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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-08 Oak Brook Public Iihrar ' Ledccn Library 600 Oak Brook Road - Oak Brook, Illinois 60523 630-368-7700 - www.oak-brook.org/library Volume 12, Issue 8 August 20I 4 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. Closed Sunday* *open Sundays between Labor and Memorial Day Saturday, August 9 @ 2 pm Library Closed on Monday, Pianist Robyn Vitson September 1 for Labor Day Robyn is a known as an accomplished and popular Chicago area vocalist, pianist, accompanist, as well as a respected piano educator. She has put i Department Numbers together a program of standards from Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Circulation 630-368-7702 Gershwin and some familiar Broadway tunes!Sponsored by the Friends of Reference 630-368-7725 the Oak Brook Library Youth Services 630-368-7733 hursday,August 14 @ 7 pm Library Commission Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Roberta Petz, Chairperson - Learn about the fascinating history of acupuncture. In early days, Anthony DiCanio Susan Epstein acupuncture was used to treat common ailments such as fever, infections, Jeffry Franklin Andrea Holt and even wounds.Also known as Oriental Medicine, its origin goes back 3000 years in early Veena Mendiratta Hope Sabbagha China. Learn about this ancient medical practice and its uses today. Commission Meetings Thursday,August 21 @ 7 pm Tuesdays @ 7 pm The Sandwich Generation: Balancing Aging Parents and Busy Families September 16 What happens when your parents start to decline and you are faced with the November 18 realization that they need more care than you are capable of providing? Perhaps you are looking at retiring yourself. What should you be doing to prepare?Learn what options are available to address present and future Follow us online needs. The Senior Resource Alliance of Chicagoland is a panel of experts in www.oak-brook.org/library the areas of finance,estate planning, housing and health care options.Join us ��+ twitter @oakbrooklibrary as we discuss the challenges facing the"Sandwich Generation". Facebook Mondays, August 4, 11, 18, 25 @ 6 pm-Sahaja Yoga Meditation youth services blog: Sahaja is a unique method of meditation based on an experience called Self Realization. oakbrookpubliciibraryblog.blogspot.com Movie Matinee Wednesdays in August @ 1 pm staff picks blog: August 6-DisneyNature:Earth oakbrooklibrarypicks.wordpress.com August 13-DisneyNature:Oceans August 20- Whale Rider � August 27-Erin Brockovitch Sunday, September 7 @ 2 pm Medical Marijuana Dr. Mark Moy returns with another fascinating medical presentation. Dr. Moy will talk about medical marijuana: its history, its medical uses and the national discussion surrounding it. { Computer Classes Attention All Readers! Registration and Internet Privileges Required Summer Reading Clubs Monday, August 4 @ 1 pm - Database Searching Don't forget that both Adult and Children's Summer Reading Want help planning a trip or finding a"Consumer Report" Club end on Saturday, August 2. Be sure to turn in your recommendation? Perhaps you want to get the most up-to-date completed book logs for prizes! financial information on a mutual fund or stock. Learn to search more effectively to find the information you need. Thank you to Our Summer Monday, August 18 @ 1 pm - Intro to MS Word 2010 j Reading Sponsors: Participants will learn to start up and shut down MS Word, understand how typing on a computer differs from using a Friends of the Oak Brook Public Library typewriter, change the"look" or format of the text, use spell check, I Buona Restaurants save and print a document. Chicago Red Stars Monday, August 25 @ 1 pm - MS Word 2010 Continues Classic Cinemas Learn to create headers and footers, insert, move and resize Corner Bakery Cafe of Oak Brook graphics, apply bullets and numbering features, columns and much Culver's Lombard more. Kuipers' Family Farm Kane County Cougars ! _� 1 