Library News

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 Guerneville

River 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.

• More info on the annual Poetry Slam

This year, in honor of Teen Read Week 2009, we are also hosting Teen Poetry Slams from October 20 - 28.   Teens only, please!

• More info on the Teen Poetry Slams

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!

More about Testing & Education Reference Center

Back to school!  Children can now use our website to reach new tools for homework projects — online versions of classic printed references. 

• CultureGrams for state and country reports
• New: Social Studies Fact Cards covering California missions, Native tribes and more
• New: Wildlife Encyclopedia with animal photos and maps
• World Book Encyclopedia online

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.

Click here for a list of the affected titles.

Click here to log into your Library Account and check the list of  hold requests we have on file for you.

The Library has most of the titles listed in the Newsweek article “What to Read Now. And Why.”

We’ve posted a list of the titles here.  Click on any blue underlined title to find it in our library catalog, see which branches own a copy, or place a hold request on it.

The Master Gardeners visit libraries throughout the County to bring you Saturday morning workshops on gardening topics.  Just a few of the upcoming sessions:

• Garden Pests 25–Gardener 2?? You Can Even the Score!
• Dishing the Dirt on Improving Soils
• California Natives and Habitat Plants
• Don’t Let Your Rain Go Down the Drain

All workshops are free and open to the public.
List of all workshops at Library branches

The Library will be closed Saturday, July 4 for Independence Day.

All branches and offices with normal open hours on Friday, Sunday, or Monday will be open their regular hours on those days.