New Library Hours

Hartshorne Library will be opening at 8am Tuesday through Friday. We are participating in a pilot project to study the usage of different hours of business. Hartshorne is exploring early hour usage, while McAlester Public Library will be opening on Sundays 1:30-5:00. We will be conducting this project until June. At the conclusion we will study the feasibility of the new hours.

Greg Rodgers visits Library

Choctaw storyteller, Greg Rodgers, visited the Library Saturday Oct, 24. We were pleased with the good turn-out. Several of the students from nearby Jones Academy was in attendence. Greg spoke about how he gathered his stories and how he got started. Telling how he apprenticed under Tim Tingle, another Choctaw storyteller. He then told a couple of scary stories, very apropos for this time of year. The kids were very attentive and at the end of the presentation they had a few stories to share with him. We were very honored to have him and we are considering inviting him back for the Summer Reading Program next year.

FOHL Annual meeting

The Annual FOHL meeting was held on Sept. 27. Virgina Barlow called the meeting to order and reported on the projects the FOHL did in the last year. Shirley McBee gave a treasurer's report. Election of Officers were held, with the motion made to keep the existing officers. There was discussion concerning money to be given to the Library's Chidren's Summer Reading Program as well as money given to Chamber of Commerce for Christmas bags for the children.
The meeting was very well attended in large part because of our very special guest speaker, Barbara Smitherman. She is the author of "Engaging the Sons of Darkness". A fictinal book that is set in the Jack Fork Mountains. This is her first book. She related that she wrote it is 36 days. She lives in McAlester with her husband, Doug and is currently working on her second book. The FOHL as well as the Hartshorne Library would like to thank Barbara for coming and sharing her story.

Renovations

New Addresses for website(s)

We now have a new website address. It is www.oklibrary.net/hartshorne. It is a part of the Southeastern Library System website, www.oklibrary.net. We are still adding to it so check back for additionl information. Also our catalog address has changed to catalog.oklibrary.net. I hope that everyone enjoys the change and if you have any questions contact me at tucker@oklibrary.net

Tae Kwan Do Exhibition

Saturday as our last Teen Program the McAlester Tae Kwan Do came to exhibit their talents. We had a great turn out for the program and all that attended enjoyed themselves. Several boards were broken by all the students. The black belts spent time showing us how they could even brake cement blocks. (don's try this at home)LOL Thanks to the class for takeing time to entertain our community. Click to see a video of one of the exercises.

To see other videos on You Tube. Just enter Tae Kwan Do Mcalester.
Master Harp (McAlester TKD 6th Dan Sabum Nim) Breaking Concrete Block With Side Kick
Master Harp (McAlester TKD 6th Dan Sabum Nim) - Flying Side Kick And Board Break Over Chairs

New URL

We have recently migrated to another internet provider and you can now find us at www.hartshorne.oklibrary.net

Kirsten the Queen of Theatre visits Hartshorne Library

On the 16th Kirsten the Queen of Theatre put on two programs, one for the children and one for the Kids. We had a great turnout and the kids had lots of fun. The idea was to get the kids to act out scenes from their life and get them to be creative.
Our next program is the 23rd at 10:30am.

Trip to NYC

At the end of May I, along with four other librarians went on a trip to New York City to attend the BookExpo of America. The conference gave us a chance to meet many famous authors as well as a few celebrities, such as Kathy Lee Gifford. We stood in many lines to get autographs and pictures of our favorite authors. Some of the more well know ones were David Baldacci, R. L. Stine, Lisa Scottolini, Heather Graham, James Patterson, Ridley Pearson, Nicholas Sparks and the list goes on and on. We were also honored to see and get an autograph from Chesley Sullenberger “Sulley” the pilot who heroically landed a plane in the Hudson River. The whole experience was awesome and sureal.
We did do a little site seeing. We visited Time Square, the Statue of Liberty as well as Ellis Island. We opted out of going to the top of the Empire state building, but we did go inside. We went to Rockefeller Center and several other tourist attractions. We went on a couple of tours that took us across the Hudson river into Brooklyn and then we toured Manhattan and was able to get off in China Town, Central Park and of course Ground Zero where we got an awesome picture. All in all I am very grateful Iwas able to go, but I was glad to be back home.

ODL Class to be held at Hartshorne Pubic Library

5/13/2009 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Management Skills, Advanced
Each class must have a minimum of 5 with no more than 25
Sponsor: Oklahoma Department of Libraries
Location: Hartshorne Public Library
720 Pennsylvania Ave - Hartshorne OK
Contact: Cathy Van Hoy 405-522-3321

Twitter Page

Hartshorne Library now is on twitter. Go to www.twitter.com/hartlib. Follow us and see what is going on in the library.

Book Sale Big Success

We are proud to announce the Friends of the Hartshorne Library was able bring in over a thousand dollars at the Book Sale held Febrary 27th and 28th. We appreciate the community for all ther support. The money will be used for children's programing and other items that cannot be purchased throught the library system. I would like to everyone who helped in making it possible. I would like to especially thank Virginia Barlow and Jim Kurilko for all the hard work they have and are continuing to do. There are still many books left. THANK YOU1111

Author’s Work Promotoes Spiritual, Emotional Healing

Dr. Linda Bowlby of Oklahoma City, author, will be at Hartshorne Public Library Saturday, Dec. 6 from 1-3:30 p.m. to meet with the public and sign copies of her various books. The visit is sponsored by Hartshorne’s Friends of the Library chapter.

In her works, Dr. Bowlby integrates a broad range of spiritual and emotional healing principles with conventional information from Western medicine. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine and has worked as a pathologist and psychiatrist. She spent five years in Alaska working extensively with women recovering from sexual trauma, alcoholism and eating disorders.

