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Visit the Library Home Page Read the latest Library news in The Circulator July 31, 2006 Some like it hot ... ... and some like it mild. Others prefer chocolate. Whatever your taste, we will have something to please you at the wildest library fundraiser in years. Announcing the Chili & Chocolate Roundup, 2006! The Friends of the Library, SSC is pleased to sponsor the return of this popular chili and chocolate cook-off. The event, which will benefit the Southeast Steuben County Library, will be held on Saturday, September 30, rain or shine, in the Centerway Parking Garage in Corning, NY. If you think Corning is the hot glass capital of the world, you may be right. But on September 30, the Gaffer District will sport cauldrons bubbling with a different kind of heat ... at least for those who dare to sample entries from chili chefs out to win the "Hotter Than Hades" and "Hottest Edible Chili" prizes. Those who prefer to savor more subtly spiced chili will be rewarded at the Chili & Chocolate Roundup, where prizes will be offered in two major chili divisions: the CASI (Chili Appreciation Society International) Sanctioned Division and the Open Chili Division. Chocolate lovers will have a Western-style bonanza, with chocolate concoctions of all types eligible for prizes in this category. For a more detailed description of the Chili & Chocolate Roundup 2006, plus a printable entry form and directions to the Roundup site, click here. September 30, 2006 is sure to be a special day in Corning, with 3,000 to 4,000 people expected for the Roundup. Coordinated events and activities are planned at locations on Market Street and throughout the Gaffer District. We hope you will enter, or just attend. Someone has to eat all that chili! Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org An audience member takes center stage with Madcap Puppets. July 28, 2006 Watch our video clip: Click here Cinderella is Madcap adventure When Madcap Productions Giant Puppet Theatre Company from Cincinnati, Ohio takes center stage, anything can happen, especially laughter. There were squeals of delight and shrieks of joy yesterday from the hundreds of children attending the fourth special event in Southeast Steuben County Library's "Books: A Treasure" Summer Reading Program 2006.
The next free special event in our Summer Reading Program will be held in the Local 1000 Union Hall at Nasser Civic Center Plaza (near the Library) on Thursday, August 3 at 1 pm. Doc Possum will present his original songs and more in a program sure to entertain the whole family. Please join us! Click here for a map and driving directions to Nasser Civic Center Plaza. Or, for bus routes and schedules, click here. The Library's Summer Reading Program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, SSC. Without our Friends, we couldn't do it!
Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org New DVDs: Hitchcock collection enhanced
1. Young & Innocent (1937), from the novel, A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey. Not rated. 83 minutes. 2. Blackmail (1929), starring Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton and John Longden. 84 minutes. Not rated. ---- 1. Juno & The Paycock (1930), from the Sean O'Casey play. 98 minutes. With Barry Fitzgerald. Not rated. 2. Rich & Strange (1931), a comedy/drama. 83 minutes. Not rated. ---- 1. Secret Agent (1936), loosely adapted from Somerset Maugham's Ashenden stories, this classic features John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll and Robert Young. 86 minutes. Not rated. 2. The Lady Vanishes (1938), starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas and Dame May Whitty. 97 minutes. Not rated. ---- 1. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre. 75 minutes. Not rated. 2. Sabotage (1936), from the Joseph Conrad novel, The Secret Agent. Stars Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka. 76 minutes. Not rated. ---- Shadow of a Doubt (1943), starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotton, with Hume Cronyn, others. This Digitally re-mastered edition is a stand-alone (DVD FIC SHA). 108 minutes. Rated PG. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org VLC Media Player is free If you are looking for a media player that is simple to download and use, works with most audio-visual formats, uses less processing power, does not carry advertising (unless that is what you choose to download), is open-source and free to use, then consider VLC Media Player 8.5. First introduced in 1996 by engineering students at École Centrale Paris, a French engineering school, VLC Media Player went open-source in 2001 and was further developed by the community of developers known as VideoLAN. VLC Media Player is a quick download (7.9 MB) for Windows at this link. It is available for Mac OS, Linux systems and other operating systems at this link. The version 8.5 product has been downloaded more than 11 million times, with 1.7 new downloads, on average, every second, according to VideoLAN. If you've experienced trouble playing WMV video clips on The Circulator (see articles on July 14 and July 21), consider using VLC Media Player. Along with .wmv files, it handles MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg and most others, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. "It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network," according to VideoLAN. The Southeast Steuben County Library has no affiliation with VideoLAN or its VLC Media Player. Download this free software at your own risk. