SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Salisbury, Connecticut Spring 2008

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You know what you check out of the library, but do you ever wonder what other library patrons read, listen to, and watch? Here’s the answer: The Year’s Top Ten in five categories.

Top Ten Audios Top Ten Music CDs

Top Ten Non-Fiction

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POSTAL PATRON Libraries across the country are becoming more attuned to the web and finding more tools to make using the library easier and, yes, more fun. There are also numerous web sites that allow you to keep track of the books you have read or maintain your list of what you want to read. Here are a few. Wowbrary – an easy path to what’s new or on order at your Li-brary, available on our website: www.scovillelibrary.org. Wow-brary regularly informs you by email and/or RSS about our new-est books, movies and music. We make it easy for you to browse through the latest additions and place a hold on a new title. Reference USA - The library now subscribes to Reference USA US Businesses which can be reached from our website. US Busi-nesses includes 14 million businesses, verified for accuracy by Reference USA with new businesses added each month. The list-ing includes everything from Fortune 500 companies to home-based businesses. You can search by type of business, employee size or sales volume, geographic area and more. The listings include parent company and subsidiary information. You can refine a search to limit by location, type of company, number of employees, etc. Library Thing is a website for readers. You can use it to keep a record of what you read, what you want to read, share your read-ing with others and get recommendations based on your reading tastes. Register at www.librarything.com and begin. Each time you add a book to your library, you can see reviews from oth-ers readers as well as from professional book reviewers. You can write your own review to share or to keep to yourself. You can create tags, or words to categorize it your own language; I use it to keep track of what I read, to see what people who read the same books I like read and to see what others think of the books I like, or don’t like. If you are a reader, you will have fun with the site. Library Elf will help you keep track of what you borrow and what you have requested. Just sign up at www.libraryelf.com and you will begin receiving emails letting you know when what you have checked out is due and when your holds are ready. You can set it up the way you want it and even combine family cards under one email address to help you track of all your family’s library usage. We are changing our Digital Audio program beginning in July. If you already have an account, you can continue to use your user name and password and follow the same process, but the titles will be different. If you’ve never used this before, now is the time to give it a try: all you need is a Windows based com-puter. Choose from over 1700 titles including bestsellers, book club favorites, non-fiction and classics, download to your com-

Techno-savy and other Messages from Claudia

Paxman, Jeremy

Kingsolver, BarbaraStevens, KathyAlda, AlanChen, Pauline W.Bernstein, CarlGaris, LeslieBittman, Mark

Weisman, AlanZackheim, Victoria

On royalty : a very polite inquiry into some strangely related families Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life Where the blind horse sings : love and trust at an animal sanctuary Things I overheard while talking to myself Final exam : a surgeon’s reflections on mortality A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton House of happy endings How to cook everything vegetarian : simple meatless recipes for great food The world without us The other woman : twenty-one wives, lovers, and others talk openly about sex, deception, love, and betrayal

McEwan, IanEvanovich, Janet

Hosseini, KhaledOlsson, LindaPatterson, JamesSandford, JohnChabon, MichaelLeon, DonnaPicoult, Jodi

On Chesil BeachLean mean thirteen a Stephanie Plum novelA thousand splendid sunsAstrid & VeronikaThe 6th targetInvisible preyThe Yiddish policemen’s unionSuffer the little children The pact a love story

Leon, DonnaChild, Lee

McEwan, IanSandford, JohnParker, Robert B.Tursten, HeleneSilva, DanielPetterson, PerBloom, AmyPilcher, Robin

Suffer the little children Bad luck and trouble : a Jack Reacher novel On Chesil Beach Invisible prey Now and then The glass devil The secret servant Out stealing horses Away : a novel Starburst

Top Ten Fiction/Mystery

Jones, NorahClapton, EricKnopfler, MarkMa, Yo-YoBublé, MichaelNelson, WillieMayer, JohnKoz, Dave

Not too lateThe road to EscondidoAll the roadrunningAppassionatoCall me irresponsibleLast of the breedContinuumAt the moviesA tribute to Joni Mitchell

Top Ten DVDsRunning with scissorsThe holidayBabelThe GrandBerkeley SquareMan of the yearThe painted veilFor your considerationMusic and lyrics

puter and transfer to an MP3 player. Although this product is not compatible with iPods it works with a variety of inexpensive MP3 players, and we have several which can be checked out with your library card. Demonstrations will be offered throughout the summer or you can come in and ask for a personal tour. We have had computer classes this year on eBay, Google, Fire-fox and digital photography and you told us that you want more. We are adding classes on basic internet, email, medical informa-tion on the Internet and genealogy. In addition, we launched Tech Thursdays; Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:00, Deb Smith, our resident expert, will help you one-on-one with the basics of us-ing a computer. You may call us to schedule a block of time or drop in. If Thursdays aren’t good for you, give us a call and we will try and accommodate you. This spring we received two donations for the library grounds. Peter and Kiki Barron gave of their expertise and time to prune our trees. Old Farm Nursery gave us landscaping and plantings to spruce up the front of the library. We are ever so grateful for their gifts that allow us to improve the look of library in ways we could not otherwise afford. Beginning in February, the Library added Sunday hours. This was made possible by donations and increased town support. Town tax dollars make up about one-third of the library’s cost with the remainder coming primarily from private contributions. Our giving season for this year ends July 1 and we are grateful for any contributions which support our growing array of programs for children and adults along with an ever increasing selection of books, DVDs, audio-books and music.

