BOARD
MESSAGE
The
PROPOSED 2007/2008 LIBRARY BUDGET will be mailed to you under separate
cover
enabling us to include the most accurate projections possible. Developed over the course of three work
sessions, each of which was open to the public, this proposal maintains
all
library services and programs at the current level, while providing for
the
expansion of services to our teen population, and the enhancement of
cultural
activities for children.
The
increase in the amount of taxes raised for the Library is projected to
be at
just under 2.9%. Included in this amount
are increases for personnel in line with related inflationary pressures
(under
3%), and provision for building maintenance and repairs.
Also included is the continued acquisition of
electronic resources or databases which may be accessed in the library
or
remotely (and sometimes more conveniently) from your homes and offices. These resources include databases that may be
used by every segment of our community, including:
students, children, senior citizens,
professionals, retirees, investors, and job-seekers.
Our reference staff and children’s librarians
are always willing to assist you in accessing and using these tools
most of
which are available through our homepage at www.hwpl.org.
The
Board of Trustees joins me in encouraging you to vote on the Library
Budget and
for Library Trustee on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 7:00 am – 9:00 pm
at the
Hewlett Woodmere Public Library. Our
community is only as vital as our willingness to participate in the
electoral
process. We believe that your Library
merits this participation.
Donald
A. Davidson
President
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CONCERTS
AT HWPL
In
Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Gold Hall
GOLD
CONCERT SERIES
 Featuring
soprano, Julianna Di Giacomo
of
the New York City
Opera
Sunday,
April 22, 2:30 p.m.
Maestro Julius Rudel returned to
City Opera for a production of Cosi
Fan Tutte last September. The
applause was
expected to be long and great as Maestro Rudel approached the podium
but it was
nearly matched by the applause at the end of the opera that went to
soprano
Julianna Di Giacomo, making her surprise debut, covering for soprano
Pamela
Armstrong, in the role of Fiordiligi. A
difficult role, the soprano handled it with skill, beauty, and balance,
receiving rave reviews. She will dazzle
us with her recital talents. Don’t miss
this rising young opera star.
District
residents may pick up tickets
beginning Wednesday, April 11 at 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.
This
concert has been brought to the library through the generous efforts of
Herb
and Rita Gold.
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Edythe
Brenner Memorial Concert
 Student
& Music Faculty Recital
Sunday,
May 6, 2:30 p.m.
A special recital featuring
performances by the District Music Faculty and students from Hewlett High School
has been chosen as part of our annual Edythe Brenner Memorial Concert.
Mrs.
Brenner was a founding trustee of the library, serving from 1947-1992. Selections of classical, jazz, Broadway, and
Scottish fiddle music will be performed.
District
residents may pick up tickets
beginning Wednesday, April 25 at 10 am & 7 pm.
NEWS
ARTICLE
Services
offered by the Library take many different forms.
Although
not all new, you may be unaware that
the Library provides access to the following:
The
Library subscribes to COMPS,
a monthly publication providing
information on
asking and selling prices of comparable (hence, the name COMPS)
properties in Nassau
County. This is useful for those who wish to appeal
property assessments. It is located in
our reference department.
Live
Homework Help is a popular service offered through the
Library’s
homepage from
3 pm – 9 pm for students from 4th through 12th grades.
It has proved to be popular not only in
Hewlett-Woodmere but throughout the country. Parents
may wish to assist children during their
first time use.
Long
Island Talking Book Library is a free service for
individuals who
cannot hold,
handle or see well enough to use regular print books. LITBL lends
professionally recorded books
and magazines
(and the special
equipment needed to play
them) to eligible
residents on Long Island.
This
program is made possible through the support of the Suffolk Cooperative
Library
System and the Nassau Library System. For
more details, please inquire at the Library’s
information desk. |
Now
We Can Sing: Home in America
Multimedia
Classical Flute and Theatrical
Performance
With
Barbara Siesel, flutist Phillip Alan Silver, piano
SUNDAY,
APRIL 15, 2:30 p.m.
As
Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany during the nineteen
thirties – Jewish musicians were banned from playing the music of Bach,
Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and other great German composers. Now We
Can Sing:
Home In America is a traditional recital placed in a theatrical
setting. The
audience arriving at the concert is transported to the atmosphere of
the
cultural world of prewar Germany.
The lobby evokes the period through the signing of the “Lineage Linen”
documenting when, from, and where their family immigrated to America.
