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In this Issue:
· Thanks for helping...
· Dear Diary
· Your Library—Connected to Your Community
· Learn Yerself a New Language with Mango
· Pirate Titles
· Costume Jewelry Sale
Event Schedules:
Beavercreek Calendar
Cedarville Calendar
Fairborn Calendar
Jamestown Calendar
Winters-Bellbrook Calendar
Xenia Calendar
Yellow Springs Calendar
Library Locations:
Beavercreek Library
3618 Dayton-Xenia Rd.
(937) 352-4001
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sun., 1-5 p.m. (Sept. - May)
Cedarville Library
20 South Miller Street
(937) 352-4006
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Fairborn Library
1 East Main Street
(937) 878-9383
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sun., 1-5 p.m. (Sept. - May)
Jamestown Library
86 Seaman Drive
(937) 352-4005
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Winters-Bellbrook Library
57 West Franklin Street
(937) 352-4004
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Xenia Library
76 E. Market Street
(937) 352-4000
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sun., 1-5 p.m. (Sept. - May)
Yellow Springs Library
415 Xenia Avenue
(937) 352-4003
Mon., noon-8 p.m.
Tues., noon-8 p.m.
Wed., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thurs., noon-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sun., 1-5 p.m. (Sept. - May)
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Thanks for helping...
Help your favorite library location win the Lego Read, Build, Play competition. The top voted library gets $5,000 and the top 200 get literacy tool kits. As of Thursday afternoon, all locations are in the top 200 with Fairborn at #17, Xenia at #15, Beavercreek at #9, and Yellow Springs at #28. We are well on our way to #1! Let's keep it up.
Submit your vote now. It takes less than a minute.
You can submit a vote once per 24-hour period, from each of your web browsers, through October 1, 2012.
After you vote, tell your friends and be sure to check out the LEGO DUPLO Parent Activity Guide (PDF) for inspiration at home.
Dear Diary
By Tamar Kreke, Adult Services Coordinator
When you watched the movie based on a blog, Julie & Julia, did you imagine your own blog, journal, or diary being brought to life on the big screen? There’s something about watching a person’s life play out on screen that captivates us. The character who keeps a diary is just like us—a person with dreams and musings and memories worth preserving. Using a diary to tell a story makes the character and their life more believable. The diary is also a great way to get into a character’s head. It tells us the character’s feelings and thoughts in their own voice.
The same could be said for books written in diary format. We enjoy the intimacy of reading someone’s published chronicles and watching them in Technicolor. The diary-as-a-novel, also known as a form of the epistolary novel, has been around for some time. One such classic example is Bram Stoker’s Dracula (which also uses letters and newspaper clippings to tell the story). The epistolary novel is a nice break from the usual beach read with regular chapters. Passages tend to be shorter and more engaging. Here are some examples of stories from real or fictional diaries to entertain and inspire you:
Adult:
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Diary Of A Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
 The Diary by Eileen Goudge
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Bridget Jones’s Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas: A Novel by James Patterson
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
Teen:
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Party Princess by Meg Cabot
Spud by John Van De Ruit
Juvenile:
Dork Diaries: Tales From A Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renee Russell
Egyptian Diary: The Journal Of Nakht by Richard Platt
Pirate Diary: The Journal Of Jake Carpenter by Richard Platt
The Totally Made-Up Civil War Diary Of Amanda Macleish by Claudia Mills
Movies:
Diary Of A Mad Black Woman, Lions Gate Films
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, 20th Century Fox; Fox 2000 Pictures
Freedom Writers, Paramount Pictures; Double Feature Films
My Week With Marilyn, The Weinstein Company And BBC Films
The Rum Diary, Film District And GK Films/Infinitum Nihil/Film Engine Production
Youth In Revolt: The Journals Of Nick Twisp, C. D. Payne
Your Library—Connected to Your Community
In years past the library has reported record circulation numbers and statistics. This year is no different. People are consuming media more than ever. Last year we topped 100,000 GCPL cardholders—that’s two out of three Greene County residents. But coming from one of the smartest library districts in the nation according to American Libraries this is no real surprise. The real story here is in what is being checked out and how it is being checked out.
Increasingly important in today’s society is the ability to connect with others through the community and its social networking tools. The success of GCPL in terms of digital literacy is the real story here. Without compromising our stellar in-person service, we have dramatically increased our web presence. The numbers tell the story: With the average in-house internet session lasting about 45 minutes, our patrons logged on for enough hours to fill 11.5 years—keep in mind that is only during the hours that the library was open in one year. On top of that we had a total of 870,000 visits to our library homepage. So what were our patrons doing? Staying connected. Over 600,000 items were renewed online. Well over 36,000 e-materials were downloaded—more than double from 2010. And with 34,000 e-items already downloaded this year, we are poised to double the number of checkouts again. Patrons looked for jobs, learned languages, watched DIY tutorials, and researched big purchases using our myriad of databases.
Even our social media presence has expanded. We began 2011 with less than a thousand Facebook friends & gained over 3,500. Photos of our 2,300 programs displayed on our Flickr account were viewed 800,000 times. Halfway through 2012, we are already looking at another year of becoming more connected with the community.
Learn Yerself a New Language with Mango
By Walker D. Plank esq., Resident Language Expert
Ahoy me hearty!
Want to speak in the tongue of the pirate? National Talk Like a Pirate Day be growin’ nigh. ‘Tis just over the horizon on the nineteenth of September. Learnin’ pirate be easy through Mango, the library’s online language tutorial. It be true that Mango offers plenty o other tongues includin’ French, German, Latin, an Russian. But why be rushin’ when ye got the time to learn yerself some pirate? Arh arh arh.
With over 40 languages to choose from, Mango’s got something to strike yer fancy. Tutorials be appropriate fer all ages from the young scallywag to the older landlubber. Just go to the library website an click on the “Services” tab, then go to “Language Learning.” After ye register, Mango begins to learn ye away.
As part of yer learnin’ you’ll hear accents, remember parts of speech, and get to know the culture you’re studyin’. Mango even gives ye fun facts ‘bout the language. Fer example, a curt pirate greetin’ is “avast,” whilst a happy greetin’ is “ahoy!”
The online guides be easy to use with voice over instruction and quizzes to test ye knowledge. After a few lessons you’ll be ready to sail the high seas. Mango also offers apps fer ye mobile device—they be so fine I call em treasure apps! Arh arh arh.
Keep an eye out for my Pirate Librarian videos that be airin’ on the library’s YouTube channel from September 17-21 in honor of International Talk like a Pirate Day. So belay yer carousin’ an’ join in the swashbucklin’.
Pirate Titles
Adult Fiction:
The Mountain of Gold by J. D. Davies
Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe
Teen Fiction:
The Sea Wolves by Christopher Golden & Tim  Lebbon
The Price of Freedom by A. C. Crispin
Juvenile Fiction:
Fish by Gregory Mone
Pirate Pete’s Talk Like a Pirate by Kim Kennedy
Costume Jewelry Sale
Looking for some great costume jewelry? Look no further than the Greene County Library Foundation’s Costume Jewelry Sale. The sale, held at the Xenia Community Library, will have a wide selection of jewelry—everything from wris*censored*ches to earrings. The Costume Jewelry Sale is also a good opportunity for crafters to scout out some interesting pieces.
The sale is on Friday, November 30, from 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday, December 1, from 10 am to 3 pm. Proceeds benefit the Library Foundation.
If you have any jewelry donations, please take them to any Greene County Public Library location.
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