This winter brought the flowering of Scoville Library’s two permanent book groups, Second Saturday and Mystery Book Groups. Some months were better attended than others but even when there were few participants everyone in the Wardell room relished the experience. Titles ranged from The Road, The Maytrees, Divisadero, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier for the liter-ary end and Stalin’s Ghost, Patience of the Spider and Anarchy and Old Dogs for the mystery group that has continued to focus on mysteries with an international theme. In addition to the oppor-tunity to share opinions and interest in the titles chosen it seems that many enjoy just reading the books as they are frequently all checked out! Both groups are disbanding for the summer to resume in the fall after a relaxing summer of oxymoronic serious beach reading. Mark your calendars now for Second Saturday at 4:00 and Mystery Group third Thursday at 5:00.

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SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARYBOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ronald D. Jones, PresidentThomas H. Key, Vice PresidentF. Herbert Prem, Jr., Treasurer

Margie Vail, SecretaryVal BernardoniMitchell Bronk

Walter E. DeMelle Jr.Eileen Fox

Janet L. Kaufman

Stephen KleinCarolyn MattoonSharon O’Connor

Noel SloanChany Wells

Curtis Rand, Ex OfficioAnthony Scoville, Honorary

FRIENDS OF THE SCOVILLE LIBRARYBOARD OF DIRECTORS

Judy Linscott, PresidentJudi Gott, Vice PresidentJoanne Elliot, SecretaryCarey Fiertz, Treasurer

Peter BarronLynne Bragonier

Carole DmytryshakJennifer Krohholm

Ann Roberts LeveineMacey Levin

Marjorie Liebowitz

Marion MorrisPatti O’NeillPam OsborneRafael Porro

Susan SchindlerIlene Tetenbaum

Jean Olsen, Emeritus

EDITORAnne Kremer

You probably should rethink your decision. This newsletter actually covers only about one third of library events. In ad-dition to the three permanent book groups, May included pro-gramming on Poetry with James Kraft, Habitat Gardening with the manager of Project Native’s Greenhouse, a program by Dr. Matthew Greene, an independent educational consultant on Sur-viving College Selection and Tuition, and a discussion of villains in mysteries by Edward Nickerson, a Lakeville resident steeped in the tradition of crime novelists. Yet more? An Artful Look at Color by Sharon artist and resident Pieter Lefferts who takes us through the history of color and the artist’s palette, a lecture on The Other Allens by Salisbury resident Lou Bucceri, sponsored by the Salisbury Association that will focus on the remarkable history of Hemen and Ira Allen, relatives of the better recognized Ethan Allen. You can find information weekly in the Lakeville Journal, Salisbury Sampler, the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council’s newsletter (www.artsnwct.org) and other print out-lets but the surest method is to go on the Library’s website, www.scovillelibrary.org, and sign up to receive frequent reminders. You can also sign up at the front desk.

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You will be noticing some new faces in Scoville Library this summer. They all bring rich backgrounds of experience and interests to our library. We hope you will enjoy meeting them. Sue Bucceri lives in the Amesville section of Salisbury with her husband Lou a nd their two daughters Katherine and Elizabeth. The daughter of Kather-ine Chilcoat, Salisbury Town Historian, she was born and raised in Lakeville. During the week, she is a secretary in the office at Salisbury Central School, comes to the Library on Sundays and is very pleased to be helping others enjoy the library that she has been visiting since her early childhood. Lawrence Davis-Hollander has never worked in a library behind the circulation desk although he claims to have been in front of the circulation desk in nine different Harvard libraries. Lawrence was founder and direc-tor of the Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, a non-profit organization ded-icated to the conservation of heirloom seeds and regional agriculture. With his wife Margo, he founded Dynamic Change, a life coaching company for personal and professional development. He lives in Ashley Falls, MA with his wife and two young sons, one of which is reading all the Hardy Boys books at the Scoville Library. Heath Prentis lives in a wooden tent (a converted barn) in one of the love-liest parts of Salisbury and is grateful for her collection of books, which provide a sort of insulation. She has a degree in English and fine art, writes short stories, reads diversely and makes paintings with paper. Outside of the Library, she works at the Northwest Probate Court and spends time with her twin teenage sons. Karen Richardson was born and raised in New York City and taught in Af-rica prior to moving to the Salisbury area. Her love of books, literature and storytelling led her to work at the Library on Sunday afternoons. During the week, she teaches young children at a local private school. One of her early memories is of playing scrabble with her grandmother where she would close her eyes and say, “I love words”. Karen loves her time at the Library. Shana Stalker came to the library after working in development at local private schools. She was inspired by her love for libraries and for commu-nity and she is currently the vice-president of the Friends of the Egremont Library. Shana is excited to be at Scoville and finds it to be what a library should be. You may not see Shana over the summer since by the time this reaches you, she will be home with her first child.

