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MLK Canned Food Drive
Last week, the El Paso Public Libraries collected canned foods as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. canned food drive. Community citizens donated generously yielding an estimated two tons of canned goods.
The food will be distributed to the following area agencies:
The Center Against Family Violence, La Fe Montana Vista Community Center, The El Paso Rescue Mission, El Paso Villa Maria, La Familia of El Paso, La Posada Home, The Opportunity Center for the Homeless, The Reynolds Home, and The Salvation Army.
Thank you Library Patrons for making a difference in your community!
Hi-Tech Storytime
Wednesday’s preschool story time hour went hi-tech! Representatives from the El Paso Community College Northwest Campus visited our library to show children how to use the latest version of Apple’s iPad. After reading books about vegetables, our story time children were eager to try out the iPad 2. The children (and parents) used to the iPad to play educational games such as solving animal puzzles, practicing the alphabet, “coloring” pages, and playing music. It was fun for all!
2011 Blog Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,900 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Christmas at the Library.
Merry Christmas!
Follow the Yellow Brick Road….
Did you follow the yellow brick road to Richard Burges’ Halloween Party this year? RB’s Wizard of Oz Halloween Party was held on October 29. The Wicked Witch, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, Toto, and even a Yellow Brick attended the party along with over 200 children and their parents. We made witch hats, got tattoos, played games, and watched the Wizard of Oz. Thanks to the generous support of our Friends of the Northeast Library group, the party was a huge success.
There’s no place like the Richard Burges Library for Halloween…..
American Library Association Birthday!
The American Library Association (ALA) is turning 135 on October 6th!
To celebrate, think about the ways that your favorite library has helped you in your life! Did your library give you a love of reading as a child? Was it a safe place for you to hang out as a teen? Did you use our computers to print out a boarding pass for flying or pay an important bill? Did the library help you find a job? Or did we just help you find the perfect book to read?
Libraries are here for YOU! Celebrate ALA day your own way, remember your library and keep us in your heart.
Authors talk about love of books, libraries
You can see many of your favorite authors talk about their love of libraries online! The American Library Association (ALA) website, Our Authors, Our Advocates, features many writers of all kinds of books. Favorite authors such as Judy Blume, Kathy Reichs, David Baldacci and more discuss why libraries remain so important to everyone in America. Check out what your favorite authors think about our libraries!
Panning for Gold
Did you know you might be able to find gold in the desert surrounding El Paso? Some of the members of the El Paso Chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America visited our library on Thursday, June 16 and showed us the tools necessary to look for gold in the desert. Along with the equipment, the Gold Prospectors gave us a chance to pan for fool’s gold, or Iron Pyrite, a gold-colored mineral that is often mistaken for real gold. Thank you, Gold Prospectors! We learned a lot!
Get Caught Listening – June is Audiobook Month
Okay, we’ll admit that we missed “Get Caught Reading Month” for May, but here at Richard Burges Library, we won’t miss June’s Audiobook month and the challenge to “Get Caught Listening!” You can read more about Audiobook Month at this website sponsored by the American Association of Publishers (AAP). This program has been going since 1999. Make sure you check out the video spots from your favorite writers and actors as they are caught reading and listening!
And where can you easily find Audiobooks? You can come into our library and check out books on CD. You can also download them directly from Overdrive, our eBook and Audiobook provider. Make sure you have your library card and PIN ready, and browse the library’s online collection. We have Audiobooks to suit every taste and whim! They are playable on many different devices, too, including iPods.
And, please tell us where you like to listen to your Audiobooks! Get caught listening!
June is LGBT Pride Month
June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride month. The library is a safe place for everyone to find information about any topic. It’s also a place where you can find yourself or your own life experience in a book that is both entertaining and useful.
Here are a list of some books that you may enjoy that have LGBT themes:
Transition by Chaz Bono: The son of Cher and Sonny Bono describes being transgender and how it changed his life. Brand new book!
Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez: This fictional story for young adults treats the theme of bisexuality with candor and respect. New!
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult: Dramatic story of love, tolerance and family. Brand new!
Boys like Us: Gay writers tell their own personal, coming-out stories. Non-fiction.
Let’s Get this Straight by Tina Fakhrid-Deen with COLAGE: This book is a great help to children and teens who have LGBT parents. Advice and help from others who have had similiar experiences. Non-fiction.
This year, the President gave a national proclomation about LGBT month that you can read here . For even more reading check out the American Library Association’s Stonewall Awards list which has awards for adults, non-fiction and children’s LGBT books. The Lambda Literary Awards also has excellent books to choose from.
