Now added to our event lineup for National Novel Writing Month, two author panels at the Central Library:
Wednesday, November 4 at 7 p.m.: Mystery Writers
Wednesday, November 18 at 7 p.m.: Fiction Writers
Come hear published authors discuss their books and their craft. Join us for these lively and informative conversations!
See all our NaNoWriMo events in the library-wide event calendar.
Over the next two months we are planning two holiday closures and a special budget reduction furlough/holiday closure.
The Library will be closed Wednesday, November 11 for Veterans’ Day, and closed Thursday through Friday, November 26 and 27, for Thanksgiving.
The Library will also be closed from 2:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve through Sunday, January 3, 2010, to help make up for a budget shortfall.
During this special 10-day closure, the Library’s website and all online services also will be shut down. You will not be able to reserve or renew items on the web or by phone during this period. However, books you check out by Christmas Eve will not be due until we reopen.
We will reopen for normal hours starting Monday, January 4.
Got the urge to write? Join the Write-Ins for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in which aspiring writers attempt to complete a 50,000 word novel in thirty days. Write-Ins will be held at the Central, Healdsburg, Rincon Valley, Petaluma, and Sebastopol branches. Details are in the library-wide event calendar.
Bilingual auditions in Healdsburg
Do you speak English and Spanish? Adults and children 8 and up, audition for a bilingual production of “Too Many Tamales!” / “¡Qué Montón de Tamales!” based on the children’s book by Gary Soto.
Actors of all ages and hand puppeteers are needed. Performances will take place in early December, 2009 at Sonoma County Library branches.
Auditions Saturday, October 17 at 3 p.m.
Parish Hall next door to St Paul’s Episcopal Church
209 Matheson St. (corner of East), Healdsburg
Printable flyer with more information
Readers Theatre auditions in GuernevilleRiver Friends of the Library and Readers Theatre 2010 need readers for the annual winter short play readings.
Auditions Saturday, October 17 at 2 p.m.
Maggie Boynton Forum Room at the Guerneville Library
Scripts available in the Library now. Time commitment for rehearsals and performances: 15 hours per month during January, February, or March 2010. Schedule to be announced.
All Library websites, catalog, My Account, and phone renewals will be unavailable Saturday night and Sunday morning the weekends of October 10-11 and October 17-18. We anticipate shutting down service at 8 p.m. each Saturday and starting it back up by noon each Sunday. The systems must be shut down due to a pair of scheduled power outages PG&E is planning.
The 9th annual Sonoma County Library Poetry Slam series is on now through next July. Upcoming slam date is October 16 at the Northwest (Coddingtown) branch. Teens and adults can participate.
This year, in honor of Teen Read Week 2009, we are also hosting Teen Poetry Slams from October 20 - 28. Teens only, please!
The new Testing & Education Reference Center has dozens of exam prep books and practice tests for you. Whether you’re taking a high school, college entrance, grad school, or civil service exam, use Testing & Education Reference Center to help you prepare.
Also includes college and scholarship search, US citizenship information, and a resume builder to help you land that next job!
Back to school! Children can now use our website to reach new tools for homework projects — online versions of classic printed references.
We will be keeping our print versions of these at the Library, as well.
We have discontinued our subscription to the Kids Infobits database and replaced it with the New resources listed above. See the Kids’ Databases page for more web resources.
Looking for a good book? Try NoveList, your guide to fiction. The Library subscribes to this service to provide recommended reading lists for all age groups and genres — from Animal Stories for younger kids and Mysteries for older kids, to Fantasy for teens and Westerns for adults.
Click here to learn more about NoveList and try it today. (You will need your library card number to reach NoveList from home.)
Did we lose your hold request? For budget reasons, the Library had to suspend our orders for the following books at the close of the last fiscal year, inadvertently losing the hold requests on them. We regret the inconvenience!
If we lost your request for one of these bestsellers, please submit a new request.
