Mommy Expo

Mommy Expo

Friday, November 5th
Irondale Public Library
Meeting Room

Drop in anytime between 10am-12pm!

Come find out about local services and businesses that help new & expectant mothers, babies, and children.

Storytime for the kids!

Free Refreshments!

Lots of door prizes will be given away!

For more information, call (205) 951-1415 or email us at irondalelibrary@gmail.com.

Books With Beat

This year's Teen Read Week theme is:

Here are some books that have a music theme - come check one out today or request the book by simply clicking on the title:

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.

Audrey Wait
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.

Songs for a Teenage Nomad
Having lived in twelve places in eight years, Calle Smith stores her memories in a song journal while she keeps the world at a distance, but friends are there to help when she learns why her mother has always been on the run.

Ballads of Suburbia
An aspiring film writer tells about her troubled teen years in the Chicago suburbs when she and her friends tried to escape the pain of their lives through rock music

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family

The Girls' Guide to Rocking : how to start a band, book gigs, and get rolling to rock stardom
A guide to making it as a rock musician provides detailed instructions and tips on such topics as starting a band, choosing equipment, practicing, getting gigs, and touring.

Harmonic Feedback
When music- and sound design-obsessed Drea and her mother move in with her grandmother in Bellingham, Washington, the 16-year-old finds that she can have real friends in spite of her Asperger's, and that even when you love someone it does not make life perfect.

Will
Assigned to play the guitar for the school musical after getting into trouble, talented musician Will is frustrated by the loss of his weekends before falling for the production's leading lady, who Will fears may be in love with her football hero co-star.

Off the Bus & On the Record
Teen journalists from TV music show get behind the scenes stories and ask the never-before questions of 22 popular rock bands

Vinyl Princess
LP-obsessed Allie works at the used record store on Telegraph Avenue and deals with crushes and her increasingly popular blog and zine, and generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of Berkeley, California.

Hip Hop World
Delves into the history of this unique cultural movement through an examination of its origins, influences, music, style, and evolution as expressed throughout the world.

Encyclopedia of Punk
An alphabetically arranged resource covers the rebellious musical genre and the cultural movement it inspired.

Teen Read Week - Making Beats Program

Attention teens!!! Ever wondered how music is made?

Join us for....

"Making Beats"
An Interactive Music Workshop

Saturday, October 23rd

12:00pm

Library Meeting Room

This program will show how art is made in the form of music! Come see a demonstration from a local musician, then lay down your own “beats.” You can rap, sing or recite a favorite passage from a book, movie or song.

And if that wasn't exciting enough, we will be giving away door prizes!!! Win a MP3 player or an iTunes gift card!!! Refreshments will be served. Open to sixth graders and up - call (951-1415) or email us (irondalelibrary@gmail.com) for more information. Hope to see you there!

This event will wrap up our week long celebration of Teen Read Week 2010, celebrating Books with Beat! Don't forget to check out Teens' Top Ten for 2010. This program was made possible by YALSA's Teen Read Week Mini-Grant. Thank you YALSA and the TRW Sponsors!

Digital Bookmobile

Learn how to download from local libraries!

Learn how to download audiobooks, eBooks, and more on the Digital Bookmobile! With instructional videos, interactive computer stations and a fully-loaded gadget gallery, readers of all ages will experience new ways to enjoy digital books & more from the public library.

The digital book mobile will be making 3 visits this week to Jefferson county libraries:

Wednesday, October 20th from 10am - 4pm at Birmingham Public Library

Thursday, October 21st from 11am - 5pm at Hoover Public Library

Saturday, October 23rd from 11am - 5pm at Homewood Public Library

Bring your own digital device and get help downloading the library's audiobooks and eBooks or just stop by to find out more information. While you are there be sure to register for prize giveaways!

Check out JCLC's website for more information about downloadable audiobooks and eBooks. For more infomation about the Digital Bookmobile, visit Overdrive's website.

PJ Storytime

Join us for PJ Storytime this Monday, October 18th at 6:30pm.

Come hear stories, wear your pajamas, and enjoy a bedtime snack!

All ages are welcome. Call 951-1415 or email irondalelibrary@gmail.com for more information.

National Book Awards - 2010 Finalists

The National Book Award Finalists were announced yesterday! Here are the lists for Fiction and Young People's Literature. Click on the title to request a copy from the library.

Fiction:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Great House by Nicole Krauss

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

Young People's Literature:



Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Dark Water by Laura McNeal

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

For a complete list of finalists and for the history of the National Book Awards, visit the National Book Foundation's website.

The winners will be announced on November 17th. Who do you think should win?!?

Book Club Wrap-Up - Brooklyn

Thanks to everyone who joined us for last night's book discussion of Brooklyn: A Novel by Colm Toibin. Special thanks to Ann for bringing the delicious cookies and Sue for the scrumptious butter pecan cake!

Summary:

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Toibin's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.

The book tells the story of an Irish girl, Eilis (pronounced Eye-lish), moving alone to Brooklyn in the 1950s to start a new job and life. The novel moves in a quiet, slow pace which was deliberate on the author's part. Here is an excerpt from an interview with The U.K.'s Telegraph:

Right from the start, Tóibín was determined that this would be a book without any detectable style to it: the story would unfold in the plainest possible way. “I wanted to cut everything right back. Part of that was as an experiment: I was hoping that if you got the level of detail right then the reader would slowly become emotionally involved without knowing at what point that began."

It was interesting to read about long forgotten practices and customs of the 1950s, like the cash carriers in department stores (check out the links below for more info). Several people in our group were frustrated with Eilis' lack of response to the events in her life; she almost always let others make decisions for her. Overall though, I think the group enjoy discussing our likes and dislikes of different aspects of the book!

Colm Toibin

For more information:

Colm Toibin's website

Interview with the author

Cash Carrier History

Photos of Lamson Carriers and Pneumatic Tube Systems

Join us next month for Book Club on Monday, November 8th at 6:30pm. We are doing things a little differently next month - instead of reading a selected book we are having a book show-and-tell! Bring one or more of your favorite cookbooks or holiday books.

Feel free to call (951-1415) or email (irondalelibrary@gmail.com) us with any questions. Hope to see you there!

John Lennon

Tomorrow will mark what would have been the 70th birthday of musician John Lennon. And the library has something about John Lennon for everybody - biographies, music, documentaries, children's book and more! Here are a few of our favorites:

Instant karma: the Amnesty International campaign to save Darfur by John Lennon - Music CD

Imagine, John Lennon - DVD Documentary

Lennon's voice provides the narration to this biographical documentary, compiled by the producers from over 240 hours of film and videotape.

Pepperland by Mark Delany - Young Adult novel

Summary: Struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother in the late 1970s, sixteen-year-old Beatles fan Star Cochran hopes to find closure by delivering to John Lennon a letter her mother wrote to him in 1964 but never sent.

Real love : the drawings for Sean by John Lennon - Children's Picture Book

A collection of drawings made by the late musician captures the love and great joy he had for his young son.

Instamatic karma : photographs of John Lennon by May Pang - Photography Book

Pang, John Lennon's girlfriend from 1973 to 1975, presents these never-before-seen images of the music icon. She has written rich captions to accompany her photos--taken together, they tell a simple story of the time she and Lennon spent together.

A Hard Day's Night - DVD

The Beatles star in this film about a "typical" day in the life of the Beatles.

For more information visit John Lennon's official website or search the library's catalog for a complete list of John Lennon items.

Preschool Storytime

Join us Thursday, October 7th for Preschool Storytime! We will begin at 10:30am - hope to see you there!

Questions? Call 951-1415 or email us (irondalelibrary@gmail.com).