September 9 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande - Reviewed by David Grube
October 14 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Reviewed by Penny Brassfield
November 18 Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by Jon Krakauer - Reviewed by Patricia Lacy
December 9 Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
by Mary Norris - Reviewed by Jo Alexander
January 13 In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage
of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides Reviewed by John Byrne
February 10 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Reviewed by John Haroldson
March 9 Damsels in Distress: Women in Classic Dystopian Novels
Reviewed by Alicia Bublitz
April 13 Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
Reviewed by Margaret Manoogian
May 11 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert - Reviewed by Rebecca Terry
June 8 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their
Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Reviewed by Susan & Bob Poole
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Library Director’s Message ............... 2 Library Foundation Corner .............................. 2
Donations .................. 3
Youth Activities ........................ 7 Adult Programs ......................... 8 Volunteer Spotlight ................. 9 Book Sale & Quilt County ......... 9 J.A. Jance at Monroe ................ 10 Car-Free Storytime & Parade .. 10
Sep/Oct 2015 Volume 23 No. 5
a bi-monthly newsletter of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
CCCHECKHECKHECK IIITTT OOOUTUTUT!!!
‘Tis the season to announce the 23rd Annual Random Review Program. Random Review is a series of book reviews presented on the second Wednesday of each month from September through June. (With one exception this year, November 18.) These reviews are quite different from book clubs. There is no expectation that audience members have all read the book to be reviewed. You may come simply to find out if you would like to read the book or you may just want to know more about its subject matter. The reviewers are selected based on their expertise and experience on the topic of the book. If you would like to listen to a sample of past Random Reviews you can find podcasts of them on our page of the library website: http://cbcpubliclibrary.net/random-reviews/
by Connie Georgiou and Debra Goldenberg
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Library Foundation Corner by Betty McCauley, Board Member
This is a sample of an outstanding book in the library. It is The Best Gift: The History of the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library, by Thomas C. McClintock, retired professor of history at Oregon State University and longtime volunteer in our library. The title comes from a 1963 editorial by Robert C. Ingalls in the Corvallis Gazette‐Times: “ And the best gift we can give to our children besides first rate schools is a first rate library.” This book is itself a gift to the community, a chronicle of the years of development and the efforts of uncounted volunteers and professional staff dedicated to an outstanding library. Thanks to Tom’s meticulous research we have the whole story, even going back to the 17th century! As he said to a GT writer, “My training, you put things in context.” So he gives us in‐depth understanding of our culture of learning. However, this isn’t a book to read and simply shelve. It’s a resource to keep at hand, to dip into to see how our library grew one step at a time. Our history goes back to the 1800’s when the women of the Coffee Club’s first purpose was to have coffee ready for volunteer firemen after they had fought a fire. They made the coffee, but at the same time the women established a Coffee Club Library. The firemen, in gratitude to the club, gave a party for the benefit of the Library. The Coffee Club eventually became the Corvallis Woman’s Club that worked toward the concept of a free public library. They anticipated the need of a building, so in 1921 the Woman’s Club made the $1,000 down payment on the lot at 7th and Monroe. It had a house on it to be temporary space for the library. Then being enterprising
women, they gave dances, card parties, concerts, and other fund raisers to make the payments. Their efforts brought out community support with more funds. A long GT editorial was headed with “HURRAH FOR THE WOMEN.” However it was not until 1930 that the City Council, under pressure, finally put a bond measure in the general election for $25,000 to build a library. It passed with 60% voter approval. Within weeks Doyle and Associates, a Portland architectural firm with Pietro Belluschi as its architect, contacted Corvallis about building its library. The firm was experiencing the effect of the 1929 crash and to survive they were aggressively seeking new commissions. The firm was accepted and the building was completed by November 1931. The Corvallis Woman’s Club was on the stage in Corvallis High School when the library was dedicated. Tom goes on with chapters on the phenomenal growth of the library, of its two additions, about the relationship of the city and county, of coming to terms with funding and services in rural Benton County including Philomath, Alsea and Monroe. Chapters are devoted to the final acceptance of a library district, to the challenges of the age of the e‐book plus the many reference services now online. The last chapter is a look into entering the Twenty‐first Century. Thank you, Tom, for a great book! It is a tribute to all the volunteers and the professionals on the staff that pursued nothing but the best library! Now it is up to us to continue as volunteers to support it!
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Library Director’s Message Our Library is blessed with many long time volunteers who have
served in many different capacities. One of the most remarkable is
retired OSU History Professor Tom McClintock, who served as Library
Board Chair during the 1992 expansion. Tom and his wife Patty have both
given thousands of hours to our Library. His greatest accomplishment for our
Library (other than the addition) was the research, writing, and publication of The Best Gift,
a history of our library written a few years ago. In this issue Betty McCauley (another long
term volunteer and the first President of the Friends of the Library) devotes her Library
Foundation article to the book, and our Library’s history. Copies of this wonderful volume
are for sale at the Corvallis Library in the Library Foundation display area.
