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When I began my library ca-reer 33 years ago at Springfield Public library there was no internet, nothing was wireless, and nearly everything was done by hand; including sliding “date due” cards into little pockets in the books. So much has changed in the three decades I’ve worked in librar-ies but here in Springfield, one

Moving Forward & Looking Back

Join the Springfield Public Library Foundation at their fifth annual “Books and Brew” fundraiser, coming up Saturday, January 23, at 6:30pm. The event will fea-ture a silent auction, raf-fle, fun games—including a library scavenger hunt—and live music from The Spencer Doidge Group, as well as small bites from Aroma Café. For the first time, the event will take place within the Li-brary; so join us for a fun night raising funds and awareness for the Library. In the past, the annual Books and Brew event has allowed the Foundation to support the Library in the following ways:

Funded all adult program-ming

Restored the youth nonfic-tion collection

Provided the funding to support early literacy out-reach to at-risk children in Springfield

Set aside additional funds to be dedicated to a capital campaign or to establish a permanent endowment for the Library

And much more. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased by emailing Mary Bridget Smith, board president, Springfield Public Library Foundation, or calling 541-746-9621 or by visiting the event’s Eventbrite posting at booksand-brew2016.eventbrite.com. To learn more about the Springfield Public Library Foundation, or to get in-volved or make a donation, please visit their website.

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Hosting

“Books & Brew” Fundraiser in January

Who: Supporters of the

Springfield Library

What: Springfield Library Foundation’s “Books and Brew” Fundraiser, Tickets are $50 per person

When: Saturday, January 23, 2016

at 6:30pm

Where: Springfield Library 225 5th Street

Why: To raise funds and aware-ness in an effort to create an active state-of-the-art public

library that ensures literacy, life-long learning and culture for all.

5th Annual

constant has remained, the great relationship we have shared with our patrons. It is the basis for everything we do. Through all the changes the world has wrought we have always tried to achieve the highest level of service and we weren’t afraid to use innova-tion to do it; knowing that our patrons trusted us to help them be successful every time they came to the library. But

I’m not just looking back be-cause the new year will bring an exciting change to the Li-brary when we introduce pa-tron self-checkout stations. We hope this new service will make it easier and faster to use the library for many while also allowing for credit card pay-ments for the first time. Once again, we are relying on our patrons to help us be the best that we can be.

Rob Everett, Library Director

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Tinkering with Technology for Teens, Tweens & Kids late so that children with physical or developmental challenges can be success-ful creators. We plan to offer eight different TinkerTech Crea-tivity Kits:

Little Bits- build a sim-ple machine with elec-tronic building blocks

Snap Circuits- make an easy electronics project

Makey Makey- create interactive games and keyboards with simple circuitry

Dash Robots- learn to program an interactive robot

Cubelets- build a robot with specialty snap to-gether cubes

3D pens- draw with a 3D printer you can hold in

We are very pleased to announce that Springfield Public Library was awarded a Curiosity Creates grant from the Association for Library Services to Chil-dren (ALSC), a division of the American Library Asso-ciation (ALA). The Disney Foundation funded 79 grants to libraries across the nation to foster creativ-ity in children ages 6 to 14. We will use our grant to

create “TinkerTech Crea-tivity Kits”. These kits are intended to be used in li-brary programs and also to be available for check-out to teachers for classroom use and to other communi-ty organizations that serve Springfield’s children. They will feature easy-to-use technology that will allow kids to jump right in and start creating without being frustrated by a steep learn-ing curve. The technology will also be easy to manipu-

your hand

Magna Tiles- build col-orful 3D structures and light them up

Wind Tunnel aircraft launcher- construct a flyable craft, then launch it into the air

These kits will be featured in our March Teen Tech Week programs and our Spring Break programming. Watch our calendar for fun opportunities to come cre-ate with technology. If you have questions or would like your community organ-ization to be included, con-tact Teen Services Librari-an, LuCinda Gustavson, at 541-726-2287.

Do the Timewarp New Year’s Eve! Plank Town Presents: Springfilm is a free monthly event presented by Plank Town Restaurant and Brew-ery and coordinated by Springfield Library in part-nership with Willamalane Park and Recreation District. Springfilm, a film and dis-cussion event, continues its Cult Cinema series with a very special New Year’s Eve screening! Join us as we watch the ulti-mate cult classic—celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2015—The Rocky Horror Pic-ture Show! The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in the United States on September 25, 1975 at the Westwood Theater in Los Angeles. In the 100-minute feature film, directed by Jim Sharman, a newly en-gaged couple’s car breaks down in an isolated area and they must pay a call to the

bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Katharine Schwab wrote about Rocky Horror’s 40th anniversary in September for The Atlantic. She claims that “over the next four decades, Rocky Hor-ror would be transformed from failed movie-musical to underground phenomenon to rebellious coming-of-age ritual to mainstream icon, all thanks to the hardcore fans who flocked to its late-night showings.” Fans still flock to those late-night showings. Forbidden Fruit, a Eugene-based live shadowcast, performs several times per year at venues around Eugene-Springfield, including at the Bijou Art Cinemas and on the Universi-ty of Oregon campus. The cast provides the full Rocky Horror experience: dressed in costume, they mimic the ac-

tion taking place on-screen behind them in front of a live audience. Off-stage cast members shout rehearsed “callback lines”—often raun-chy puns or witty jabs at pop culture icons—during the film. And Rocky Horror would not be what it is without au-dience participation. Please join us for our special

New Year’s Eve event, as we partner with Eugene’s For-bidden Fruit! Springfilm offers monthly screenings of films; the “Cult Cinema” series continues through August 2016. For additional information, contact Kristen Curé at (541) 726-2232 or visit the library’s adult program page.