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Pauline Emery, Director of Children's Services, leads summer enrichment participants in a scene from Cinderella Penguin. July 25, 2006 Outreach brings books to life Summer is an incredibly busy time for Southeast Steuben County Library staff and volunteers. More people use our public computers, check out books, audio books, DVDs and other materials in summer than at any other time of the year. According to Principal Library Clerk Linda Reimer, July has been the busiest month for the past few years, with August trailing close behind. Our 27 computer work stations are equally busy, and this summer, WiFi users who bring their own laptops to the Library to use the internet with our open-access hotspot add to the tally. The Children's Department is probably the busiest of all. Our Summer Reading Program, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, SSC, is the most popular program for a library of our size in New York. Hundreds of children, families and groups participate. The Nasser Civic Center Skating Rink, just outside, fills up every Thursday afternoon in July and August for our special events. See the Coming Events calendar in the right-hand column for details. It is a dizzying schedule, but what goes on in and around the library is only part of the story. Children's Department staff and volunteers are an integral part of summer enrichment programs in schools throughout the Library service area. Today, the Children's Department visited the summer enrichment program at Frederick Carder Elementary School in Corning...
While Cinderella Penguin, from the book by Janet Perlman, was rehearsed by one group (see photos above and below), a second group led by Miss Bobbie worked to bring another book to life. The Princess and the Pizza, by Mary Jane Auch and Herm Auch, was performed on the Carder School Library stage. Meanwhile, back at the Southeast Steuben County Library, the new "Baby Bookworms" lap-sit program was underway. Join our Youth Department tomorrow for Dance Dance Revolution!, a summer dance contest and program that uses a dance mat to help you and your partner learn the coolest steps! See the Coming Events calendar for details. It is a busy summer ... and we are delighted!
Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 24, 2006 Recycle cell phones here! It is true, we do not permit cell phone use inside the Library. That being said, we do encourage cell phone re-use and recycling. Now, cellular telephone users can help the environment and the Southeast Steuben County Library, all in one toss! Just bring in your old cell phone - you know, the one that's been lying around in a desk drawer ever since you snatched up that cool new model that is also a camera, Web browser, MP3 player and goodness knows what else - and toss it in our cell phone collection box. It's the Great Cell Phone Drive at the Southeast Steuben County Library! (Pictured above, Library staff member Linda Clayman makes a donation.) Now through December 31, 2006, for every old cell phone donated, the Library receives between 50 cents and $50, depending on model and condition. The more cell phones we collect, the greater the return to the Library in support of our many programs and for acquisition of new books, audio books, DVDs and other materials. Please note: we accept cell phones only; not accessories. Please do not toss your chargers, headsets and miscellaneous technophilia into our collection box. If you don't see our Great Cell Phone Drive collection box, ask at the Circulation Desk; we'll point you in the right direction. (Until we find a permanent location for it, the box is, appropriately, mobile.) Also, you may drop off your old phone for recycling at various locations including cell phone retail outlets and at Wegman's supermarket. Or, call the Development Office of the Library at (607) 936-3713 Ext. 208 and we'll pick up your old phone! (Continental US only, within the Library District.) Oh yes; one other thing ... Please turn off your old cell phone before dropping it in the box! Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 21, 2006 Video clip: Click here Pirate antics promote reading
Hundreds turned out yesterday at the skating rink beside the Library in Nasser Civic Center Plaza for the third in our free Thursday afternoon Books: A Treasure lineup. To see an audio-video clip of the performance, click here (WMV). Next week, on Thursday, July 27 at 1:30 pm, Mad Cap Puppets present "Cinderella," featuring large-scale puppets and actors that are sure to please. We hope you'll attend this special event ... and don't forget to bring your kids! Click here for a map and driving directions to the Southeast Steuben County Library. Or, for bus routes and schedules, click here. The Library's 2006 Summer Reading Program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, SSC. Without our Friends, we couldn't do it!
Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 21, 2006 Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Market Street Mile runners react to the starting gun at 6:40 pm. July 20, 2006 Running resources found here (Filed 4:30 pm) At this writing, final preparations are underway for a new running event, the Market Street Mile. A series of races, rather than a single race, the Market Street Mile is sponsored by the Chemung Valley Montessori School and other groups, and convened by the Wineglass Running Club. Tonight's races foreshadow but are significantly shorter than the annual Wineglass Marathon. The course - from Bridge to Wall streets in the Historic Gaffer District in Corning, NY - approaches Southeast Steuben County Library grounds. At this time, we thought it appropriate to present a number of reference resources on running gleaned from the Web and available in our stacks. Therefore, on your mark, get set ... go! The Road Runners Club of America has an informative website with lots of links for club-minded runners. New York Road Runners has an excellent site for racing and running enthusiasts who want to become familiar with what many claim is the world's premier running city (the Big Apple). USA Track & Field's America's Running Routes website is a mashup that provides maps of some of the best routes in the nation. Gmaps Pedometer is another mashup. This one lets you custom calculate the mileage, elevation, and calories burned of your favorite runs. Dr. Pribut's Running Injuries Page offers plenty of useful information about those nasty sprains, strains and miscellaneous pains that turn "runner's highs" into agonizing lows. Wikipedia's extensive entry on running contains a wealth of information on the topic and is worth exploring in detail. For those who prefer to sit down with a book (between runs), take a look at our online catalog. To get there, visit the Library Home Page and click on the "Catalog" link. Do a subject search on "running" and you will find dozens of books on the topic in our library and many more throughout the Southern Tier Library System. You may place a "hold" on any of these books online with your library card and PIN. Better yet, drop by the library after the races today - we are open Thursdays until 9 pm - and browse our nonfiction stacks at call number 796.42. If you like to run, you'll be glad you stopped in! Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Arts extravaganza starts 7/20 Pick an arts or entertainment category: music, dance, painting, sculpture, design, crafts, glass art, animation, mixed media, crafts, costume, and more. Then, forget your choice, because you'll find some of the best work in each category in Corning, NY starting Thursday, July 20 and continuing through the weekend. Start off with the opening reception for "Outside the Box: An exhibition of Contemporary Arts" from 5 pm to 8 on July 20 at 100 West Market Street. The exhibition will feature visual arts, video, poetry and music from 50 regional artists, including Gigi Alvare, Mavin Ambrose, Tedd Arnold, Gerald Bailey, Nick Bontorno, Warren Bunn, Matt Conway, Janelle Daddona, Cindy Dougherty, Edward Dougherty, Anna Druzcz, Brandie Follett Tom Gardner, Pamela Gilbert, William Groome, Andrei Guruianu, Hanet, Amelia Harnas, David Higgins, Doug Holtgrewe, Kathleen Huddle, Beth Hylen, Ian Jacklin, Diane Janowski, Jan Kather, Kevin Kline, Karen Kucharski, Sharla Lefkowitz-Brown, Kate Lenhardt, Chris Longwell, Ginnie Lupi, Maria McMahon, Harriett Meyer, Jill Nobles, Jen Pawol, Molly Perry, Dan Reidy, Lynn Rhoda, Marc Rubin, Denny Smith, Joanne Sonsire, Emily Swan, Wendy Taylor, Val Tran, Debb Van Delinder, and Ann Welles. "Outside the Box" is a project of Rural Research Laboratories and The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes. The exhibit is open on weekends through Sunday, August 13. For more information, call (607) 329-0687. Also on Thursday evening, at various locations on Market Street, artists will display their work as part of the regular "Third Thursday" showcase in Corning's Gaffer District. Market Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from 3 pm to 8 on Thursday for the "Market Street Mile," a running event. Access to the Centerway Parking Garage will be from Tioga Street. Portions of Cedar Street and Wall Street will also be closed during these hours. Corning's annual "Festival of Art" takes place from 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday, July 22 and Sunday, July 23. Historic Market Street will host continuous performances at Centerway Square Stage, strolling musicians, arts & crafts displays, food concessions, wine tasting, the 171 Cedar Arts Center Dance Group and more. For the full entertainment schedule, click here (PDF). Market Street will be closed to vehicles Friday through Sunday for the Festival of Art. Access to the Centerway Parking Garage will be provided via Walnut Street during festival hours. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 14, 2006 Movie clip: Click here! African dance, drums slay heat Members of the Rochester-based African drum and dance troupe, Bush Mango, administered the cure for summer doldrums to hundreds of children and adults yesterday with a high-energy performance. A celebration of rhythm, color and motion, Bush Mango was a hit with the crowd that turned out for the second event in our Summer Reading Program, "Books: A Treasure."
