing contacts, who are proficient readers as they pro- and much more. Prerequisite: This class requires a current Gmail gress through the program. Sign up to take part in our cele- account(please bring with you the correct username and password bration of reading! to log into your Gmail account). Read! February 14- Intro to Facebook Cross Country e Have a Facebook account but don't know how to utilize its best features? This class is for learning the basics and beyond of Face- Children's Storytimes book, such as posting and commenting on pictures, adding friends and writing on their walls, sending private messages, "liking"things, Toddling Twos and much more. Prerequisite: This class requires a current Face- Mondays at 10:30 am through Feb. 18 book account(please bring with you the correct email and pass- Toddle on down to this fun and interactive story time that word to log into your Facebook account). includes marvelous books, flannel boards, tons of music February 21 - Intro to MS Word 2010 and a cute-as-a button craft. It's a great way to introduce Participants will learn to start up and shut down MS Word, under- standyour little one to the library! how typing on a computer differs from using a typewriter, change the"look"or format of the text, use spell check, save and Terrific 3s and 4s print a document. Thursdays at 4:30 pm through Feb. 21 Preschoolers will wiggle and giggle in this fun-filled story February 28 -MS Word 2010 Intermediate time which includes a whimsical craft, dancing, and of Learn to create headers and footers, insert, move and resize course books. graphics, apply bullets and numbering features, columns and much more. Grades K-2 �_ _` 1 t r g fkTuesdays at 4:30 pm through Feb. 19 Are you nuts about books and art? Then join us for this '-- wonderful story time. We will read a story and then do an art project inspired by the book. OBPL Book Discussion Tuesday, February 26 @ 8 pm R. 0 . «B Block Kids LegoTM Program Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides , , Saturday, February 2 @ 1-2 pm •iAii Be creative! Be constructive! Compete for prizes! The astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three el The Chicago Metro Chapter of the National generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a Association of Women in Construction is teenage girl. Calliope Stephanides begins to suspect that she is notsponsoring a building competition at the Oak like other girls, only to learn that she is not really a girl at all. )17 Brook Public Library. All materials will be provided at the event, including the LegoTM R`k Movie Matinee blocks used for project construction. Just bring your ,, imagination and join in the fun! The winning design will Airplane! - Wed., Feb. 27 @ 2 pm advance in the competition and be entered in the regional level of this event. For grades 1 -4. Registration is required. ..,, 4 An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an - - ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley. Junior High Scene INIMMI ranii/LAM MOIRE 0',..8R41O Rated PG, 88 minutes Join our Blockbuster Book Club! The Winter Reading program for Do youlike reading a good book and then sharing it with • others.r We will meet once per month to discuss a good book adults will run through March 2. ', while discovering fun facts about it as well as the This year's theme is • 7 author. Snacks will be provided. See the "Fly Away with Books". Circulation Desk for a copy of the book. it m' "V s shi�ar Escape the bitter cold to faraway = 1 Tuesday, February 26 @ 6:30 pm places and times! See the Reference ; ti ./,,,,pirh .ka , Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater desk for details and sign-up. j Youth Services Program Room efii'° :.I� Have You Tried Zinio Yet? Sampling of New and Upcoming Materials You can place your own "hold" on items checked out or on order Oak Book Public Library is happy to announce its new through our website www.oak-brook.org/library or stop by the database, Zinio! Zinio is known as the world's largest Reference Desk for assistance. newsstand, and boasts thousands of magazines for any smartphone or eReader with Internet access. OBPL currently Books has 35 of its most popular magazines available for use on PCs, Fiction Macs, iPhone, iPad,Android, Kindle Fire, and Blackberry Alexander, Victoria The Importance of Being Wicked Playbook, among others. Full magazines are available at the Benjamin, Melanie The Aviator's Wife click of a mouse, and can be downloaded for offline reading. For Cornwell, Bernard 1356 more information, see the Reference desk. Deveraux,Jude Moonlight Masquerade:A Novel Harris,Tessa The Dead Shall Not Rest Kenison, Katrina Magical Journey , y Z1I110t .