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IN THIS ISSUE:

Fall/Winter events for Children and Families — pg. 7

Teen page — pg. 6

Calendars of events — pgs. 4-5

New Arrivals & Featured Resources

— pg. 2

Upcoming programs for Adults — pg. 3

Thousand Oaks Library Volume 2, Number 6

November/December 2014

Interim LibraryServices Director:

Nancy Schram

www.toaks.org/library

Thousand Oaks Library & California Lutheran University Present the 1960s Lecture Series

November / December 2014

The

Grant R. Brimhall Library 1401 E. Janss RoadThousand Oaks, CA 91362805-449-2660

Newbury Park Branch2331 Borchard RoadNewbury Park, CA 91320805-498-2139

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The 1960s rocked our world and helped shape our country as well as our community. Thousand Oaks became a city in 1964. Come explore the decade with faculty from California Lutheran University at a special lecture series to be presented at Grant R. Brimhall Library, 1401 E. Janss Road. Each program will feature a different topic relevant to the ‘60s and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 13 - The Modern Civil Rights Movement. Presented by Greg Freeland. Moderator: Michaela Reaves.

Wednesday, December 3 - Movie Madness at the Drive-in. Panel: Herb Gooch, David Grannis. Moderator: Michaela Reaves.

Thursday, January 15 - Putting the “Pop” in Pop Culture: Arts and Music.Introduction with Michaela Reaves. Discussion with Eric Kinsley, David Nelson, and Christine Sellin.

Thursday, February 5 - Vietnam War: Readers Theater with Michael Arndt and Cal Lutheran Students. Introduction with Michaela Reaves.

Thursday, April 9 - To the Moon and Back: Scientific Achievements in the Sixties. Discussion with Robert Rumer and Adina Nack. Introduction with Michaela Reaves.

These programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 805-449-2660 x7358 or visit www.toaks.org/library. �

Go Mobile.

http://research.tolibrary.org/mobile.php

The Thousand Oaks Library’s website is now mobile friendly.

Check Your AccounteBooks & ResearchLibrary Programs

Featured Resources & New Arrivals

New Arrivals focus on Biographies

New Feature FilmsADULTS• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Action• Bad Words - Comedy• Blended - Comedy• Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Action• Dancing in Jaffa - Documentary• Divergent - Action• Draft Day - Drama• Edge Of Tomorrow - Sci-Fi/Fantasy• Fading Gigolo - Comedy• Finding Vivian Maier - Documentary• Godzilla - Sci-Fi/Fantasy• Million Dollar Arm - Drama• Moms’ Night Out - Comedy• Need For Speed - Action

• Night Moves - Drama• Obvious Child - Comedy• Oculus - Horror• Only Lovers Left Alive - Drama• Proxy - Horror• The Railway Man - Drama• Sharknado 2 - Horror• Transformers: Age Of Extinction - Action• X-men: Days Of Future Past - Sci-Fi/Fantasy

CHILDREN• Barbie and The Secret Door• Mr. Peabody & Sherman• Muppets Most Wanted

327.12 S885 Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA - Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Liste

782.42162 D996 Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal His-tory on the Road and Off the Tracks - Victor Maymudes

791.43028 B819 Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work - Susan L. Mizruchi

792.7028 C834 Cosby: His Life and Times - Mark Whitaker

781.65 E46 Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington - Terry Teachout

782.42166 P934 Elvis and Ginger - Ginger Alden

629.45 A737 Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight - Jay Barbree; foreword by John Glenn.

328.73 G111 Off the Sidelines: Raise Your

Voice, Change the World - Kirsten Gil-librand with Elizabeth Weil

296.8332 S358 Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson - Joseph Telushkin

947.083 R759 The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra - Helen Rappaport

973.911 R781 The Roosevelts: An Intimate History - Geoffrey C. Ward

EnvisionWare MobilePrint ServiceTM is a new mobile printing solution designed for public libraries, which is seamlessly integerated with LPT:OneTM, the current print management software in the library.

The MobilePrint Service enables patrons to print at the library and remotely from smartphones, tablets and computers then pick-up their print jobs at the library. Patrons can choose to print with one of the following three methods:

• Emailing documents to the unique email address of the designated

library location

• Using one of the mobile printing apps for iOS and Android devices

EnvisionWare MobilePrintTM Serviceis arriving at the Thousand Oaks Library

• Uploading documents to a customized web-printing portal

MobilePrint Service TM was developed in partnership with PrinterOn®, the world’s largest cloud-based printing service. Printing remotely or in the library will be the same cost at $0.15 for black and white and $0.50 for color.