District
residents may pick up tickets
beginning Thursday, April 5 at 10 am & 7 pm. |
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TOWNS INDIAN ASSOCIATION
 Children’s
Day Celebration
Sunday,
April 29, 2 p.m.
The children will perform Indian
classical, folk, and Bollywood dances.
Skits and traditional music will
illustrate the history, culture, and traditions of India.
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New
Talent/New Ideas
 Isabelle
O’Connell, piano
Sunday,
May 20, 2:30 p.m.
Originally from Dublin
and currently based in New York City,
Isabelle
O’Connell is a dynamic performer and one of Ireland’s
most exciting and
successful pianist. Her performances
have taken her around the US,
Canada,
Japan,
France,
Germany,
Italy,
and Ireland. New York Concert Review wrote- “She has the
technical prowess…and a spirit and intelligence to bring it all
together.”
Tickets
may be picked up beginning Wednesday, may 9 at 10 am & 7 pm.
This
project is made
possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on
the
Arts’ Decentralization program, administered by the Long Island Arts
Council at Freeport |
United
Choral Society
Sunday,
June 10, 2 p.m.
The United Choral Society will
perform their 65th Anniversary program. Admission is free.
For
further information, please call 516 791-2818.
Tickets
may be picked up beginning Wednesday, May 23 at 10 am & 7 pm.
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SPECIAL
SPRING CONCERT
 Featuring
international flutist, Andrea Ceccomori
Tuesday,
May 1, 7:30 p.m.
International flute sensation from Italy,
Mr.
Andrea Ceccomori will play compositions by members of the Long Island
Composers
Alliance.
District
residents may pick up tickets
beginning Tuesday, April 17 at 10 am & 7 pm.
This
concert was brought you, in part,
through the efforts of The Long Island Composers Alliance.
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Highlights
in Jazz
 An
Evening of Early Jazz
With The Smith Street
Society
Thursday,
May 17, 7:30 p.m.
Dixieland,
swing classics, novelties, and other delights from Jazz’s Golden Age,
performed
by one of the most acclaimed traditional jazz bands in America.
District
residents and
Friends of the Library may pick up their tickets beginning Wednesday,
May 2 at
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LECTURES
& COURSES
LONG ISLAND READS
One Island, One Book
 A
Two Part Program
This year our
chosen book for Long Island
Reads is The Color of Water by James McBride.
James McBride is an
award-winning writer and composer. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Color of Water,
won the 1997 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Literary Excellence, was an
ALA
Notable Book of the Year, and spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list.
McBride is a
former staff writer for The Washington Post, People
Magazine,
and The Boston Globe.
His work has
also appeared in Essence,
Rolling
Stone and The New York
Times.
James McBride is a native New Yorker and graduate of New York City
public schools. He studied
composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio
and received a Masters in Journalism from Columbia
University
in New York
at age
22. James McBride is
currently a Distinguished Writer-In-Residence at New York University.
PART
ONE
Book
Discussion
Wednesday,
April 11, 10;30 a.m.
With
Dr. Michael Anzelone, NCC
Ruth McBride is a Jewish woman from
the South who leaves her family and moves to New York, marries a black man, the
first of two
black husbands, and raises 12 children. She
single handedly guides her children morally and
with determination,
though they are surrounded by poverty, drugs, and crime, to receive a
college
education and a few of them to go on graduate school. This is a memoir
told by
her son and Ruth herself.
Dr. Anzelone teaches English at Nassau Community
College and has included The Color of Water
in
his required reading for his students for several years.
Long
Island Reads- One
Island, One Book
Jazz
Concert
PART
TWO
Shenole
Latimer & Co.
Jazz
saxophonist and Lecturer 
Thursday,
April 12, 7:30 p.m.
Author James Mc Bride, author of The
Color of Water, chosen book of Long Island Reads, is a saxophonist and
composer
as well as a writer. We celebrate this
wonderful artist by inviting saxophonist Shenole Latimer and his trio. Mr. Latimer will delight you with jazz and
popular favorites while weaving a fascinating lecture about jazz and
its
origins throughout the concert. Guaranteed
to delight the jazz listener and those
who would like to know
more about this all-American phenomenon we call jazz.
District
residents may pick up their
tickets beginning Thursday, April 5 at 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.
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 Inner
Demons, Outer Angels,
With
Paul Jeffries, Artist and lecturer
Tuesday,
April 24, 1 p.m.
Every culture and every person has
some form of angel and some form of a demon lurking in their recesses
since the
dawn of history
Paul Jeffries is a sculptor noted
for his work in fabricated bronze.
