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Salisbury, CT 06068
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Techno-savy and other Messages from Claudia
You know what you check out of the library, but do you ever wonder what other library patrons read, listen to, and watch?
Here’s the answer: The Year’s Top Ten in five categories.
Top Ten Non-Fiction
On royalty : a very polite inquiry into some strangely related
families
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Where the blind horse sings : love and trust at an animal sanctuary
Stevens, Kathy
Things I overheard while talking to myself
Alda, Alan
Final exam : a surgeon’s reflections on mortality
Chen, Pauline W.
A woman in charge : the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Bernstein, Carl
House of happy endings
Garis, Leslie
How to cook everything vegetarian : simple meatless recipes for
Bittman, Mark
great food
The world without us
Weisman, Alan
Zackheim, Victoria The other woman : twenty-one wives, lovers, and others talk
openly about sex, deception, love, and betrayal
Paxman, Jeremy
Top Ten Audios
McEwan, Ian
Evanovich, Janet
Hosseini, Khaled
Olsson, Linda
Patterson, James
Sandford, John
Chabon, Michael
Leon, Donna
Picoult, Jodi
On Chesil Beach
Lean mean thirteen
a Stephanie Plum novel
A thousand splendid suns
Astrid & Veronika
The 6th target
Invisible prey
The Yiddish policemen’s union
Suffer the little children
The pact a love story
Top Ten DVDs
Running with scissors
The holiday
Babel
The Grand
Berkeley Square
Man of the year
The painted veil
For your consideration
Music and lyrics
Scoville
Chimes
Top Ten Fiction/Mystery
Leon, Donna
Child, Lee
Suffer the little children
Bad luck and trouble : a Jack
Reacher novel
McEwan, Ian
On Chesil Beach
Sandford, John Invisible prey
Parker, Robert B. Now and then
Tursten, Helene The glass devil
Silva, Daniel
The secret servant
Petterson, Per
Out stealing horses
Bloom, Amy
Away : a novel
Pilcher, Robin
Starburst
Top Ten Music CDs
Jones, Norah
Clapton, Eric
Knopfler, Mark
Ma, Yo-Yo
Bublé, Michael
Nelson, Willie
Mayer, John
Koz, Dave
Not too late
The road to Escondido
All the roadrunning
Appassionato
Call me irresponsible
Last of the breed
Continuum
At the movies
A tribute to Joni Mitchell
Libraries across the country are becoming more attuned to the
web and finding more tools to make using the library easier and,
yes, more fun. There are also numerous web sites that allow you
to keep track of the books you have read or maintain your list of
what you want to read. Here are a few.
Wowbrary – an easy path to what’s new or on order at your Library, available on our website: www.scovillelibrary.org. Wowbrary regularly informs you by email and/or RSS about our newest books, movies and music. We make it easy for you to browse
through the latest additions and place a hold on a new title.
Reference USA - The library now subscribes to Reference USA
US Businesses which can be reached from our website. US Businesses includes 14 million businesses, verified for accuracy by
Reference USA with new businesses added each month. The listing includes everything from Fortune 500 companies to homebased businesses. You can search by type of business, employee
size or sales volume, geographic area and more. The listings
include parent company and subsidiary information. You can
refine a search to limit by location, type of company, number of
employees, etc.
Library Thing is a website for readers. You can use it to keep a
record of what you read, what you want to read, share your reading with others and get recommendations based on your reading
tastes. Register at www.librarything.com and begin. Each time
you add a book to your library, you can see reviews from others readers as well as from professional book reviewers. You can
write your own review to share or to keep to yourself. You can
create tags, or words to categorize it your own language; I use it to
keep track of what I read, to see what people who read the same
books I like read and to see what others think of the books I like,
or don’t like. If you are a reader, you will have fun with the site.
Library Elf will help you keep track of what you borrow and
what you have requested. Just sign up at www.libraryelf.com
and you will begin receiving emails letting you know when what
you have checked out is due and when your holds are ready. You
can set it up the way you want it and even combine family cards
under one email address to help you track of all your family’s
library usage.
We are changing our Digital Audio program beginning in July.
