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Southeast Steuben County Library Adult Services, Digital Literacy & Makerspace Events Week of September 7, 2015

Linda Reimer

Tuesday, September 08, 2015:

Creation Station, The Southeast Steuben County Library’s Makerspace, will be open from 1 – 4 p.m.

About Creation Station:
Creation Station (Makerspace) projects that will be available to be created at the Southeast Steuben County Library include:

3 D Printer created projects*

Computer created projects

Sewing projects*

Scanning

Art projects*

Scrapbooking projects*

Drawing

All Patrons interested in using the Creation Station will be required to receive training before using the space. Projects that require training are only accessible upon staff availability.

*Some projects will require a small fee for materials.

Thursday, September 10, 2015:

Senior Tech: What is Personal Technology? This presentation will focus on the history of personal technology, how it evolved in the 20th Century and what personal technology is today. Find out how you can benefit from using personal technology in the 21st Century.

This program is a part of our monthly Fall Senior Technology series

Refreshments will be served.

Time: 10 – 11:30 a.m.

Creation Station, The Southeast Steuben County Library’s Makerspace, will be open from 5-8 p.m.

About Creation Station:
Creation Station (Makerspace) projects that will be available to be created at the Southeast Steuben County Library include:

3 D Printer created projects*

Computer created projects

Sewing projects*

Scanning

Art projects*

Scrapbooking projects*

Drawing

All Patrons interested in using the Creation Station will be required to receive training before using the space. Projects that require training are only accessible upon staff availability.

*Some projects will require a small fee for materials.

Corning Area Writer’s Group: Inject some socialization into your solo writing time by join the library’s Adult Creative Writers Group for conversation, inspiration and feedback on writing projects. No sign up is required. This group meets every Thursday from 6-8 pm. On the third Thursday of the month the group meets in the library. On the other Thursdays the group meets at Soul Full Cup CoffeeHouse.

For more information, please call Adult Services Director Michelle Wells at (607) 936-3713 ext. 209 or email wellsm@stls.org.

Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Friday, September 11, 2015:

Monthly Science Fiction Film: 12 Monkeys (2009): Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to save the human race from a deadly virus that has forced mankind into dank underground communities in the future. Along his travels, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) and a mental patient, brilliantly portrayed by Brad Pitt, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease. Believing he can obtain a pure virus sample in order to find a cure in the future, he is met with one riddle after another that puts him in a race with time. This sci-fi masterpiece from the genius mind of Terry Gilliam is a modern-day classic. MPAA Rating: R. Run Time: 130 minutes.

Refreshments will be served.

Library doors open at 6:45 p.m. to admit film-goers and the movie starts at 7:00 p.m. sharp.

Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 p.m.

Monthly Science Fiction Film @ The Library Tonight!

Linda Reimer

After you’ve attended the Doc Possum Band’s Beatles Tribute Concert in the Civic Center Plaza tonight, Friday, August 14, come to the library and see our Monthly Science Fiction Film for August!

Silent Running (1972): As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter “Valley Forge” preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, Lowell rebels and hijacks the freighter, while plunging the craft into the gaseous Rings of Saturn. From that moment on, he has only the trees, the gardens and two “Drone” robots, Huey and Dewey, to keep him company on his greatest adventure of all. Starring Bruce Dern and featuring: Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin & Jesse Vint. MPAA Rating: G. Run Time: 90 minutes.

Join us!

Linda, SSCL

Click the photo to get a larger view!

Tech Movie Flyer August 2015

The Benefits Of Quiet Time

Linda Reimer

I’m going to take the library tech blog posting in a completely sideways direction today!

And to translate that – the subject I’m going to discuss – the benefits of fitting a quiet time into our daily lives– has nothing whatsoever to do with technology – except perhaps for the fact that in our current high-tech world finding a quiet space to enjoy some quiet time is increasingly difficult.

And as you might imagine I stumbled across two articles online this week that both note the importance of working quiet time into our daily lives. And I found the articles had both an inspiring and reminding impact on me. Inspiring because the articles prompted me to do a non-tech blog posting and reminding because…once upon a time I knew that finding a quiet space to be allowed me to read, think, relax and even create in a much more in-depth and meaningful way that I can do in a noisy environment. However, along the way I’ve sort of forgotten that fact!

And I think I forgot the fact that quiet time does benefit one in many ways by fostering creativity, allowing one to think, read and work without external distractions etc. because the technology that I love allows us access to so much information and media — all available at our fingertips and all accessible 24/7/365; that I rarely encounter quiet in my daily life. The only except, and the only regular daily dose of quiet I usually encounter in my daily routine,  is found in the first few minutes after I wake up in the morning – and before my cats start to audibly alert me that it is time for breakfast!

Now of course the idea that having a quiet time is beneficial isn’t a new idea, and I’m not going to suggest we all go Thoreau-ish and move into a cabin in the woods to obtain some quiet time. However, I do think we tend to forget the benefits of having a quiet time worked into our daily lives and that we should find the time to enjoy some quiet time on a regular basis as it is good for us!

And tonight when I go home I’m not going to turn on Pandora the minuet I get in the door – instead I think I’ll sit down and read and let the quiet unfold around me for a while – after I feed the cats of course!

And here are the links to the two inspiring and reminding articles that prompted me to really think about how infrequently I encounter quiet time in my daily life:

The first article is an opinion piece that was published in the New York Times last Sunday (11-17-12); it is titled The Quiet Ones, itwas written by Tim Kreider and discusses the need and benefits of finding a quiet time via the author riding in the Quiet Car on the train during commutes.

Here’s the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all

The second article is another opinion piece written by Michael T. Dolan for Philly.com and it is titled simply Quiet Time. And instead of using a Quiet Car on a train to highlight the benefits of a quiet time on one’s daily life – the author uses the holiday season which he finds to be a reflective season and one during which quiet reflection is especially meaningful as it is in tune with the rhythm of natural world which is transitioning to its quietest time of the year – winter.

Here’s the link:

http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-22/news/35303258_1_tv-noise-winter-gas-pumps

And here’s a link to a third article, also found on the NYT website, which I thought was also relevant to the subject of quiet contemplation – although this piece doesn’t focus on finding quiet time itself – instead it focuses on the related, reflective subject of finding time to enjoy life, finding time to smell the roses as the expression goes – and this opinion piece has quite the eye catching title – it is titled On Not Being Dead!

Here’s the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/opinion/on-being-not-dead.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

And if you’re looking for some inexpensive fun this evening don’t forget the library is hosting a free film! The comedy The Trip will be shown as this evenings’ Friday Night Free Film.

The doors open at 6:45 and the film starts at 7 PM sharp. Join us!

Have a great holiday weekend everyone and don’t forget although the library is open our regular hours today (Friday, 11-23 – 10 AM – 6 PM) and tomorrow (Saturday, 11-24 – 10 AM – 4 PM) and then we will be closed all next week so ceiling tiles in the library can all be replaced.

The library will re-open on Monday, December 3 at 10 AM.

Linda R.