Battle of the Books 2013

This is the first round of Battle of the Books, summer 2013. Please select your top 3 favorite titles from the list and submit your answer. You may vote once per day. This round starts with 30 titles. The top 16 titles (based on votes here and in person at the library) will move on to the next round. After this round, stop by the library to pick up a copy of a bracket for rounds 2-5 and fill it out for a chance to win a free book! Brackets can be picked up starting Wednesday, June 26th and must be turned in to the library by Monday, July 1st for a chance to compete. Second round voting will begin Tuesday, July 2nd. For more information about this contest, please stop by the Dublin Library Information Desk.

 

Enki Ebook Platform Live!

The enki Library is a shared open source eBook Network that allows California libraries to own and store eBooks for access by library patrons; to share access to more content than any individual library can purchase on its own; to add features and functionality lacking in current third-party vendor models; and to share access to unique local digitized content with other libraries within the Network.

Enki can be accessed by searching the A-Z Resource List and the ebooks guide. Included in the ebooks guide is a FAQ link for Enki books.

Enki users are limited to:

5 checkouts
5 holds
2-week checkout
iPad users will need to use Bluefire Reader
Kindles format is not available.

Califa, a not-for-profit membership cooperative serving libraries in California, and Contra Costa County Library partnered to co-develop this open source eBook Network, shared by, and accessible to multiple library systems in California.

Funding for enki Library is through a Bay Area Library Information Systems (BALIS) Innovation Grant, Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) monies from the California State Library, the State Library of Kansas, and Califa.

 

Staying Safe in Our Community – Free Workshop on Preventing Elder Abuse

June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month, and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office and Supervisor Wilma Chan will present “Staying Safe in Our Community.” This free workshop for seniors will be presented throughout the month of June at various branches of the Alameda County Library System and at the Alameda County Law Library.

Your Dublin Library, 200 Civic Plaza, will host “Staying Safe in Our Community” on Thursday, June 6th, from 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. in the Library Program Room.

This program will feature speaker Cheryl Poncini, who is the City of Oakland’s Deputy District Attorney in the Elder Protection Unit. Ms. Poncini will be talking about tips and issues that elders could encounter which cause them to become victims of elder financial and physical abuse. She will also cover who to contact if they should become and victim and what that process entails.

 

2013 Alameda County Summer Food Drive – May 20 – July 31st

Please support our community by donating healthy non-perishable food such as canned vegetables and fruits, tuna fish, peanut butter, rice, dry beans and pasta at the drop off locations below or by making a monetary donation via the virtual food drive at
http://www.vfd-accfb.org . You can place donations in an Alameda County Community Food Bank bin in your Dublin Library from May 20th to July 31st.

 

Ramana Vieira & Ensemble Fado Concert – Saturday, May 18, 2013

Fado, meaning “destiny” or “fate,”  is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or life of the poor and conveys a sentiment of resignation, fatefulness and melancholia.  As a musical genre, it can be traced back to the 1820s in Portugal.  Unfortunately for American fans of the centuries-old music style, opportunities to hear Fado performed live onstage are few and far between.

Join us on Saturday, May 18th, 2013, for a rare opportunity to hear traditional Portuguese Fado music performed by one of the country’s premier ensembles.  Ramana Vieira has been described as “The New Voice of Portuguese World Music.”  Born in San Leandro to Portuguese immigrant parents, she has achieved international acclaim.  Her music has been featured in Olympics opening ceremonies and she has performed at the Grammy Awards Ceremony honoring Aretha Franklin.

The Ensemble Fado typically includes guitar, percussion and a cello and combines haunting traditional ballads and those with a modern spin.

This performance will be held in the Dublin Library Community Room, beginning at 2:00 PM.

Contact Dublin Library at 925-828-1315 for more details.

 

WorldCrunch database….

The Worldcrunch database has been added to Alameda County Library’s A to Z guide. It is a beta-test until May 31^st.   Please take a look and see what you think.  This database is being brought to you by Recorded Books and you can use the same email/password as you do on Zinio or Indieflix, if you choose.

Worldcrunch has newspapers from around the world translated into English by human translators. It does not translate the whole paper, only the top headlines and information. From Recorded Books.

• “Worldcrunch delivers the best global journalism previously shut off from English language readers: selecting, translating and editing content from top foreign-language outlets.
• The most relevant foreign-language stories are produced in English by Worldcrunch staff and contributors around the globe, deployed to react quickly to breaking events and find the best content in the international media. We are also creating a platform, Crunch It!, to build a community of newshounds who will flag and help translate interesting stories from both mainstream media outlets and blogs, as well as produce stories of their own.
• With Worldcrunch, the great untapped resource of foreign-language news and information is hereby available. By combining professional journalistic standards with the energy of the web’s flock of curious readers, writers and translators — and building a framework for copyright access and distribution — we create a whole new well of top-shelf news content from the best sources covering the world today. And our vision for the future? Worldcrunch will be the virtual square where language barriers fade, and a new brand of global journalism is born.”

 

Award-Winning Documentary, BAG IT, Being Shown Saturday, May 4th at Dublin Library

Did you know that Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes—single-use disposable bags that we throw away.

But where is “away?”   Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health? This thought-provoking documentary runs 65 minutes. Join us for a free showing.

The movie is being shown twice:  first on Wednesday, May 1st, at 7 :00 PM in the Dublin City Hall Regional Meeting Room at 100 Civic Plaza, and then at Dublin Library on Saturday, May 4 at 1:30 PM in the Library Community Room at 200 Civic Plaza.  After the movie, we’ll have a conversation.