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Archive for the ‘News’ Category
By Emily on May 2, 2012
The Hudson Area Library Book Group has chosen to read The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides for their June meeting. Discussion will be held at the library on Tuesday, June 5 at 6pm.
It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.
As Madeleine tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France,” real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old “friend” Mitchell Grammaticus—who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.
Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love.
Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.
All are welcome! Contact the library at 518-828-1792 or email Sharon Getty at BookGroup@hudsonarealibrary.org for info.
Have a suggestion for a future book group read? Feel free to email Sharon or post in the comments!
By Emily on April 24, 2012
 photo shared via Creative Commons license by Eirik Newth (click image to visit his flickr page) The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a non-profit research organization in Washington, DC, is conducting an online survey of public library patrons who borrow e-books. If you have checked out or downloaded e-books from a public library, please consider taking Pew Internet’s survey, available at the link below. All responses will be confidential, although your answers may be quoted anonymously in a future report. The survey should take about 15 minutes.
To take the survey, visit: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/e-book-borrowers
To learn more about the Pew Internet Project’s research on e-reading and public libraries, which is entirely free and available to the public, visit http://libraries.pewinternet.org
By Emily on April 11, 2012
Looking for employment? Having a hard time applying for job opportunities? Need help upgrading your skills? The Hudson Area Library, in collaboration with Columbia Greene Workforce New York Career Center, introduces a series of free career development workshops. The workshops will be held Tuesdays from 9:30-11am between April 17 and May 15. The goal of the workshop series is to help participants develop skills important to today’s job seekers – from how to create and format a quality resume to using the Internet and email in your job search. Sign up today! Interested job seekers may register for one or more of the following free workshops:
Get Connected Workshop (April 17): Learn to use the mouse and get an email address so you can begin to use the Internet in your job search. Learn how to complete an online form and copy and paste information.
Resume Workshop (April 24): Learn about various types of resumes along with the requirements of a quality resume focusing on accomplishments and skills.
Interview Workshop (May 1): Learn how to practice and handle interview questions.
XP/Word (May 8): Learn the Word basics so you can format your resume and cover letter. Learn to find, save, adjust fonts, size, margins, bullets & email/paste a resume.
Internet Job Search (May 15): Learn how to find job leads online and become familiar with using a variety of search sites.
Space is limited. To reserve a spot in one or more of the workshops, call the Hudson Area Library at 518-828-1792. All workshops are offered by Columbia Greene Workforce New York Career Center instructors and are held at the Hudson Area Library at 400 State Street in Hudson, NY.
This project has been supported by a grant from the Fund for Columbia County, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation builds stronger communities and improves the quality of life for all residents of our region. Each year, the foundation distributes over $7 million through grants and scholarships, helping thousands of donors achieve their philanthropic goals and hundreds of nonprofits carry on their good work. Berkshire Taconic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity.
By Emily on April 4, 2012
The Hudson Area Library and the Friends of the Hudson Area library announce a new series of free computer classes for adults which will start Wednesday, April 25 and meet weekly through May 30th. All classes will be held from 10-11:30am in the Computer Room at the Library. Class size is limited, so seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees may register now at the Library or by phone at 518.828.1792. The classes will be taught by Laurie Quinn of Technology 4 All, Inc., which has been providing technology services to local governments, small businesses, local libraries and non-profit organizations for over 30 years.
The first class, Computer Basics, for beginners is a pre-requisite for all of the other classes. It will cover computer vocabulary (desktop, icon, web browser, monitor, CPU, etc.), using the mouse, taskbar, understanding windows (opening, closing, minimizing, navigating), and a brief introduction to the Internet (opening a browser, entering a website, etc.). The second class in the series, Internet Basics, will focus on searching the Internet using Google (web, images, and news), following a link, adding Favorites, domain extensions and printing from the Internet. The third class, Email Basics, will include creating a free Gmail account, sending and replying to an email, printing and creating a contact/address list. The class will also include directions on how to open and send an attachment in an email account. The fourth class will focus on Word Processing Basics and will include how to create, save and locate a document, formatting (applying fonts, sizes, bold, italic, etc.), checking spelling and grammar, and printing a document. The fifth class will address how to apply for a job online, including resume creation and job searching techniques. And lastly, the sixth class will be focused on using the Mid-Hudson Library System’s online interlibrary loan system, as well as accessing and downloading eBooks to your mobile eReader device (Kindle, Nook, IPad).
