Adult Reference
Services & Events
It's a Mystery...
A program series of unsolved
mysteries
Presented by Cheryl Pula
President, The History Club
Mondays at 2:00 PM
2008 program schedule:
Due to popular demand, we
will continue our "It's a Mystery" series in 2008. All
programs will be held at the Dunham Public Library at 2:00 PM.
The programs will be presented in the library's Community Room,
except for May and October, which will be held upstairs.
Please note that DATES
AND TIMES OF PROGRAMS MAY BE CHANGED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.
If you have a
question as to whether or not a program will be held on a certain
day, please call the library at 736-9734. A rule of thumb is IF THE LIBRARY IS CLOSED
(FOR HOLIDAY, BAD WEATHER, ETC...), THERE WILL BE NO PROGRAM.
All programs
are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available.
Sponsored by The History Club.
The Disappearance
of Glen Miller: World War II's Most Famous Mystery
January
14
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The Ten
Plagues of Egypt
February
11
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Kidnapped!:
The Lindbergh Case
March
3
|
The Cleveland
Torso Murders
April
14
|
The Man
in the Iron Mask
May 12
|
The Tunguska
Event
June 9
|
Where
is Jimmy Hoffa?
July 14
|
The Mothman
August
11
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The Morro
Castle: Fire at Sea
September
8
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Bewitched:
The Salem Witch Hysteria of 1692
October
13
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In Search
of Noah's Ark
November
10
|
The Rendlesham
Forest Incident: Britain's "Roswell"
December
8
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**This program to be held
in the upstairs meeting room due to the Friends of the Library
Book Sale. Seating restricted to 30 people, so come early!
The Dunham Public Library regularly staffs its Adult Reference
Department with two certified Librarians on site to meet the reference
needs of the adult library customer.
Thanks to a well-stocked Reference Department, a SMALL portion
of customer questions commonly cover the following topics:
**Addresses (personal & business, both local and out of
state)**Reserves**Inter-Library Loan Reserves**Local history**Local
events & activities**Science**History and increasing amounts
of research (on many topics) done online. The Librarians also
regularly offer instruction on the use of PCs and the Internet.........and
that's just the barest amount of what the Reference Librarians
are called upon to do on a daily basis as they offer complete
information services during library hours and sometimes beyond.
Community Room: The Library maintains a large
(and very popular) meeting room for numerous library functions
and outside groups to use.
A list of the clubs/organizations actively meeting on site,
includes the following:
As of May 1, 2003...
Earth Club
Contact person: John Seamon
337-0343
Meets: Last Monday of each
month @ 7:00 pm
Friends of Counted Embroidery
Contact person: Bev Jaros
724-1350
Meets: Third Tuesday of
each month @ 7:00 pm
Heritage Doll Club
Contact person: Kathy Kraus
853-6488
Meets: Third Saturday of
each month EXCEPT April, May, October, December @ 10:00 am
The History Club
Contact person: Cheryl
Pula
736-1269
Meets: Third Monday of
each month @ 7:00 pm
Investment Club
Contact person: Ellen Jeff
736-1234
Meets: First Monday of
each month in upstairs meeting room @ 6:30 pm
Mohawk Valley Antique
Bottle Club
Contact person: John Landers
768-7091
Meets: Second Monday of
each month @ 7:00 pm
Mohawk Valley Coin Club
Contact person: Frank Robertaccio
736-4853
Meets: Fourth Wednesday
of each month @ 6:30 pm
TOPS
Contact person: Marie Harvey
736-3939
Meets: Every Thursday @
5:30 pm
Upstate Apple Users
Group
Contact person: John Ryder
337-3160
Meets: Third Wednesday
of each month
General Daniel Butterfield
Civil War Round Table
Contact persons:
Richard Somer, 315-853-6056
rfsomer@roadrunner.com
Dennis Kininger, 315-736-9734
dkininger@midyork.org
Meets: First Monday of
each month
For further information,
please contact the library
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The large room is able to comfortably seat up to a hundred
people and may be divided into two smaller rooms in the event
of two groups needing the room at the same time.
While library programming takes priority, outside groups are
able to utilize the room...as available...for a $15.00 Fee***Contact
the Reference Department for any further information or to make
a reservation to use the room.
Adult Programs: To meet the needs of the adult
library user, the Dunham Public Library routinely hosts a number
of programs each year to appeal to this very important audience...
I. A number of outside clubs, covering a variety of topics,
regularly meet in our Community Room. (See separate listing)
II. With the exception of the May & October booksales,
the library continually hosts monthly programs sponsored by THE HISTORY CLUB
III. The Dunham Public Library is also the meeting site for
THE GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD CIVIL WAR
ROUND TABLE...the only active Civil War Round Table in Oneida
County.
