Off the ShelfVolume 12, Edition 1 January - March 2013Events at the Poplar Bluff Municipal LibraryEvents

CalendarJANUARY

2 – Computer class, 10 a.m.3 – W.E.B. movie 4:30 p.m., Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.4 – Library on KWOC 8 a.m.8 – Story Time 10:30 a.m.10 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.15 – Story Time 10:30 a.m.17 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.18 – W.E.B. Noodle Party, 1-3 p.m.21 – Library open, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Special story time, 10:30 a.m.22 – Story Time, 10:30 a.m.24 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday, 4-7 p.m.29 – Story Time 10:30 a.m.

FEBRUARY1– Library on KWOC 8 a.m., Author visit with Jennifer Brown4 – Winter Reading begins, Library Board of Trustees meeting 4 p.m.; Friends of Library 6 p.m.5– Story time 10:30 a.m.6 – Computer class, 10 a.m.7 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.12 – Valentine’s Day Party for Toddlers, 10:30 a.m.14 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.15 – W.E.B. Board Game event, 1 to 3 p.m.18 – Library open, President’s Day19 – Story Time 10:30 a.m.28– Story Time, 10:30 a.m.

MARCH1 – Library on KWOC 8 a.m. Birthday Party for Dr. Seuss, 10:30 a.m.4 – Library Board of Trustees meeting 4 p.m.; Friends of Library 6 p.m.5 – Story Time, 10:30 a.m.6 – Computer class, 10 a.m.7 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m. 8 – Winter Reading ends9 – Chinese New Year event, 1-3 p.m.12 – Story Time 10:30 a.m.14 – Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.14 – Teen Tech Night, 5-8 p.m.19 – Story Time 10:30 a.m.28– Theater Thursday, Tech Talk Thursday 4-7 p.m.

Big things are happening at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library: As of Dec. 1

more than 300 feet of new shelving has been added to the library’s fiction stacks!

The shelving has been put into place to accommodate coming growth stemming from

the passage of Proposition 1, which is set to double the library’s book budget in 2013. The additional shelving will give the library room to store popular fiction books, including those by best-selling authors like James Patterson, John Grisham, Nora Roberts and more!

The passage of Proposition 1 is the result of four years of work between the library, its board of trustees and state legislators in efforts to change how public

library funding is received. The end result of these efforts is a city-wide ¼-cent sales tax to fund operation of the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library. Revenue from this tax can be used only for the library.

The new funding will allow the library to expand services and offerings, including:● Offer library cards to residents of Butler and adjoining counties at no charge.● Expand the library’s open hours ● Allow the library to continue offering computer classes, Tech Talks and more.

Shelves expand to make way for new books

Library grows with state-wide servicePoplar Bluff Municipal

Library is proud to be part of a growing family: As a member of the Missouri Evergreen consortium, the library now offers users access to nearly half a million books, movies and CDs available from more than a dozen other libraries across the state.

The expansion is good news for library users; as now they are able to request materials held by other participating libraries for pickup at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library. All patrons are eligible to borrow items from participating Missouri

Evergreen libraries with only a few clicks and their library card: No more long forms to fill out and questions to answer.

Thirteen Missouri libraries have signed on to join the collection. Some have already migrated to the system allowing resource sharing; others will join

later in 2013. All you need is your library card to search the titles available through Missouri Evergreen at www.catalog. poplarbluff.org.

For more information about

Poplar Bluff Municipal Library, visit www.poplarbluff.org or call (573)686-8639.

● Albany Carnegie Public Library● Carrollton Public Library● Carthage Public Library● Doniphan-Ripley County Library● Grundy County Library● Howard County Library

● Lebanon-Laclede County Library●Little Dixie Regional Libraries● Marshall Public Library● Neosho-Newton County Library● Stone County Library● Webster County Library

PARTICIPATING LIBRARIES INCLUDE:

● See more updates from the Proposition 1 Infoline on Page 4.

The LEADER in Customer Service

Sponsored by:

Member FDIC

See the stars at Theater

ThursdayJoin fellow film fans each Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the

Library Theater for movies and popcorn

Poplar Bluff Municipal Library: Where Everyone Belongs!Got a day off school? Get caught in the W.E.B.!