The next event in the Southeast Steuben County Library's 2006 Summer Reading Program will bring our "Books: A Treasure" pirate theme to life with the music and antics of Merry Mischief. This song duo will perform "Piratical Treasures and Trinkets." Join us on Thursday, July 20 at 1 pm in the Nasser Civic Center skating rink. For our complete "Books: A Treasure" schedule, click here. Click here for a map and driving directions. Or, for bus routes and schedules, click here. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, SSC, our Summer Reading Program is designed to provide meaningful activities for children, families and groups while promoting the message that reading is a year-round activity.
Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Mrs. McPuppet performs at CMoG's Little Gather. July 12, 2006 Nonprofits in focus: Summer is for kids! If you live in Southeast Steuben County, you may be aware of the dozens of free events and programs for children scheduled throughout the summer. Earlier today, for example, entertainer Mrs. McPuppet dazzled hundreds of children at The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) during its "Little Gather" series of free Wednesday events for kids (see photos). Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 13 at 1 pm, the Library's Summer Reading Program will present Bush Mango's high-energy African drums and dance at the Nasser Civic Center Plaza skating rink next to the Library.
What is less well known is that transportation to these events and nutritious summer meals for kids is provided through the cooperative efforts of regional human service agencies, nonprofits, the USDA and the City of Corning. These groups, including the Southeast Steuben County Library, CMoG, The Rockwell Museum of Western Art, the Family Service Society, the YMCA and many others together form the Corning Area Summer Collaborative (CASC), which is led by the Corning-Painted Post Area School District. Members of the collaborative work throughout the year to ensure that kids have transportation and access to these summer enrichment programs, plus the nutrition they need for thriving minds and bodies. Coordinating all these groups and services is a big job, and it is one that pays off in smiles. For more information about the Corning Area Summer Collaborative, click here (PDF) or email cwallace@cppmail.com.
Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 11, 2006 Lapsits nurture young minds Baby lapsits - when caregivers and infants share the fun of learning together - are essential to development of cognitive skills, including language ability. As participants in Southeast Steuben County Library's new "Baby Bookworms" baby lapsit program discovered earlier today, lapsits are also great fun! Sue McConnell, the Library's early childhood outreach specialist (top, center and bottom, left in photo collage), read stories and sang songs that encouraged interaction between caregivers and our very youngest library patrons. Youth Services Librarian Shannon Majiros and her daughter, Delaney (bottom, right) also joined in the fun. Our new weekly interactive lapsit program for babies 6 weeks to 18 months and their caregivers is held every Tuesday from 10:30 am - 11. No registration is required. Call (607) 936-3713 ext 503 for additional information. We hope that you and your baby will join us! This program is made possible with a grant from the Triangle Foundation. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Our volunteers: Grace Rosettie
Since then, Rosettie fulfills some of our interlibrary loan requests, notifies patrons when books come in from other libraries and helps maintain the stacks. "People are fortunate to have such a wonderful library," she remarked during an interview last week. "Anything people need, we get for them ... and I think anyone who uses the library realizes that." Bright, cheerful and full of energy at age 79 - she will be 80 in September - Rosettie said she appreciates the enthusiasm of our entire crew. "I just like that everybody is so friendly and helpful. That's important anywhere." Rosettie said she walks every day and loves to travel. She is especially fond of hiking in the mountains, including the Alps in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. An avid reader, Rosettie said biographies were her "first love, followed by everything else." That pertains only to literature, of course. Rosettie and her husband, Tom, now deceased, raised five children. Two sons still live here, one in Caton and one in Corning. Rosettie has nine grandchildren. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 6, 2006 Special movie feature! Sieling delights young readers
Sieling captivated the crowd with his repertoire of children's songs and audience participation activities featuring grunts, growls, hoots and howls, while encouraging everyone to read books throughout the summer. Download our "Library Home Movie Clip" of Tom Sieling (for Windows Media Player). Click on this link. This was the first in the Library's 2006 "Books: A Treasure" Thursday afternoon events series. Next week, on July 13 at 1 pm, Bush Mango will perform with high energy African drums and dance. Don't miss it!