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 Parenting
Workshop
With
Carole Aksak
Thursday,
April 19, 7 p.m.
Ms. Aksak will discuss social
bullying and cyber bulling, and other topics of interest to parents or
guardians of school age children.
Ms. Aksak is a the Critical Issues
Coordinator for the Girl Scouts of Nassau County, organizing workshops
dealing
with relational aggression for school age boys and girls.
District
residents may register beginning
Wednesday, April 5, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.
This
program is sponsored by the H-WPL
Parent Advisory Committee. |
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The
Civil War - Strategies, Campaigns and Battles
–
With
Jerry Prisyon
2
Wednesdays at 1 p.m.
May
9 & May 16
Jerry
Prisyon, an ardent student of the Civil War
and founder of the Library’s Cyril Prisyon Collection of the Civil War
and
Reconstruction, will lead two seminars covering the overall military
and
political strategies developed by both sides to achieve their goals. He will also discuss how the personalities of
the Generals shaped the War.
- May
9th : the Civil War through the battle of Gettysburg
- May
16th: Grant in Northern Virginia, and
the
War’s bloody conclusion
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BOOK
DISCUSSION
 The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
With
Randi Kreiss
Tuesday,
May 15, 1 p.m.
This is author Kiran Desai’s second
novel, set in the 1980s in the northeast corner of India. Jemubhai Patel, a Cambridge-educated judge
has retired to the country to get away from the messy business of law
and
justice. He lives with his orphaned
granddaughter and a dog whom he prefers to human beings. His
tranquility is
shattered by lives of those around him. A
briskly paced and beautifully written novel, it
ponders the questions
of nationhood, modernity, and class in a moving and thought provoking
way.
Randi Kreiss is a columnist for the
Nassau Herald and a very popular book reviewer and book discussion
leader.
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Art
Lecture
 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Barcelona
& Modernity: Gaudí
to Dalí :
Exhibit: March
7 – June 3, 2007
With
Ines Powell
Tuesday,
May 8, 2 p.m.
This will be the first comprehensive
exhibition to focus on the diverse and complex period in modern Spanish
art
known as the “Catalan Renaissance”. Based
in Barcelona,
it reached its peak in the years following the Barcelona Universal
Exhibition
of 1888. The exhibit will include a
broad spectrum of Catalan artists such as Gaudi, Picasso, Miro, and
Dali |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
 New
Permanent Galleries for Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman Art
Exhibit:
opening April 20, 2007
With
Ines Powell
Tuesday,
June 5, 10:30 a.m.
The opening of the new Hellenistic,
South Italian, Etruscan, and Roman galleries – an entire wing housing
some
5,400 objects in more than 30,000 square feet – completes the
reinstallation of
permanent galleries of the department of Greek and Roman art.
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Elder
Law & You: An Expert Opinion
With
John Bigler, Attorney
Thursday,
June 14, 10:30 a.m. 
John Bigler, an attorney
specializing in elder law, will lecture on the changing laws which
involve your
assets, Medicaid eligibility, and more.
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Author
Visit & Lecture
 South
of Main Street by Bob Gately
Tuesday,
June 19, 1 p.m.
Bob Gately left a lucrative career
in a large telecommunications company to follow his dream of writing
full
time. Since then he has written
screenplays, two stage plays, and two novels. He
also has taken up acting, appearing in films that
won awards at the
Houston Worldfest.
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IN CASE OF A WEATHER EMERGENCY
We
urge you to
call 374-1667 during a weather emergency before leaving for the library. All information regarding closings and
delayed openings will be posted on this taped announcement.
Please note that if the Hewlett-Woodmere
UFSD
is closed, the library will not open before 1 p.m.
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Tax
Help
is Available
Tuesdays,
February 20- April 10, 2007
10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
By
appointment
only
Tax
help is available for senior citizens with simple tax returns.
This service is available through the auspices of the Town of Hempstead’s Office of Senior
Enrichment. Please bring last year’s tax return, 1099’S or
W-2’s
and any other pertinent documents.
Beginning Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 10
am, call 374-1967,
extension 31, to schedule an appointment.
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HWPL
READERS
Our
Seventh Season of Good Reading!
A
Monthly Afternoon Book Discussion Group
Mondays
at 2 p.m.
District
residents may reserve copies of the books well in advance of the
meetings. Review packets are available at
the
Information Desk. Join us for an
afternoon discussion of good books.
