BOARD MESSAGE 

     Sometime this summer the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library will initiate a Museum Pass program that will allow our resident cardholders to borrow a pass that wil entitle them and up to four guests to entry to the Museum of Modern Art.  The pass will have a due date just like a Library book.

Why is the Library offering this service?

     Several libraries in the County are currently offering such a program, and we have received many requests for this service.

Why the Museum of Modern Art?

     This museum has one of the highest entry fees of any in New York City ($20.00 per person) , and the Library Board felt that it would offer the best value for our residents.

Will we be expanding the program?

     After a trial period of several months, the staff and Board will evaluate this program and, based on usage, may expand it to include other institutions.  This is a program that relies completely on the on-time return of the passes.  The continuation and expansion of the program is, therefore, completely dependent on those who use the service.

When will the service begin?

     Final details are still being worked out with MOMA but we anticipate that it will be operational by August 1st.

Monday, July 17, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, July 18, 7:30 p.m.

     All-American valentine Harold Hill, a fast-talking salesman, tries to con the residents of River City, only to be caught by the arms of the beautiful Marian the Librarian.  The outstanding score includes such favorites as Goodnight My Someone, 76 Trombones, and Till There Was You.  The show premiered on Broadway in 1957. It was made into a movie starring Shirley Jones and Robert Preston.

Residents & Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, July 5 at 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Thursday, July 20, 7:30 p.m.

     The great American songbook featuring Gershwin, Berlin, Ellington, to mention a few, performed Swing style by an internationally acclaimed trio.  Hanna Richardson performs vocals with Phil Flanigan on bass, and Chris Flory on guitar.

District residents and Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Thursday, July 6 at 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Subscription Databases can be accessed at home through our website www.hwpl.org.  A few, however, because of licensing agreements, are only available at the library.

Here are four databases you might like to explore.  All are available at home.

Please do not hesitate to ask our staff for help with any of our databases.

AP Multimedia Archive provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bits, graphics, and text spanning over 160 years of history.  Students will enhance research projects with over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories dating from 1997.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 18^th century. Presently we are offering The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2002.

NoveList provides descriptions of fiction for all ages, including picture books, children's chapter books, young adult titles, and books for adult readers. Browse book lists by category, genre, or these at every reading level.

Live Homework Help is a one on one online tutoring program available to students in grades 4 - 12, available as an in-library product and/or remote access between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Plaza Theatrical Productions, Inc.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare   A Comedy

Monday, August 14, 7:30 p.m.

     This Off-Broadway comedy is a delightful mixture of pratfalls, puns, willful misreading of names and dialogue, clunky female impersonations, and broad burlesque.  See Romeo and Juliet as you've never seen them!

Residents may pick tickets beginning Wednesday, August 2, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Senior Enrichment Chorus

  Under the baton of musician Dominick Giannone the chorus has grown to over 20 members.  Come hear this delightful group of singers perform classic American music.

Sunday, September 17, 2:30 p.m.

     A light-hearted afternoon of musical theatre and piano solo selections performed by this talented trio.

     Jeanette Reynolds lives in East Setauket and has performed extensively in theatre, concert, and cabaret throughout Long Island.  Tony Castano, a California native and former Pasadena Playhouse actor has performed on both coasts.  Ann Stevens is a concert pianist and musical director, performing since her professional debut at age 15 as a soloist with the Long Island Philharmonic.

District residents and Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, September 6 at 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Plaza Theatrical Productions

Hot 'n' Cole

Thursday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.

     The spotlight is on the timelessness of Cole Porter classics, presented here with wonderful fresh arrangements and a contemporary twist.  Highlights from the evening feature It's Delovely, I get A Kick Out of You, I've Got You Under My Skin, Love for Sale, My Heart Belongs To Daddy and Night And Day!

Good Plants for Spring through Fall

Thursday, July 6, 7:30 p.m.

     Spring is a spectacular time in the garden.  But in many gardens, what follows during the summer and fall is rather a letdown.  This slide presentation focuses on plants, bulbs, annuals, perennials, and some woody plants that can add interest to garden for more than just spring.

ABC's of Selling Your Home Successfully

Thursday, July 13, 10:30 a.m.

     You will learn a step-by-step approach to selling your home while avoiding the usual pitfalls, followed by a question and answer period.

     Ms. Smolinsky grew up in Lawrence and has been in real estate for 22 years.  She is a frequent lecturer on real estate issues and an estate appraiser.

The Man Who Danced with Marlene Dietrich

Tuesday, July 18, 10:30 a.m.

Robin Hirsch is a former Oxford and Fulbright scholar and the author of the acclaimed memoir Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski. The co-owner of the renowned Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, Mr. Hirsch lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ancient Bones, Stones, & Art

With Dr. Mary Ursula Brennan

     What can ancient bones, tools, and art tell us about the past and about ourselves as humans?  How do sculptures, engravings, and art illuminate the emergence of symbolic thought and language that distinguish humans from other animals? These and many other questions will be part of a slide presentation and discussion.

     Dr. Brennan has taught Human Evolution and Prehistory, Human Ecology, The Evolution of Biology and Behavior, and Health and Disease in Human Evolution at NYU since 1988.  A Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation grant Recipient, she studied health and disease among Neanderthals in southwestern France between 100,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Art Lecture

The Beguiling Language of Love

With Paul Jeffries

Tuesday, August 8,10:30 a.m.

     The mysterious phenomena of love wells up powerful creative inspiration often expressed in paintings, sculpture, stories, and verse.