If you already have an account, you can continue to use your
user name and password and follow the same process, but the
titles will be different. If you’ve never used this before, now is
the time to give it a try: all you need is a Windows based computer. Choose from over 1700 titles including bestsellers, book
club favorites, non-fiction and classics, download to your com-
Spring 2008
puter and transfer to an MP3 player. Although this product is
not compatible with iPods it works with a variety of inexpensive
MP3 players, and we have several which can be checked out with
your library card. Demonstrations will be offered throughout
the summer or you can come in and ask for a personal tour.
We have had computer classes this year on eBay, Google, Firefox and digital photography and you told us that you want more.
We are adding classes on basic internet, email, medical information on the Internet and genealogy. In addition, we launched
Tech Thursdays; Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:00, Deb Smith, our
resident expert, will help you one-on-one with the basics of using a computer. You may call us to schedule a block of time or
drop in. If Thursdays aren’t good for you, give us a call and we
will try and accommodate you.
This spring we received two donations for the library grounds.
Peter and Kiki Barron gave of their expertise and time to prune
our trees. Old Farm Nursery gave us landscaping and plantings
to spruce up the front of the library. We are ever so grateful for
their gifts that allow us to improve the look of library in ways we
could not otherwise afford.
Beginning in February, the Library added Sunday hours. This
was made possible by donations and increased town support.
Town tax dollars make up about one-third of the library’s cost
with the remainder coming primarily from private contributions.
Our giving season for this year ends July 1 and we are grateful for
any contributions which support our growing array of programs
for children and adults along with an ever increasing selection of
books, DVDs, audio-books and music.
Groupies Have More Fun!
This winter brought the flowering of Scoville Library’s two
permanent book groups, Second Saturday and Mystery Book
Groups. Some months were better attended than others but even
when there were few participants everyone in the Wardell room
relished the experience. Titles ranged from The Road, The Maytrees,
Divisadero, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier for the literary end and Stalin’s Ghost, Patience of the Spider and Anarchy and
Old Dogs for the mystery group that has continued to focus on
mysteries with an international theme. In addition to the opportunity to share opinions and interest in the titles chosen it seems
that many enjoy just reading the books as they are frequently
all checked out! Both groups are disbanding for the summer to
resume in the fall after a relaxing summer of oxymoronic serious
beach reading. Mark your calendars now for Second Saturday at
4:00 and Mystery Group third Thursday at 5:00.
SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
38 Main Street, Salisbury, CT 06068
(860) 435-2838 • www.scovillelibrary.org
America’s First Publicly Funded Library
SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Ronald D. Jones, President
Thomas H. Key, Vice President
F. Herbert Prem, Jr., Treasurer
Margie Vail, Secretary
Val Bernardoni
Mitchell Bronk
Walter E. DeMelle Jr.
Eileen Fox
Janet L. Kaufman
Stephen Klein
Carolyn Mattoon
Sharon O’Connor
Noel Sloan
Chany Wells
Curtis Rand, Ex Officio
Anthony Scoville, Honorary
FSL/LIBRARY BOARD LIAISON
Carolyn Mattoon
EDITOR
Anne Kremer
LIBRARY DIRECTOR
Claudia Cayne
CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN
Erin Simmons
FRIENDS OF THE SCOVILLE LIBRARY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Judy Linscott, President
Judi Gott, Vice President
Joanne Elliot, Secretary
Carey Fiertz, Treasurer
Peter Barron
Lynne Bragonier
Carole Dmytryshak
Jennifer Krohholm
Ann Roberts Leveine
Macey Levin
Marjorie Liebowitz
Marion Morris
Patti O’Neill
Pam Osborne
Rafael Porro
Susan Schindler
Ilene Tetenbaum
Jean Olsen, Emeritus
LIBRARY HOURS
Monday....................... Closed
Tuesday....................... 10-7
Wednesday................. 10-5
Thursday..................... 10-7
Friday.......................... 10-5
Saturday...................... 10-4
Sunday......................... 1-4 (Oct-June)
New Faces 2008
Salisbury Film Festival Lights up the Night
Traditions on the Lawn
You will be noticing some new faces in Scoville Library this summer.