Her works include: Carol & Edna, Red Earth Wisdom, Red Earth Woman and Renaissance Woman, all adult nonfiction; and Future Hope, How Amazon Got Her Name, Is That So, Nasaria’s Family, Nentuk’s New Family and The Rock Garden, all children’s books.

More information about Dr. Bowlby is available at her website: www.redearthpublish.com .

Movie based on Book

The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she's sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever! This stunning debut novel offers refreshingly clear writing and fascinating, original characters. "From the Hardcover edition." Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
For Information on the movie please click on the link
City if Ember

Hard Time's Day

The Hartshorne Library is a very good place to visit on “Hard Times Day”. We have a lot material to check out and view about “The Great Depression”, in both adult and children’s books to videos and even music that was popular. Some books include the classic “Grapes of Wrath”, by John Steinbeck (also available on DVD) and ”Water for Elephants”, by Sara Gruin, a book about circuses in the 1930’s. In adult non-fiction available for check out are “Hard Times: an oral history of the Great Depression”, by Studs Terkel , “The Coming of the Third Reich”, by Richard Evans and “Rising in the West: the true story of an "Okie" family from the Great Depression through the Reagan years”, by Dan Morgan, to name just a few.
Children’s books include the award winning “Bud, not Buddy”, by Christopher Paul Curtis, “Potato: a tale of the Great Depression”, by Kate Leid, and Esperenza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan, a story about a young girl that immigrates with her Mother from Mexico during the Depression. There is also the American Girl Series about “Kit”, a girl growing up in the Depression. Oklahoma books include Hillback to Boggy”, by Jesse Willard Speer” A family struggles for survival, during the Great Depression, in a tent in the hills of Oklahoma and “Out of the Dust”, by Karen Hesse, a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
We also have the American “Cinderella Man” a great video selection.
In our reference materials there are many books on Hartshorne, dating back to before the depression, including the Hartshorne Sun on microfilm to a fine book “Dusky Diamond Fields” with pictures and stories. We have a DVD to view in the library, about a local artist, Linus Bailey, It is a homemade video with him showing paintings he drew from memory of his childhood in the 1930’s. This video is great, because not only do you get to see his paintings he tells stories about that time.
Our library also offers two on-line services to help anyone looking for their “roots”. These are free to use in the library, with a library card.
Come Check Us Out!!

Charlotte??

Never seen a spider like this one.
The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the Black and Yellow Garden Spider or Writing Spider. It is common to the lower 48 of the United States, southern Canada, Mexico, and Central America. They have distinctive yellow and black markings on their abdomens and a mostly white cephalothorax. Males range from 5 to 9 mm; females from 19 to 28 mm. Like other members of Argiope and almost all other spider species, they are considered harmless to humans.

Library Cats

We had some visitors the other morning. These cats live next door in a abandoned house. The decided to enjoy the cool weather. There are three kittens even though only two are visible. When they moved we saw a grey tabby. I have no idea where it is.

Leaky Roof

Water water everywhere!! Our roof finally started leaking seriously. It has some minor leaks, but this was a real gusher. I arrived and found a pool of water in the lobby. Several books, thankfully they were weeded books, were ruined. We also lost a few ceiling tiles. The city workers came and temporarily "fixed" the roof. Hopefully we will get a more long lasting "fix" soon. We decided to take advantage and watered a few plants. I guess some good comes out of everything.

Live Homework Help

Live Homework Help, a free service to all library patrons, has expanded grade levels

Hartshorne – June 26, 2008 – Hartshorne Library is pleased to announce that as of August 1, 2008, families with young children, and adults seeking to support their studies or improve their math or grammar skills, will all have experts waiting to help on the Library’s website.

Expanding one-to-one online tutoring and homework help to more students is a natural next step for the library as we continue to find new ways to serve everyone in the community. Parents are teaching younger children to use the computer, to learn and explore their world, just as adults turn to technology to help them with everything from GED preparation to resume writing.

Addition of K-3 Enhances Library Support of Early Learners
Parents who bring their young children to the library’s Live Homework Help service expose them to rich learning resources, increase the child’s ability to succeed in computer literacy and provide practice for fine motor skills.

The Library Supports Adult Learners Online
Adults have always come to the library for assistance with research, earning their GED and other Adult Continuing Education support—as well as grammar help with their resume or work-related writing. Now you may connect to a live expert online, either on the library’s computers during library hours, or from the privacy of your home computer until 9:00 p.m.

How it Works
Anyone with a library card may log-on to www.hartshorne.lib.ok.us , go to the Live Homework Help link, select a grade level from K – 12, College Intro, or Adult Learner, and pick from one of 12 subjects, depending on your grade level. You will then enter an Online Classroom where a certified subject expert tutor will work with you in a chat window, on a drawing board, and through website and file sharing, to resolve your educational challenge.

The service is available from 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily. The library’s live, online service is provided by Tutor.com, the largest online tutoring company with more than 2,000 certified, background checked tutors. Tutor.com recently won a Parent’s Choice Gold Award, their highest honor. Hartshorne Library has been serving the community’s students with this award-winning resource since May, 2008 and we are pleased to now add early learners and adult learners to those benefitting from this excellent service.

To learn more, stop by Hartshorne Library, call us at 918.297.2113, or visit www.hartshorne.lib.ok.us


Contact:

Cathryn Tucker
tucker@sepl.lib.ok.us

Visitors to the Library

We had visitors this month. Olga Tarasova, editor and chief of the magazine entitled “Russian American Business”, from Norman, Ok and her husband and co-worker came to see the SS Cyril and Methodius Russian Orthodox Church. They had called a few days before and asked for contact information. They came down and toured the church, and then visited the library. We were very happy to have them in our library and were able to give a lot of information on the church.