Burning Books to Encourage Reading?
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."—Heinrich Heine, German poet

Historically people have burned books to keep others from reading them. Now one man is burning books in order to get people to read them. Check out this article on CNN.com titled "Unwanted books go up in flames." to get the full story. Do you agree or disagree with Tom Wayne's decision?

Ancestry.com Adds War Records

The library now has a subscription to Ancestry.com-Library Edition. The database is currently only accessible from inside the library and is a collection of more than 4,000 databases and two billion names. This database has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, war records, and immigration records.

To learn more about the recent addition of the war records to this database read the article "Ancestry.com posts 90M war records" By Donna Borak, Associated Press.

"Writers Present"

Wednesday June 20th
City Council Chamber
7:00 p.m.

Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack teamed up to write the entertaining Los Angeles Times Bestseller Literacy and Longing in L.A.. They will appear together as part of the ongoing “Writers Present” series. Jennifer Kaufman is a former L.A Times reporter and Karen Mack is a former entertainment attorney who currently produces theatrical and television movies. Literacy and Longing in L.A. is a novel in which the main character, Dora, reads obsessively for comfort and to escape from her real life. To learn more about this book or these authors, visit their website www.literacyandlonginginla.com. To make a reservation for this free event or for more information, contact Stanton@cityofmissionviejo.org or call (949) 830-7100 extension 4008.

June 20th is also the first day of our Adult Summer Reading program. For all those who are like Dora and love to read, this is your chance to meet like-minded people and earn fun prizes for doing what you enjoy.