St. Clair Shores Public Library Inside the Library Volume XXXIX November/December 2017 No. 6 Monday-Thursday Friday & Saturday Sunday Library Winter Hours Veterans Day Friday, November 10 Saturday, November 11 Holiday Hours THANKSGIVING WEEK Wednesday, November 22 Thursday, November 23 Friday, November 24 Saturday, November 25 9:00 AM 9:00 PM 9:00 AM 5:00 PM CLOSED CLOSED 9:00 AM 5: 00 PM 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 9:00 AM 5: 00 PM Christmas and New Year Saturday, December 23 Sunday, December 24 CLOSED Monday, December 25 CLOSED Tuesday, December 26 CLOSED Wednesday, December 27 9:00 AM 9:00 PM Thursday, December 28 9:00 AM 9:00 PM Friday, December 29 9:00 AM 5:00 PM Saturday, December 30 Sunday, December 31 CLOSED Monday, January 1 CLOSED Tuesday, January 2 CLOSED Regular winter hours will resume, Wednesday, January 3, 2018. For your convenience, the book drop is open when the library is closed. HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS AT THE LIBRARY Saturday December 9, 2017 Visit with Santa at the Museum 10:00 AM 3:00 PM Drop-in Craft for Children Library meeting room 10:00 AM 12:00 PM 2:00 PM 4:00 PM The Friends Gift, Book and Bake Sale in the library 10:00 AM 4:00 PM Book Sale in the Local History Center 1:00 PM 4:00 PM LIBRARY CARD SIGN UP WINNERS September was Library Card Sign Up Month and 189 new library cards were issued. Each new cardholder was entered into a drawing for a Target gift card. The winners are: Candice Ackerman, Juanita Allen, Kathleen Coleman, Todd Hogness, Karen Klenk, Joanna McGuire, Tyler Newman, Deborah Ricci and Kyla Roark. Congratulations winners and welcome to the St. Clair Shores Public Library! Getting a library card is easy! St. Clair Shores residents may obtain a library card by filling out an application. Adults age 18 and older will need to show their current driver license or state ID. Minors age 5-17 will need their parent or legal guardian to be present with their current driver license or state ID. Inside the Library is printed bi-monthly courtesy of the Friends of the Library and the Historical Society of St. Clair Shores.
Libr ary News Adult Coloring Program The St. Clair Shores Public Library will be hosting a free adult coloring program on Wednesday, November 8 and Wednesday, December 13 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. This drop in program will take place in the Reading Lounge at the St. Clair Shores Public Library. All materials will be provided but feel free to bring your own supplies. Please contact the library at 586-771-9020 for details and information on the program or check the library s website at: www.scslibrary.org. Online Resources Patrons can access the following online resources at the library and from home (with a valid St. Clair Shores library card in good standing) by going to the library s website at www.scslibrary.org and clicking on Online Resources. Selecting Online Databases from the dropdown menu will open up an alphabetical listing of databases. If you need assistance, contact the library at 586-771-9020. Consumer Reports We are very excited to announce Consumer Reports as the newest addition to our family of online databases. Consumer Reports is a nonprofit organization providing unbiased product ratings and reviews since 1936. Each year they rigorously test over 4,000 products and post the results. Resources for Students Lectures on Monet and Church Exhibits by Detroit Institute of Arts Our newest Behind the Seen Talk, a free lecture from a DIA Speakers Bureau Guide, will discuss two recent exhibits and their respective places in history. The discussion on the exhibit Monet: Framing a Life will explore the only Claude Monet painting the DIA owns, Rounded Flower Bed (Corbeille de fleurs), as well as paintings by fellow artists, all created in Argenteuil, France where the Impressionist movement was formed. The lecturer will also review Church: A Painter s Pilgrimage, featuring Frederic Church, a popular American painter whose career shift is marked by a series of paintings of the Middle East, Athens, and Rome. The lecture takes place Monday, November 27 at 7:00 PM in the library s meeting room and is sponsored by the St. Clair Shores Cultural Committee. Please join us! BookFlix is an interactive experience that allows beginning readers to explore fiction and non-fiction designed to increase understanding and fluency. Each BookFlix pair includes the following elements, accessible at all times from the left-hand navigation on each Pair page: Watch the Story: View an animated children s storybook from Weston Woods. A closedcaptioning option is available: Click the Read Along option to display the audio portion of the story, with word-by-word highlighting, as it plays. Read the Book: View the related nonfiction content. The Read Along option can be activated to hear the text read aloud with word-by-word highlighting. In addition, key content vocabulary words are highlighted in yellow. Placing the cursor on the highlighted word will display its definition. Click on the word, the ear icon, or anywhere on the definition itself to hear the definition read aloud. Puzzlers: Go to one or more interactive educational games related to the specific pair. Meet the Author: Read a profile of the author of the story on which the video is based. Explore the Web: Access editorially selected, age-appropriate Web links related to the pair topic for additional research, exploration, and inquiry. BookFlix is available at the library and from home with your St. Clair Shores Public Library card.
