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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-10 Oak Brook Public Iihrdr! I1edCCfl Library Mal 600 Oak Brook Road - Oak Brook, Illinois 60523 630-368-7700 - www.oak-brook.org/library Volume I I, Issue 10 October 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* `closed Sundays between Memorial and Labor Day Sahaja Meditation Mondays in October @ 6 pm Department Numbers Sahaja is a unique method of meditation based on an experience called Circulation 630-3687702 r _n: ,N1 Self Realization.An inner transformation takes place through this process, Reference 630-368-7725 resulting in a more balanced individual. Youth Services 630-368-7733 Suzanne Zaccone: A Random Interruption Library Commission Saturday, October 5 @ 2 pm Roberta Petz, President In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month Suzanne Zaccone, author Anthony DiCanio Susan Epstein of A Random Interruption:Surviving Breast Cancer with Laughter, Jeffry Franklin Andrea Holt Vodka, Smoothies and an Attitude will be presenting her book as well Veena Mendiratta Hope Sabbagha as talking about her experience going through cancer.Join Suzanne as she makes you laugh while talking about herself and answering Commission Meetings questions. There will also be an opportunity to buy her book.All _._..- Tuesdays @ 7 pm proceeds of the book go to the University of Chicago Cancer Center to fund a fellow in microsurgery in breast cancer reconstruction and your purchase is tax deductible. November 19, 2013 Follow us online Piano Classics: Anatoliy Torchinskiy Sunday, October 6 @ 2 pm www.oak-brook.orgflibrary Oak Brook Public Library is pleased to welcome back esteemed pianist, twitter @oakbrooklibrary Anatoliy Torchinskiy.A native of Kiev, Mr. Torchinskiy has lived in the Facebook = US since 1992, earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance. He has won many awards and competitions and is known as both a youth services blog: performer and accompanist. Mr. Torchinskiy has performed in Italy, New York, Michigan aakbrookpubliclibraryblog.blogspot.com and Wisconsin as well as the Chicago area with companies such as Corneto Opera, and staff picks blog: Genesis Opera and has played live on WFMT radio. oakbrookiibrarypicks.wordpress.com Bill Gramas: What Is Inflation, Deflation, and the Consumer Price Index?- Thursday. October 17 e„. 7 pm Financial expert Bill Gramas will discuss America's current financial situation _- and what factors have led to it. This multi-part informative program will help simplify the complex financial issues facing our nation today. In this portion, he will investigate the effect of inflation, deflation and CPI on our everyday - decisions and the decisions of those in power. Can inaccurate data result in - wrong decisions?Attend to find out! Questions are welcome. Friends of the Library Evergreen Concert The Merling Trio - "Hungarian Flavor" Sunday, October 27 @ 3 pm Computer Classes Children's Programs n Registration and Internet Privileges Required Storytime Schedule _41 Thursday, Oct 3 @ 2 pm -OBPL Database Searching y v: Want help planning a trip or finding a "Consumer Report" Terrific 3s and 4s recommendation? Perhaps you want to get the most up-to-date Wednesdays @ 4:30 pm - October 2, 9, and 16 financial information on a mutual fund or stock. Learn to search Preschoolers will wiggle and giggle in this fun-filled more effectively to find the information you need. story time. Activities, crafts, music, and lively stories strengthen early reading skills. Children must be 3 by Monday, Oct 7 @ 12 pm -Gmail and Google Calendar September 1, 2013. Registration required. Have a Gmail account but don't know how to utilize Google's best features? Topics included in this class are: attaching and Grades K - downloading files, creating labels and folders, organizing Mondays @ 4:30 pm - October 7, and 14 contacts, using the calendar and much more. Prerequisite: Are you nuts about books and art? Then join us for this This class requires a current Gmail account(please bring wonderful storytime. We will read a story and then do an with you the correct username and password to log into art project inspired by the book. Please register early! your