Meatheads of Elmhurst 4/ ,I j Once Upon a Child of Oak Brook I _ Schaumburg Boomers . ''t Sky Zone of Elmhurst True Balance Karate Looking for more computer classes? LearningExpress is HERE! Backpack Safety Thursday, August 7 @ 3 pm ; f,., • Do you want to practice for an upcoming test? OR4 z*' • Learn how to improve your skills on the computer? Monday, August 18 @ 7 pm , 0 • Get help with your resume and cover letter? As kids are preparing to head back to school,we invite parents and Check out our new database and try one of the interactive children to attend this informational seminar. Illinois Spinal Care of tutorials. For more information, contact the Reference Desk Elmhurst will be here to offer suggestions for children carrying at 630-368-7725 or visit www.oak-brook.org/databases. backpacks.They will assist students with proper backpack adjustments - — to avoid potential spinal problems as a result of carrying backpacks rincorrectly or using ones that are too heavy. Bingo Registration is required.Bring your backpack! Friday, August 8 @ 3-4 pm Looking for something to do?Join us for .,a-"c' „...,...0,41r afternoon bingo! Bring a friend or two and �` y Read to a Dog have an enjoyable time that offers fun and "= a wide assortment of prizes. All agesji, Tuesday, August 5 7-8 pm welcome. No registration required. g @ Thursday, August 14 @ 2-3 pm ' ::, The Daydream ream The Hinsdale Humane Society's ` R.E.A.D. (Reading Education Assistance '''°' - ', Monday, August 11@ 7-8pm Dogs) program brings us teams of I t 41 ;` trained owners and their Delta-registered The Daydream is a music group for kids dogs to work with children on reading4f, . " -7 - consisting of Scott and Cathy Liebenow -> s and their kids, McKenna, Mark, and Mia. ~ skills. This is an opportunity for children tt ` Over the years Scott and Cathy have to practice their reading skills with the afaiko best, nonjudgmental listener of all. written over 100 kids songs for various publications and recordings. Beginning readers and up welcome. The Daydream's performance will consist of original songs from Registration is required. their CD,which was released by Big Round Records in the Spring. The songs are fun, engaging, and very musical.Attendees can expect an interactive performance using sing-alongs, props, humor, Youth Book Discussion and maybe even some gymnastics. .:\ Thursday, August 7 @ 4 pm Audience members of all ages will get a kick out of children Join us for this month's selection, The Graveyard playing instruments and they will even be hearing some songs that Book.We will discuss facts about the book as well are familiar. It will be so much fun, you won't want to leave. - as the author, Neil Gaiman. Snacks will be provided! Little ones will love this! Registration is required. ' m See the Circulation Desk for a copy of the book. Recommended for grades 5 and Up A.D.D. Just Does Not Add Up! Sampling of New and Upcoming Materials You can place your own "hold" on items checked out or on order Thursday, August 28 @ 6:30-7:30 through our website www.oak-brook.org/library or stop by the Reference Desk for assistance. Can you distinguish between A.D.D. and a vision problem? Many doctors, educators and parents express growing Books concern at the increasing number of young people being put Fiction on powerful medication for Attention Deficit Disorder, a Akhtiorskaya,Yelena Panic in a Suitcase condition often identified only by vague symptoms. Barclay, Linwood No Safe House Cambron,Kristy The Butterfly and the Violin Come learn current facts as the Feather,Jane Trapped at the Altar Clarendon Vision Development Feldman,Stephanie The Angel of Losses Centerpresents a workshopon Gordon, Mary The Liar's Wife / ice' Griffin,W.E.B. TopSecret how to assess, test for, and distinguish visual conditions t Henriquez,Cristina The Book of Unknown Americans that mimic or complicate A.D.D. "- Makkai,Rebecca The Hundred-Year House Mark,David Sorrow Bound McCallin,Luke The Pale House At our Stuffed Animal