June movies

Friday Films in June are two stories of the sea: Cast Away, with Tom Hanks, and White Squall, with Jeff Bridges.

Concerts

Next Friday, May 23rd, the Madison High School and Middle Schools string octets will be here to play a lobby concert at noon. Join us! you can even brown bag your lunch to our Snack Spot and enjoy the music.

Award winning musicians Patricia Davila, flute, and Merynda Adams, harp, will play a recital at Morris County Library June 26th, Thursday, 7PM. Please reserve your seats for this free concert, presented by the MCL Foundation.

Morristown code online

The Morristown municipal code is now online. Want to see if your town's is? Check our municipal code web page.

June classes

The June class schedule has been posted. Back by popular demand are sessions on Excel and PowerPoint, among other software. E-mail classes are now being taught using Google mail. Travel planning and health resources on the 'Net return and new is a class on social software ..MySpace, YouTube, LibraryThing, the places where people share what they create. Call (973) 285-6930 to sign up for any class.

Green File

You can now access a database of 300,000 records on environmental issues in GreenFile, from EBSCO. From the remote resources web, log into EBSCO under Magazines (your library card #, no spaces); click on Magazines and Newspapers; and scroll down to GreenFile.

Homer Hansen

Cut paper artist Homer Hansen presents "Things that can fly", a program for children 6 years and up, July 12, Saturday, from 3-4:30PM. Seating is limited! You can register online or call the Children's desk at (973) 285-6980.

Donate eyeglasses

The library is a collection site for the Lions Clubs Recycle for Sight program, through May 30th. You can drop your old eyeglasses off in the lobby. Thanks!

Summer 6

Six live performances for children have been scheduled for June and July. You can register online for

Traveling Lantern Theatre Co.
The Lizard Guys
Andrew Piccirillo stories & science experiments
Graphic artist Theodore Riddle, how to draw cartoons
Ken Galipeau & Carol Titus, song and story
Magician Brian Richards

Summer Reading Club registration starts June 23rd.

Audiobooks

In February and March a total of 972 audiobooks were downloaded by 421 people in the county, from the libraries' account. Have you tried OverDrive? Select Morris Automated from the My Account list to log in.

May @MCL

May 19, Mon., PC Basics class, 2PM
May 19, Mon., Paws for Reading, 7PM Register please
May 20, Tues., E-mail 2 class, 2PM
May 20, Tues., Poetry party, 3:30PM
May 20, Tues., Writers' Group, 6:30PM
May 21, Wed., library tour, 2PM
May 22, Thurs., class, Discover Music! 2PM
May 23, Fri., Open Story Time, 10AM
May 23, Fri., String octets concert, Madison High and Junior Schools, Noon

May 26, Mon., CLOSED, Memorial Day
May 27, Tues., career seminar, Noon
May 28, Wed., Book club, 7PM
May 28, Wed., Word 3 class, 7PM
May 29, Thurs., Business card class, 2PM
May 29, Thurs., Beatrix Potter film/story, 4pm Register please
May 30, Fri., Film, A.I., Artificial Intelligence, 2PM Reserve please
May 30, Fri., Word 4 class, 10AM
May 31, Sat. Word 4 class, 7PM

I See Dead People['s Books]

Want to see what John Adams, Sylvia Plath, James Joyce, e.e.cummings, Benjamin Franklin, etc. had in their personal libraries? (Adams owned 1,668 books, Jefferson 4,889.) This volunteer project is cataloguing historical personal libraries.

Jersey agriculture

We're celebrating growing things and NJ agriculture with our speakers in June and July. Beekeeper Earl Rowe will present Here's the Buzz, on bees--the NJ state insect-- and beekeeping, June 30th, Monday, 7PM. (For ages 10 to infinity..bring the children!)
Food historian Judith Krall-Russo talks about Blueberries: NJ's wonder fruit on July 31st, 7PM. Ms Krall-Russo's presentation is sponsored by the NJ Council for the Humanities. You can reserve your seats online.

New genealogy database

We now have a subscription to JewishData.com, "one of the largest professionally compiled Jewish Genealogical resource of its kind currently available. ...over 500,000 records including images of tombstones, school yearbook pages and Citizen Declaration documents. New records are added on an ongoing basis."

The database, available for use only in the library, includes congregation and society cemeteries in Germany, Israel, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California, some going back to 1848.