Our Teen Summer Reading Program begins this Saturday, July 8, when we will show Pirates of the Caribbean at 1 p.m. in the Laura Beer Community Room. This is a free movie matinee. For the full Summer Reading schedule, scroll down the events calendar in the right-hand column on this page. For more information, call (607) 936-3713 ext 503. Click here for a map and driving directions. Or, for bus routes and schedules, click here. The Summer Reading Program is made possible by the Friends of the Library, SSC. Without the Friends, we couldn't do it! Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Historical resources: NYU edits Sanger papers
Sanger is founder of the organization which later became known as Planned Parenthood. The Corning site of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes is named in her honor. Born in Corning, NY in 1879 to Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins, Sanger was a nurse, mother, writer, publisher and public speaker. Most of her writings are archived in the Library of Congress and at Smith College. New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project has collected additional writings by Sanger and is assembling her work into a series of books, microfilm publications and online resources. In 2002, University of Illinois Press published the first in an intended four-book series: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume I: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928, edited by Esther Katz (founder of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project). This volume is available in the collection of the Southeast Steuben County Library. Also in our collection are issues of the newsletter of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project. Visit the Reference Desk to enquire about this resource. In the meantime, we encourage you to explore the excellent online resources of the Project, including an audio recording of Sanger's 1953 appearance on Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe radio program. Use this link. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org July 3, 2006 Our nation born, July 4, 1776 "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." -- excerpt from the U.S. Declaration of Independence Full text of the Declaration of Independence may be found, courtesy Yale University, at this link. Related exhibits from the Library of Congress are available at this link. Other documents, including Thomas Jefferson's account of the days leading up to the signing, from his autobiography, may be found at this link thanks to the nonprofit Independence Hall Association. Comments & Questions email: turnerb@stls.org Visit the Library Home Page Read the latest Library news in The Circulator |
With puppets as large as people, sometimes
larger, the Madcap Puppets troupe had no trouble capturing the
attention of the crowd. Hands shot upwards as master puppeteers sought
volunteers to play roles in key scenes, and there
wasn't a dull moment in the hour-long show. To watch a video clip of the
production,
We've
recently expanded and enhanced our collection of
When renaissance-revival musicians Marilyn and
Wayne Fuller don pirate costumes and unfurl the skull & crossbones
banner, they do it for a cause. Sure, they are looking for buried
treasure ... the kind of treasure one finds in books. And when the
singing duo known as
Bush Mango is a drum and dance studio as well
as a performing group. Selected children and adults,
assembled in the Nasser Civic Center skating rink next to the Library,
were given elementary dance instruction by troupe members and performed
for everyone. To see and hear a few moments of the fun, download our
audio-video clip of the event (WMV) at
Performances
like these, which combine entertainment and education, draw hundreds of
children, families, camps and summer groups, and they are well
publicized. (At left, CMoG's Kristy Bartenstein warms up the crowd
before Mrs. McPuppet's first show of the day at the museum.)
Southeast
Steuben County Library volunteer Grace Rosettie has always managed to
find a way to help enrich the community that has enriched her own life.
Born and raised in Corning, NY, Rosettie taught kindergarten in Painted
Post and later, at Smith School in Riverside. After her retirement as a
teacher, Rosettie served on the Board of Trustees of the Corning Area Public
Library (our former name) and returned as a volunteer to help set up
during our reopening in late 2000.
On a near perfect July afternoon,
musician/entertainer Tom Sieling kicked off the Southeast Steuben County
Library's Summer Reading events schedule, drawing more than 140 children
and adults to Nasser Civic Center Skating Rink adjacent to the
Library.
You
may sign up for the free Southeast
Steuben County Library Summer Reading Program 2006 anytime between now
and August 7. Visit us in the Children's Department!
Southeast
Steuben County native Margaret Sanger is widely recognized as one of the