Sleepover Program, local kids Morgan,Sarah Suddenly Last Summer dropped off their favorite stuffed pals for a night of Tremayne,Peter Atonement of Blood:A Mystery of Ancient Ireland fun, games, and reading! Weaver,Tim Never Coming Back Yanique,Tiphanie Land of Love and Drowning , t` Nonfiction 1,,� a , t ,,� � Bates,Stephen The Poisoner:The Life and Crimes of Victorian Eng- 7 -, , land's Most Notorious Doctor 44 74.1%,, 4.'i Brierly,Saroo A Long Way Home v its �`� -,-- -'44'--- Drayton,Joanne The Search for Anne Perry Frazee,Hank Before We Say"Goodnight" } ;.: l''''..;`,„„ Hales, Dianne Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered ivi Ham,Paul Hiroshima Nagasaki 'z ,> i., x Kessler,Ronald The First Family Detail:Secret Service Agents Reveal - ',, the Hidden Lives of the Presidents � � Klein, Edward Blood Feud:The Clintons vs.the Obamas .,,,,, - ,:--: t.0 ( j LaHaye,Tim The Book of Revelation Made Clear:Understanding the Most Mysterious Book of the Bible Maclntyre,Ben A Spy Among Friends:Kim Philby and the Great Be- . trayal Mallen,Jenny I Like You Just the Way I Am:Stories About Me and Some Other People Perlstein,Rick The Invisible Bridge:The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of The Fullersburg Historic Foundation Reagan Presents a Living History Program Sides, Hampton In the Kingdom of Ice:The Grand and Terrible Polar "The Election of 1864" Voyage of the USS Jeannette Bruce S. Allardice, Professor of History, Stavans,Ilan A Most Imperfect Union:A Contrarian History of the South Suburban College, Speaker United States Saturday, August 23 @ 1:30 pm Thorpe,Helen Soldier Girls:The Battles of Three Women at Home Oak Brook Public Library and at War Perhaps the one fleeting chance the Confederacy had to win DD s e Angriest Man in Brooklyn the war occurred in 1864,when Northern voters were forced Dishkiyaoon to decide, by their votes, whether to continue the war. Divergent The Lunchbox ... The contest between President Lincoln, committed pro-war Lone SurvivorLUNEs'JRVVOR • Republican, and Democrat George McClellan, uncertain in Need for Speed politics as he was in generalship, played out against a Noah °tVENT ' backdrop of the ever-widening war. This was perhaps the Oculus __ most important election in U.S. history. The Other Woman Did McClellan have a real chance :,!-,.. , - Transcendence to win? If he had won, what might o �• Music have been the consequences for W Clapton, Eric Eric Clapton&Friends:The Breeze the war, and for the Union? Expect f r, Mraz,Jason Yes! some unexpected answers from a ! `,,.. . Smith,Sam In the Lonely Hour this talk. Call 630-512-7336 with Theory of a Deadman Savages questions. www.fullersburq.orq x — Tom Petty&The Heartbreakers Hypnotic Eye SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT Adult programs 1 2 ©Children's Current Events 9:30 am wig Young Adults All ages in black .a ;ter ;; U :. -%agge6g 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Library Closed Computer Class: 0 Read to a Dog 7 pm Movie Matinee: 0 Backpack Safety Current Events 9:30 am Robyn Vitson Database Searching 1 pm Disneynature:Earth 3 pm ©Bingo 3-4 pm 2 pm Sahaja Meditation 6 pm Knit Pickers 7 pm 1 pm . Book Discussion 4 pm S 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Library Closed Sahaja Meditation Knit Pickers 7 pm Movie Matinee: ©Read to a Dog 2 pm Current Events 9:30 am 6 pm Disneynature:Oceans 0 The Daydream 7 pm 1 pm Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 7 pm 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2 Library Closed Computer Class: Movie Matinee: The Sandwich Current Events 9:30 am Intro to MS Word 2010 Knit Pickers 7 pm Whale Rider Generation 1 pm 1 pm 7 pm 0 Sahaja Meditation 6 pm 0 Backpack Safety 7 pm 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Library Closed Computer Class: Knit Pickers 7 pm Movie Matinee: 0 A.D.D.Just Does Current Events 9:30 am MS Word 2010 Continues Erin Brockovitch Not Add Up!6:30 pm1 31 1 pm 1 pm Library Closed Sahaja Meditation 6 pm