Murder!

Are murder and mystery your thing?  If so, join us for Booked for Murder, our monthly mystery book discussion which is always held on the first Monday of the month at noon.

This month on Oct 4 we’re asking attendees to bring authors who have written less than 5 books, so we’ll all learn about some new books to read from authors we may not have discovered yet. 

See you there.
Elvita

High wire experience on Monday

Monday, September 27 at 7:00, the Nonfiction Book club will discuss the book To Reach the Cluds; My Highwire Walk Between the Twin Towers by Philippe Petit.  Petit actually did the walk in the mid-1970s.  The thought of a walk like that gives me the shivers since I'm not big on high places.  An interesting book.  Join us for the discussion.
Elvita

Still Alice book discussion

 On Tuesday, September 21 the Library Book Club meets to discuss the book Still Alice by Lisa Genova. Alice Howland is an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard when the first symptons begin to emerge.  First she can't find her Blackberry, then she gets lost in her own town.  She is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.  From there her life steadily comes undone.

Copies of the book are available for purchase or check out.  Ask at the circulation desk.

Elvita

Library Board meeting tonight

The Library Board meets on Tuesday, September 14th at 5:30 in the Historical Room. On the agenda, besides the usual financial and activity reports, are

• holiday hours,
• computer lab congestion,
• parental signatures on library card applications, and other policy discussions.

Library Board meetings are always open to the public.


Elvita

Rachel Carson live!

Rachel Carson, a key figure in the history of the environmental movement because of the wake-up call she issued in her 1963 book Silent Spring, will be live at the Brookings Public Library on Monday, September 13. Join us for an interview with Eric Sevareid as it would have been in 1963 as Carson battled giant chemical companies who were frantically creating public relations weapons to hurl at the painstaking scientist they labeled “hysterical.”

Carson will be portrayed by Ann Birney of Ride into History.

The program will be proceded by the Friends of the Library annual meeting.

Elvita

Find your ancestors

The Brookings Area Genealogical Society is hosting a Genealogy Help Session on  Saturday, September 11 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Historical Room on the second floor of the Library.


The purpose of the help sessions is to assist individuals in researching their family ancestors and history. Society members will be available to provide tips on getting started, online help, how to communicate with public entities to secure information, genealogy forms, how to organize collected material, genealogy programs, and other specific helps that are requested.

Appointments are not necessary. Anyone interested in the Saturday Genealogy Help Sessions can simply come to the library between 10 a.m. and noon on the second Saturday of any month.

Elvita