They all bring rich backgrounds of experience and interests to our library.
We hope you will enjoy meeting them.
Sue Bucceri lives in the Amesville section of Salisbury with her husband Lou
a nd their two daughters Katherine and Elizabeth. The daughter of Katherine Chilcoat, Salisbury Town Historian, she was born and raised in Lakeville.
During the week, she is a secretary in the office at Salisbury Central School,
comes to the Library on Sundays and is very pleased to be helping others
enjoy the library that she has been visiting since her early childhood.
Lawrence Davis-Hollander has never worked in a library behind the
circulation desk although he claims to have been in front of the circulation
desk in nine different Harvard libraries. Lawrence was founder and director of the Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of heirloom seeds and regional agriculture. With
his wife Margo, he founded Dynamic Change, a life coaching company for
personal and professional development. He lives in Ashley Falls, MA with
his wife and two young sons, one of which is reading all the Hardy Boys
books at the Scoville Library.
Heath Prentis lives in a wooden tent (a converted barn) in one of the loveliest parts of Salisbury and is grateful for her collection of books, which
provide a sort of insulation. She has a degree in English and fine art, writes
short stories, reads diversely and makes paintings with paper. Outside of
the Library, she works at the Northwest Probate Court and spends time
with her twin teenage sons.
Karen Richardson was born and raised in New York City and taught in Africa prior to moving to the Salisbury area. Her love of books, literature and
storytelling led her to work at the Library on Sunday afternoons. During the
week, she teaches young children at a local private school. One of her early
memories is of playing scrabble with her grandmother where she would
close her eyes and say, “I love words”. Karen loves her time at the Library.
Shana Stalker came to the library after working in development at local
private schools. She was inspired by her love for libraries and for community and she is currently the vice-president of the Friends of the Egremont
Library. Shana is excited to be at Scoville and finds it to be what a library
should be. You may not see Shana over the summer since by the time this
reaches you, she will be home with her first child.
Film Night at the Scoville Library is nothing if not energized.
The summer and fall selections are varied and fascinating. June
24, a night for the family, brings Lassie Come Home, Lassie’s debut. This is the British original in which the poor British family
must sell their beloved collie to make ends meet. You know the
rest. This stars Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Niegel Bruce and
Elizabeth Taylor. July 22nd’s selection, The Secret of Roan Inish,
a must see after the Little Windows Concert, stars Mick Lally and
Eileen Colgan. The mythical selkie, (half seal, half woman) is featured in this story of a ten- year old girl sent
by her father to live with her grandparents
at their family’s ancestral home. Sticking
to the Celtic theme, August 26 brings Billy
Elliot, the popular British drama showing
mind-set vs talent as Billie, the son of
a coal miner, becomes a dancer. (Lots
of modern Celtic curse words too!) To
usher in the fall, share September 23rd’s
Wuthering Heights, this time the 1998 epic of
Emily Bronte’s classic novel with Orla Brady, Ian
Shaw and Crispin Bonham-Carter. And, for October 28, Ghost Story, a chilling 1981 adaptation of
Peter Straub’s novel about 4 old friends whose
chowder club is interrupted by a ghost. Some
great acting by Fred Astaire, John Houseman,
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Melvyn Douglas and
Alice Krige will enrich your Halloween.
The Friends of the Library bring you
their first Summer Lawn Concert on
Sunday July 20 at 5:00 when Little
Windows brings their unique musical style to Salisbury. Little Windows
are Mark Weems and Julee Glaub
touring together nationally and internationally with a focus on the art of
the pure voice with tight harmonies
in traditional songs. Instrumentation
includes guitar, fiddle, banjo, flute, piano and bodhrán.
Mark has been steeped in the Old Time Tradition for years while
Julee has done the same in the Traditional Irish realm. Together
they bring a beautiful blend of both traditions with a unique harmonic sound that is rare and often brings the response from audience members, “I’ve never heard anything like it!”
Little Windows has a unique approach to traditional music. Both
have discovered the deeply personal and communal value of traditional song. They downplay the purely entertainment value of
music and try to draw the focus away from themselves toward
the beauty and magic of the songs’ haunting melodies and lyrics.