Libr ary News Check out Tutor.com, the library s new online learning resource Trouble writing that essay for school? Math leaving you feeling clueless? Haven t written a resume in years? The St. Clair Shores Public Library can help! Tutor.com is the latest addition to our online offerings. You can access Tutor.com by going to the library s website at www.scslibrary.org. Hover your pointer over Online Resources and then click on Online Databases. An alphabetical listing of all our databases will appear. Scroll down to T for Tutor.com. You will need your St. Clair Shores Library card number and your PIN to create an account. Don t know your PIN? Come into the library with your library card and a staff member can look up your PIN for you. Once you have created your account, there is a tutorial video you can watch or you can jump into the many resources offered. Tutor.com offers 40 subjects for all ages. You can upload a resume or writing assignment in their overnight drop off box. A tutor will review the paper and send you an assessment of the writing along with suggestions and corrections. There are several assessment tests that can be taken and then they are graded with answers explained. If further information is needed, there is a skill resources area with additional study aids. You can select the Get a Tutor tab to speak to a live tutor from 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM daily. Select your topic, subject and grade level. Input your question (even attach a file) and then click on the Get Tutor button. Your live chat with a tutor specializing in that subject will begin. Documents and pictures can be uploaded to assist with the question. Sessions are saved to Your Locker in your account. Sessions can be printed, emailed, or simply left in your locker if you need to come back to refresh your memory. If you like a particular tutor, you can tag them as a favorite in your account, allowing you the ability to see when that particular tutor is available online. All tutors undergo an extensive background check, repeated annually. All work is completed in the recorded classroom and monitored by management staff at Tutor.com. We are very excited to offer this wonderful resource for our patrons. If you have any questions, stop into the library or give us a call for assistance. Changes to Overdrive Reading History In October, OverDrive introduced a History page that will automatically display titles a user has borrowed. Each time a title is borrowed, it is added to the user's history. You can locate History under My Account. At launch, a user will see an empty history until they borrow a title, or manually add it. To add a title, select the three vertical dots (more options menu) from a search results page, then Add to history. Titles can be manually added through the search results page or from the title details page. A user can choose to hide their history from the Settings page. If the user opts to display their history again at a later date, they will only see titles added from that point forward. Each title on your History page lists: Date of the loan or the date added Offers a sample to read Details of the title Remove from History option You May Also Like suggestions If you have any rated titles, you can add all of them to your history using the Add Rated Titles button. If a rated title is already on your history, it won't be added again. To remove a title, go to your History page, click on the three vertical dots, then Remove from history. To turn off the history option in your library's digital collection, click or tap My Account, then select Settings. Under "General," deselect History. Your setting will be saved automatically. Titles you borrow won't be added to your history while it's hidden. If you turn on the feature in the future, you ll only see titles borrowed from that day forward. Holds Effective immediately, the number of holds allowed per patron will now be seven instead of ten. Due to the high demand of our downloadable items, the Suburban Library Cooperative OverDrive group has decided to adjust the limit to seven holds per account. This will allow more patrons access to our titles, with less hold wait times. Patrons who currently have more than seven holds will not lose those holds. However, no more holds will be allowed till the number of holds on the account falls below seven.
