You'll want to mark your calendar for Sunday, June 10 at 2:00 pm when students from the prestigious Music Institute of Long Island (MILI) will perform at the Library. The program will include a broad-ranging repertoire, certain to appeal to music lovers of all ages, and will feature some of MILI's outstanding soloists and chamber ensembles.

MILI was established in 1990 as a classical music school. Students have performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Cami Recital Hall and Steinwal Hall in New York City, Old Westbury Gardens, the Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington, and the Festival of Trees at SUNY College at Old Westbury.

Were you born during the month of June? Perhaps you share a birthday with one of these famous authors. Get a head start on your summer reading and check out some of the books, a few of them new but many, many classics, written by these literary giants.

Thomas Hardy - June 2
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native

Larry McMurtry - June 3
Telegraph Days, Loop Group, Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show

William Styron - June 11
Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner

Joyce Carol Oates - June 16
Black Girl/White Girl, Missing Mom

Ian McEwan - June 21
On Chesil Beach, Saturday, Black Dogs, Atonement

Everyone only has 168 hours in each week. It is how you use them that makes all the difference.

Cindy Swernofksy, Director of Early Childhood Services for the Child Care Council of Nassau will present an interactive program for parents, grandparents, and caregivers entitled:
"Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: You are No Good to Anyone When You are Passed Out on the Floor."

This Thursday, May 31 @ 7pm!
Come as you are, no need to sign up.

As we honor the sacrifices of our soldiers this weekend, it is timely to recall a unique and moving story that is also part of the legacy of American involvement in Vietnam: Operation Babylift.

In 1975, over 2,000 infants and children were airlifted to safety from Vietnam and adopted by families around the world. On Wednesday, May 30 at 7:30 pm, join Lana Noone, author of Global Mom: Notes From a Pioneer Adoptive Family for her story of this amazing and far-reaching event.

An award-winning author and speaker Lana Noone will engage you through artificats, music and anecdotes of her life a as "global mom."

Believe it or not, Memorial Day is THIS weekend. Does the thought of putting on a bathing suit horrify you? If you are like most Americans, it probably does. Why not walk, bike or run over to the library right now and pick up these new fitness and diet books. If you start now, by Labor Day weekend you could be very proud to be strolling down the beach showing off your new buff bod!

Everyone only has 168 hours in each week. It is how you use them that makes all the difference.

Cindy Swernofksy, Director of Early Childhood Services for the Child Care Council of Nassau will present an interactive program for parents, grandparents, and caregivers entitled:
"Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: You are No Good to Anyone When You are Passed Out on the Floor."

Thursday, May 31 @ 7pm

Great News!!!! Blizzard has just announced the coming of Starcraft 2. Finally the greatest sci/fi game has a sequel. "We're in the pipe, five by five."

We are pleased to announce that the proposed 2007/2008 Library budget has been approved by the voters. Congratulations to Trustee April Wexler who has been re-elected to a three year term and to Charles Kelleher who has been elected to the Board of Trustees in a write-in vote.

We are looking forward to serving the community in another successful and productive year.

Everyone only has 168 hours in each week. It is how you use them that makes all the difference.

Cindy Swernofksy, Director of Early Childhood Services for the Child Care Council of Nassau will present an interactive program for parents, grandparents, and caregivers entitled:
"Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: You are No Good to Anyone When You are Passed Out on the Floor."

Thursday, May 31 @ 7pm

The RVC Library Board revised its 2007/08 budget figures to reflect a 1.2% decrease in the original budget, from 6.1% to 4.8%, by increasing the estimated revenue line. Contractual salary and health insurance obligations represent the major portion of this year’s tax proposal. A family residing in a home with an adjusted market value of $900,000 can expect a rate increase of about $20 for the year.

Please vote on May 15th at South Side High School. The polls are open from 7 am to 9 pm.

Get Caught Reading is a nationwide campaign to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read. Although May is Get Caught Reading Month, the campaign is promoted throughout the year. It is supported by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Launched in 1999, "Get Caught Reading" is the brainchild of former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, President and Chief Executive Officer of AAP, the industry association representing book publishers. Ms. Schroeder saw the opportunity to spread the word about the joys of reading through an industry-supported literacy campaign.

Speaking of reading, have you signed up for Booknews, our newsletter subscription service that provides reading suggestions for adults, teens and children in 10 reading interest categories on a monthly basis? This great service alerts you to new titles into our library in the specific genre you are interested in. You can also register to receive our library newsletter delivered straight to your e-mail.

On Sunday, May 20 at 2 pm, enter the wonderful world of Frank Sinatra with Dr. Stanislao G. Pugliese when he presents his popular lecture Longing, Loss and Nostalgia: Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture.

There are almost as many Sinatras as our imaginations may will into existence: the wise-guy kid from the streets of Hoboken; the vulnerable crooner who made the bobby soxers swoon at the Paramount; the self-destructive moth to the flame of Ava Gardner; the eternal Maggio and the Comeback Kid; the head Rat with rock glass in hand; the original "gangsta" epitomizing cool and a certain way with women; the the ferociously proud Italian American; the Chairman of the Board; Ol' Blue Eyes; civil rights spokesperson. In short, Sinatra was the platform upon which much of American culture was written in the second half of the twentieth century.

Dr. Pugliese is professor of history at Hofstra University and the author, editor or translator of a dozen books on Italian American History. He is a former fellow at Columbia University, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University.

Spring is in full swing and our Children's Room is buzzing!

Stop in to see the St. Mark's Cooperative Nursery School display or take a look at our spider book display in honor of Spider Man 3! And of course, there are always new books to read!

This novel is an amazing read for fantasy and horror fans. The main character is an elven vampire!
What more can i say!

Whether or not you believe in the magic of unicorns, you can appreciate the Unicorn Tapestries as amazing feats of creativity and craftwork. On Thursday, May 10 at 1 pm, artist Thomas Germano returns to the Library as part of the ongoing David Raab Memorial Art Lecture series, for which we gratefully thank Alma Raab. One of our area's most highly regarded art lecturers and an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Farmingdale State Unviersity, he will present a slide lecture exploring exceptional late gothic tapestries, including the famous "Lady and The Unicorn."

You can learn more about the Unicorn
Tapestries at www.metmuseum.org/explore/Unicorn/unicorn_inside.htm

Do you consider yourself a political junkie? Are you addicted to CSPAN? Is Chris Matthews from Hardball a personal hero of yours? Then you'll really enjoy these new books on politics and politicians just into our library!

Positively American: winning back the middle-class majority one family at a time - Chuck Schumer with Daniel Squadron

Nixon and Kissinger: partners in power - Robert Dallek

And I haven't had a bad day since: from the streets of Harlem to the halls of Congress - Charles B. Rangel with Leon Winter

The new American story - Bill Bradley

Today begins registration for our Spring Parent/Child Workshop and Mother Goose program. Each runs for 5 weeks beginning Thursday, May 10. In person registration is required. Please come with your library card and proof of your child's age.
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