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Bring in your pennies!

Throughout the month of February, the library will be collecting Lincolns for the Library – pennies! – to help boost the collection budget. This year’s donations will be transformed into new DVDs for the ever-popular movie and TV series collection.

Last year the pennies amounted to about $80, enough for several new flicks. Can we make it to $100 this year?

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.         ~Abraham Lincoln

]]> http://manchesterlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/february-is-lincolns-for-the-library-month-it-all-adds-up/feed/ 0 hsturm cohdra100_1612 http://manchesterlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/get-fit-your-library/ http://manchesterlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/get-fit-your-library/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:27 +0000 Heather Sturm http://manchesterlibrary.wordpress.com/?p=1137 Continue reading →]]> Need something to boost those New Year’s Resolutions? New fitness and health-related items added to the collection during the past month include:

Workout DVDs
   

For more items like this, try searching the catalog for aerobic exercises, cardiovascular fitness, or physical fitness (click each link to get a list of results).

Healthy Cookbooks
   

For more items like these, try searching the catalog for nutrition, diet recipes, or weight loss.

Lifestyle and Fitness Inspiration
  

To find more items like these, try searching the catalog for longevity or health.

Classes will be from 3:30-4:30pm on Mondays beginning February 6th.

Yarn will be provided, but participants need to bring a G size crochet hook to class (available at Pyramid Office Supplies downtown).

Pre-registration is required, as space is limited. Please email Karen Seghers at kseghers@manchesterlibrary.info to register, or call the library at 734-428-8045.

Only a few of these have been released on DVD, most are still being shown in local theaters. Click the cover or title for more information about library availability.

The nominees for Best Picture are:

The Artist

The Descendants

        Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

 The Help

Hugo 

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

The Tree of Life

War Horse

Many of these movies were based on books, including The Help, War Horse, Moneyball, Hugo, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

For a full list of this year’s nominees for all categories (best actor, best actress, and so on), read Oscars 2012: And the nominees are… at EW.com.

This year’s three fun, family workshops tie in with a temporary exhibition at the Museum called Evolution and Health (February 2012-January 2013). The workshops will focus on showing families what doctors mean when they talk about health, and how factors in our daily lives may affect our health. Workshops are designed for children ages 6-11 accompanied by an adult.

Workshop 1 • Sat. Feb. 4, 11am
How YOU work: What are you made of and what do your vital signs mean?

We will explore what makes you who you are. We’ll look at the building blocks that make our bodies (cells and DNA), figure out what the numbers doctors talk about really tell us, and see how it all works together.

Workshop 2 • Sat. Feb. 18, 11am
Germs, parasites and allergies: Oh my! What makes us sick and what makes us well?

We will look at some of the things that make us sick, and find out what our bodies do to protect themselves.

Workshop 3 • Sat. Feb. 18, 11am
Build the $6 million you: Making the most of your health.

We will learn what we can do to improve and maintain our health. We’ll examine how our environment, healthy eating, and exercise influence our health and well-being.

Please pre-register for each of the workshops listed above by calling the library at 734-428-8045, or emailing kdimond@manchesterlibrary.info.

Cap your workshop experience by attending Health Discovery Day, Saturday March 24, 9am to 5pm at the UM Museum of Natural History.

• For a list of participating sites, visit Strike Against SOPA at sopastrike.com.
• For a history of recent copyright legislation acts with links to the current bills, visit ALA’s Copyright Legislation page at http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/copyrightlegislation.
• For a quick guide to library-related concerns about SOPA and PIPA, see this comparison chart produced by the American Library Association:  http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ALA_pipasopaopen_ref_guide.pdf

All researchers are welcome! No pre-registration is required. If you have questions, contact Heather Sturm at 734-428-8045 x202.

The full schedule of meetings and topics may be viewed here.

Library eBooks 101 Slide Show


 Step-by-Step Guides
These two documents, created by Circulation Supervisor Kathleen Dimond, are available as PDF downloads:

• Kindle Instructions for Download Destination
• How to Transfer Library eBooks from OverDrive to Your Nook

If you’d like some hands-on assistance, you’re invited to attend Library eBooks 101 here at the library — the next session is on Monday, Jan. 23 at 7pm.

We’re still waiting for information about federal forms. Until we know more, federal forms are also accessible on-line at the IRS website – http://www.irs.gov/ – or by phone at 1-800-829-1040.

Circulation staff have been withdrawing back issues of the library’s magazines to make way for the new year, and the back issues are now out for sale! Back issues can be purchased for $ .25 each or 5/$1.00.

The magazines are displayed in the book sale area on the 2nd floor of the library, and will remain there through the end of January. Please place your payment in the donation box for the Friends. Proceeds of the book and magazine sales help fund the Summer Reading Program.