Carolyn Rawles
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
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TTTHANKHANKHANK YYYOUOUOU!!! We wish to thank everyone for their generous contributions to the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library,
the Friends of the Library, and the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library Foundation. Below are the names of our donors from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.
SPONSOR ($200 ‐ $499)
R O Book Group
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In honor of Freda Vars
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In memory of Cameron Merrill
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Mid‐Valley Reading Association
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To anyone whose name may have
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All Storytimes are offered weekly at 10:00 AM in the Youth Activity Room at the Corvallis Library unless otherwise noted.
Infant Storytime (Birth – 12 mo) Tuesdays
Wobbler Storytime (12 – 24 mo) Wednesdays
Toddler Storytime (24 – 36 mo) Thursdays
Preschool Storytime (3 – 5 yrs) Fridays
Bedtime Storytime (all ages) Mondays at 7:00 PM
¡los CUENTOS! (all ages) (Family bilingual storytime) Second Saturday of each month 11:00 AM
Man with the Yellow Hat (Birth – 3 yrs) First Saturday of each month at 11:00 AM
Philomath Community Library
Wiggly Wobbler Storytime (Birth ‐ 18 mo)
Mondays at 10:00 AM
Rise and Shine Storytime (2 – 4 yrs) Wednesdays at 10:00 AM
Monroe Community Library
Little Listeners Storytime (all ages) Tuesdays at 10:30 AM
SSTORYTIMESTORYTIMES Youth
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
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Now featuring 3-D printing!
(10 & up)
Arduino and Raspberry Pi September 22 4:00 PM October 13 & 27 4:00 PM
Youth Activity Room
My First Book Club
Book discussion and activities for children K‐2.
October 7 3:30 PM
Youth Activity Room
Adult PROGRAMS
CORVALLIS‐BENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
If you have a disability and need accommodations for a program, call us at 541.766.6928. Please allow 48 hours notice, so we can better serve you.
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 541.766.6794 or visit our web site at www.cbcpubliclibrary.net
Art Tours at the Library Led by Library Foundation Board member, Freda Vars.
September 1 & October 6 10:00 AM
Meet in the Lobby
This Club is led by retired librarian, Steven Sowell. Please feel free to bring your lunch!
The Big Burn, by Timothy Egan September 16
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery October 21 12:00 Noon
Philomath Community Library
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Library Board Meeting Monthly meeting of the Library Advisory Board. Public welcome.
September 2 7:30 PM
October 7 7:30 PM
Woman’s Club Board Room
Friends of the Library Board Meeting
Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library Board. Public welcome.
September 21 3:30 PM
October 19 3:30 PM
Woman’s Club Board Room
Graphic Novel Club
Beauty September 1 6:30 PM
100 Bullets, Book 1 October 6 6:30 PM
New Morning Bakery 219 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis
Book Club
The Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library Book Club is open to everyone!
Atonement by Ian McEwan September 16 7:00 PM
Anil’s Ghost October 21 7:00 PM
Woman’s Club Board Room
Philomath Book Club The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay September 14 6:30 PM
The Gravity of Birds October 5 6:30 PM
Philomath Community Library
The Library is For Writers (and Readers)
This September and October we are loaded with events to appeal to writers and readers of all varieties. Of course, you might expect that from your local library, but we’re also secretly trying to inspire you to take on the ultimate challenge we’ve come to venerate, National Novel Writing Month in November. We have many upcoming author visits that will ei‐ther inspire you to read or write (or both!), and a special local author tour will visit us in October to answer all of your writing and publishing questions. All events are at the Corvallis Library Main Meeting
Room unless otherwise noted.
September 14 1:30 PM J.A. Jance discusses Dance of the Bones.
Monroe Community Library
October 1 7:00 PM Oregon’s hiking guru William Sullivan discusses 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon.
October 15 7:00 PM Eight local authors will converge to answer your writing and publishing questions for the Crazy Eights Author tour featuring: Dan DeWeese, K.B. Dixon, Cai Emmons, Lisa Ohlen Harris, Lauren Kessler, Phillip Margolin, Ismet (Izzy) Prcic, & Ellen Waterston.
October 17 2:00 PM Portland historical fiction author Lois Leveen dis‐cusses Juliet’s Nurse.
October 21 7:00 PM Local historian author Melinda Jetté discusses the French Prairie settlement in Willamette Valley in At the Hearth of the Crossed Races.
October 22 7:00 PM Prolific local author Matt Love discusses his muse, the Oregon Coast.
October 24 2:00 PM Plot Planning and Kick Off Party for National Novel Writing Month! Gear up for November with an awesome support network, new ideas and a little fun.
Letter Writing
Social & Stationery Exchange! Bring your own stationery or use our supplies.
September 27 2:00 PM Conference Room A
October 25 2:00 PM Main Meeting Room
Talking About Dying
A conversation with Bob Daley, Coordi‐nator at Benton Hospice Service, about the end of life, sponsored by Oregon Humanities and Cambia Health. The program aims to help participants consider how to shape a meaningful approach to death and dying.