Gmail account). Bedtime Stories for ages 3 - ' Thursday, Oct 17 @ 2 pm - Intro to Facebook Tuesdays @ 7 pm - October 1, 8, and 15 Have a Facebook account but don't know how to utilize its best Join us before bedtime each week for fun features? This class is for learning the basics and beyond of Facebook, such as posting and commenting on pictures, adding stories, some music, and a simple craft. friends and writing on their walls, sending private messages, Registration required. "liking" things, and much more. Prerequisite: This class requires a current Facebook account(please bring with you Special Events the correct email and password to log into your Facebook account). Young Artist's Workshop with Terri Murphy: Halloween Pop-Up Card Monday, Oct 21 @ 12 pm - Intro to MS Word 2010 Sunday, October 20 @ 2-3:30 pm Participants will learn to start up and shut down MS Word, Celebrate this spooky holiday by creating understand how typing on a computer differs from using a your very own pop-up card. Vintage typewriter, change the"look" or format of the text, use spell cards and elaborate pop-up books will be check, save and print a document. on hand. There will also be a short presentation on the history of pop-ups. Terri Murphy is a Thursday, Oct 24 @ 12 pm - MS Word 2010 Continues children's librarian and picture book illustrator who offers Learn to create headers and footers, insert, move and resize traveling workshops designed to inspire young creative graphics, apply bullets and numbering features, columns and minds. much more. Ages 7-12. Registration required. Space limited! Ohl Sft Balloon-Making Workshop Saturday, October 26 @ 2-3 pry , , r Get creative with one of the most serious, h and challenging art forms: balloon art. At this Movie Matinee workshop you can engage in learning how to make your own balloon creation, as well as Bram Stoker's D ra c u I a watch other pieces of balloon art be made, before your very eyes! So, do you think you Wednesday, October 30 @ 1 pm have what it takes? Is this a serious life-calling for you? New Time!!! Sign up and find out! Ages 7-12. Registration required. Space limited! A young lawyer(Jonathan Harker)is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Teen Read Week Dracula,who travels to London, inspired by a October 13-19 photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, Teen Read Week is a time to celebrate reading for fun. draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Please check with the Youth Services Department soon Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive for special activities planned during this week. Dracula away. / Starring Gary Oldman,Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves TUN WEEK Rated R; 128 minutes; 1992 ,� v Library Book Discussions Sampling of New and Upcoming Materials You can place your own "hold" on items checked out or on order Adult !through our website www.oak-brook.org/library or stop by the Are you fed up with the "book club" that is really just a Reference Desk for assistance. gossip group? The OBPL Book Discussion is the real Books deal, where we read great literature and eye-opening Fiction non-fiction. We share our thoughts and get a variety of Baker, Kevin The Big Crowd perspectives from our diverse members. Bonne, Mirko The Ice-Cold Heaven NN i ICI Wild by Cheryl Strayed Carey,Jacqueline Autumn Bones Christie,Judy Sweet Olive 1 catTuesday, October 22 @ 7:30 pm Greer,James Everything Flows tat You may pick up a reserved copy of the Hall,ry, Gill TheDresHived to Kill book at the Circulation Desk. Hornby, Gill Hive h n1�ira,x�l i King, Cassandra Moonrise Lewis,Timothy Forever Friday Junior High Mayor,Archer Three Can Keep a Secret Do you like reading a book and then sharing it with others? Naslund, Sena The Fountain of St.James Court: Or, Portrait of the We meet once per month to discuss good books. Not only Artist as an Old Woman will we talk about the stories and characters, but we will Nowak, Pamela Changes also discover fun facts about each book as well as the Pynchon,Thomas Bleeding Edge authors. Snacks will be provided. Grades 5 and Up Searles,John Help for the Haunted Wagner, David Cold Tuscan Stone:A Rick Montoya Italian Mystery --=•a Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz Thursday, October 24 @ 4 pm Nonfiction You may pick up a reserved copy of the Barnes,JuliancParklaLevelsnd dof Life < Bugliosi, Vincent Parkland a y� book at the Circulation Desk. Burton, Fred Under Fire Dedman, Bill Empty Mansions The OBPL discussion groups are always happy to have p y new members and new voices. For more information, or Durant,John The Paleo Manifesto:Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong to view this year's reading lists, please see the Reference Health or Youth desks for help. Ephron, Delia Sister Mother Husband Dog Ferling,John Jefferson and Hamilton Gift Books Donated to Oak Brook Fink,Sheri Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital Library in the month of August Gomes, Laurentino 1808:The Flight of the Emperor King, Greg The Assassination of the Archduke Connie Vacco donated Brilliant Blunders:From Darwin to of% Mueller-Hill,Werner The True German:The Diary of a World War II Einstein-Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Military Judge ` Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe and ; Paul, Ron The School Revolution:A New Answer for Our The Inheritor's Powder:A Tale of Arsenic,Murder,and the Broken Education System New Forensic Science in memory of Richard J.Vacco,MD. Salter, Mary Jo Nothing by Design 'Shields, David Salinger The Fullersburg Historic Foundation presents Time Magazine The 100 Most Influential People Who Never Lived "First Families of Old Fullersburg"� with speaker, Sandra Brubaker, DVDs former Executive Director of the Graue Mill and Museum Sunday, Ancient Earth Collection 04, October 13th @ 2 pm Behind the Candelabra at Oak Brook Public Library Chicago Fire-The Complete 1st Season Glee-The Complete 4th Season u t `� The two family names most familiar to visitors to present-day Leviathan Fullersburg are Fuller and Graue. Benjamin Fuller was one of the first settlers to arrive and platted the town of Fullersburg in 1851. Frederick Mary andMartha Graue constructed the grist mill in 1852 which still stands today on Salt Modern Fymsy-The Complete 4th Season Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's ; Creek. War of the Buttons Find out what other families made the trek westward to create a better World War Z f life in the Illinois territory just opened for settlement in 1833.Join Sandy as she shares stories about the early settlers and prominent citizens of Music Fullersburg. Haim Days Are Gone Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull l is wr' She will paint a picture of life as it changed from Native American Monae,Janelle The Electric Lady ,rtrrle161/rrc encampments to pioneer farms to the bustling town of Fullersburg. Sebadoh Defend Yourself ,w Call for information: 630-512-7336 Urban, Keith Fuse 0 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 ©Bedtime Stories 7 pm Computer Class: Current Events 9:30 am Suzanne Zaccone:A ©Terrific 3s and 4s OBPL Database Random Interruption Knit Pickers 7 pm 4:30 pm Searching 2 pm 2 pm 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 0 Piano Classics: Computer Class: ©Bedtime Stories 7 pm Current Events 9:30 am Anatoliy Torchinskiy Gmail and Google ©Terrific 3s and 4s 2 pm Calendar 12 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm 4:30 pm ©Storytime K-2 4:30 pm 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ©Storytime K-2 ©Bedtime Stories 7 pm ©Terrific 3s and 4s Computer Class: Current Events 9:30 am 4:30 pm 4:30 pm Intro to Facebook Sahaja Meditation 6 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm 2 pm What Is Inflation,Defla- tion,and the Consumer Price Index?7 pm 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ©Halloween Computer Cla :,. Knit Pickers 7 pm Computer Class: Current Events 9:30 am ©Balloon-Making Pop-Up Card Intro to MS Word 2010 MS Word 2010 Workshop 2 pm 12 pm Adult Book Discussion Continues 12 pm 2 pm 7:30 pm Sahaja Meditation 6 pm Iwo Junior High Book Discussion 4 pm0 27 28 29 30 31 Adult programs Evergreen Concert: Sahaja Meditation 6 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm Movie Matinee: Happy Halloween! ©Children's The Merling Trio Bram Stoker's Dracula figa Young Adults 3 pm 1 pm All ages in black n'_.'..nwri tw : a