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1950s Detroit: A Memoir Reading by Mary Minock
Mary Minock will be reading from her new memoir, The Way-Back Room: A Memoir of a Detroit Childhood. She also will be sharing her strategies for writing memoir.
Mary grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in the dense Southwest Detroit parish of Holy Redeemer during a time of remarkable changes. Eventually she left Detroit and returned in 1996, fixed up her childhood home, lived there for a decade, and then moved three blocks away to help restore another stately home. She is an avid Detroit booster. Presented in partnership with the Adult Learners Institute.
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Events this Week
Saturday, March 9
Science Saturday at the Library | Join the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History to learn what makes some instruments more common than others and why some sounds creep us out or get us excited. Explore how cultural transmission influences music and create your own instrument.
Monday, March 11
Facebook: An Introduction | Learn how to set up a personal Facebook account using your email address, review account settings with an emphasis on security, personal privacy and what you may want to share.
Tuesday, March 12
Babytime | Sing songs, do bouncy rhymes, learn some "baby signing" and read along to fun board books.
Wednesday, March 13
Spring Storytime | Our youth librarians will read great stories, sing funny songs, and make each story come alive through puppets, fingerplays and movement.
6-11 Club Authors Party | Are you "wimpy" for Jeff Kinney? Do you rave for Roald Dahl? Are you "wild' for Buck Wilder? Let's get ready for Authors in Chelsea on March 20 by celebrating our favorite authors with fun games, crafts, snacks and prizes!
Thursday, March 14
Friday, March 15
SRSLY St. Patrick's Day Party | Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with p erformances by COMPANY C. SRSLY Coalition and the library are hosting a St. Patrick's Day Party and Potluck at 500 Washington Street. Bring a snack to pass, and WEAR GREEN!
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New Look Coming to Overdrive
The library's OverDrive-powered website will soon become OverDrive's Next Generation digital library website. You'll now be able to take advantage of "One-Step Checkout" , OverDrive Read- a browser-based e-book experience, and many search and navigation improvements. You can watch this video to see a demonstration of OverDrive's "One-Step Checkout". The upgrade is scheduled to take place the week of March 18.
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One-Step Checkout Demo |
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Laura Kasischke's latest short story collection,
If a Stranger Approaches You was released on March 5. Laura teaches English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and has won numerous awards for her poetry and prose, including a Guggenheim fellowship and locally, Michigan Notable Author awards.
NPR recently published a review of If a Stranger Approaches You, describing the book as a "...slender collection packed with tight, dark stories, she replaces exposition with a keen compression that, perhaps paradoxically, renders the world more accurately than mere realism."
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The winners of the
National Book Critics Circle Awards were recently announced and some prominent titles won yet more accolades. Ben Fountain's book has received great reviews and lots of critical attention while Andrew Solomon's nonfiction work about families and individual identity has been very popular with readers.
You can view the list of winners here.
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The library will be closed: Friday, March 22 for a staff in-service. Sunday, March 31 in observance of Easter Sunday.
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About Us
The Chelsea District Library is nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide equal access to quality resources that serve the lifelong cultural, educational and informational needs and interests of all people.The library currently serves 14,000 residents in the Chelsea district - City of Chelsea plus Dexter, Lima, Lyndon and Sylvan townships and more than 20,000 individuals visit the library each month. The library's state-of-the-art facility is an access point for information. In addition to providing dynamic services to complement and support local schools and other important community needs, the Chelsea District Library strives to present timely, interesting and high-quality programs and events to engage and enrich the Chelsea community.
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