FRIENDS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! LAC STE. CLAIRE FINE ART FAIR FRIENDS USED BOOK STORE A room full of happy bargain hunters/readers made the Grand Opening of the Friends Used Book Store a success! We sold a total of $353 of Last Chance books and magazines, money which goes directly to Library programs, materials and services. It was amazing to see so many readers take advantage of the Used Book Store, located in the Reading Lounge! The store is always open during normal library hours, and stock is constantly changing. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: if you d like to help stock the shelves, sort magazines, or rotate inventory in the Used Book Store, please call the library at 586-771-9020, and leave a message for Mary Ann Widman, used book store director. You are needed! Not only are volunteers needed for the used book store, you re also needed for the Friends book sales. We need volunteers to work in two-hour shifts for book sales, setting up before and packing up after the sales, making phone calls, working in the gift shop, and working on the membership committee. If you can volunteer your time, we need you and would welcome you. Please call the library and leave a message for the Friends; someone will call you right away! And, yes, it was fine! Fine weather, fine crowds, fine art, and great book sales. Thanks to you and other visitors to the fair, the Friends premium book sales totaled $1,007. Again, this money goes directly to the Library for their on-going programs and services. AMAZON SMILE/KROGER REWARDS We are continuing to receive checks from Amazon Smile and Kroger Rewards as a result of your designating Friends of St. Clair Shores Public Library as your charity of choice. Every dollar counts in our support of the library, so if you haven t already registered at www.smile.amazon.com and www.kroger.com for these programs, please sign up today! Thanks! FRIENDS BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP Join us on the second Wednesday of each month at the St. Clair Shores Public Library at 1:00 PM in the Gilstorf Meeting Room for the following book discussions. November 8 December 13 HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS UPCOMING 2018 DATES The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman FALL SEMI-ANNUAL BOOK SALE It s almost here! The Fall Book Sale will be held November 15 through 18. We ll have a huge selection of hardcover and softcover fiction, non-fiction, biography, classics, and history books. There will also be specialty categories such as cooking, hobby, sports, reference, and Christmas. There will be a table full of DVDs, as well as lots and lots of paperbacks. Hours and dates are as follows. See you there!! Wednesday, November 15 Thursday, November 16 Friday, November 17 Saturday, November 18 2:00 PM 8:00 PM 10:00 AM 8:00 PM 10:00 AM 4:00 PM 10:00 AM 2:00 PM In conjunction with the Holiday Happenings at the Library on Saturday, December 9 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, the Friends will once again offer home-baked treats for sale. If you d like to offer your special treat for us to sell, please call the library at 586-771-9020 and leave a message for the Friends. We ll also have a selection of Christmas fiction, children s books, and CDs for sale, for gifts or your own enjoyment. The Friends Gift Shop will be there, too, with a table of wonderful items available for sale. Lots of activities at the Library that day, so come see what it s all about, and enjoy a home-baked treat! Winter Bargain Book Sale February 13 Friends Accessory Sale March 15-17 Spring Semi-Annual Book Sale May 2 - May 5
YOUTH SERVICES FOR TOTS 1 st Stop and Tot Time continue each Wednesday and Thursday morning beginning at 10:00 AM. Your wee ones will enjoy the songs, nursery rhymes, stories and bubbles of 1 st Stop before we bring out the toys at 10:30 AM for Tot Time. These free programs are for children from birth through age four. There will be no 1 st Stop or Tot Time on November 15, 16, and 23. PAWS FOR READING Paws for Reading continues on Saturday afternoons from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Read to one of our wonderful dogs for 15 minutes on a firstcome, first-served basis. Paws for Reading is a nationally recognized program whose goal is to help reluctant and struggling readers discover the joy of reading with the help of a friendly canine. POLICE CHIEF STORYTIME Police Chief Woodcox will be appearing at a special Storytime on Monday, December 4 at 7:00 PM! Join Miss Liz and the Chief for an hour of fun stories, songs, and rhymes all about police work. You will also have the chance to ask Chief Woodcox questions about being a police officer. There is no registration required for this program. HOLIDAY CRAFT Come to the Library on Saturday, December 9 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM or 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and make a cute holiday craft. Directions and materials will be provided. Children of all ages are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult to assist them with cutting and gluing. These crafts will be an adorable addition to your holiday decorations! ZUMBA Let's Dance! Join CCPlus Fitness for Zumba on Tuesday, November 7 at 6:30 PM. Participants will get their groove on dancing to some kidfriendly music at this fun, high-energy program. Try something new and see how much fun you can have with dance. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a bottle of water. No registration is required for this free program. LEGO BLOCK PARTY Get creative at the LEGO Block Party! We provide a variety of LEGO blocks so you can let your imagination soar. If you want, we will even display your completed projects in the Youth Services room for all to enjoy. The next Block Parties will be held on Saturday, November 25 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM and on Thursday, December 28 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. There is no registration for these programs. TEEN ADVISORY BOARD (T.A.B.) Are you a teen in grade six or up who is interested in providing some input to the library? Do you need some volunteer hours? Then drop by the Teen Advisory Board (T.A.B.) meetings to help plan teen programs and discuss some favorite books. The next meeting is Saturday, November 18 at 10:00 AM. Join other teens for some friendly discussion as well as food and beverages!
