Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring one album or musical collection for your listening pleasure; one movie or TV show/season for your viewing pleasure and one recommendation for background viewing – perfect for having on while having dinner, reading or just hanging out at home. Enjoy!
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First off the music, this week the album:
Waltz for Debby (1962) by The Bill Evans Trio
The album opens with the song:
My Foolish Heart
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Moving on to our suggested viewing title of the week; this week our recommendation is the movie:
Hidden Figures (2016)
Available Formats: The movie is available from the library on DVD and may be streamed through the usual online streaming services, i.e. Apple, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube etc.
About The Movie: The movie is based on the book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly; and follows three female African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. The film opens in the late fifties, during the space race era, with the trio working at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Initially the women are seen as entry level human computers and assigned simply to do calculation without being told why. Eventually, overcoming racial discrimination, all three advance in their careers at NASA. Jackson goes on to become NASA’s first female African American engineer; Vaughan becomes NASA’s first female African American supervisor and Johnson works on the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions.
The film stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst & Jim Parsons.
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Background Viewing
(Perfect to have on while having dinner, reading etc.)
You’re Sitting by a Lake Campfire
Have a great weekend!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Information on the four library catalogs (content available 24/7!)
The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/
The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!
All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month.
Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.
The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org
Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.
Have questions about any of the catalogs?
Give us a call!
You can reach us at 607-936-3713 or visit our website at https://ssclibrary.org/
