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February, 2012
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Avalon Free Public Library Newsletter
A Library Journal Five - Star Library
609-967-7155
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Preschool Story Time
Tues & Thurs, 10:00am
Wii Games with Zach
3:15 - 4:45pm
Feb 8 & 22 |
| Ongoing |
Avalon Knitters Mondays, 3:30 --- Library Book Club 6:00pm, 2nd Wed. 2/15 Latest Book --- Italian Culture 3:30-4:30pm, 2nd Wed. - 2/8 --- Scrabble Club 6-8pm, 2nd & 4th Mon. - 2/13-27 |
| User Groups | |
Mac Users:
2nd Monday
6:15-7:45pm
2/13
iPods & iTunes ---
PC Users: 3rd Monday 6:15-7:45pm 2/20 New computer? 5 steps to take before using it. --- Digital Camera Users 4th Monday 6:15-7:45pm 2/27 Free and inexpensive photo editing software --- Smart Phone Users 1st Monday 6:15-7:45 2/6 iPhones (6:15-7) Droids and Windows (7-7:45) |
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Do not use the iScale App!
iPad Workshops with Harry Keyser
Have questions about your new iPad? Need a basic primer? Stop by with your questions and iPad on February 7 or 28th. Registration for workshop not required. 4:30pm, Tuesday, February 7 & 28
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Check Equipment Prior to the Webinar
February Webinars
Explore Google and Cloud services (February 16), learn where you can get free eBooks and how to download them (February 18), and learn about all the information and entertaiment eResources available through the libraries website (February 23). Register online only.
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No need to dog-ear pages anymore!
eReader Users Group with Greg Foote
Bring your Kindle, Nook, Sony, or other eReaders with your questions.
6:15-7:45pm, Tuesday, February 21
You can also make an appointment to talk to one of our staff members who is familiar with your eReader model. (609)-967-7155
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The Element of Shape
Art Appreciation Lecture Series with Prof. Cheryl Crews
Explore the treatment of shape throughout art history with discussion and slide show of paintings and sculpture. For adults and teens (16+) 6:30-7:30pm, Tuesday, Feb. 7 |
Book Club Discussion
with Melanie Matt, Facilitator
February's book for discussion is Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Pre-registration is required. NY Times review.
6pm, Wednesday, February 15
The discussion book for March is The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. NY Times review.
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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!
Documentary, Dinner & a Side of Discussion
 Fondly described as "Talladega Nights meets Catcher in the Rye," Racing Dreams" chronicles a year in the life of three tweens who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. Though they aren't old enough for driver's licenses, Brandon, Josh and Annabeth race extreme go-karts at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series, the "Little League" of professional racing. Filmmaker Marshall Curry. The library's showing is in advance of the actual PBS broadcast on February 23. 6pm, Thursday, February 9 |
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Net Picks
The Top 100 Websites for 2011 according to PC Magazine. Time Magazine had its own list. Forbes published the top 100 websites for women. Nerds Magazine has generated a list of the 10 Best PC Games Review Websites of 2012
Wonder How To - The mission of this site is to aggregate and link to authoritative and free videos which will help you learn new skills. Perhaps the site will help you to learn the 50 things you should know how to do.
Sounds of New Jersey is a collection of video and audio clips of great musical talents that came out of New Jersey.
Here are two physics video clips that range from sublime to the ingenious. Joseph Herscher of Brooklyn, builds a Rube Goldberg contraption called a "page turner". The second clip is truly mezmorizing in showing pendulum waves.
Valentine's Day Recipes - Valentine's Day Recipes with Hershey's, allrecipes.com, Martha Stewart, Recipes for Romance - epicurious.
Cancer Treatment Information Websites - American Cancer Sociey, Brest Cancer.Org, Cancer.gov, MedlinePlus, WebMD
10 Tips and Tricks for the Facebook iPhone App (Mashable)
9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing - Writers and would-be writers may want to invest in some of the books described in loving detail here. Yes, Strunk & White is here (is it required by law that any such list must start with The Elements of Style?), but the practical advice from writers like Anne Lamott, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Hemingway may be more useful. (For writers of nonfiction I would add William Zinsser's On Writing Well to this list.)
11 Sounds Your Children or Grandchild Have Never Heard -
And given how rapidly technology has changed, maybe even some of you have never heard some of these sounds either, like the carriage return of the manual typewriter or the clicking of the manual channel selector knob on your TV. |
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Sources:
Neat New Stuff I Found This Week Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2011.
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