We are looking forward to offering this new service in the fall. Please watch for future announcements in the library. �

Adults

The Conejo Valley Film Festival is dedicated to this area’s fi lmmaking heritage showcasing movies representing locations around the world but shot right here in the Conejo Valley. Sunday, November 16, 2014 at the Grant R. Brimhall Library, 1401 E. Janss Road. These fi lms are free and open to the public.

1:00 pm - “Davy Crockett- King of the Wild Frontier” (1955, 93 min., Disney) stars Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen. Legends from the life of famed American frontiersman Davey Crockett are depicted in this feature fi lm edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fi ght in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives.

3:00 pm - “Old Yeller” (1957, 83 min., Disney) stars Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, and Tommy Kirk. It is about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. It is based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book of the same name by Fred Gipson.

Conejo Valley Film Festival 3Sunday, November 16, 2014

For more information contact Billy Martin by email at: billymartin@conejovalleyfi lmfestival.com or visit www.toaks.org/library.

Other venues – Saturday, November 15,

at Preus-Brandt Forum Theatre at CLU – Time - TBD“Little Big Man” (1970, PG-13, 139 min., Cinema Center Films) Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fi ghting with General Custer.

Tickets for the Saturday fi lms at CLU are available online from $5 at www.conejovalleyfi lmfestival.com. �

Support Your Library• Unique Gifts •

Library FoundationGift Store

20% Off Sale Monthly

Library FoundationGift Store

Treat yourself to something special by dropping by our Library Foundation Gift Store next time you are in the library. It is located just past the coffee machine, next to the quiet study rooms. There is something for everyone in the store: journals,

jewelry, cards, toys, scarves, gift items, like used books, and much, much more.

The Thousand Oaks Library Foundation was established in 1983 as a non-profi t organization committed to supporting and enhancing special projects for the Thousand Oaks Library. Serving as the recipient for special collectibles and monetary donations to the library, the Foundation has provided funding for special, hard-to-fi nd or costly library materials and equipment. The Foundation also funds special collections including the Local History Collection and the American Radio Archives. Since its inception, the Foundation has raised in excess of $1.5 million for the Thousand Oaks Library.

Once a month, the gift store has a 20/20 sale: 20% off of all regularly priced items on the twentieth of each month!

The Library Foundation Gift Store is the perfect place to do some holiday shopping.

The store hours are 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. �

S M T W T F S S M T W T F S

Calendar of Events — November

GRB = Grant R. Brimhall Library • NPB = Newbury Park Branch Library

NOTE: Additional programs may be scheduled. For more information about Library events, go to www.toaks.org/library.

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November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman

calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning

“nine”) when January and February were

added to the calendar.

Friendly Book Discussion Group. 6:30pm at GRB.

History Book Discus-sion Group. 7:00pm at Goebel Adult Center.

Free Family Movie Matinee.American Hustle1:00pm at GRB.

Election Day

LIBRARIESCLOSED.

Parent and Child - Toddler Play & Learn Classes. Conejo Valley Neighborhood For Learning for ages 2-3 yrs. 10:30am at GRB.

Baby Play & Learn Storytime. Ages 0-24 mos10:30am at GRB.

Preschool Play & Learn Storytime. For ages 3-5 yrs. 10:30am at GRB.

CSU Channel Islands Lecture. 7:00pm at GRB.

Free Family Movie Matinee.The Monuments Men1:00pm at GRB.

Kindermusikwith Katie. For ages 0-5 yrs. 10:30am at NPB.

LEGO Play @ Your LIbrary. 2:00pm at GRB.

e-Readers & e-Books:An Introduction.10:30am at NPB.

Social Networking11:00am at GRB.

Free Movie Night.Apollo 137:00pm at NPB.

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Veterans Day

Thanksgiving DayLIBRARIESCLOSED.

LIBRARIESCLOSED.

Afternoon with Marisa Silver.1:00pm at theCivic Arts Plaza.Free tickets are required.

Dog Days. 4:00pm at GRB.

Parent and Child - Toddler Play & Learn Classes. Conejo Valley Neigh-borhood For Learning for ages 2-3 yrs. 10:30am at GRB.




Free Movie Night.Always7:00pm at NPB.

Free Movie Night.Gravity7:00pm at NPB.

Family Fun Night!6:30pm at GRB.

CLU Lecture Series: The 1960s7:00pm at GRB.

Conejo Valley Film Festival III.Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier.1:00pm at GRB.Old Yeller3:00pm at GRB. Gift Store 20/20 Sale.

11:00am - 5:00pmGet 20% off on the 20th of every month!

FAMILY PROGRAM:Ken Frawley“Play Along Songs” Concert.11:00am at GRB.2:00pm at NPB.

