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Author Reading - Kurt Hoelting

Saturday, Sept 18 - 5:00 PM

Come sit by the fireplace and meet Kurt Hoelting. Born and bred Seattle, Kurt loves to travel. A commercial fisherman and founder of Inside Passages, a sea kayak outfitting and guide business, he spends his summers in southeast Alaska. The rest of the year, he leads meditation retreats in the Northwest and around the country, drawing on his experience as a Zen student and minister. When he realized that his carbon footprint was more than twice the national average (mostly due to air travel), he made a drastic choice - to live for a year traveling only by foot, bicycle, kayak, ferry and bus, limiting himself to a 60-mile radius of his Whidbey Island home. In his new book, The Circumference of Home, he shares how this tight circle proved mind expanding.

Small Business Classes

Mondays, Sept 27 - Nov 15th - 5:30 PM

Do you have an idea for a new business? Or do you already own a small business? If so, this could be the class for you!!!! The Lopez Island Family Resource Center, in collaboration with the Lopez Library, will be holding classes on Monday evenings at the Lopez Library beginning September 27th. Learn more.

Overdrive - eAudiobook Service

Learn how to browse, check-out and download digital books and more! Click here to go to the Quick Start Guide or you can download Digital Media Guided Tour. Then go to: My Account > select Lopez Library > enter your library card number.

SUMMER READING PROGRAM

The summer reading program is officially over for the year. It was a great success! Thanks for participating and hope you had fun earning your book bucks. Thanks to the Friends of the Lopez Island Library for supporting this program. We hope you keep reading!

Lou's News & Reviews

JULY 4TH BOOK SALE A HUGE SUCCESS. THANK YOU!

Many thanks to our community for the great turnout for the Friends of the Lopez Island Library book sale on July Fourth. We had one of the best sales ever and sold out of our book bag specials by 11 a.m.! Read more about the booksale and other news in: Lou's Library News and Reviews for July 20, 2010.

Lou's Library News and Reviews for June 11, 2010

Lou on KLOI radio every week

Don't miss the weekly radio program every Wednesday at 1:00 pm. Tune to 102.9 or click here to connect to KLOI radio and stream the program online!

Listen to Lou now:

• Lou's Radio Reviews Sept 1

• Lou's Radio Reviews August 25

• Archived KLOI Radio shows

New Arrivals at Your Library

• Recent Acquisitions. Check this list for newly arrived items.
  
  Lynda.com - Want to learn how to use Quicken for your small business? How about Garage Band software to make composing more accessible? You name the computer app and Lynda.com has it! The library subscribes so see us about access so you can take classes from home or work - all provided by your local library.

• Downloadable Audio Books are here! First create your own account with NetLibrary. You'll need to come into the library. Watch the demo at NetLibrary Demo to learn how to search for eContent and how to download to your pc or Mac or directly to your listening device. Supported listening devices can be found here or call 800-848-5800, Ext. 1411 for Customer Support which is available Monday through Friday, and from 9:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

• Enhanced version of Consumer Reports now online! Log in with library card number.

• NEW! Ancestry.com - Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Other genealogy databases here.

• Musical Instrument Check-Out Program - check out a violin, keyboard, or guitar!

• The library has two Kindles for check-out. Save the arm strain and try these new electronic readers that have dozens of books on a little 10 oz. wireless reading device. Consider for your next long plane trip or if the weight of regular books is a factor for you.

• Home sick? Call the library for a free home delivery. We'll delivery specific items or pull together something we think you'd like.

• What is Lopez Reading? In a recent poll, we asked patrons to give us titles in a variety of categories. Here's what they said.

Get your Food Handling training at the library!

Restaurant owners and others in the food industry take note: certification in Food Handling can now be done at the Lopez Island Library. The San Juan County Public Health folks have installed a special station for completing the food handling certification test online. These are located just outside the library community room. The test takes approximately 50 minutes, just print off your results and hand them in at the library desk with your $10.00 handling fee. The county will send your card in the mail. Now you don't have to leave the island to complete your food handling training.

We're now on Facebook

Monthly Event Calendar

View the Library calendar for events, movies, meetings, and Community Meeting Room activities.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Matinee Movie

Saturday, Sept. 4 - 2:00 PM

Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This adaptation of Jeff Kinney's best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid books is full of tween-friendly jokes and mischief...To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It's a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor - and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can't-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry. And he's getting it all down on paper, via a diary - "it's NOT a diary, it's a journal!" Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation - filled with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would-be) schoolyard triumphs. "One day when I'm famous," writes Greg, "I'll have better things to do than answer peoples' stupid questions all day." So was born the Wimpy Kid's diary. Rated PG. FREE to the public.

Current Guest Artist

Aug 14 - Sept 24: Patterns of Nature - Photography by Robyn Minkler

Robyn Minkler's exhibit captures random textures and patterns of his outdoor adventures.

In the Cabinet Display: Moon Taxis - Mixed Media Creations by Rodolfo Alonso

Come enjoy the ride! They're out of this world!

Go to Art in the Library page