WHAT WE'RE READING...
***Most requested books at the Dunham Public Library
for July 2008:
fiction
1) "Sail" by James Patterson
2) "Fearless Fourteen"
by Janet Evanovich
3) "Moscow Rules" by Daniel
Silva
4) "The Broken Window"
by Jeffrey Deaver
5) "Tailspin" by Catherine
Coulter
6) "Shadow of Power" by
Steve Martini
7) "Days of Infamy" by
Newt Gingrich
8) "Rogue" by Danielle
Steel
9) "The Secret Life of Bees"
by Sue Monk Kidd
10) "Outlander" by Diana
Gabaldon
NON-FICTION
1) "The Last Lecture" by
Randy Pausch
2) "Stolen Innocence: My Story
of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and
Breaking Free of Warren Jeffers" by Elissa Wall
3) "The Four Agreements: A Practical
Guide to Personal Freedom" by Miguel Ruiz
4) "Audition: A Memoir"
by Barbara Walters
5) "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes
How the Media Distorts the News" by Bernard Goldberg
6) "Mistaken Identity: Two Families,
One Survivor, Unwavering Hope" by Don Van Ryn
7) "The Secret" by Rhonda
Byrne
8) "Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide"
by National Learning Corporation
9) "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's
Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia"
by Elizabeth Gilbert
10) "The Johnstown Flood"
by David McCullough
***Compiled
by Cheryl Pula, Reference Librarian
Oprah's book club
2008:
"A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle
2007:
"The Measure of
a Man" by Sidney Poitier
"The Road"
by Cormac McCarthy
"Middlesex"
by Jeffrey Eugenides
"Love in the Time
of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Pillars of
the Earth" by Ken Follett
2006:
"Night" by
Elie Wiesel
2005:
"A Million Little
Pieces" by James Frey
"As I Lay Dying"
by William Faulkner
"The Sound and the
Fury" by William Faulkner
"A Light in August"
by William Faulkner
2004:
"One Hundred Years
of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Heart is a
Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
"Anna Karenina"
by Leo Tolstoy
"The Good Earth"
by Pearl S. Buck
2003:
"East of Eden"
by John Steinbeck
"Cry, The Beloved
Country" by Alan Paton
2002:
"Sula" by Toni
Morrison
"Fall on Your Knees"
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2001:
"A Fine Balance"
by Rohinton Mistry
"The Corrections"
by Jonathan Franzen
"Cane River"
by Lalita Tademy
"Stolen Lives: Twenty
Years in a Desert Jail" by Malika Oufkir
"Icy Sparks"
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
"We Were The Mulvaneys"
by Joyce Carol Oates
2000:
"House of Sand and
Fog" by Andre Dubus III
"Drowning Ruth"
by Christina Schwarz
"Open House"
by Elizabeth Berg
"Poisonwood Bible"
by Barbara Kingsolver
"While I Was Gone"
by Sue Miller
"The Bluest Eye"
by Toni Morrison
"Back Roads"
by Tawni O'Dell
"Daughter of Fortune"
by Isabelle Allende
"Gap Creek"
by Robert Morgan
1999:
"A Map of the World"
by Jane Hamilton
"Vinegar Hill"
by A. Manette Ansay
"River, Cross My
Heart" by Breena Clarke
"Tara Road"
by Maeve Binchy
"Mother of Pearl"
by Melinda Haynes
"White Oleander"
by Janet Fitch
"The Pilot's Wife"
by Anita Shreve
"The Reader"
by Bernhard Schlink
"Jewel" by
Bret Lott
1998:
"Where the Heart
Is" by Billie Letts
"Midwives"
by Chris Bohjalian
"What Looks Like
Crazy on an Ordinary Day" by Pearl Cleage
"I Know This Much
Is True" by Wally Lamb
"Breath, Eyes, Memory"
by Edwidge Danticat
"Black and Blue"
by Anna Quindlen
"Here on Earth"
by Alice Hoffman
"Paradise"
by Toni Morrison
1997:
"The Meanest Thing to Say"
by Bill Cosby
"The Treasure Hunt"
by Bill Cosby
"The Best Way to
Play" by Bill Cosby
"Ellen Foster"
by Kaye Gibbons
"A Virtuous Woman"
by Kaye Gibbons
"A Lesson Before
Dying" by Ernest Gaines
"Songs in Ordinary
Time" by Mary McGarry Morris
"The Heart of a
Woman" by Maya Angelou
"The Rapture of
Canaan" by Sheri Reynolds
"Stones From the
River" by Ursula Hegi
"She's Come Undone"
by Wally Lamb
1996:
"The Book of Ruth"
by Jane Hamilton
"Song of Solomon"
by Toni Morrison
"The Deep End of
the Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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