�` Kevil,John The Last Dragon of Steeple Morden I the world s largest newsstand is now ony;_,,fGt'nrv's w, b»,t ! Knott, Robert Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse -i ' Koontz, Dean Odd Interlude Gift Books Donated to Leary,Ann The Good House Meier, Leslie Easter Bunny Murder Oak Brook Library O'Donnell, Lisa The Death of Bees in the month of January Quinn,Julia The Lady Most Willing:A Novel in Three Parts Rollins,James The Blood Gospel Valerie Stockton and family:Jon, Karla, Jesse and Giana donated Wingate, Lisa Firefly Island Duck, Duck, Goose, Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book, Black Dog, Nightsong, About Average, Katerina's Wish, The Marble Queen, Nonfiction Monsieur Marceau, Puss In Boots, and National Geographic Book Aikman, Becky Saturday Night Widows:The Adventures of Six of Animal Poetry in memory of Mary Helen MacDonald. Friends Remaking Their Lives I Bald,Vivek Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Prehistoric Elephants of DuPage County The America Bridges, Jeff The Dude and the Zen Master A Living History Program Co-Presented by The Fullersburg Diamond,Jared The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn Historic Foundation and The Salt Creek Greenway Association from Traditional Societies? Saturday, February 23, 2013–1:30 pm Helms, Cynthia An Intriguing Life:A Memoir of War,Washington, Oak Brook Public Library --> and Marriage to an American Spymaster Presenter:Jack MacRae, Naturalist ,� Kendrick,Alex The Love Dare Forest Preserve District of DuPage County ..' , n,,,,,':1,.....,;: Maloney,Alison Life Below Stairs Mullan,John What Matters in Jane Austen? Mammoths and Mastodons lived throughout DuPage County dating Myss, Caroline Archetypes:Who Are You? back to the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago. Learn how these fascinating Pogue, David iPhone:The Missing Manual relatives of present-day elephants thrived in a frigid environment,what Roberts, David Alone on the Ice:The Greatest Survival Story in the food they ate and what is believed to have caused their extinction History of Exploration about 11,000 years ago. Schulze, Franz Mies van der Rohe:A Critical Biography Remains of these ancient mammals have been recently discovered in Walter, Chip Last Ape Standing:The Seven-million-year Story of local excavations.Jack will bring along preserved examples of bones How and Why We Survived and teeth found in these digs as he takes us Wiseman, Richard The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach on a journey back to the Illinois of glacial times. to Changing Your Life For more information about this free educational program DVDs contact 630-512-7336 or 708-865-8736-www.fullersburg.org The Chicago 8 , -- -- — — — Denise Austen: Shrink Your 5 Fat Zones Dow\T0' ARRF\ Citizens for a Better Oak Brook Downton Abbey Season 3 Citizens for a Better Oak Brook is a political action committee devoted to Dredd ‘Ifliso.:.'0,–,;;ITitiv."0,,Lawless 1 providing information to voters in support of the April 9,2013 referenda. The PAC is holding seven outreach sessions at Oak Brook Public Library Liberal Arts .d . to explain the proposal to build a single K-8 grade school in District 53 and Mystery of Easter Island the benefits of a core/anchor at the Sports Core for all of Oak Brook, Pina The following sessions scheduled for February are: Taken 2 Saturday, Feb. 16–10 am-noon and 2 pm-4 pm for Taken 2 Brook Forest, Midwest Club,Old Oak Brook and York Woods Music Saturday, Feb.23–10 am-noon for Bocelli,Andrea Passione Ginger Creek,Hunter Trails,Saddle Brook and Trinity Lakes Buckcherry Confessions Four additional sessions are scheduled for March. For more information Eubanks, Kevin The Messenger email ABetterOakBrook@gmail.com. Various 12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT Adult programs 1 2 40 0 Children's Current Events 9:30 am 0 Block Kids so Young Adults Construction All ages in black 1 pm ...., 4+4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 r A Look at R.Harold O Toddling Twos 0 Grades K-2 Computer Class: Current Events 9:30 am The Secret to Smart Zook's Unique Storytime 10:30 am Storytime 4:30 pm Intro to Gmail Home Accessorizing Architecture Sahaja Meditation 4:30 pm T'ai Chi 2 pm 2 pm Dr.Mark Moy: First Aid 0 4:30 pm Terrific 3s and 4s 12:30 pm 3 pm Storytime 4:30 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm O. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 o Toddling Twos 0 Grades K-2 Computer Class: Current Events 9:30 am Storytime 10:30 am Storytime 4:30 pm Intro to Facebook Sahaja Meditation 4:30 pm 4:30 pm 0 Terrific 3s and 4s Knit Pickers 7 pm Storytime 4:30 pm 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Our Lady of Angels 0 Toddling Twos 0 Grades K-2 Computer Class: Current Events 9:30 am School Fire of 1958 Storytime 10:30 am Storytime 4:30 pm Intro to MS Word 2m 4:30pm Chair Yoga p Sahaja Meditation 12:30 pm 2 4:30 pm 0 Terrific 3s and 4s Knit Pickers 7 pm Storytime 4:30 pm 24 25 26 27 28 0 Learn to Draw Birds Sahaja Meditation Movie Matinee- Computer Class: 2 pm 4:30 pm Airplane!2 pm MS Word Intermediate 0 Blockbuster Book 4:30 pm Club 6:30 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm OBPL Book Discussion 8pm