Springfilm screening & discussion with Forbidden Fruit

Thursday, December 31 at 9pm

at the Wildish Theater, 630 Main Street, Springfield

FREE!

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children’s desk at the Springfield Public Library. If you have any questions about this program please contact librarians Taylor Worley, 541-726-2243 or LuCinda Gustavson, 541-726-2287.

portance of early literacy for baby and some great book and activity sugges-tions, a teething ring, a free board book, an early literacy star (these stars are also printed with funds from the Ready to Read grant and illustrate the five practices of early literacy: Talking, Singing, Reading, Writing, and Playing), and a certificate welcoming baby and family to the library with a coupon for an additional free book when presented at the children’s information desk.

The kits are being dis-tributed to families with new babies at the library and through community partners such as Early Childhood Cares, the De-partment of Human Ser-vices, and the Springfield High School Parenting Program. We’re very ex-cited that these kits are now available to all fami-lies in Springfield, regard-less of income or other limiting factors, and they will soon be available in Spanish, too! If you have a new baby of your own and haven’t yet gotten a kit, just ask for one at the

Each year libraries across Oregon vie for the Ready to Read grant from the State of Oregon. This grant is an integral part of our early literacy initia-tives at Springfield Public Library and is awarded based on the service pop-ulation of each library in the state. This year we’re thrilled to announce that with this grant we’ve fi-nally gotten a new pro-gram up on its feet: the Welcome, Baby! Kits! These kits consist of a brochure about youth services in the library, another with the im-

Welcome, Baby! Kits Arrive at the Library

Our Newest Librarian, Thea Evenstad

beneficial way (such as gaining a new skill), and that also helps build com-munity. To that end, we hope to begin a series of writing workshops and events intended to foster a community of writers in Springfield.” You’ll find Thea explor-ing the outdoors, such as hiking at Mt. Pisgah where she and her partner are members. She is also a member of the Eugene-Springfield North Ameri-can Butterfly Association. Thea backpacks during her time off and bike com-mutes to work. Say hello the next time you are in, and try out one

Thea Evenstad joined the library in September this year as an adult services librarian and Springfield Arts Commission staff liai-son. She earned her M.L.S from Emporia State Uni-versity and a B.A. in Geog-

raphy & English from Uni-versity of Oregon, Clark Honors College. Thea has been a volunteer reference librarian at the Answerland Statewide online reference service since 2011 and was most recently a reference librari-an at McMinnville Public Library. When asked about her new position, Thea says, “I am most excited about cre-ating vibrant, relevant pro-grams, workshops, and events for adults in partner-ship with fellow adult ser-vices librarian, Kristen Cu-ré. We want to offer pro-gramming that helps indi-viduals transform in some

of these three books that are Thea’s favorite to rec-ommend: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna, and T.C. Boyle’s Stories.

Springfield Public Library 225 5th St. Springfield, OR 97477

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Updates Public

Art Brochure 1997 that will soon be removed from the building at 555 Main Street, at the corner of 6th and Main. The new brochure can be picked up in the library (it’s free!) and will be available soon on the Springfield Arts Commission website.

Additional Information: Con-tact Arts Commission Liaison email Thea Evenstad or call at (541) 726-2238.

The Springfield Arts Commis-sion has updated its popular Pub-lic Art Self-Guided Tour Bro-chure to include recent changes to public art. The new brochure now includes Springfield’s Ken Kesey, a mural created by the Old City Artists and Craig Ferroggiaro in 2015 that can be seen at the corner of 4th and Main in down-town Springfield. Additionally, the Commission has removed The Fisherman, a mu-ral created by Kristie Rebeiz in

Cada año, durante el último fin de semana de noviembre y la primera semana de diciem-bre hay la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara que es el mayor mercado mundial de publicaciones en español. Casi 800,000 personas asisten la feria donde pueden ver y comprar libros en español de casi 2,000 editoriales que vie-nen de más que 40 países. En FIL, gente viene para ver los libros más hermosos, intere-santes e importantes en la len-gua castellana. Allí hay libros importantes que aún no se puede comprar en los Estados Unidos y por eso, muchos bi-bliotecarias viajen a Guadalaja-ra cada año para comprar li-bros y traerlos a sus bibliotecas estadounidenses. Este año, la biblioteca de Springfield tuvo la oportunidad de mandar la bibliotecaria de las colecciones

Somos Lectores — We Are Readers La Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara

The Guadalajara International Book Fair

en español (Kristen Curé) a la feria para comprar libros para nuestra comunidad. Cada mes en el año 2016 vamos a estrenar novedades compradas en FIL. ¡Esperamos que ustedes sean encantados con los libros nue-vos! /// Every year, during the last weekend of November and the first week of December, Mexi-co hosts the Guadalajara Inter-national Book Fair (FIL) which is the largest world market for publications in Spanish. Nearly 800,000 people attend the fair where they can see and buy books from almost 2,000 pub-lishing houses from more than 40 countries. At FIL, the public can see the most beautiful, most interesting and most im-portant books published each year in Spanish. Many of the books at the fair are not availa-

ble for purchase in the United States and it is for this reason that American libraries send their librarians to the fair each year to bring back the best in Spanish publishing for their local libraries. This year, the Springfield Public Library had

the opportunity to send the Spanish collection librarian, Kristen Curé, to the fair to buy books for our community. Keep your eye out each month in this coming year for beautiful new titles bought at FIL! We hope you love them!