Adult Reference Services & Events

 

 

11th Annual History Club Photo Contest

September 2 - 13, 2008

Entry forms and rules available at the Dunham Public Library

2007 Winners Now Posted!

 

Morro Castle: Fire at Sea

A program by Cheryl Pula

Monday, September 8 @ 2:00pm

 

A presentation of The History Club

TBA

Sponsored by The History Club

 

Cool and/or Unusual Reference Questions

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 

The Ten Plagues of Egypt

February 11

 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

The Morro Castle: Fire at Sea

September 8

Bewitched: The Salem Witch Hysteria of 1692

October 13

In Search of Noah's Ark

November 10

The Rendlesham Forest Incident: Britain's "Roswell"

December 8

**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

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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