October 29 7:00 PM
Main Meeting Room
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
Alice Hyde spends her days immersed in the finer points of the English language. She is an editor for the Office of the Legislative Counsel in Salem, and the work she and her colleagues do affects every Oregonian every day. As Alice described her job to me, it sounded both fascinating and extremely challenging. Talk about detail-oriented! During the 6-month-long 2015 legislative session, more than 2600 bills were introduced; 800+ were enacted. All passed through the Legislative Counsel’s office, some several times. (And that doesn’t count the bills that were proposed but never actually introduced.) I hadn’t realized it before, but it’s not the elected representatives and senators who actually write the legislation, it’s the Counsel’s office. The permanent staff of 50 is about half lawyers and half editors, publication specialists, and indexers. The lawyers make sure that the bill is constitutional and couched in appropriate legal terms; the editorial staff make sure the language is clear, internally consistent, and correct in all details. * During the session, it’s a high-pressure job with short turn-around times and lots of deadlines. There is so much extra work that additional temporary editors must be added to the staff. That’s how Alice first joined the Counsel’s Office, and they were apparently impressed with her work, because they
hired her full-time. The permanent staff has plenty to do the rest of the biennium. Among other things, they must publish a new version of the Oregon Revised Statutes, incorporating all the changes and new laws. (And that’s a tall order; it runs to 21 volumes and 838 chapters.) Alice has had a fascination with language since her teens, when she decided she wanted to learn Old English. Someone told her that she should start by learning German, because the languages are so closely related, so she studied German in high school. At the University of Oregon she
majored in English, but took so many classes in medieval languages and history that she received degrees in both English and Medieval Studies. Alice grew up in Corvallis and got her first library card when she was 2 years old. She volunteered at the Eugene Public Library while she was in college, and has been a CBCPL volunteer for more than 3 years. Her current job is in Adult Services, as a Collection Development Aide, and the second-floor staff loudly sing her praises. This young woman is not just a word-nerd; she has excellent computer skills too, so she can do many extra tasks to assist the librarians, such as formatting documents and creating sophisticated spreadsheets for scheduling. When not working or volunteering, Alice enjoys knitting, cooking, hiking, and – of course – reading. We’re grateful to have someone with her exceptional skills and abilities on our volunteer staff!
* To learn more, visit:
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/lc and
watch the video that Alice co-produced. It
explains the work of the Legislative
Counsel’s office.
by Cathi Roberts, Volunteer Coordinator
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Lots of lightly used top-quality paperback books at very reasonable prices. All proceeds are used to benefit the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library system.
Saturday, September 26 Sunday, September 27 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM ** 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Main Meeting Room - Corvallis Public Library
**Friends of the Library members will be given early access to the sale at 9:00 am on Saturday. Memberships may be purchased at the door for as low as $10.
FALL FESTIVAL
BOOK SALE
Alice Hyde
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY 645 NW MONROE AVE CORVALLIS OR 97330
Non‐Profit Organization U.S. Postage
P A I D Corvallis, OR Permit No. 62
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015
Bestselling Author J.A. Jance at Monroe Community Library We are excited to welcome New York Times
bestselling author J.A. Jance!
September 14 ‐ 1:30 PM
Monroe Community Library
Jance will discuss and answer questions about her most sus‐penseful novel yet, Dance of the Bones. Jance’s latest novel brings together two of her beloved protagonists, J.P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, featuring two cold cases over 1,500 miles apart that suddenly become red‐hot…and connected. Dance of the Bones (on sale and at your local library after 9/8) showcases the fully‐matured talents of plotting, charac‐terization, and sense of place J.A. Jance has refined over the course of one of the most distinguished mystery writing ca‐reers ever. It is the fifth book in the Walker series and the twenty‐fourth book in the Beaumont series.
A book signing will follow this Friends of the Library and Grass Roots Books sponsored event.
Join the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library for a special car‐free themed storytime and celebratory parade to Pedalpalooza, a Car‐Free Festival also in Riverfront Park. Families are invited to bike, walk, skate, and/or scoot to the Festival following alternative transportation themed stories, songs and a craft. All ages are welcome and no registration is required. Little ones with trikes, scooters, etc. are encouraged. Helmets are required for participants 16 years of age and younger, but eve‐ryone is encouraged to come out and demonstrate safe car‐free behavior.
Pedalpalooza, a Car‐Free Festival at River‐front Park, is an advance celebration of Interna‐
tional Car‐Free Day, during which people around the world commit to going car‐free for one full day. The Festival will include food, fun, information on being smart and safe while car‐free, and more.
Pedalpalooza and Car‐Free Day are sponsored by the Cor‐vallis Sustainability Coalition as well as many other local busi‐nesses and organizations including the City of Corvallis and the Corvallis‐Benton County Public Library.
12:00 PM Sunday, September 20
Howland Plaza 1st St & Madison Ave in Riverfront
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