April
16
I
Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other
Thoughts On Being A Woman
By
Nora Ephron
Discussion
leader: Candace Plotsker-Herman
“The
honest truth is that
it's sad to be over sixty,"
concludes Nora Ephron in her new book about aging. With 15 essays in
160 pages,
this collection is a short, amusing and thoughtful acknowledgment to
pre- and
post-menopausal women, like herself, who "can't read a word on the pill
bottle," follow a thought to a conclusion, or remember the thought
after
not being able to read the pill bottle.”
She
may "feel bad" about her
neck, but she
"hates" her purse. She's writing here for women "who understand
that their purses are reflections of negligent housekeeping, hopeless
disorganization, a chronic inability to throw anything away" and who
aren't wildly successful at changing -- at the right time -- from a
winter
purse to a summer one.” |
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May
7
Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
By
Lisa See
Discussion
leader: Edna Ritzenberg
An
engrossing novel set in
remote 19th-century China details the deeply affecting story of
lifelong,
intimate friends (laotong, or
"old sames") Lily and Snow Flower, their imprisonment by rigid codes
of conduct for women and their betrayal by pride and love.
Incorporating nu shu, a secret written phonetic
code among women—here between Lily and Snow Flower—that dates back
1,000 years
in the southwestern Hunan
province makes a suspenseful and poignant story. |
June
18
March
By
Geraldine Brooks
Discussion
leader: Karen Porcella
After
2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, Geraldine
Brooks
imagines the Civil
War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March
becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a
teacher on a
cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His
narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually
reveals to the
reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of
Northern and
Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to
prevent. Basing the character of March on
Alcott's
transcendentalist father, Bronson, the author relies heavily on primary
sources
for both the Concord
and wartime scenes. |
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Great Books Discussion Group 2006-2007
Dr. Allen Lanner
and the Great Books discussion group return for a 10th series.
Tuesdays at
7:30 p.m. |
April 24
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von The
Sorrows of Young Werther
ISBN 0-486-42455-3 |
May 15
Thoreau, Henry David Civil
Disobedience and Other Essays
ISBN 0-486-27563-9 |
All
books are from Dover
Publications, 31 E.2nd
St. Mineola, New
York 11501-3582.
1-800-223-3130. Fax:
516 294-9758.
 FILMS |
for
information about specific showings, please consult the print Overleaf or
call the Information Desk at 516-374-1967 ext. 31 |
- Wednesday,April
25, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
- Wednesday,
May 2, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
- Wednesday,
May 30, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
- June
13, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
- June
27, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
IN
THE GALLERY
 The Riding Academy
March
20- April 26
Reception:
Saturday, April 14, 2-4 pm.
Three
Long Island
photographers have created a photographic essay about a local riding
academy.
Student
Art Show
May
5 – June 8, 2006
Receptions:
Thursday, May 10 and Thursday, May 17,
3- 5 pm.
Wonderful
artwork by the students, K-12, of the Hewlett-Woodmere Union
Free School District in our gallery
and in the Boehm Room
AP
Art Students & Faculty of Hewlett High School
Opening
June 2007
We are privileged again to showcase
the wonderful art work of our young artists from Hewlett High School
and the talented Faculty that inspire them.
“Reflections”
Exhibit
FECC
Art Department/National PTA Project
Through
April 29, 2007
1st Grade Students create collages
of favorite places, inspired by American artist, Romare Bearden.
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BUDGET
INFORMATION
Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Annual
Library Vote And Election
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Boehm Five Towns Forum Meeting Room
PROPOSITION
1: Proposed
2007/2008 Library Budget
PROPOSITION
2 : Election of Library Trustee
Qualifications for Voting
Registration is required only
if a resident has not voted in a Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School
District or Library referendum within the last 4 years. In order
to be eligible to register, you must be a
U.S. citizen, 18 years of
age or older by April 18, 2007, and you must have been a legal resident
of the HWUFSD for at least 30 days prior to the referendum.
Registration for voting takes place Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 1 p.m.
–
9 p.m. in the Library.
Voting Information
Voting in the Boehm
Meeting Room of the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett, New
York, for all registered voters,
Wednesday,
April 18, 2007 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
For further information,
please telephone
Library Director, Susan de
Sciora at:
374-1967.
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Board of Trustees' Meetings
Monday, April 10 .
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7:45 pm |
Monday, May 14
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7:45 pm |
Monday, June 11
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7:45 p.m.
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55 Alive/Mature
Driving Course
55 Alive Mature
Driving Courses are given for Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School
District residents on a regular basis.
A schedule of
upcoming courses and registration dates is available in the
Administration Office and at the Information Desk (Ext. 31)
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