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Happy Holidays!

The Library will be closed for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day (the day after Christmas – or, the first day of Kwanzaa). That is, we will be closed December 24-26, reopening for our usual Sunday hours 1-5pm on December 27. The Library will close at 5pm on New Year’s Eve, and will close all day Friday, January 1 for New Year’s Day.

Please note that the new book drop will be open during all of these closures! You can now return your library materials anytime at our 24/7 bookdrop near the Northeast corner of the building.

While you may be focused on Christmas and other winter holidays, keep in mind that the Baldwinsville Library is lining up a lot of great programs for all ages in 2010! January arrives all too soon, and some of our programs require preregistration. Go to our BPL Events Calendar to see what the new year holds!

The Baldwinsville Public Library wishes all its patrons happy holidays; may they hold much warmth and joy!

Baldwinsville Public Library will be hosting
Syracuse University professor of Art History Judith Meighan this
Thursday, December 3 2009, at 7pm in the library’s Community Room.

Paul Cézanne. The François Zola Dam, painted ca. 1877-78

Paul Cézanne. The François Zola Dam

Baldwinsville Library is one of several Onondaga County libraries offering art talks or lectures as partners with the Everson Museum of Syracuse University. The Everson is offering an amazing exhibit of classic Impressionist paintings through January 3. Art lovers or curious art beginners have the opportunity to learn more about Monet, Cezanne, Turner and other classic Impressionist artists at public library events throughout December.

Impressionist artists plumbed the art, science and literature of the time to change the way people looked at the world. Syracuse University Professor of Art History Judith Meighan will closely examine ten works currently on view at the Everson Museum of Art to discover how painters such as Turner, Monet, and Van Gogh liberated their art from the past. 2 tickets to the Everson’s Impressionist exhibit will be awarded to one lucky attendee.

Giving books for Christmas this year? Stretch your gift dollars and help your local library while you’re at it. Join your friends and neighbors at the Barnes & Noble in Clay, NY Saturday, November 28 for a day of shopping and entertainment that benefits the programs and collections at your local library.

The day kicks off with a Children’s Story Time hosted by Baldwinsville’s very own weatherman Wayne Mahar, Chief meteorologist at WSTM Channel 3, WTVH Channel 5 and CW-6 TV. Later in the afternoon enjoy the smooth stylings of Baker High’s premier jazz ensemble Silk & Satin. Last but hardly least, round out your shopping experience with a literary cabaret presented by Soprano Elizabeth Kisselstein and pianist Nancy James.

It’s a great way to wrap up your shopping and benefit your community. Just be sure to present your voucher (available at the library and several community locations including local banks) or mention the library at the checkout counter.

Wondering where the book drop went? No, you aren’t crazy we moved it just a few yards down the wall. Library materials can now be dropped off any time of the day or night through our new Book Drop at the end of the parking lot, to the left of the main entrance.

The new location comes with a special parking space designated for “Book Drop Parking Only”. Library patrons can now pull in to the Book Drop Only space to return books or media without disturbing pets, small children, or other passengers in their vehicle. Please be considerate of others and use this parking space only when returning books through the Book Drop.

The long-awaited move was a response to patron complaints that the book drop was not available during library hours. This service was part of the original library plans but we discovered soon after opening that it was not useable in the drop’s former location which opened into a closet adjacent to the Community Room. No matter how we sound proofed, when library users dropped off books, any meetings or events in that room were subjected to loud thuds and clanks as the books slid through the slot and into the returns bin. Now with the new drop opening into a utility room the noise is no longer a problem and patrons can make quick returns without having to travel into the library.

We hope you like this improvement in our services.

We’ll be adding new theatrical titles soon as the studios start releasing recent films for the Christmas season but in the meantime you might want to check out some movies that rarely make the local theaters or even the rental shelves.

The shelves in our adult nonfiction section are full of fascinating film on all sorts of topics from religion,  politics and science to music, literature and history. We offer video that lets you learn new languages, acquire new skills, and check out unique experiences from live concerts by legendary artists to travelogues of the earth’s most exotic regions.

Just this week we added:

Alaska the Inside Passage- a compelling PBS offering on one of the most beautiful waterways in the world.

The Garden- Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2009 Oscars this film examines the collision between community and commerce as LA developers and working class farmers battle over what was once the largest urban farm in America.

The Botany of Desire- Based on Michael Pollan’s best-selling book this PBS offering explores the natural history of four plants  the apple, the tulip, the potato and marijuana and the ways humans have been involved in their development and changes.