This project has been supported by a grant from the Fund for Columbia County, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Berkshire Taconic Foundation builds stronger communities and improves the quality of life for all residents in our region. Berkshire Taconic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity.
Additional support provided by the Friends of the Hudson Area Library. The Friends of the Hudson Area Library is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and all proceeds from its fundraising go to the Library for the acquisition of books and other media and for the development and delivery of the Library’s services to the community.
By markorton on March 22, 2012
To enable those of you who could not participate in our new library design focus groups to provide us with feedback about what you want in the new library, we have developed an online survey.
Before You Take the Survey
Our library design consultant Kim Cullin has created a presentation, “Creating a Thriving 21st Century Library” to provide a brief overview of the activities, programs, spaces, and tools that are part of what other libraries across the country are doing to become a 21st century library. This presentation will provide you with a larger frame of reference before you fill out the online survey.
NOTE: this file has been compressed to make it easier to download. It will look fine on your computer screen but will not look very good if you print it out.
DOWNLOAD “Creating a Thriving 21st Century Library”
Fill Out the Survey
The survey should take you between 5 and 10 minutes to complete. If you want to stay in touch with us be sure to fill out your contact information on the survey.
GO TO THE SURVEY
By Emily on March 19, 2012
Seventeen new teen graphic novels have just been added to the permanent collection, thanks to the Friends of the Hudson Area Library. Already on the shelves, the new purchases include a variety of graphic novels, both new releases and other popular award-winning titles from recent years. Several of the titles were featured on the 2012 Great Graphic Novels list from the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Libraries Association. The titles include work from Eisner Award winning authors, including Brian Michael Bendis, Brian K. Vaughan, Robert Kirkman and Derek Kirk Kim. A few series titles were also purchased including Runaways, Naruto and the new Avengers Academy series.
Once thought only for kids who were considered “reluctant readers”, graphic novels are actually for everyone. The format merges literacy and visual literacy by requiring that readers make the connection between the written words and images, while also reading between the panels. This encourages a new kind of literacy, vital in interacting with and succeeding in our multimedia world.
The new books are: Daybreak by Brian Ralph; Takio #1 by Brian Michael Bendis; One Soul by Ray Fawkes; Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim; Thor the Mighty Avenger by Roger Langridge; Runaways #1, #2, and #3 by Brian K. Vaughan; The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman; Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod; Avengers Academy #1 and #2 by Christos Gage; Scarlet by Brian Michael Bendis; I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly; and Naruto #1, #2, and #3 by Masashi Kishimoto.
All titles will be in the Young Adult section at the Library and can be borrowed for up to 21 days with a library card from any library in the Mid-Hudson Library System. They may also be ordered via the online catalog.
Friends of the Hudson Area Library is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and all proceeds from its fundraising go to the Library for the acquisition of books and other media and for the development and delivery of the Library’s services to the community.
By Emily on February 29, 2012
The Board of Trustees of the Hudson Area Library will hold their Annual Meeting on Wednesday, March 14 at 6:15pm, following the regularly scheduled Board meeting at 5:15pm. Both meetings are open to the public.
By Emily on February 25, 2012
The Hudson Area Library book club is open to new members! The group meets around once per month at the Hudson Area Library to discuss a book chosen by the group at the previous meeting. The March book club pick is The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. A description of the book from publisher Random House can be found below. The group will discuss this book on Tuesday, March 27 at 5:45pm. All are welcome.
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time—Paris in the twenties—and an extraordinary love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
In Chicago in 1920, Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and finds herself captivated by his good looks, intensity, and passionate desire to write. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group of expatriates that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
But the hard-drinking and fast-living café life does not celebrate traditional notions of family and monogamy. As Hadley struggles with jealousy and self-doubt and Ernest wrestles with his burgeoning writing career, they must confront a deception that could prove the undoing of one of the great romances in literary history.
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