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This is the season for giving!
Here is a great gift idea--for everyone on all occasions.
Make a donation to the Library Book Fund and a bookplate in honor of the person or occasion will be placed in a specially chosen book, DVD, or a book on CD.
What an opportunity!
And a shopping time-saver!
This is your chance to give a gift to be enjoyed by everyone in Madison & it's tax deductible. Donate here..... |
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Tax Forms Available Here |
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Tax forms are located in the back of the Reference area
on the main floor.
You may also find information and download tax forms from the following websites:
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Galleries in Motion Starts January 15 |
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Friends Sponsor Art Slide Lecture Series
"  Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night, 1889, Museum of Modern Art
Galleries in Motion 26th Year
Art Slide Lecture Series with Joy Marie Pepe
Associate Professor, Art History, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Following the heyday of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism combined a sense of formal artistic properties with expressive looseness. Scenes of city and country life were rendered with detached formalism, expressive naturalism, or symbolic abstraction. This lecture series explores the lives and works of four of the most important Post-Impressionists, and their legacy: some of the best-known paintings in Western art.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Van Gogh's life and work is a story of pain and exclusion, but also triumph, as he captured the inter-related, swirling lives of nature and humankind.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2-3 p.m.
at the Scranton Library, Madison
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Seurat's cerebral images portraying the leisure of Parisian life were achieved through an intensive study of color and the precision of pointillist technique.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2-3 p.m.
at the Scranton Library, Madison
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
A quest to paint the purity of an untainted civilization led the urbane Gauguin from Paris to the countryside of Brittany, and ultimately to the South Pacific.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2-3 p.m.
at the Guilford Free Library Temporary Location
20 Carter Drive, off Goose Lane, I-95 Exit 59, Guilford
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Often called the precursor of twentieth-century Cubism, Cezanne's intensive study of form reflected his deliberations about the nature of perception.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2-3 p.m.
at the Guilford Free Library Temporary Location
20 Carter Drive, off Goose Lane, I-95 Exit 59, Guilford
All Programs are free. Everyone welcome. Refreshments.
Sponsored by: Friends of the Guilford Free Library 453-8282 and
Friends of the Scranton Library 245-7365
Snow date for a cancelled program is:
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at the Guilford Library Temporary Location,
20 Carter Drive, off Goose Lane I-95 Exit 95, Guilford.
Georges Seurat: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,
1884-86, Art Institute of Chicago
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Online Databases Offer Teen Help |
| by Jen Matteis
The Source
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Expanded Library Services on the Internet
The Scranton Library recently purchased online database subscriptions to the Teen Health and Wellness Database and World Book Online.
The Teen Health database supplies teens with accurate, up-to-date information and self-help tools on topics like disease, drugs, nutrition, fitness, and family life. The database includes interactive quizzes and links to 24-hour crisis hotlines. The content is geared toward grades 7 and up-middle school and high school.
"The database addresses issues that kids might want to deal with privately, such as body image, puberty, and acne, through crisp interface and clear dialogue. It's a great way to give the kids some privacy but provide the information in a format they are probably more comfortable with," said Chris Angeli, the Teen Librarian.
"It's a great, great service", she added. I think it 's a terrific thing especially with this demographic who can't get to the library on their own"
The World Book Online is also now available at Scranton; you might remember the old World Book Encyclopedia. "It is now online with much expanded content," Angeli said. The new content includes material for elementary students, middle and high school students, and adults, such as a Spanish language encyclopedia.
Other databases include Testing and Education Reference Center containing college, civil service exams, and school testing information and practice exams, business databases such as Reference USA, and iConn a database of full-text magazines and newspapers.
Full text ebooks and audio book downloads are also available. "Information comes in many different forms now," Angeli explained. "The book form isn't necessarily the most current or the most user- friendly.
The databases can be accessed directly from a patron's home or office computer at any time using a library barcode from your Scranton Libary card.
"Library services don't end just because the Library closes."
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phone: 203-245-7365
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