Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Take a Look at our New Magazines
The Library has added 14 new magazines to its list of subscriptions. The first issues will begin arriving in July. As with our current subscriptions, we will keep all back issues of these new magazines for 2 years. All magazines (except for the most current issue) can be checked out for one week.

Better Homes and Gardens Creative Home
Commentary
Communication Arts
Coastal Living
Cuisine at Home
Diabetic Cooking
Domino
Everyday with Rachel Ray
Maximum PC
Muscles and Fitness
Natural Health
Simple and Delicious
Sporting News
The Week

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

"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.

Thursday, April 19, 2007


What type of Film Festival would you like to see this summer at the Mission Viejo Library?
Fantasy
Plays to Films
Foreign
Jail/Prison
Jack Nicholson
"End of the World"
Diane Keaton
Family Classics
Musicals
Screwball Comedies
  
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Special AP Finals Super Study Session at the Mission Viejo Library

The Mission Viejo Library will be hosting a Super Study Session for area high school students preparing for Advanced Placement exams.

The library’s community room will be open to students for four hours and will be available for group study. The "Super Study" sessions will be supervised by library staff, who will be available to provide reference and information help. Complementary food and drinks will be provided.

The Super Study Session for AP students will be held Tuesday, May 1, from 5:00pm – 9:00pm. Seating for Super Study Nights is on a space available basis. Pre-registration is not necessary.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Learn how to make your own handmade beaded
jewelry


On Saturday, April 28th from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., teens and adults will be able to learn how to make beautiful beaded jewelry and create a masterpiece of their own to take home. All materials are provided for free. Registration is required to ensure enough materials are available. The workshop will be held in the Community Room. Contact the library at (949) 830-7100, ext. 4008 to reserve your spot

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Make Your Own READ Poster!
Sunday, April 15 to Saturday April 21, 2007
It’s National Library Week – a time to celebrate the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities nation wide and the perfect time for our community to “Come Together @ Your Library”
The Library is celebrating National Library Week by inviting you to create your very own read poster. Visit the Library on Sunday, April 15, 2007 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and have your picture taken with your favorite book. Please make sure to bring a copy of your favorite book or check with library staff to see if we have one on the shelf.
All 11”x 17” posters will be displayed throughout the Mission Viejo Library during National Read Week. For more information or to schedule and appointment, email read@cityofmissionviejo.org.

Monday, March 05, 2007

Spend an Afternoon in Paris with Parisian Mystery Writer Cara Black

Sunday March 18
2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m.
Saddleback Room



Award winning author, Cara Black, is known for her Aimee Leduc investigation series set in Paris. Cara will speak at the Mission Viejo Library as part of the ongoing "Writers Present" Series. The Aimee Leduc mysteries are suspenseful with a Paris setting. The seventh book in the series, Murder on Ile Sanit-Louis will be released in March. Cara, a San Francisco based author, will be giving an inside look at how she has developed the series. For more information visit Cara’s website http://www.carablack.com/.

Movie Screenings @ the Library

March 10, 2007 at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chamber

2007 Independent Film Festival

(All Movies Start at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber)

April 14, QuinceaƱera

April 21,Wordplay

April 28, Last King of Scotland

May 5, Little Miss Sunshine