Learn Windows Computer Skills: Enjoy All the Features of Library Internet PCs

The Tompkins County Public Library is offering private training sessions to learn basic Windows skills needed to fully use all of the features of the library Internet PCs. Learn how to:

• Play CDs and DVDs
• Write and transfer files to CD, floppy disc and flash drive
• Text editing techniques, and much more.
  

Let us help you to navigate through all that the Internet has to offer, and enjoy to the fullest our great library resources and services. Receive one complimentary extra hour of Internet access on any day of your choice to practice your new skills. For more information, contact Lawrence Carey, Librarian II 272-4557 ext 256. Training sessions are conducted by Adult Services librarian Lawrence Carey. Please visit the reference desk or call 272-4556 to sign up for a training session.

Tompkins County Reads the Great Gatsby

The faded colors of a Robert Held drawing, the swish of a slinky silk dress, the sound of one lone saxophone late at night – all of these evoke the 1920s, even today. The Tompkins County Public Library invites you to revisit that era as part of the Fifth Annual Community Read, when Cornell and the community join to inspire literally thousands of local people to read and discuss a single book. This year’s selection is The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of greed, betrayal, and thwarted desire.

Fitzgerald was a master at evoking the sound and feel of what he was the first to call the Jazz Age, and in that spirit, the library is presenting a lively series of talks, book discussion groups, and a showing of the 1974 movie. All events are free and open to the public. Thanks to Cornell’s generosity, the library also has hundreds of copies of the book to lend.

Cornell’s Robert Frank will consider issues of wealth and social class in his talk “Luxury Then and Now” at the library. Vice-Provost Michele Moody-Adams will examine the ethical issues raised by Fitzgerald’s deeply-flawed, yet memorable, characters. And thanks to the New York Council for the Humanities, Reid Badger from New York University will serve up “The Music that Made the Twenties Roar.” The 1974 Robert Redford/Mia Farrow movie of Gatsby will be shown. Most of all, people will be discussing The Great Gatsby in open book groups at Tompkins County Public Library, the Danby Community Library, Lifelong, and The History Center, as well as at workplaces, service organizations, and private homes.

For more information, or to host a book group, please contact Shelley Garvey at 272-45557 ext. 249, sgarvey@tcpl.org, or Joyce Wheatley 272-4557 ext.257, jwheatley@tcpl.org. And please visit the library’s website for more details: www.tcpl.org/greatgatsby.

Tompkins County Public Library presents The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the 2006 Community/Cornell Read book.

All events are free and open to the public.

For a complete list of events, please visit www.tcpl.org/greatgatsby/events.html.

Teens Write! A Creative Writing Workshop Led by Irene Zahava to begin September 13th

Teens Write! A creative writing workshop for teens, ages 11 –17 will meet every Wednesday at the Tompkins County Public Library in the Thaler/Howell Program Room beginning September 13 and ending November 1, 2006, from 4:00-5:30 PM.
The free workshops provide a safe and supportive atmosphere for creative writing and group sharing. Registration is required. For more information or to register please contact Irene Zahava directly: 607- 273-4675 or zee@twcny.rr.com.

The fall 2006 teen writing program is made possible through the generosity of Suzanne Spitz.