Historical News Museum Open House on Wednesdays & Saturdays The museum is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The museum is also available for free special tours and for low-cost rental for small groups. When you visit you will learn about daily life in rural St. Clair Shores in the late 19th and the early 20th century; how a farmhouse would have been furnished, the daily chores, popular pastimes, and more. You will also learn why the farmhouse is architecturally significant. Visiting the Selinsky-Green Farmhouse is a great way to gain some insight into what life was like for your ancestors. Please call 586 771-9020 for any inquiries. Museum Holiday Schedule Saturday, November 25 Friday, December 1 Open House 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Stop by to see the house decorated for a Victorian Christmas, refreshments, and music. Saturday, December 9 Visits with Santa 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Saturday, December 16 Gingerbread Decorating Day Sessions at 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM & 3:00 PM No registration is required Saturday, December 23 Wednesday, December 27 Saturday, December 30 Pisanki for the Holidays! Pisanki is the traditional Eastern European custom of decorating eggs. Pisanki is derived from the Polish verb pisac which means to write. Decorations are created by drawing on the eggshell with molten wax and then immersing it in dye. The eggs can then be turned into ornaments for your Christmas tree. Visit us on Saturday, November 11 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM to decorate your own egg for your Christmas tree. Registration begins October 23 for St. Clair Shores residents. This class is for ages 7 to adult; if you are signing up your child please also reserve a spot for yourself as seating is limited. Reserve your spot by calling 586 771-9020. CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS/THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS The names of two lucky winners were drawn for the Historical Society of St. Clair Shores sponsored raffle, at the 2017 Lac Ste. Claire Fine Art Fair in September. First prize winner Colleen Sharp won a beautiful handmade queen-size quilt. The second prize, a framed print of the Selinsky-Green Farmhouse Museum, went to John DesJardins. Congratulations winners! The proceeds of the raffle benefit projects of the Historical Society of St. Clair Shores and this year $519 was raised. We would like to extend our thanks to Theresa Bertolini for donating the beautiful quilt; Tom Sherry for donating the framed and matted photograph of the SGFM; and John Jacobs for donating the matting and frame for the print. Thank you to all the volunteers that made the raffle possible and thanks to all who participated: Mary Stachowiak The Library Staff John Cilluffo Glenda Bobolts Merry Johnson Ann Powell Sarah Rose Katie Naeycart Suzy Ladouceur Carol Pielack Elaine Bozin JoAnn Gauerke Don Johnson
Historical News Arthur M. Woodford LOCAL HISTORY CENTER HOURS of Operation for 2018 The hours for the Local History Center for 2018 will be as follows: Tuesdays: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Thursdays: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM The Local History Center will be open the second and fourth Saturday of each month, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. In June, July, and August, the library is closed on Saturdays, so the Local History Center will be open every second and fourth Friday from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Current hours of the Local History Center will always be posted by the elevator. Please feel free to contact the Library if you have any questions about the hours or services of the Center. Catholic Education in Detroit: An Evolving Mission At the beginning of the twentieth century, Detroit's Catholics dedicated themselves to the establishment of a school system that provided an alternative to public schools. This system continued throughout the twentieth century. However, its mission shifted continuously to meet the changing demands of Detroit's population. Join us Wednesday, November 8 at 7:00 PM for a presentation by Dr. Karen Miller from Oakland University, that will examine that evolution. This presentation concludes the Fall 2017 Elizabeth Blay Maison Memorial Lecture Series. Digital Archives Genealogy Group The St. Clair Shores Genealogy Group will meet on the following Thursdays in 2018. The meetings begin at 7:00 PM in the Arthur M. Woodford Local History Center in the lower level of the Library. The topic of each meeting will be announced in early 2018. The meetings are free and open to the public. No experience in genealogy is required to attend. February 22 March 22 April 26 May 24 September 27 October 25 If you are taking a walk down memory lane or discovering the history of St. Clair Shores and Macomb County for the first time, please visit the Local History Archive at https://sbrb.ent.sirsi.net/ client/en_us/archive/ or click the link on the library's home page under under online resources, then select Digital Archives. Book Sale in Local History Center In conjunction with the Friends of the Library s Holiday Happenings on Saturday, December 9, the Local History Center will be selling some books from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Volumes available during this sale cover a wide range of topics. Come to the Local History Center and see if you can find a treasure for yourself or as a gift.
Please print clearly or use an address label. Friends of the St. Clair Shores Public Library Membership Application Name Date Please Volunteer Address o Book Sales City State Zip Code o Membership Phone E-mail o Program Coordination o Senior 62+ $ 10.00 o Gift Shop o Individual $ 15.00 o Family $ 20.00 o Contributor $ 40.00 o Benefactor $ 100.00 o Patron $ 250.00 o Life $ 500.00 o New Member o Renewal o Volunteer Coordination Please make checks payable to Friends of the St. Clair Shores Public Library As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, dues and contributions are tax deductible and may qualify for a Michigan tax credit. 10/31/10 Please detach on dotted line. Newsletter Staff: Heidi Christein, Joseph Coppens, Elizabeth Drewek, Kathleen Harville, Norma Maxvill, Annie Spence, Mary Stachowiak Information: (586) 771-9020 -- TDD: (586) 771-7384 -- Web Site: www.scslibrary.org St. Clair Shores Public Library 22500 Eleven Mile Road St. Clair Shores, MI 48081-1399 Non-Profit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID St. Clair Shores, MI 48081 PERMIT NO. 70