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Adult Winter Reading Program @ the Library

This year's Adult Reading Program will be held from January 3rd through March 31st, 2012. Write a review on a book, audiobook or film, and your name goes into a drawing for fabulous weekly prizes. Submissions are open to anyone 18 years and up. We'll post the reviews below and then post the winners on the right. Go to the Adults page to read the reviews.

Write a Book or Movie Review

Click here to write a book review.

Creativity Workshop - Free

Tuesday, Jan 31 - 4:30- 7:30PM

Led by author and artist Jan Phillips, this three-hour workshop will you help you identify your own creativity through storytelling and images. Call the library at 2265 to reserve a seat. A book signing and wine- tasting will be held at the bookstore on Jan 30th at 5pm.

Lopez Library featured in magazine publications

• American Library Association's "I LOVE LIBRARIES" publication this month. Click here to read article.

• Lopez Library is a "star library for the 3rd year in a row. Read the article in the November 2011 Library Journal.

eBooks for Kindles - New!

You can now get books on your Kindle for free through the Lopez Library's Overdrive subscription. With the click of a button, have books delivered to your Kindle device or free reading application.

New! LiveMocha, Web-based Foreign Language program, 35 languages!

Click to register and begin using! Livemocha is the world's largest online language learning community, offering online language courses in 35 languages to more than 9 million members from 195 countries around the world. Using native speakers and social networking tools, in addition to coursework, this service offers the perks of feedback for both oral and written foreign language chat.

Missed Lou's News & Reviews on KLOI radio?

No worries. Go to the library's Current News & Reviews for Director Lou Pray's latest commentary and current library news. If you missed her show, archived shows are on this page too!

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? 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.

• We have eBooks and downloadable audiobooks for all ages.

• Learn how to browse, check-out and download digital books and more! Click here to go to the Quick Start Guide (Recommended for first time users.) If you already have accessed your Overdrive account, go directly to the Overdrive. Go to "My Account," choose "Lopez Library" from the drop down menu, then enter you library card number (14 digits, no spaces, no dashes).

• OneClickDigital - Browse, search for authors, titles, or genres of more downloadable eBooks. Click in the upper right corner to create a new account and start listening to great stories!

• Enhanced version of Consumer Reports now online! Log in with your 14-digit library card number.

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

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

• The library has five e-reading devices to check-out (Kindles and Nook). 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.
  

• Free Wi-Fi available in the library building, parking lot and grounds, 24/7.
  

• 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.

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Upcoming Author Readings & Workshops

Sunday, Feb 26 - 2:00-4:00 PM
Call and Response: Poetry Writing Workshop with Elizabeth Austen

In this two-hour workshop author, performer, and teacher Elizabeth Austen will guide you to experiment with ways poems can stretch, embolden and inspire us -- and lead to new poems we might never have written otherwise. Come prepared to write -- participants will leave the workshop with a fresh draft of a new poem. This workshop is co-ponsored by Friends of Lopez Island Library and SHARK REEF Literary Magazine (sharkreef.org).

Sunday, Feb 26 - 7:00 PM
Author/Poet Readings

Join author Elizabeth Austen reading from her new book, Every Dress a Decision, and poet Dorothy Trogden reading from her debut collection, Tall Woman Looking. This event is co-sponsorted by Friends of Lopez Island Library and SHARK REEF Literary Magazine.

Current Guest Artists

Jan 1 - Feb 11: Julia Rust - Watercolor Paintings

Go to Art in the Library page