U.S. Postal Service Offers EBay Workshop: Discover the Power and Fun of EBay

The United States Postal Service in cooperation with the Tompkins County Public Library is offering a free EBay workshop to help you enter the world of online auctions and experience the excitement of selling at EBay. On April 25, 2007, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. U.S. Postal Service Instructors, Lisa Resnick and Tammie Wilson, will teach you how to sell your items on EBay and gain access to the millions of EBay buyers worldwide. The workshop will review how to register as a buyer, selling tips, shipping your items using the U.S. Postal Service and much more.

This workshop is located in Borg Warner Room east at the Tompkins County Public Library on April 25, from 5 to 8 pm. Register online from the library website or by calling the reference desk at 272-4556. Pre-registration is required.

Business Start-up, Marketing and Research Tools at the Tompkins County Public Library

The Tompkins County Public Library will offer a free workshop to review business start-up, marketing and research tools on Saturday April 21 from 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or an established business doing market research, the Tompkins County Public Library business collection can help you to make informed decisions. Learn how to access the library’s business information collection to assist with your businesses marketing, planning, and research.

The workshop will be conducted by Adult Services Librarian Lawrence Carey in the Borg Warner room east. You can pre-register online from the library website www.tcpl.org/programs/business.html or by calling 272-4556. Pre-registration is not required.

Learn, Love, and Laugh @ the Tompkins County Public Library’s Mother – Daughter Book Club

The Mother-Daughter Book Club will meet at the Tompkins County Public Library on April 29, 2007, from 1:30 – 2:30. Area girls ages 10 through 13 and the special women in their lives are invited to read and discuss a great book with local author, Emily Rhoads Johnson, leading the group. Two titles have been selected: The Folk Keeper, by Frannie Billingsley and The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw. Read one or both. The group will meet in the Time Warner Cable Study Room. Copies of the selected books are available for check out at the library. Registration is not required, but is appreciated. For more information or to register, please contact: Adelle Leise @ 272-4557 x277, or visit http://www.tcpl.org/youth/programs/motherdaughter.html.

Nationally Recognized Author Brian Wansink to Speak about Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More than We Think

On Saturday, April 7 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., nationally recognized author, Cornell University professor and director of its Food and Brand Lab, Brian Wansink will speak at the Tompkins County Public Library about his bestselling book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. A book signing will follow the talk.

According to Wansink, the mind makes food-related decisions, more than 200 a day, and many of them without pause for actual thought. This peppy, somewhat pop-psych book argues that we don't have to change what we eat as much as how, and that by making more mindful food-related decisions we can start to eat and live better.

The author's approach isn't so much a diet book as a how-to on better facilitating the interaction between the feed-me messages of our stomachs and the controls in our heads.
Sara Moulton, executive chef at Gourmet magazine and Food Network host exclaims, “I read this book from cover to cover in one weekend and found it absolutely fascinating. Brian Wansink exposes the hidden psychology of eating, and his solid plan can knock 10 to 20 pounds off of any of us in a year. Ironically and delightfully, you could call it a mindless diet – one you don’t even know you’re on.”

Brian Wansink (Ph.D. Stanford 1990) holds the John S. Dyson Chair of Marketing and of Nutritional Science in the Applied Economics and Management Department at Cornell University, where he is Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Previously, he was a professor at Dartmouth College, the Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands), the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, INSEAD (France), and he was a visiting scientist at the U.S. Army Research Labs in Natick, MA.

To learn more about Mindless Eating, visit http://www.mindlesseating.org/index.htm

Dr. Wansink’s program is one of many programs offered by Tompkins County Public Library. The mission of the Library is to serve community residents at each stage of their lives by providing free and open access to the world's wisdom, knowledge, and information. The library, through its collections and professional services, fosters an informed, civic-minded community and contributes to the educational, cultural, and economic well-being of the County.
For more information contact: Rosie Rice 272-4557 ext. 233 or rrice@tcpl.org.