They aim to provide a space where the audience can enter into the
magic of these simple heartfelt songs. For those unaware of the
human depth of traditional song, their hope is to open up little
windows into this timeless, spiritual, mythical land.
Another tradition will also be celebrated this summer, the Salisbury Marching Band. Our local band has frequently entertained
us on the lawn and in the town’s Memorial Day Parade. They
will return on Saturday August 23 at 5:00 to entertain us with
their own take on traditional marching and old-time band favorites. We know everyone in the band and enjoy watching the fun
they have sharing their talents with the town.
We hope you’ll bring the family and a picnic supper to both these
not to be missed Scoville Library events.
Thanks Are in Order
The Scoville Memorial Library is more than its collection of books. It
is a gathering place of minds with one thing in common—learning about
new people, places and things. In the past several months many people
from the surrounding area have volunteered their time and shared their
knowledge and passions with us, thus enriching the intellectual life of our
community and bringing programming that encompasses a broad array
of interests. The library would like to thank Gaile Binzen, Kiau Loi, Amy
Lake, Richard Grossman, Jane Hoben, Eileen Epperson, James Kraft, Jeff
Brouws, Jonathan Doster, Tom Key, Lou Bucceri, Ron Jones, Pat McMullan,
Sheila Lafferty, Gloria Miller, and Jessica Murray Toro. We are very lucky
to have such a rich assortment of talent and dedication!
We also thank those volunteer members of the Library Adult Program
Committee who include Margie Vail, Anne Kremer and Judy Linscott. Lastly, a special thanks to the Friends of the Library, whose events and efforts
have helped to fund adult and children’s programs throughout the year.
The Very Good Friends of the Library
The Friends of Scoville Memorial Library have had another
wonderful winter season and look forward to an exciting latespring and summer as well. We welcomed three new members
to our board in early winter: Jennifer Kronholm, Ann Levine
and Macey Levin. Our fourth annual Holiday Read in December, sponsored jointly with the Salisbury Association, was a
festive and fun affair. A dozen “local celebrities” read holiday
poems or stories under the direction of Macey Levin, a theater
director. It gave The Friends an excuse to decorate the Wardell
Community Room to the nines!.
In January, courtesy of our membership dues and fundraising, we were delighted to present the library trustees with a
check for $20,000, with $15,000 earmarked for architectural
renderings for possible improvements to the library and $5,000
for kid-friendly furniture in the children’s room.
On April 12, the Friends welcomed renowned home and garden designer Bunny Williams to a standing-room-only talk on
gardening, followed by appropriately spring-like lemonade and
cookies. In May, we will as usual help the town celebrate Memorial Day by supplying coffee, doughnuts and lemonade at the
start of the town parade and offering small flags to participating children. In the meantime, we continue selling used books
on line and sending paperbacks to U.S. troops overseas. We are
also proud to once again be a strong supporter of The Salisbury
Forum. And we look forward to our Fall Festival Book Sale in
October. See you then!
--Judy Linscott, president
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You probably should rethink your decision. This newsletter
actually covers only about one third of library events. In addition to the three permanent book groups, May included programming on Poetry with James Kraft, Habitat Gardening with
the manager of Project Native’s Greenhouse, a program by Dr.
Matthew Greene, an independent educational consultant on Surviving College Selection and Tuition, and a discussion of villains
in mysteries by Edward Nickerson, a Lakeville resident steeped
in the tradition of crime novelists. Yet more? An Artful Look at
Color by Sharon artist and resident Pieter Lefferts who takes us
through the history of color and the artist’s palette, a lecture on
The Other Allens by Salisbury resident Lou Bucceri, sponsored
by the Salisbury Association that will focus on the remarkable
history of Hemen and Ira Allen, relatives of the better recognized
Ethan Allen. You can find information weekly in the Lakeville
Journal, Salisbury Sampler, the Northwest
Connecticut Arts Council’s newsletter
(www.artsnwct.org) and other print outlets but the surest method is to go on the
Library’s website, www.scovillelibrary.org,
and sign up to receive frequent reminders.
You can also sign up at the front desk.