MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS January 4, 2002
by Mary Brown
The Morrisville Library is starting off the new year well
with some great news! We have been selected as one of fourteen
libraries nationwide to host the PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME
reading, discussion and storytelling series offered by the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the American
Library Association Public Programs Office. The project, which
will take place in the fall of 2002, is funded by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Traci will coordinate the project with Morrisville resident,
Carolyn Gerakopoulis, who is Director of the Oneida Library.
They and the other team members will be traveling to New Orleans
on January 11th for a training workshop.
PRIME TIME, based on illustrated children's books, is designed
to teach parents and children to read and discuss humanities
topics and helps them to select books and become active library
users. Each PRIME TIME series takes place once a week for six
weeks.
As a grant recipient, our library will be provided with multiple
books, posters and publicity materials, as well as honoraria
for scholars, storytellers and readers. What a nice program we
have to look forward to in 2002!
We have two new books to report this week. John Grisham's Skipping
Christmas tells a funny but almost frightening story about a
couple who plan to go on a cruise instead of celebrating Christmas
in the traditional way. It is a satirical jab at the overblown
craziness of Christmas. Thanks to Bob and Brenda Hasegawa, we
have a new copy of The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking.
Hawking offers sincerely accessible information about such complexities
as string theory and the nature of time. A wealth of illustrations
is offered to readers to help them understand these abstract
ideas. Hawking has simplified the origin of the universe, the
nature of space and time, and what holds it all together, inviting
those of us who are not scientific geniuses to share his wonder
and love of the unseen forces that shape the universe.
Make a New Year's resolution to visit and support your local
library in 2002. It will make your life and the life of your
community richer by far.
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