August 2011 Library News

From the Gustavus Public Library
Where Volunteers are Our Foundation

The library is open 6 days a week!

Weekdays 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.   Mon.  & Wed. nights 7:00 -9:00 pm

     Thurs. 10:00 a.m. - noon   Saturdays 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

August Programs and Activities:

Elementary and Preschool Summer Reading Program:  August 3, Wednesday, at 10:30am.

Middle School Summer Program:  August 5, Friday, at 10:30am.

Elementary and Preschool Summer Reading/ Reading Buddies Ice Cream Party:  August 10, Wed., at 10:30 am.

Middle School Summer Reading Homemade Ice Cream Party: August 12, Fri., at 10:30 am.  (Bring your muscles as we are going to make ice cream the old fashioned way and we will need you to help crank!)

Pacific Feast Event: hosted by Jennifer Hahn, Friday, August 26^th, at 7 pm. (More information below and on flyers posted around town.)

      The 2011 Summer Reading Program is in the final weeks.  Our last regular session will be August 3^rd for the younger children and August 5^th for the middle school aged ones. The following week we will have an end of the season ice cream party.  We would like to invite all the parents and Reading Buddies to attend. The middle school group will also be doing a craft and making homemade ice cream for their party on the 12^th.  Thank you to all the people who have helped make this a successful summer reading program!     

Seaweed Fettuccine? Chocolate Ocean Pudding? “When the tide is out, the table is set” goes the Tlingit saying. On the evening of Friday, August 26, 7:00 pm, at Gustavus Library, Jennifer Hahn, writer, wilderness guide, and WWU professor will teach you how to spot the "wild food at your feet" as well as the culture and cuisine of shoreline and forest edibles. This is your opportunity to explore over 50 common edible native plants with an award-winning author and naturalist. Jennifer will share slides and stories from her new book “Pacific Feast: A Cook’s Guide to West Coast Foraging and Cuisine.” Part field guide and part cookbook—Pacific Feast weaves 20 entertaining essays with sustainable foraging guidelines and 65 wild food recipes. Award-winning chefs from Alaska to California--including Dave and JoAnn Lesh, Kirsten Dixon, David Tanis, and Cathy Whims contributed favorite recipes. Come discover a host of delicious and nutritious wild and weedy greens, trees, ferns, berries, flowers, mushrooms, sea veggies and shellfish that thrive along the Pacific Coast. Enjoy a refreshing blend of natural history, stories about First Nation uses, personal anecdotes, nutrition, sustainable foraging guidelines and samples! You’ll even get to taste Chocolate Ocean Pudding (thickened with Turkish towel seaweed--so rich it rivals truffle ganache). For more information contact the Gustavus Library, 697-2350. Books can be purchased afterward. Ten percent of Jennifer's book sales benefit the Library.

     We would like to thank all of the Library volunteers. Gustavus Public Library

couldn’t run smoothly without you!  With the transition from summer to fall, we will

need to do some shifting around and replacing of desk sitters.  Please let us know if you would like to volunteer for desk sitting once a week.  Thank you, Tim Sunday, for putting up the Memoriam, tightening up the chairs, and fixing the computer station!  

     Thanks to our current desk sitters: John Hawley, Allison Banks, Heather Sellards, Stephanie Shor, Kate Boesser, Ann Daniels, and Karen Sargent.

     Thanks to our Library Board Members; Eileen Clark, Artemis Bona Dea, Lynne Jensen, and Karen Sargent for their support. 

JULY LIBRARY STATISTICS:  During July, 2011, we had 1108 visitors (adults, school children, preschoolers, junior/senior high, in-house computer users, library computer users), checked out 385 books, 4 CDs, and 289 movies; for a total of 678 items.  Programs included: city meetings, weekly Summer Reading programs, and internet use (both inside the building and out).

New McNaughtons:

Bossypants by T. Frey

Abraham Lincoln:  Vampire Hunter by S. Grahame-Smith

Horns by J. Hill

Beatrice and Virgil by Y. Martel

A Dance with Dragons by G. Martin

The Fort by B. Cornwell

Linger by M. Stiefvater

Sister by R. Lupton

New Dvds:

Spaghetti Western Collection

You’ve Got Mail

Curious George

New VHS:

Carved From the Heart

Adult Fiction:

I Curse the River of Time by P. Petterson

The Last Girls by L. Smith

The Penelopiad by M. Atwood

Playing for Pizza by J. Grisham

The First Mountain Man by W. Johnstone

Sisters by D. Steele

Sanctuary Line by J. Urquhart

Adult Non-Fiction:

12 Volt Solar Power:  Simple Living by M. Danick

Diabetes 911 by L. Fox, M.D.

Go Build Your Own Boat by H. Payson

Installing and Repairing Plumbing Fixtures by P. Hemp

Laugh-eteria by D. Florian

To See Every Bird on Earth by D. Koeppel

Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence by T. McLuhan

The Nasty Bits by A. Bourdain

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by D. Eggers

Marching Through Georgia by L. Kennett

 Alaskana:

Southeast Alaska’s Natural World

Diapering the Devil by J. Hammond

We also have 19 new children’s books!  Come check them out!

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.   Richard Steele