Thursday, August 28, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Adult Book Club coming up soon!
We hope you're keeping up with your reading because the Adult Book Club meeting isn't far away!
Monday, May 5, 2014
Coming Soon: Summer Reading!
Summer Reading sign-up begins June 17!
Join us for programs, contests, prizes and reading incentives!
Programs for all ages, from infants to adults!
Monday, April 7, 2014
May Book Club Pick: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman!
Join us Thursday, May 15 at 6pm to discuss Neil Gaiman's
The Ocean at the End of the Lane!
Sussex, England. A
middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral.
Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at
the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most
remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He
hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a
pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old
farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past
too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone,
let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library featured in The Mining Journal!
Carnegie updates children’s room
April 3, 2014
,
The Mining Journal
ISHPEMING - More kids in Marquette County's west end are checking out
books and taking part in special programs at the Ishpeming Carnegie
Public Library children's room, thanks to recent interior upgrades and
an ambitious and invested children's librarian.
The children's room has a new stage for puppet shows built as a wood-framed window in the west wall and a number of pieces of new furniture, including some sized for parents who want to stay and interact with their youngsters.
And Roger Junak, whom Library Director John McNaughton called a "local artist and local legend" for his handful of murals throughout the area painted a mural featuring a doe and her fawn and a few other fauna in the midst of a forest on the west wall.
The children's room has a new stage for puppet shows built as a wood-framed window in the west wall and a number of pieces of new furniture, including some sized for parents who want to stay and interact with their youngsters.
And Roger Junak, whom Library Director John McNaughton called a "local artist and local legend" for his handful of murals throughout the area painted a mural featuring a doe and her fawn and a few other fauna in the midst of a forest on the west wall.
"We're really, really happy with it," McNaughton said. "(Junak)
wanted to do it free of charge. I guess the story goes, when he used to
come to this library when he was a kid, one of the librarians here at
the time gave him his first set of paints."
Heather Lander was given the librarian job in the children's room last June, and has since improved program attendance and doubled the children's circulation numbers.
"She has a lot of ties to the community, she added a lot more programs and I think she's been really listening to the public and trying to bring new and innovative ways to get people in - and her programs have been really popular," McNaughton said. "It's been great."
"I really try whenever patrons come in to talk to them about what they're looking for ... and finding out what kinds of things they like," Lander said. "If children come in and they're, for instance, looking for books about trains ... then I'll not only point them to picture books of trains, but then nonfiction books about trains, and then they check out a lot more, because they see how many different things there are to offer."
Lander is planning an upcoming "LEGO Storytime" special program at 5 p.m. April 24, where, after reading stories, kids will build things out of LEGOS that fit the stories' themes. If successful, she said, it will become a regular event.
For more information on the children's room programs, visit the blog at www.ishpemingpubliclibrarykids.blogspot.com.
Zach Jay can be reached at 906-486-4401.
Heather Lander was given the librarian job in the children's room last June, and has since improved program attendance and doubled the children's circulation numbers.
"She has a lot of ties to the community, she added a lot more programs and I think she's been really listening to the public and trying to bring new and innovative ways to get people in - and her programs have been really popular," McNaughton said. "It's been great."
"I really try whenever patrons come in to talk to them about what they're looking for ... and finding out what kinds of things they like," Lander said. "If children come in and they're, for instance, looking for books about trains ... then I'll not only point them to picture books of trains, but then nonfiction books about trains, and then they check out a lot more, because they see how many different things there are to offer."
Lander is planning an upcoming "LEGO Storytime" special program at 5 p.m. April 24, where, after reading stories, kids will build things out of LEGOS that fit the stories' themes. If successful, she said, it will become a regular event.
For more information on the children's room programs, visit the blog at www.ishpemingpubliclibrarykids.blogspot.com.
Zach Jay can be reached at 906-486-4401.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Next Book Club Pick: "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
The war begins...
Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars. Generations of Helldivers have spent their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that one day people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.
Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. Mars is habitable - and indeed has been inhabited for generations by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. The Golds regard Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.
With the help of a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside.
But the command school is a battlefield. And Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda...
Click here to place a hold on a copy, then come to our meeting in early April to talk about it!
Date TBD, please call the library at 486-4381 with any questions.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Book Club today @6pm!
If you've read The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
(or even just part of it)
join us tonight for Book Club at 6pm
in the Ray Leverton Community Room!
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Life Drawing Class
Stop by or call the Library at 486-4381 to reserve your spot! All supplies are provided and the class is free.
Book Club March 6th!
Book Club meets March 6th @6pm in the Programming Room
Chava is a golem, a
creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles
in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned
her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift
as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free – an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world.
The Golem and the Jinni is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures – until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free – an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world.
The Golem and the Jinni is their magical, unforgettable story; unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures – until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice.
There's still a copy available at ICPL for someone looking to read it for Book Club! Ask at the front desk.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
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