       Sculptor and computer artist, Paul Jeffries has conducted lectures and seminars at Yale University, the Harvard Club in New York, and the Hudson River Museum.  Using a PowerPoint presentation, Mr. Jeffries will show illustrations of this theme from the Greeks, Persia , and Japanese geisha to the Romantics of Europe.

Joe & Marilyn

With Marv Schneider

Tuesday, September 12, 2 p.m.

     Retired Associated Press sportswriter and broadcaster and co- author of Di Maggio- Setting the Record Straight, Mr. Schneider will talk about two of America's beloved celebrities and their marriage.

The American Red Cross Nassau County

National Preparedness Month- September 1- 30th

Together We Prepare

Thursday, September 14, 2 p.m.

      National Preparedness Month is a coordinated nation-wide effort sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and the American Red Cross, to encourage Americans to take steps to be better prepared for emergencies in their homes, businesses, schools, and libraries.  This presentation will focus on preparing for emergencies in Nassau County.

Advanced Placement Student Art Show

Hewlett High School

Continues through July and August

     Senior students enrolled in the advanced placement art program display their portfolios.

American Jewish Legacy
From the Mountains to the Prairie: 350 Years of Kosher and Jewish Life in America

Opening & Reception: Thursday, September 7, 2006, 7:30 p.m.

The American Jewish Legacy, a nonprofit organization with regional representatives across the United States , seeks to gather, preserve and disseminate the history of traditional Jewish life across the U.S.

Working with noted historians, the AJL has gathered information from public and private archives from across the country to create this unique historic presentation. The 400-square-foot exhibit depicts traditional Jewish life through the Colonial period, the Gold Rush and the Civil War, with special focus on traditional Jewish life in the prairie and in the West.

Sunday, September 10, 2:30 p.m.

Exhibit Lecture

Speaker: Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz

SUMMER VACATION LOANS

     Summer vacation loans are available to Hewlett-Woodmere cardholders for books that usually circulate for 28 days. Ten (10) items may be borrowed on a summer loan.

This service is in effect from June 25, 2006 through Monday, September 11, 2006. 

Mom's Morning Off

Monday, September 25, 10 a.m.

Shelly Strickler is an award winning broadcast journalist who has worked for more than a quarter century at WOR Radio, New York City.

Shelly has accumulated more than 50 awards during her career including several from the prestigious New York Press Club, Associated Press, the Broadcasters Association and Women in Radio and TV.  She is an active member in the New York Press Club where she now serves as an awards judge. She is also a director, performer, writer of the Inner Circle, a reporter's organization that produces an annual musical satire of political and current events.

The Library remembers September 11, 2001

The staff will be gathering in the Main Reading room at 9:30 a.m. for a brief remembrance.  You are welcome to join us.

America's Heart and Soul    2 p.m.

Eranga & Prianga

Thursday, July 13

     A singing duo of sublime harmonies and names that rhyme! Originally from Sri Lanka , they sing songs from all over the world and in many languages.  Switching easily from a Hebrew Legend to a Calypso to an Italian ballad to Spanish gypsy songs, it is sure to be a provocative special evening of music on a summer night.

The Class Act

Dom Giannone, Stu Waterz, Jerry Noble, and Joe Carbone

Wednesday, August 2

     Welcome back The Class Act!  An evening of contemporary music at it�s best! Saxophone, piano, drums, and guitar with perhaps a vocalist to put the finishing touches to this class act.

Thursday, August 10

     Singer Naomi Zeitlin will perform jazz favorites, Broadway show tunes, the blues, favorite songs from movie scores, and an assortment of international favorites. In fact, she sings it all!

     In this collection of tales, author Alice Hoffman enters the lives of the inhabitants of Blackbird House, tracing back from the present time to the American Revolution.  Located on a farm on Cape Cod, Blackbird House residents, ranging in age from 10 to  30 years old, experience sorrow and personal loss, yet are rescued by the power of love.  You will meet Violet, the voracious reader, Jamie, a young boy helping a neighbor deal with the consequences of a secret, and Emma, a leukemia survivor, lamenting the person she might have been if she hadn't been so sick.  The book is filled with ghost sightings and symbolic touches of magical realism.

     Freelance writer Jeannette Walls portrays a poignant tale of a child brought up by two eccentric parents whose child raising style would be considered today abusive and neglectful. The Walls children learn to support themselves by eating out of trashcans at school or painting their skins so the holes in their pants don�t show.  As the parents continue to self-destruct the children are left to their own devices.  Told with fascinating detail, Walls never plays the victim and respects her parents for making their hardships feel like adventures. Despite their overwhelming self-absorption, her love for them resonates from cover to cover.

BLOOD DRIVE AT THE LIBRARY

Tuesday, August 22, 3 p.m.to 8 p.m.

Long Island Blood Services

     Long Island Blood Services needs nearly 800 donations every day to meet the life saving transfusion requirements of patients in 50 area hospitals.  The summer months are always critical with shortages and a need to replenish the community blood supply.  You can help.

     Volunteer to give blood at the Library on August 22nd.   You must be age 17-75 and in good general health.  Long Island Blood Services provides the specially trained staff that performs free mini-physicals, sterile equipment, and post-donation refreshments.  The entire process takes less than one hour and your generous gift will help up to five people.

This is an important community event. 
Please schedule your appointment beginning Monday, August 7 at the Information Desk at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
 Donate blood now.  People can't live without it!

A schedule of upcoming courses and registration dates is available in the Administration Office and at the Information Desk.