August 2014

Special
National Night Out @Claremont
Tuesday, August 5, 6:00-8:00 pm.

Meet your neighbors and get to know your neighborhood library better! There will be fun for all ages. Staff will be on hand to tell you more about library services. Come by and say hello!

 

National Night Out @Central 

Tuesday, August 5, 6:00-8:00 pm.  

Join the Library, the Downtown Berkeley Association, local residents and organizations to celebrate National Night Out! Please join us in the courtyard next to the Library entrance on Kittredge for kids' crafts and a special surprise for adults!

 

National Night Out provides local residents an celebration of community with their neighbors. We look forward to saying hello!   

 

Films 

Third Floor Community Meeting Room
August: Historical Dramas. Free film.



Book Clubs
Read & Share @Claremont
Wednesday August 20, 6:30-7:30 pm.
Join us for a special Read and Share session of the Claremont Book Group. We invite you to bring a book you love and tell the rest of the group about it! We will also be talking about books for future book group meetings  Age 18-90+.

Read and Share @South
Tuesday, August 26, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm.
We invite you to bring a book you love and tell the rest of the group about it! Age 18-90+.

Create!
Makerspace @North
Saturday, August 2, 2:00 pm-5:00 pm. 

Come one, come all for an afternoon of crafting! Bring a project and sewing machine, or come for inspiration. The library provides two sewing machines, embroidery hoops, floss, and needles, clay, beads, hot glue guns, and much more... including inspiration!

All are welcome, come and craft!  

Call 510-981-6250 for more information.

 

Knitting Hour @Central
Saturday, August 23,  3:15 pm-4:45 pm.
Fourth Floor Story Room. Learn to knit at our intergenerational group for the whole family. All skill levels welcome.  Some supplies provided. Call 510-981-6236 for more information. Ages 8 and up

Technology

Instagram @Central

Wednesday, August 6, 11:00 am-12:00 noon.

Third Floor Electronic Classroom. Instagram is a fast and fun way to share your life with friends and family. Take a picture or video, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, and then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter and more. Drop in. No registration required. 

    

Social Networking @Central  

Wednesday, August 13, 11 am-12:00 pm.   

Third Floor Electronic Classroom.

Introduction to Facebook and other social networking sites. Learn how to set up an account, set privacy setting and post items. Get your social networking questions answered in this hands-on class. No registration required.

 

iPads @Central

Wednesday, August 20, 11:00 am-12:00 noon.  

Third Floor Electronic Classroom.  

Introduction on using iPads tablets. Use ours or bring your own. Search the web, play games and more. No registration required.

 

Library Apps @Central

 Wednesday, August 27, 11:00 am- 12:00 noon. Third Floor Elec

 

Learn about the Library's digital services available for your tablet or smartphone. We will go over streaming music and movies, downloading books and magazines, and learning a foreign language. Bring your own device or borrow one of the Library's iPads. No registration required.

    

Computer Classes @Central

Monday 6:00-7:00 pm. and/or Thursday, 10:00-11:00 am. Third Floor Electronic Classroom. Go at your own pace. Introduction to email, internet, etc. No registration required.

 

The Berkeley Public Library South Branch and Tool Lending Library, which opened to great acclaim on May 11, 2013, has achieved LEED Gold certification for new construction. Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class sustainable building strategies and practices.  

 

San Francisco architectural firm, Field Paoli, 

 

Photograph by David Wakely

Describing the design concept, Principal Avery Moor said, "We literally raised the roof, creating a 20-foot high central browsing room that brings daylight into the three reading rooms and shared cool air through operable clerestory windows and ceiling fans."

In This Issue

Check out [spaces] our new meeting room reservation system.    

 

The Library is now offering online reservations for our four free community meeting rooms.

 

[spaces] is our new reservations software that makes reserving our community meeting rooms more convenient.  

 

Take a look 

 

The meeting room @West Branch Library is available for free events.

As part of the Children's Summer Reading Program, the Berkeley Public

Library is collecting donations of supplies and food for the Berkeley Humane Society through August 15th.  

 

 

Please bring items to the collection bins at a Branch Library or in the Central Children's Room.    

 

Friendly staff answer your repair questions at the Tool Lending Library.

This is a great time to build a treehouse, fix the eaves or work in the yard. Visit the Berkeley Public Library's Tool Lending Library.

 

Need a hammer & saw to make a chicken coop?
We have it.

Tired of asking to borrow the neighbor's hammer?
We have it.

Want a fruit picker to reach that last apple?
We have it.

A tall ladder to hang a bird house?
We have it.

We also have:

• String trimmers
• C-clamps
• Trowels
• Hack saws
• Garden spades
• Pruning shears
• Pliers
• Push mowers
• and more!  

  Berkeley Public Library card holders who live or own property in Berkeley can use the Tool Lending Library.

 

 

 Borrowing Tools   

 

Keep your garage clean. Don' buy tools. Borrow what you need from the Tool Lending Library @ South Branch