Teen Movie Matinee.The Giver3:00pm at GRB.

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NOTE: Additional programs may be scheduled. For more information about Library events, go to www.toaks.org/library.

Calendar of Events— December

GRB = Grant R. Brimhall Library • NPB = Newbury Park Branch Library

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December gets its name from the

Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was

originally the tenth month of the year

in the Roman calendar, which began in March.

Kwanzaa

Library Hours:

Grant R. Brimhall10:00am - 1:00pm

Newbury ParkBranch LIbary10:00am - 1:00pm

Friendly Book Discussion Group. 5:00pm in the Community Room at GRB.

History Book Discussion Group. 7:00pm at Goebel Adult Center.

CLU Lecture Series: The 1960s7:00pm at GRB.

Kindermusikwith Katie. For ages 0-5 yrs. 10:30am at GRB.

LEGO Play @ Your LIbrary. 2:00pm at NPB.

International Volunteer Day

World AIDS Day

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Hanukkah

ChristmasWinter Solstice

New Year’s Eve

Dog Days. 4:00pm at GRB.

Library Hours:

Grant R. BrimhallCLOSED

Newbury ParkBranch LIbaryCLOSED

Library Hours:



Library Hours:

Grant R. Brimhall12:00pm - 5:00pm


Library Hours:


Newbury ParkBranch LIbary1CLOSED

Library Hours:



Library Hours:



New Year’s Day Normal Library Hours Resume:



LIBRARIESCLOSED.

LIBRARIESCLOSED.

Free Movie Night.Elf7:00pm at NPB.

Library Hours:



Library Hours:


Newbury ParkBranch LIbary12:00pm - 8:00pm

Library Hours:


Newbury ParkBranch LIbary12:00pm - 8:00pm

Library Hours:



Free Movie Night.National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation7:00pm at NPB.

Free Family Movie Matinee.Dallas Buyers Club1:00pm at GRB.

Free Family Movie Matinee.Saving Mr. Banks1:00pm at GRB.

It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play.Fried–Out Features3:00pm at GRB.

FAMILY PROGRAM:Franklin Haynes Marionettes – “Santa’s New Sleigh”11:00am at GRB.2:00pm at NPB.

Teens

On Saturday, November 29, 2014, 3:00 – 4:35p.m. in the Grant R. Brimhall Library Community Room.

The Giver (2014, rated PG-13) In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world. Based on the Newbery Award-winning book by Lois Lowry, the film stars Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Cameron Monaghan, Odeya Rush, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, and Taylor Swift. �

Teens – Are you looking for a tutor or need some help with your homework? Don’t forget about this free electronic resource provided via the library web page.

Brainfuse HelpNow! offers live, online homework help from a Brainfuse tutor daily from 1:00 - 10:00 p.m.Includes skills-building services to helpstudents master a concept through tutoring and state-aligned online lessons, a 24/7 Help Center for students to submit a homework question that is answered by a tutor within 24 hours, a Writing Lab where students can receive editing feedback and help, and a Language Lab. Students also can prepare for exams using practice tests, create their own flashcards and multiple choice quizzes for self-study on both computers and mobile devices. Brainwave is a tool that allows you to record a movie of your activity on the Brainfuse whiteboard, whether it’s for solving a problem or for a fun presentation.

To find this and other resources, click on “Online Research & Homework Help” �

Homework Help is Available

Teen Movie Matinee

College Preparation Resources

Teens — Are you taking the SAT or other standardized tests this fall? Need help preparing for a test or want to take a practice test? Don’t forget about this free electronic resource provided via the library web page! �

LearningExpressLibrary

LearningExpress Library offers a College Preparation Center with preparation tools and resources for SAT, ACT, PSAT, College Admissions Essay Writing help and more. To fi nd this and other resources click on “Online Research & Homework Help” and then go to “Databases A to Z” or “Education & Test Preparation”. �

Children & Families

Annual Family Fun Night

Sponsored by the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library in association with Ventura County First 5 and Conejo Valley Neighborhood for Learning.

Thursday, November 6, 20146:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Grant R. Brimhall

Library Community Room

Music & Movement with JessicaFamilies with children ages 0-5 are invited to this special free event to promote early childhood literacy. Participants are invitedto dance, clap, and sing along as Jessica Vang performs original and classic children’s songs in this fun and interactive program. Older siblings and family members are welcome to join the fun, too! �

Franklin Haynes Marionettes – “Santa’s New

Sleigh”Saturday, December 13, 2014

11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Grant R. Brimhall Library Community Meeting Room

2:00 – 2:45 p.m. Newbury Park Branch Library Meeting Room

When Santa buys a brand new sleigh off the Internet and gets rid of his reindeer, chaos instead of Christmas may be what comes.