New Faces 2008

The Scoville Memorial Library is more than its collection of books. It is a gathering place of minds with one thing in common—learning about new people, places and things. In the past several months many people from the surrounding area have volunteered their time and shared their knowledge and passions with us, thus enriching the intellectual life of our community and bringing programming that encompasses a broad array of interests. The library would like to thank Gaile Binzen, Kiau Loi, Amy Lake, Richard Grossman, Jane Hoben, Eileen Epperson, James Kraft, Jeff Brouws, Jonathan Doster, Tom Key, Lou Bucceri, Ron Jones, Pat McMullan, Sheila Lafferty, Gloria Miller, and Jessica Murray Toro. We are very lucky to have such a rich assortment of talent and dedication! We also thank those volunteer members of the Library Adult Program Committee who include Margie Vail, Anne Kremer and Judy Linscott. Last-ly, a special thanks to the Friends of the Library, whose events and efforts have helped to fund adult and children’s programs throughout the year.

Thanks Are in Order

The Friends of the Library bring you their first Summer Lawn Concert on Sunday July 20 at 5:00 when Little Windows brings their unique musi-cal style to Salisbury. Little Windows are Mark Weems and Julee Glaub touring together nationally and inter-nationally with a focus on the art of the pure voice with tight harmonies in traditional songs. Instrumentation

includes guitar, fiddle, banjo, flute, piano and bodhrán. Mark has been steeped in the Old Time Tradition for years while Julee has done the same in the Traditional Irish realm. Together they bring a beautiful blend of both traditions with a unique har-monic sound that is rare and often brings the response from audi-ence members, “I’ve never heard anything like it!” Little Windows has a unique approach to traditional music. Both have discovered the deeply personal and communal value of tra-ditional song. They downplay the purely entertainment value of music and try to draw the focus away from themselves toward the beauty and magic of the songs’ haunting melodies and lyrics. They aim to provide a space where the audience can enter into the magic of these simple heartfelt songs. For those unaware of the human depth of traditional song, their hope is to open up little windows into this timeless, spiritual, mythical land. Another tradition will also be celebrated this summer, the Salis-bury Marching Band. Our local band has frequently entertained us on the lawn and in the town’s Memorial Day Parade. They will return on Saturday August 23 at 5:00 to entertain us with their own take on traditional marching and old-time band favor-ites. We know everyone in the band and enjoy watching the fun they have sharing their talents with the town.We hope you’ll bring the family and a picnic supper to both these not to be missed Scoville Library events.

Traditions on the Lawn Film Night at the Scoville Library is nothing if not energized. The summer and fall selections are varied and fascinating. June 24, a night for the family, brings Lassie Come Home, Lassie’s de-but. This is the British original in which the poor British family must sell their beloved collie to make ends meet. You know the rest. This stars Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Niegel Bruce and Elizabeth Taylor. July 22nd’s selection, The Secret of Roan Inish, a must see after the Little Windows Concert, stars Mick Lally and Eileen Colgan. The mythical selkie, (half seal, half woman) is fea-

tured in this story of a ten- year old girl sent by her father to live with her grandparents at their family’s ancestral home. Sticking to the Celtic theme, August 26 brings Billy Elliot, the popular British drama showing

mind-set vs talent as Billie, the son of a coal miner, becomes a dancer. (Lots of modern Celtic curse words too!) To usher in the fall, share September 23rd’s

Wuthering Heights, this time the 1998 epic of Emily Bronte’s classic novel with Orla Brady, Ian Shaw and Crispin Bonham-Carter. And, for Octo-ber 28, Ghost Story, a chilling 1981 adaptation of Peter Straub’s novel about 4 old friends whose chowder club is interrupted by a ghost. Some great acting by Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Melvyn Douglas and Alice Krige will enrich your Halloween.

Salisbury Film Festival Lights up the Night

The Friends of Scoville Memorial Library have had another wonderful winter season and look forward to an exciting late-spring and summer as well. We welcomed three new members to our board in early winter: Jennifer Kronholm, Ann Levine and Macey Levin. Our fourth annual Holiday Read in Decem-ber, sponsored jointly with the Salisbury Association, was a festive and fun affair. A dozen “local celebrities” read holiday poems or stories under the direction of Macey Levin, a theater director. It gave The Friends an excuse to decorate the Wardell Community Room to the nines!. In January, courtesy of our membership dues and fundrais-ing, we were delighted to present the library trustees with a check for $20,000, with $15,000 earmarked for architectural renderings for possible improvements to the library and $5,000 for kid-friendly furniture in the children’s room. On April 12, the Friends welcomed renowned home and gar-den designer Bunny Williams to a standing-room-only talk on gardening, followed by appropriately spring-like lemonade and cookies. In May, we will as usual help the town celebrate Memo-rial Day by supplying coffee, doughnuts and lemonade at the start of the town parade and offering small flags to participat-ing children. In the meantime, we continue selling used books on line and sending paperbacks to U.S. troops overseas. We are also proud to once again be a strong supporter of The Salisbury Forum. And we look forward to our Fall Festival Book Sale in October. See you then! --Judy Linscott, president

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