Visit Poplar Bluff Municipal Library for special events!

Explore Valentine’s Day traditions and more all

month long!

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FebruaryJanuary MarchSpring is just around the

corner! Learn what makes this month special

January Book and a Movie

3- Mr. Popper’s Penguins10- Old Yeller

17- The Indian in the Cupboard

24- Mirror Mirror (Snow White)

31- Gnomeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

February Muppet Mania7- The Muppets

14- The Great Muppet Caper

21- The Muppets Take Manhattan

28- The Muppets From SpaceMarch

Fan Favorites7- Brave

14- Kung Fu Panda21- Madagascar

28- The Pirates: Band of Misfits

It’s a winter wonderland! Learn about animals

and more!

Help little ones work on early literacy skills each Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. for Story Time in the Children’s Library!

8 - Snow and Snowmen Make an adorable

snowman to take home15 - Winter Animals

Share a yummy treat for our furry friends

22 - Hibernation Learn about how animals sleep through the winter29 - Groundhog Day

Will he see is shadow? Learn about this annual tradition

5 - Abraham Lincoln Celebrate the life of the nation’s 16th president12 - Valentine’s Day Come for a party with

punch, cookies and fun!19 - Brush Your Teeth

Did you know March is Den-tal Hygeine Month?

29 - Dr. Seuss What’s your favorite

Dr. Seuss book? Listen to his silly stories

1 - Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Celebrate this author at a special birthday party!

5 - Dr. Seuss Listen to silly Dr. Seuss stories

12 - St. Patrick’s Day Do you have the luck of the

Irish? Learn more with a story19 - Spring

Explore what makes the coming season special

26 -Egg Hunt Look for hidden Easter eggs

all around the Library!

n January 3- Theatre Thursday, featuring “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.”

Movie starts at 4:30 p.m.

n January 18- Stop in the library to play pool noodle games from

1-3 p.m. Try your hand at a pool noodle race, painting and an obstacle

course.n February15- School is Out, Let’s Play! Join the library from 1-3 p.m. to play classic board games.Enjoy Clue, Monopoly and more!

what’s UPDOWNstairs

EVENTS & PROGRAMS IN THE CHILDREN’S LIBRARY

@ POPLAR BLUFF MUNICIPAL LIBRARY

Are you taking advantage of

Homework @ the Library?K-12 students can get hands on homework help at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library! Take advantage of the library’s laptops, free homework copies, databases and other resources!

Mark your calendars: Award-winning author Jennifer Brown will present

three book talks on Feb. 1 at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library.Brown’s acclaimed debut novel

Hate List has won a number of prestigious literature awards, including a spot on the Missouri Library Association’s Missouri Gateway Awards list. Additionally, Hate List won the Michigan Library Association’s Thumbs Up! Award, the Louisiana Teen Readers Choice award, the 2012 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award, was an honorable mention for the 2011 Arkansas Teen Book Award, is a YALSA 2012 Popular Paper-back and received spots on the Texas Library Association’s Taysha’s high school

reading list, according to in-formation from

her pub-lisher.

Her second novel, Bitter End, is on YALSA’s 2012 reading list. Her third novel, Perfect Escape, was released in July.Author talks with Brown will

take place at 10:30 a.m., 1 and 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 in the Library Theater.

This event is sponsored by 1st Community Bank, member FDIC.

Dirty Jobs

@ YOUR LIBRARY

Starts Feb. 4

Think your homework is tough? Try wading through sewage after

a flood, scooping up dog poop at the animal shelter or emptying a dumpster full of rotting trash: These are just a handful of the dirty jobs tackled by thou-sands of unsung heroes everyday.Do you have what it takes to do a dirty job?

