New Nonfiction titles at the Library

Eight World Cups- Vecsey (796.334 VE)

Healthy Probiotic Diet- Ruppenthal (612.2 RU)

Digestive Health with Real Food- Jacob (616.3 JA)

Gentle Yoga for Arthritis - Sanford - (On Order)

Vintage Parties- Hansson (793.2 HA)

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. surveillance state - Greenwald (342 GR)

Made by Yourself: 100% DIY handmade Designer projects for the Home, from Furniture to Accessories - Fehrentz - (On Order)

Mindful Discipline: a Loving Approach to Setting Limits, & Raising an Emotionally Intelligent
Child - Shapiro (649 SH)

Great River Shakespeare Festival Programs

Stage Combat Workshop   Thursday, June 19 5:30-6:30  pm—At the library (Grades 6-12)

Ever wonder how the slaps, punches, and swordfights happen onstage? Actors from the Great River Shakespeare Festival will  lead an interactive stage combat workshop! Don't miss your chance to learn how stage fighting really works, and to try your hand at it too. This program is designed for grades 6-12. Anyone under age 12 needs to have a parent in attendance. 

 

Go Behind the Scenes of the Great River Shakespeare Festival    Thursday, June 19  

6:30-7:30 pm  - At the library (A Program for Adults)

Join Great River Shakespeare Festival artistic and education staff for a discussion of the 2014 season! You'll get to go behind the scenes of Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to explore the process of creating a play from rehearsal to design to performance. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the historical context of the plays and have all of your questions answered.  Both of the GRSF programs are paid for with funds from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

 

No registration is needed for either program.

Questions? Call the library at 507-645-6606.

April is National Poetry Month!

April is National Poetry month.  Why does poetry need a month? 

Fiction doesn’t have one.  Neither does nonfiction. The other day someone said to me, I’m sorry but I HATE poetry.  And this is why poetry needs a month.

We are introduced to poetry as children.  These are usually silly little rhymes; 

later we may be forced to read Longfellow: Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…And later, we’ll read Poe: And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes/ Of the beautiful Annabel Lee…And these are the ones, as children, that we understand.  And if we’re lucky enough to have a good teacher, we learn about the music in these poems, and others.  But how many of us read poems after we leave school?  When I taught undergraduate creative writing, even the students who said they liked to write poetry, didn’t read poetry. 

If you are not a seasoned reader of poetry, please do not assume it is 

inaccessible, corny or boring.  There is a poet out there you will love. 
A poem exists that can change your life--even for that moment as a
poem’s words echo through you.  Rita Dove said, “Poetry is language at
its most distilled and most powerful.”  But that doesn’t mean one cannot understand this language. 

Here are a few ways to incorporate more poetry into your life:

Come to the library and check out a poetry book!

Sign up for Poem a day on www.poets.org.  Every day a poem will be sent

to you via email.  While at poets.org, peruse their informative and
inspiring site.

Participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 24th.

Minnesota has many award winning poets.  Look them up and read them.

(submitted by library staffer Brenda Hellen)

Learn a new Language! Check out Transparent Language Online

Learning a new language couldn't be easier with our new Transparent Language Online. The resource is free with your library card and available 24/7. Or download the mobile app for IOS and Android devices and learn on the go!

Features:
* 80+ languages
* Proficiency Tests
* Vocabulary Lists
* Beginner English for speakers of 24 languages
* Choice to write or speak answers

Short on time?
The Byki Quick Start feature offers:
 * 10 vocabulary lists for each language
 * Word of the Day
 * Access to TL's online social communities
 * Language and Culture blogs

go to www.northfieldmn.info - click on E-Library

Questions? Call the library at 507-645-6606

Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub

Check out the new resource from the Minnesota Historical Society. Through legacy funds many older newspapers from Minnesota - including Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cannon Falls, Red Wing and Northfield and Dundas - have been digitized.  The Northfield News has been digitized from 1879 to 1922.  All of the newspapers are fully searchable.  The full collection can be searched by title of newspaper, county, city or town or date.   This is a great resource for historians and genealogists.

http://newspapers.mnhs.org/web/mhsnews/web/imu.php?request=accesstool

Women's History Month

"How Important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"

Maya Angelou, African American Poet

Did you ever wonder who the first female self-made millionaire was and what she did to get there? Or what"Iron jawed Angels" is really about?  March is Women's History Month and the theme for 2014 is "Character, Courage and Commitment".  All month long the Northfield Public Library will honor women and their contribution to history on a national, local and worldly level.  Check out informative and inspiring websites like:

The Library of Congress   womenshistorymonth.gov

National Women's History Museum    nwhm.org

National Women's History Project    nwhp.org


Or simple stop into the library and check out the Women's History display in the reference area.  Where better to find the answer to these questions, be inspired, and learn more about the courageous women who were committed to carving a path for the future, than in your local library?

Questions? Call the library at 507-645-6606

Looking for a book like......?

Do you like certain authors? Then you read everything by those authors and then what?
We have a great resource at the library called Novelist and it will help you find a great book to read.
Use it for author and title readalikes, book discussion guides for use in your book groups and all kinds of booklists.

Click here http://support.ebsco.com/novelist/training.php to watch some videos on how to use Novelist.

Use it from home with your library card. Share it with people in your book group.
(and there's one for kids K-8 so check that out too!)

Go to www.northfieldmn.info and click on E-Library
Questions? Call the library at 645-6606.