Teen Poetry Contest Winners

The Young Adult Department of the East Greenbush Community Library is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Teen Poetry Contest. We received 45 entries from students in sixth through twelfth grades from all over the capital region. TAG and TAG Jr. members judged the contest using an anonymous mathematical process. We removed the authors’ names from each of the poems before judging and gave each poem a numerical ranking from 1-10. We then averaged the rankings to find the winners. The first place winner is Emy Blohm, 6^th grade, with her poem titled “As a Rose”. The second place winner is also Emy Blohm with her poem titled “Who I Am.” In third place is Ansley Chlastawa, 10^th grade, with her poem called “Could It Be?” All of the submitted poems have been on display in the Teen Area of the library for National Poetry Month in April.

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May/June Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is now available on the library website. Please note our new ticket policy for children's programs:

TICKETS FOR CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS AND PERFORMANCES

Per fire code restrictions, we will now be requiring tickets for admission to all children's programs and performances. Tickets will be available for pick up or phone reservation the week before the performance. Any (phone) reserved tickets that are unclaimed 15 minutes before the performance can and will be surrendered to "on call" patrons. Please contact a Youth Services Librarian if you have any questions about this new policy.

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UHLS Big Read

What if everybody in Albany and Rensselaer Counties read the same book?

The East Greenbush Community Library is participating in The Big Read, a project sponsored by the Upper Hudson Library System through a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The book chosen for the project is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Zeale Hurston. The novel narrates Janie Crawford's ripening from a vibrant but voiceless teenage girl into a woman with her finger on her own destiny. The novel breathes and bleeds a whole life's worth of urgent experience.

The Big Read is designed to address the decline in literary reading by inviting entire communities to come together to discover the transformative power of literature. Around the two-county area a number of libraries will be hosting book discussion groups, musical events, movies and other artistic events centering on the book's theme, setting and era.

At our library, the movie version of Their Eyes Were Watching God, starring Halle Berry, will be shown on Wednesday, May 9th at 6:30 pm. The next evening, on Thursday, May 10th at 7 pm, the fabulous jazz group Sonny & Perley will perform music of the era. On Monday, May 21st, our Adult Morning Book Group will discuss the book at 10 am.

The library will have a display highlighting The Big Read project with a limited number of free copies of the book for the public.

For more information click here.

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Database Highlight--Business and Company Resource Center

We read a lot about how access to electronic information empowers small business and levels the playing field. But finding accurate, authoritative, and focused business information can be daunting, given the availability of enormous quantities of sources in the Internet.

The East Greenbush Community Library has a solution for you--a source of business information delivered right to your desktop that is dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date.

Business and Company Resource Center is a database available through the library's website. The database provides business, company, and industry content in the following areas:

• Periodical articles, news articles, and press releases
  
• Detailed information on domestic and international companies and associations
• Company financials and earning estimates
• Investment reports
• Corporate chronologies and company histories
• Industry overviews ... and much more.
  

All of the information contained in the database is full-text, which enables you to bring the entire content of the article or report into your home or workplace.

How can you access this powerful information source? Simply go to the library's reference/research page and click on "Business" then click on Business and Company Resource Center. For help using this database, call the Reference Desk at 477-7476, ext. 102.

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Sneak Previews--May/June

Look for these upcoming releases soon!

Books On CD

Angels Flight--Michael Connelly
Burning Bright--Tracy Chevalier
Daddy's Girl--Lisa Scottoline
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings--Tyler Perry
Innocent in Death--J.D. Robb
Past Perfect--Susan Isaacs
Spider Mountain--P.T. Deutermann
Storm Runners--T. Jefferson Parker
The Boleyn Inheritance--Philippa Gregory
The Dead Room--Heather Graham
The Fifth Vial--Michael Palmer
The Grave Tattoo--Val Mcdermid
Typhoon--Joseph Conrad


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May/June newsletter news

Upcoming Election Info

Any persons interested in running for the office of Trustee are welcome to pick up a packet at or after our June 19 board meeting. The Board has three terms opening up in January 2008, one for 3 years to finish up a term in 2010 and two regular 5-year terms to finish in 2012. Trustee candidates, must live within the boundaries of East Greenbush, and need 25 signatures from voters in East Greenbush before their name is entered on the ballot. All signatures on the petition must be turned in to the director by Tuesday, August 7 at 5:00 pm.

Friends Spring Book Sale

Thursday, May 3, 5:00-8:30 pm
Friday, May 4, 9:00 am-8:30 pm
Saturday, May 5, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sunday, May 6, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm BAG SALE ONLY

Special pricing for the Thursday Preview Sale only with hardbound copies selling for $2.00 and quality bound paper for $1.00. Regular pricing resumes Friday, May 4. Bag Sale pricing on May 6 is $2.00 a bag.

Donations of used books, records, audios/videos and DVDs are being accepted now at the library. NO textbooks please.

Please note: This sale does NOT include any children's books or media. There will be a Children's Sale in September.

Community Reviews

In upcoming library newsletters, we'd like to feature your reviews of books, audiobooks or videos you've recently borrowed from the library in a column called "Patron's Picks." You can submit your reviews in person at the library (forms will be available at the reference desk) or via e-mail to JoAnn Jakiela ( jakiela@uhls.lib.ny.us ). Be sure to include your name, the title and author of the work and a brief review (no more than 4-5 sentences.)

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Easter Sunday

The library is closed tomorrow for Easter Sunday. We will reopen at 9 a.m. on Monday, April 9.

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April Exhibits

Walls: Mixed Media of Oils and Watercolor Paintings by Peggy Vogt

Peggy Vogt, formerly of Artistically Yours in East Greenbush, has been teaching method oil painting since 1993. She studied under the late Mary Jane Heritage of East Greenbush, as well as nationally renowned wildlife artist, Dana Jester, of Denver, CO. Peggy also studied traditional oils and drawing under Patricia Gross of East Greenbush.

See the library website for examples of her work.

Exhibit Cases:

4 Cases: Albany Medical Center Schools of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc.

Few cities in America have as rich a tradition in nursing education as Albany, N.Y.

The Albany Medical Center Schools of Nursing Alumni Association, Inc. has sought to preserve the schools' histories as seen in exhibits throughout the Main 4 corridors of the hospital as well as a display in the lobby near the White Pillars.

My name is Paula Zenzen and I invite you to join us during the month of April by viewing the four display cases of the East Greenbush Library as we show school uniforms, caps, pins, posters and pictures demonstrating a journey from the start of the first school opening in 1897 to present day efforts to promote nursing education and practice.

This display is dedicated to the nurses who everyday perform the small miracles that assist in the unconditional celebration of the cycle of life.

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