Bring the family to enjoy this light-hearted show with some special tricks like juggling ornaments and flying on a high trapeze, and there will be Teddy Bear, Little Bobby and, of course, Old Saint Nick himself. A surprise ending will come too!

Dog Days Grant R. Brimhall - Children’s Library Program Room Friday, November 7 at 4:00 p.m.Friday, December 5 at 4:00 p.m.

Readers of all levels and abilities are invited to come and read to a Certifi ed Therapy dog! No advance registration, participants will sign up for a brief 10-15 minute session with one of the therapy dogs and their owner. �

Kindermusikwith Katie

Ages 0-5

Newbury Park Branch Library Meeting Room - Friday, November 14 at 10:30 a.m.

Grant R. Brimhall Library Community Room - Friday, December 12 at 10:30 a.m.

Join Katie Shinden, Kindermusik teacher, for these delightful monthly musical programs! Music and fun for little ones and their parents and caregivers! �

LEGO® Play@ Your Library

Saturday, November 15 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. Grant R. Brimhall Library Community Meeting Room.

Saturday, December 6 at 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Newbury Park Branch Library Meeting Room.

Come have fun and build your own LEGO® creations. We also have a few DUPLO® bricks for little builders. �

Ken FrawleyPlay Along

Songs ConcertSaturday, November 22, 2014

11:00 – 11:45 a.m. at Grant R. Brimhall Library Community Room

2:00 – 2:45 p.m. at Newbury Park Branch Library Meeting Room

In this wonderful musical program full of new and traditional participatory songs for preschoolers and the whole family, Ken Frawley, one of the leaders in interactive music programs, demonstrates how to move and play-along to songs.

Audiences will be treated to traditional songs like “I Had Me a Rooster” and “She’ll be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain.” They then will have fun with songs like “Whales, Whales, Whales” and “I’m Thinking of an Animal.” Audiences will have to use their imaginations to make up sounds, words, rhymes, and use their bodies to clap-along, sing-along, and move-along to Ken’s collection of playful songs. �

Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library

Shop and Helpthe Friends

at the Same TimeWant to help the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library but have limited extra funds? Now, you can help while shopping on Amazon. The Friends are now listed as an eligible charity on AmazonSmile so you can shop online and the Friends will receive .5% of the purchase price on eligible purchases from AmazonSmile. (smile.amazon.com)

AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. It just helps your favorite charity in the process. You use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings also are the same. On your first visit to AmazonSmile, you need to select the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make on AmazonSmile will result in a donation to the Friends. It’s that simple. �

www.ftol.org

History BookDiscussion Group

The History Book Discussion Group meets from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month in the Goebel Adult Community Center, 1385 E. Janss Road (next to the GRB Library). For more information, contact Jack Heller at 805-341-7585.

November 13Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayak

December 11Wicked War, by Amy Greenberg

Friendly BookDiscussion Group

The Friendly Book Discussion Group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the fi rst Thursday of the month in the Grant R. Brimhall Library Technology Training Room. For more information, contact Sai Chandavarkar at 805-241-5205.

November 6 - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, by Paul Theroux

December 4 - Guest Speaker: Dr. Joan Wines, Professor of English, CLU, 5-8pm @ Community Room

Fried–Out Features productions will perform a delightful radio theatre version of “It’s A Wonderful Life” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec 14 at the Thousand Oaks Library, 1401 Janss Road. “It’s a Wonderful Life”-- a radio drama, adapted by Philip Grecian and based on the fi lm by Frank Capra, is the story of George Bailey, the unsung, beloved hero of Bedford Falls, an American holiday classic.

Ten actors will recreate the radio broadcast at the Library using authentic sound effects from the Thousand Oaks Library’s American Radio Archives to recreate the sound and feel of the Golden Age of Radio of the early 1940s. The library is internationally recognized as the number one repository of Golden Age Radio collections in the United States.

Fried-Out Features Productions creates live plays, audio theater and radio productions in and around eastern Ventura County. The production company was co-founded in 1972 by Steve Carlson and Terry Sciarrino. Their

work has been played on NPR Station KCLU at 88.3FM.

They have also presented full-blown musical melodramas at Moorpark’s High Street Arts Center, as well as performing an award-winning recreation of “War of the Worlds” at the Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks. Their radio series “Buddy Shell, Metaphysical Private Investigator” and movie “Rex Bravo, the Whistling Cowboy” can both be enjoyed on YouTube.

This program is free and open to the public. It is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois. �

“It’s a Wonderful Life” Radio Play to be Presented at theThousand Oaks Library

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