Learn about the dirty, yucky and smelly jobs that people do every single day through Poplar Bluff Municipal

Library’s annual winter reading program, Dirty

Jobs @ Your Library. The program will kick off on

Feb. 4.Children’s Librarian and Youth Coordinator Ashley Robertson is taking a totally hands-on approach to the “dirty jobs” theme. Robert-son has personally signed on to get her hands dirty, all

in the name of encouraging reading. So far, she’s made arrangements to scour kennels at the Poplar Bluff Ani-mal Shel-ter and clean up damage and disas-ter with ServPro of Pop-lar Bluff, Dexter and Kennett. More dirty jobs are in the works, she said.“By taking a hands on ap-proach to the dirty jobs, I’m encouraging kids to take an involved approach to reading and building literacy skills,” Robertson said. “I also think getting my hands dirty will help library users

appreciate the otherwise unpleasant jobs people do everyday, both in Poplar

Bluff and beyond.”

Visit the Children’s Library at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library any time on or after Feb. 4 to sign up for the win-ter reading program.

For more information

about Dirty Jobs @ Your Library and other library pro-grams, visit www.poplar bluff.org or call the library at (573)686-8639.

You can also “like” the library on Facebook by checking out www.facebook.com/poplarbluffpubliclibrary.

Get dirty with winter reading

Learn about the dirty, yucky and smelly jobs people do every single

day through the library’s winter reading program,

@ Your Library.

‘Hate List’ author visit rescheduled

Jennifer Brown will visit the library

on Feb. 1

TEENS:

CHECK IN@ YOUR LIBRARY

Poplar Bluff Municipal Library opens its physical and virtual doors to teens 24/7.

Check in to Teen Tech

Night from 5 to 8 p.m. on March 15 to check out all the ways you can read and lis-ten to books on eRead-ers, smartphones, tab-lets and other devices.

P oplar Bluff Municipal Library is practically

adding another week to the 2013 calendar by open-ing doors on four federal holidays and adding al-most 60 open hours to the library’s annual schedule.

Additional funding com-ing in to the library from the passage of Proposition 1 will allow the library to re-main open on the following federal holidays in 2013:• Martin Luther King Jr.

Day, Jan. 21• Washington’s Birthday

(President’s Day), Feb. 18• Columbus Day, Oct. 14• Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11

The library will also remain open on Good Friday and the Friday after Thanksgiving.

The addi-tional hours will also promote the library’s position as

the information hub of Butler County and allow the library to further meet the community’s shifting cultural and social needs.

The library district will close for observation of New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiv-ing, Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 2013 and beyond.

MORE INFO?Call 686-6639 or click over

to www.poplarbluff.org/ calendar.org

Are you ready to talk tech?The Library is available to assist users in learning how to control

their smart phones, e-readers, laptops and other gadgets. If you feel that your smartphone is in control, or your e-reader

instructions were written in a foreign language, then TECH TALK THURSDAYS are for you.

Visit the library at 4 p.m. on Thursdays to get the full scoop!

“Like” Poplar Bluff Municipal Library

on Facebook to get up-the-minute updates about special events, programs and more!

318 NORTH MAIN STREET, POPLAR BLUFF, MO 63901Phone: (573) 686-8639

www.poplarbluff.orgHours: Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,

Friday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Board approves 2013 holiday schedule

New computers to debutWhen you’re looking for

the newest books, mov-ies and magazines at Poplar Bluff Municipal Library, you head to the southeast corner of the building to find them. Soon this area will house another new addition: Six brand new ultrabook computers are moving in for public use.The new public-access

computers will feature Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 8. Rusty Van Praag, the library’s emerging technologies administrator, asserts that the new computers are “futuristic” and are easily accessible to users -- even those without strong com-puter skills.“Simply put, Windows

8 was built to be used,” Van Praag said. “With this new software, you’ll spend more time getting to work and accomplishing your objective tasks and less time figuring out how to use the computer.”

In addition to the more-accessible new comput-

ers, the technology expansion will also include six addition-al spots for users to work with their per-sonal computers.

The new technol-ogy comes after a recent bandwidth expansion, which doubled the internet connection speed coming in to the library building. The faster connection has been passed along to us-ers, which means patrons can stream video with-out interruption, quickly download eBooks and audiobooks, and browse the web at lightning-fast speeds.All it takes to log on to

public computers, includ-ing the new ultrabooks, is a library card or guest user account.

NEW@ Your Library