Car shopping?

Thinking of buying a used car for the high school or college grad this spring? You can investigate safety and prices in our car guide web and the Automotive Repair Reference Center (one of 15 databases you can use from home, among our remote services.) Check especially any recalls or technical services bulletins for repairs that should have been done to any car you're considering.

Edmunds and Kelly's Blue Book prices are online, in our car guide. Want the NADA or "Red Book" prices? Call the reference desk at (973) 285-6969 or drop us a note.

Foreclosures

We've been asked about finding foreclosures. The County Sheriff, who handles these, offers a database of properties scheduled for sale in the next two months.

29 photos

Twenty-nine (29) photos have been submitted to My Morris, the online exhibit of favorite views of Morris County. We'd like to see yours, too. Send it in! ...and let us have your name, if you'd like a photo credit.

Bookmark it

Bookmark the MCL calendar and you'll always know what's going on in the next two months at your library.

4th museum pass

The Community Children's Museum in Dover has donated a family membership to the library's Museum Pass program. Passes, which can be charged out from the Music & Media dept, for a period of two weeks, are also available for the
Morris Museum
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts
Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms

We thank them all for their support!

Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail ...

..and Peter. Daria Lisco of the Beatrix Potter Society presents a Potter film and story for children, Monday, April 14th, 1:30PM. Please reserve your seats.
The performance will be repeated May 29th, Thursday, 4-5PM, for PM Kindergartners and their siblings.

Economies

The library is a "good deal." You can borrow, not buy, nearly 2 million books, movies, music and books on CD, download audiobooks, etc. Don't want to waste gas trundling around? Books from any of the libraries around the county can be picked up at and returned to your hometown ...or nearest ..Morris library. We offer remote reference and resources and can fax up to 10 pages of material a week to county residents. There is no charge for:
classes (software and the Internet)
career seminars
movies and concerts
speakers program
meeting and study rooms

Morris County Library: your tax dollars at work.
Run your savings estimate through the library value calculator.

Audiobooks go iPod

Our audiobooks vendor OverDrive has announced they will begin offering downloads compatible with iPods. An article this week in one of the library trade journals.

867 subscribers

867 people have signed up for advance e-mail notice of library classes, concerts, films and children's programs. You can drop us a note to subscribe and/or peruse the archives if you'd like to see what kind of updates have been sent to the list.
Mail will come to you from events@mcl.mainlib.org, if you need to add that to your address book. The subscription list can only be seen by two librarian events coordinators here and is strictly protected.

Morris Authors Collection

The last three weeks have been fun! 91 volumes have been donated to our Morris Authors' Collection and we've met a wonderful array of people writing across a range of topics, genre and formats.
Authors' Day, the official launch of the collection, will be Sept. 27th, Saturday. A county publisher will be in to talk about how to get to print, local authors will offer their works for sale and signing and we'll have a ribbon cutting on the library collection itself.
Check your shelves! If you have books by Morris authors (do you have any of Penny Pollack's children's stories? for example) would you like to add them to the Authors' Collection?

Audiobooks from home

OverDrive is here .. our new audiobook service allows you to download from home. Just have your library card ready, to log in with those 13 numbers (no spaces, please) on the back of your card. Select Morris Automated Informaton Network (M.A.I.N.) as your log in choice.
Questions? Call the Music & Media desk at (973) 285-6967.

Library services calculator

Developed by the Maine and Massachusetts State Libraries, try out the MCL services calculator ... let us know what you think?!

Homeschooling?

Is your family homeschooling? The library offers resources and support.

Morris area newsfeed

We've pulled together a Morris area news aggregator If you want to subscribe, use http://www.mclib.info/morrisnews.xml (We're waiting for NY Times permission, to add their news stream.)

Events slideshow

Try an online slide show of events here at the library. We'd recommend the fast speed setting to flip through.

Groups @MCL

Book Clubs, meet monthly, Wednesdays at 7PM or Thursdays at 10AM. Coordinator Marianne Kranz, (973) 285-6969

TAB, Teen Advisory Board, meets irregularly and talk among themselves by e-mail. Coordinators Josh Humphrey, 285-6970, and Michael Butler, 285-6979.

Writers Group, meets monthly, Thursdays at 6:30PM. Coordinator Joanne Herb, 285-6970.