Author Talk and Book Signing with Local Young Adult Author Marlene Perez

- Saturday, October 11 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Heritage Room

Stop by the Heritage Room on Saturday, October 11 for a talk by South Orange County Resident Marlene Perez. Marlene is the author of Unexpected Development and the recently released Love in the Corner Pocket and Dead is the New Black. Dead is the New Black is the first installment in a creepy, campy new mystery series.

Kate Jacobs
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber

Kate Jacobs’ first novel Friday Night Knitting Club became an instant bestseller and is currently on the New York Times paperback best seller list. “It reads like Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan, Julia Roberts is set to star in the movie version of this story.” –USA TODAY. Her latest novel is Comfort Food.

Kate is a native of Vancouver, British Columbia. She moved to New York and broke into magazine publishing at Redbook and then became a writer and editor for Lifetime Television. After a decade of Manhattan living, Kate recently moved to Southern California and is enjoying suburban living.

Join us on October 7 for this free event. Refreshments will be served. For more information about this program, please call the Mission Viejo Library reference desk at (949) 830-7100 x5105.

Whistling in the Dark
For the library blog statistics are kept on how many people visit the site. You can see these for yourself by going to the bottom of the window and click on the little white "sitemeter" graphic. The statistics say we average about 4 visitors per day. That not really too many of you. Hopefully we'll be able to raise this number by providing more reasons to come here. We'll try to add more informative information and resources for you to look at. Also, the comments section is up and running for you to respond to anything on our blog. Or even if there is something off topic which you want express, by all mean, please leave a comment. We here at the library love hearing from our patrons and look forward to any input you might have.

Where in the library?

I know you all understand how the library works. We have books and things for people to come in and checkout. After a couple weeks, they return the item and we put it back on the shelf for the next person. It’s a great system that has been working for libraries for the past couple centuries.

But there has always been a problem with this system. From the days if index card catalogs to our modern computerized catalog, how do you know where the item is located in the building?

Well, for your benefit, I’ve labeled a map of the library with all the various areas and codes showing their location. But before we get there, let’s review some of the things we librarians take for granted.

First off, everything has a call number. So when you look at the catalog, make sure you notice the Call No. column. Abstractly, the library collection is broken up into two areas - Fiction and Non-fiction. Fiction usually has a name or title attached as a call number while non-fiction for the most part uses the good ol’ Dewey Decimal System for its call numbers. So don’t be confused when a call number doesn’t have an actual number in it.

Also, to make things still more confusing, some call numbers might be exactly the same, but the collection might be different. These areas I've labeled with blue text. If you want to know more about these, drop me a line and I’ll try and explain it to you.

Enough explanation, on to the map!

D. P. Lyle M.D., Forensic Consultant and Author
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber

D. P. Lyle M.D. has worked as an advisor to the writers of CSI: Miami, Law and Order, Women’s Murder Club and many others.

If you enjoy Patricia Cornwell, Law and Order, CSI, this program will give you insight into psychological drive that causes characters to act as they do in fiction and on television. If you are a writer, D.P. Lyle, M.D. has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows.

Dr. Lyle received the Macavity Award for his non-fiction books, Murder and Mayhem, Forensics for Dummies, Forensics and Fiction, Forensics: A Guide for Writers as well as the thrillers, Devil’s Playground and Double Bind. Dr. Lyle will be signing his books at the end of the program.

This free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Mission Viejo Library. To reserve a seat, please call the reference desk of the Mission Viejo Library at (949) 830-7100 x5105 or email stanton@cityofmissionviejo.org

Hi Everyone,
Jeff here. The person who normally updated the blog is out on maternity leave, so I'm helping to fill in for a bit. Since I do the purchasing of the DVDs for the library, I'm gong to post a list of all the new DVDs that the library received that were released in September. Some are rentals while others are re-releases of older movies. And quite a few of them are non-fiction documentary shows.
Beyond Belief
Married Life
Then She Found Me
Baby Mama
The Fall
The Forbidden Kingdom
88 Minutes
Blood Simple
Constantine's Sword
Finding Amanda
Made of Honor
Sixteen Candles Flashback Edition
Speed Racer
The Love Guru
Young@Heart
Green Solutions: Growing Green Babies
Beijing 2008 Olympics - Opening Ceremony
Deception
Family Name
Leatherheads
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Sex and the City: The Movie
The True Story Of Che Guevara
This American Life: The Complete First Season
Beijing 2008: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Chapter 27
Edward The King
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Freedom Is Not A Gift From Heaven- The Century Of Simon Wiesenthal
Iron Man
Michael Phelps Greatest Olympic Champion - The Inside Story
Taxi To The Dark Side
The Mindscape Of Alan Moore
When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions

Celebrate Teen Read Week at the Mission Viejo Library

Teens will be reading for the fun of it as Mission Viejo Library celebrates Teen Read Week, October 11-18, 2008. Teen Read Week is the national adolescent literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. The library will join hundreds of other libraries, schools and bookstores who are encouraging teens to celebrate this year’s theme, “Books with Bite @ Your Library,”

The library will offer two programs for students ages 12-17 in celebration of the week. All events are free of charge.

Author Talk and Book Signing with Local Young Adult Author Marlene Perez - Saturday, October 11 from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Heritage Room
Stop by the Heritage Room on Saturday, October 11 for a talk by South Orange County Resident Marlene Perez. Marlene is the author of Unexpected Development and the recently released Love in the Corner Pocket and Dead is the New Black. Dead is the New Black is the first installment in a creepy, campy new mystery series.

Video Game Afternoon – Saturday, October 11 from 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Come to the Saddleback Room at City Hall and play Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero on our big screens. Free refreshments will be available.

Reservations are recommended for both events. Sign up at the reference desk.

Quote of the Week

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson

Staff Picks
Check the blog every week for updates on what our staff is reading and watching and recommendations for our new and all-time favorite books and movies. What is your favorite book or movie? Post your answer in the comments section below. To see all previous Staff Picks posts, simply type "Staff Picks" in the search box at the top left of this blog and click the "search blog" button.

Becoming Winston Churchill by Michael McMenamin and Curt Zoller - recommended by Paul
When Churchill was asked to whom he owed his oratorical skills, he surprised people by answering Bourke Cockran, an American statesman. Based on the correspondence--some previously unpublished--between Churchill and Cockran, authorities on Churchill (1874-1965) depict Cockran's mentoring of the future British Prime Minister. The book begins with the love affair between Churchill's widowed American mother and Cockran, and includes fictional but fact-based narratives beginning chapters, and photographs. - Library Catalog

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - recommended by Andrew
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. -Library Catalog

MOVIE WATCH:
Big Fish - recommended by Mike
William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward, outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property. -Library Catalog

Quote of the Week

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 1 scene 1