“Hidden Gems for the Small Business Owner”

Looking to expand your small business? Thinking of starting your own small business?

Come to the library on Tuesday, October 28 from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. for an overview of library resources which will include online databases, websites and print resources.

Learn about e-commerce, find companies in a specific geographical area, research your competitors, and discover what special resources the library has that can help those who might like to start their own business.

The program will be presented by Jan Dempsey – Assistant Director of the Cortland Free Library.

Basic computer skills are required. Pre-registration is required. Call 753-1042 or sign up at the library.

Used Book Sale – Pumpkinfest Saturday

The library will be having a used book sale on Saturday, October 4 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Mostly paperbacks will be sold. Look for the tent on the front lawn of the library.

Change of title for October book discussion group

Our October book discussion group, which will meet on Wednesday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m., will be discussing “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel instead of the previously selected “Skeletons at the Feast” by Chris Bojhalian. The change was necessary because Bojhalian’s book is relatively new and too many copies in the system are restricted from borrowing by our patrons. So I was afraid that many of you would not be able to get the book in time for the discussion. We will discuss Bojhalian’s book in a future group when the copies are more readily available.

Sorry for any inconvenience. – Jan

“The Book of Lies”

Between reading about nature-deficit disorder afflicting our children and my next read “The Dark Side” about our country losing its values in the war on terrorism, I needed a quick thriller with a good story line and I got one. Brad Meltzer, author of “The Book of Fate” and five other thrillers, has come up with an entertaining story based on some true-life characters and events.

Mitchell Siegel was killed in 1932 by two gunshots. His son, Jerry Siegel dreamed of a bullet-proof man and became the creator of the Superman comics. Now Cal Harper, a man who helps homeless people in South Florida, discovers his estranged father has been shot with a gun that traces back to Siegel’s murder. After they are reunited, Cal and his father become the focus of a killer who is trying to find the world’s first murder weapon (as in Cain and Abel) and an ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) agent who is investigating the death of a fellow agent.

The mystery at the center of this story are the two murders of Siegel and Abel, committed thousands of years apart, and what they have in common.

Good read – fast read. Highly entertaining.

Jan

Google News Archive

Here’s an announcement from Google on September 8 that will help those who research historical events or do genealogy:

“Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.”

“Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all.”

You will find this content on Google News Archive. Click here for the full press release.

Jan

Bubble and Light and Color Experiments

Have your children join us at the library on September 13 when Lora Hine from Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE) will demonstrate these science concepts. Then your children can try their own experiments!

Bubble Experiments for grades 2 – 3 from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.
Light and Color Experiments for grades 4 – 6 from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m.

For more information call 753-1043.

Book Discussion Group

We had lots of fun at our last book discussion group talking about “Marley and Me” by John Grogan and sharing tales of our own pets, some of whom could have rivaled Marley for the title of the world’s worst dog.

Our next discussion will take place on Wednesday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m. when we will be looking at Richard Louv’s ground-breaking non-fiction book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.” All are welcome.  BTW, Louv will be speaking at Statler Auditorium on the Cornell campus on Wednesday, September 24.

Jan