U.S. Postal Service Offers EBay Workshop - Additional Dates!

The United States Postal Service in cooperation with the Tompkins County Public Library is offering two free EBay workshops to help you enter the world of online auctions and experience the excitement of selling at EBay. On June 28, 2007, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., and 5:00 p.m. 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.

The workshops will take place in the Borg Warner Room east at the Tompkins County Public Library on June 28 from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., and from 5 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Seating is limited. You may register for one workshop online from the library website at http://www.tcpl.org/programs/ebayusps.html or by calling the reference desk at 272-4556. Pre-registration is required.

Read, Review and Reap Rewards

Reading will become a lot more rewarding this summer for local teens participating in the Tompkins County Public Library’s 2007 Teen Summer Reading Program.

Teens that read and review two books between June 27 and August 17 will be entered in a raffle to win a deluxe media basket, which will include an Apple iPod shuffle, Gumy Earbuds, a flash drive and a $15 gift certificate for iTunes. Other prizes being raffled include gift certificates to the Bookery, Purity Ice Cream and Juna’s Café.

The Teen Summer Reading Program is free and open to teens in grades 7 through 12. Review sheets can be found at the library or online at http://www.tcpl.org/teen/summer. Participants must read and review at least two books to be entered in the raffles, however, each review serves as a raffle ticket, so each additional book you read increases your chance of winning.

For more information contact Adelle Leise at 272-4557 ext. 275.

The 2007 Teen Summer Reading Program is made possible through a grant provided by the J.M. McDonald Foundation.

Moreland the Magician to Appear at Library

Moreland the Magician, talented performer and magician, will kick off 2007’s Summer Reading Program on Monday June 25 at 6:30 pm in the Borg Warner Room at the Tompkins County Public Library.

Children ages 4-10 are welcome but children of all ages can come too! The audience will also enjoy learning magic tricks to perform in Moreland’s 20 minute magic workshop. This is a free program open to the public, but space is limited.

This program is funded by the Brooks Family Foundation.

Visit the Summer Reading Program page!

Get a Clue at Your Library! Summer Reading Program

Don’t be clueless! Join up for summer reading 2007 at the Youth Services department of Tompkins County Public Library as kids across NYS experience the pleasure of reading.

Children in grades kindergarten through 6th grade may sign- up online at http://www.tcpl.org/summer or at the Youth Services department at TCPL beginning Monday, June 25th through August 7th.

Read six books in six weeks to receive a certificate and prizes. All registered children receive reading logs to keep track of their reading progress.

Registration is also available at the community libraries at the Caroline Community Library and Danby Community Library beginning June 25th. The Lansing Community Library Center’s program will run from June 16th to August 20th.

Have fun reading, solving mysteries and getting the clues at your library!
Part of this program is made possible through a grant from The Brooks Family Foundation.

For more information contact the Youth Services Department of the Tompkins County Public Library at 272-4557, Ext. 275 or 276.

Summer Reading Program Begins at Library

Don’t be clueless! Join up for summer reading 2007 at the Youth Services department of Tompkins County Public Library as kids across New York State experience the pleasure of reading.

Children in grades kindergarten through 6th grade may sign- up online at www. tcpl.org/summer or at the Youth Services department at TCPL beginning Monday, June 25th through August 7th.

Read six books in six weeks to receive a certificate and prizes. All registered children receive reading logs to keep track of their reading progress.

Registration is also available at the community libraries at the Caroline Community Library and Danby Community Library beginning June 25th. The Lansing Community Library Center’s program will run from June 16th to August 20th.

Have fun reading, solving mysteries and getting the clues at your library!
For more information contact the Youth Services Department of the Tompkins County Public Library at 272-4557, Ext. 275 or 276.

Stories in the Park

The Tompkins County Public Library announces the return of Stories in the Park at the
Dewitt Park Farmer’s Market. This program will begin at 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Tuesday, June 12th and continue through August 28th. While children of all ages are welcome, the books will be most appropriate for toddlers and pre-schoolers.

Come join Eileen and friends for stories, songs and other fun activities and stay for lunch and shopping at the market. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

In the event of rain the program will be held in the Thaler-Howell Room in Youth Services Department at the Tompkins County Public Library.

Temporary Disruption of Library Service

The Tompkins County Public Library will be upgrading Polaris, its computer system, June 12th and 13th. Polaris is the system used for registering patron information, checking materials in and out, keeping and searching our inventory of materials, and allowing items to be renewed. The library will still be checking materials in and out on a back-up system, and Internet access will not be affected. Services that will be temporarily unavailable:
· Renewals
· Fine payment
· Hold placement
· Catalog searching, both in the library and from home
· Database access
· Self-checkout machines

During the upgrade period, June 12th and June 13th, it will be necessary for library users to have their library card in hand when checking out.. The Finger Lakes Library System, who owns and administers the Polaris system, plans to have the system operational by Thursday, June 14th.

Visual Culture at IHS

VISUAL CULTURE at IHS - the Annual IHS Student Art Exhibit will be displayed at Tompkins County Public Library during June, 2007. An opening reception will be held in the Borg Warner Community Room at 4 p.m. on Friday, June 8.

Tompkins County Public Library is delighted to be able to offer Ithaca High School a prominent location to exhibit some of the art work which their students have created during the school year 2006-07. The library will showcase the art during the month of June.

The art students want to talk about what they see happening through their art; drawings, paintings, mixed media, prints and photographs. Their images are personal portraits and perspectives of their school, their friends, their lives. Text and image, symbolism, faces and places are presented as a visual dialogue of these young artists’ lives.

Support from the ICSD and a grant from the Fine Arts Booster Group have made the mounting of this show possible.

For further information about the work please contact Carol Spence at 274-2239 or cspence@icsd.k12.ny.us.

A History of Ithaca Moviemaking

June 2, 2007 in TheTompkins County Public Library’s Borg Warner Community Room
1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.- 3:45 p.m.

The Ithaca Festival has teamed up with local organization Ithaca-Made Movies to present classic Wharton Studio silent films. A Saturday afternoon event is planned for those who would like to learn more about Ithaca’s moviemaking history. View the flyer.

A radio script by Jack Foley “A Sonnet, with Harry Fox” will be featured using movie clips of Harry Fox selected from the Beatrice Fairfax series. Fox will be heard singing a song entitled “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows.”

Eric Stedman from the Serial Squadron, a group dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the lost form of the movie serial, will speak about the work done on the Beatrice Fairfax Series that he has prepared for the evening event.

A locally produced music video “Hollywood On Cayuga” will be shown along with several other music videos which feature Pearl White and Irene Castle.

Two episodes of the 1916 Ithaca-made serial film BEATRICE FAIRFAX will have a free screening on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 8:00 pm at the historic State Theater in downtown Ithaca, as part of the 30th Annual Ithaca Festival. View the flyer.

“The State Theater is Ithaca’s only existing original movie house,” said Ithaca Festival Executive Director Vicki Kysar. “and it is the perfect setting to see the extraordinary movies made in Ithaca, the way audiences might have seen them
in 1916!”

Live music for the evening event will be provided by world-renowned silent film keyboard accompanist Donald Sosin, and Joanna Seaton will sing the 1915 hit “Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do.”

So don’t miss these two free Ithaca Festival 2007 events on Saturday June 2nd. This years festival theme is reflection and Ithaca Silent films will provide just such a reflection. Refreshments will be provided by co-sponsors Ithaca Bakery and Napoli Pizzeria at the afternoon events.