Sprawling From Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization – Cheap energy and the automobile have changed the landscape of America and now that the end of oil is near we will have to discover new ways of living within our resources. An excellent companion piece to An Inconvenient Truth.

Scott Walker 30 Century Man- Voted one of Time Out London’s 50 Greatest Music Films Ever this recent release chronicles the work of Scotty Engel who left a minor career in America to become first a pop sensation in England and finally a reclusive composer/artist with a major influence on avant-garde musicians on both sides of the Atlantic.

Our October Teen Drop In Monster Makeup Clinic originally scheduled for Friday, October 30 at 2:30 p.m. will be cancelled because our Young Adult Librarian will be out of town for a funeral that day.

Teen in grades 6 -12 living in the Baldwinsville School District are invited to Read, Write & Dream Beyond Reality this year with our Teen Fan Fiction and Art Contest. The lucky winner in each category will win a $50 cash prize and Judge’s Choice winners will get a $20 gift certificate to spend at our April book sale.

Check the details below and check in at the library or on our web page later this month for a printable copy of the rules and entry form.

Read, Write & Dream Beyond Reality

YA Fan Fiction/ Art Contest

Contest Rules:

  1. Participants should be in grades 6 – 12 and must be residents of the Baldwinsville School District.
  2. One submission per person.
  3. Stories or poems may be based on any science fiction or fantasy title or series including manga.
  4. Stories should be NO MORE than 2500 words (roughly 10 double spaced typed pages).
  5. Content should be appropriate for a G or PG-13 audience.
  6. Stories must be complete and stand-alone.  No multi-tome volumes or “to be continued” endings.
  7. All works must be your own.
  8. Art works may be single portrait/scenes or multipanel but should be no larger than standard poster size 24” X 36”.
  9. If you decide to submit an illustrated story or poem you must decide whether you want to enter it in the writing or the art category.
  10. Accepted entries will be published on the library’s website.

Written submissions will be judged by the following criteria: creativity, flow of the story or poem, interest, spelling & grammar.

Art submissions will be judged on the following criteria:  artistic skill, presentation and originality.

Submissions

Submissions should be made at the Baldwinsville Public Library during Teen Tech Week March 7 – 13, 2010. No entries will be accepted after 4 p.m. March 13. Each entry should include the following information attached to the back of the submission.

Title of the Work

Author or Artist’s Name

Entry Category: Fiction or Art

Grade & Schooling Information

Address

Phone

Email (if available)

Title of the work or series that inspired it.

No names or titles are to be written on the front of the submission.

Baldwinsville Public Library assumes no responsibility for loss or damage to any entry.

OTHER INFORMATION

No entry fee is required.

There will be a $50 cash prize for the first prize winner in each category. Accepted artworks and writings will be displayed on the library’s webpage

In addition, each judge will award a “Judge’s Choice” award ($20 gift certificate to the April Book Sale) to their favorite work in each category. Participants will be notified by mail when the judging is completed.

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Read, Write & Dream Beyond Reality Teen Fan Fiction / Art Contest

REGISTRATION FORM  (TO BE TAPED TO THE BACK OF ENTRY—RIGHT SIDE UP)

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME OF AUTHOR/ARTIST

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS:  STREET

__________________________________________________________________

CITY                                 STATE              ZIP

EMAIL ADDRESS (IF AVAILABLE)

SCHOOL ATTENDING                 GRADE             HOME  PHONE #

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

TITLE OF ENTRY

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

CATEGORY OF SUBMISSION              (ART OR WRITTEN WORK)

I am submitting this item for judging in the Baldwinsville Public Library Teen Fan Fiction/ Art Contest.  I hereby irrevocably consent that if this work is accepted for exhibition it may be used by the library for publication or display in any manner.

Do you love to listen?

In that case our loss is your gain. Space is tight in the adult audiobook area so we’ve been forced to weed out slower moving titles in the books on cassette. That means we’ll have an even better than average selection at the upcoming book sale starting November 3. These include a number of classic adult and YA titles so even if you don’t have a cassette player at home or in your car it might be worth adding one to your media options.

Did you know that television programs on DVD are shelved at VC 791.45? and that many popular anime titles were originally tv series?

Whether you knew it already or just found out we have lots of anime titles here at the library for your viewing pleasure including Gungrave, Coyote Ragtime, Eureka Seven and Kadocha.

We also have lots of new Young Adult books arriving daily and if you’re working on the Durgee readers of distinction program the public library has many of the titles that are currently checked out of your library.

Hi,

Our former blog editor has moved on to the fields of coomerce and I haven’t quite figured out all the widgets yet so please be patient while I try to bring things back up to date.

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