Teen Crafts at the Corydon Branch

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New Teen Take and Make Crafts

Submitted by Savannah Wallace

Teens can now pick up crafts to make at home from Harrison County Public Library’s Corydon branch. A new craft will be available each month in the teen scene area of the library. Teen crafts are designed and prepped by the library’s teen volunteer group. This month teens can pick up a kit to make paper hyacinth flowers. All supplies and step-by-step instructions are included in the kit. Teen take and make crafts are for students in grades 7-12 and are first-come, first-served while supplies last.

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Fun Times at Harrison County Public Library During Spring Break Week: March 25 – April 2

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Submitted by Diana Lasky

The weather was up and down, but families found plenty of fun at the library over Spring Break week.  Families had a gorgeous day to find spring wildflowers and plants with Ms. Eden at Nature Club on the Doolittle Trail.  It was very cold, but hearts and bodies were warm during Dance Party at Bicentennial Park with Ms. Savannah.  Can you spot the picture of dancing to the YMCA song? The Palmyra Branch offered a fun and challenging Harry Potter Breakout Room all week.  These were just some of the 10 programs offered by the library.  Don’t forget to check the library youth calendar for programs in April and May.

 

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The next Big Library Read starts Monday, April 4

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Questlove photo by Daniel Dorsa
Photo by Daniel Dorsa

From April 4 – April 18, readers all over the world will be able to check out the eBook and audiobook of Music is History by Questlove without waitlists or holds. Click here to access the title through HCPL’s OverDrive collection. Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. This past Sunday, Questlove won the best documentary feature Oscar for his film Summer of Soul about the Harlem Cultural festival of 1969.
Join the conversation online by using the hashtag #biglibraryread on social media for a chance to win a pair of Airpod pros! There is a discussion board available where you can chat with other readers.
Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America. A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music’s most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America.

Download the Discussion Guide
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About Questlove

Academy Award nominated filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur and New York Times bestseller author Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, is the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s most influential hip-hop group The Roots. He is the Musical Director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where The Roots also serve as the house band.

Questlove Executive-Produced the acclaimed documentary series, Hip-Hop: The Songs The Shook America on AMC under his production company, Two One Five Entertainment which recently announced a first-look deal with Universal Television to develop scripted and non-scripted programming. He made his directorial debut with the Academy Award nominated feature documentary Summer of Soul. The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best U.S. Documentary. The film most recently broke the record for the highest selling documentary to come out of Sundance. Questlove is also set to direct the upcoming feature documentary on Sly Stone.

Additionally, he co-produced the GRAMMY Award winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton. Questlove co-starred in Disney Pixar’s Golden Globe-winning animated feature Soul, which landed him an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.

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Gabrielle Balkan

Author Gabrielle Balkan to visit Heth-Washington Elementary School virtually on April 13, 2022

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Submitted by Diana Lasky

Harrison County schools were challenged during the Harrison County Public Library’s winter reading program to compete for an author’s visit with Gabrielle Balkan.  HWES averaged more than 12 books per student with a final total of 1,819 books read and is awarded the author visit scheduled for April 13, 2022.

Gabrielle Balkan is best known for her non-fiction books that delight readers ages 5 – 12 with curious and essential facts about the United States, animal record-breakers and ground-breaking artists.  Gabrielle grew up across from the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis and current lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.  She will provide a program for grades K-1, 2-4 and 5-6 that will include a clue and guess the answer segment, talking about the writing process and editing to improve your own writing, and how to make choices when writing, followed by questions from the students.

The Gabrielle Balkan visit will be viewable by the public beginning April 20, 2022, and will be available for one month on the library website at www.hcpl.lib.in.us.  Follow the Harrison County Public Library blog post, HCPL Facebook and Instagram for details and updates.   Gabrielle Balkan is brought to HWES by the library through the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Author Awards grant provided by Indiana Humanities.

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Harrison County Public Library Brings Pete the Cat to Lanesville Elementary School

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Submitted by Diana Lasky

Lanesville Elementary School read 2,380 books during the #WinterRead2022 – Feed Harrison County – Read for a Better World Challenge. Lanesville E.S. read the most books of all the schools in the county.  As a thank you, Harrison County Public Library director Alisa Burch escorted Pete the Cat to Lanesville.  Car and bus riders were greeted by Pete in the hallways and in the gym before school.  Students and teachers were celebrating because more than $14,000 in donations was collected for the Lanesville Heart Challenge. As part of the Heart Challenge, P.E. teacher Karen Armstrong took 15 pies to the face as a special prize to students who raised over a certain goal.  Pete was amazed at her bravery and gave her a standing ovation! Pete was asked to be included in a 4th grade photo, snuck into Ms. Dye’s class for a quick photo with her class and then made a special visit to each kindergarten class where Mrs. Burch read a Pete the Cat story.

 

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Harrison County Public Library recognizes Tyson with gratitude!

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Harrison County Public Library Director, Alisa Burch, and Youth Services Manager, Diana Lasky, present Tyson Plant Manager, Chris Jennings-Allen, and Lisa Dunaway, Plant Production Planner, with a Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding community service.


Submitted by Diana Lasky

For the 2nd year in a row, Tyson has been a generous donor and partner with Harrison County Public Library (HCPL) for the Feed Harrison County Winter Reading Challenge.  This year, the library challenged the community to read and log 9,400 books during the month of January.  Tyson agreed to donate 100 cases of chicken to Harrison County Community Services if the goal was met.  Harrison County read a whopping 16,699 books.

Harrison County Community Services has received 100 cases, 20 lbs. each, of Tyson chicken that will help feed Harrison County’s 600 families in need.  The library is grateful to have a such a generous community sponsor!

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Harrison County Community Services (HCCS) Wins Big!

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Presented by Diana Lasky

Richard Cooper HCCS Gift Card
Richard Cooper of Harrison County Community Services accepts a $75 gift card donated by Walmart from Diana Lasky of Harrison County Public Library.

During the month of January, Harrison County readers were challenged to help feed the hungry by reading 9,400 books.  Readers of all ages and school grades topped the goal by reading 16,966 books! Tyson and Walmart sponsored the Harrison County Public Library winter reading challenge.  Tyson agreed to donate 100 cases of chicken and Walmart a $75 gift card if the county met the goal.  HCPL is proud to say the goal was met and exceeded!

Richard Cooper, the executive Director of Harrison County Community Services shows off a portion of the 100 cases of chicken donated by Tyson in the HCCS freezer.
Richard Cooper, the executive Director of Harrison County Community Services shows off a portion of the 100 cases of chicken donated by Tyson in the HCCS freezer.

HCCS is always happy to receive donations and loves the community spirit of the annual Feed Harrison County – Winter Reading Challenge.  This was the 2nd year for the challenge and the library expects to continue this program as a way to collaborate with the community and businesses and bring awareness to the need to help others in our county.  Thank you to our readers and generous sponsors!

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Attention OverDrive/Libby users: HCPL will join larger OverDrive consortium March 1

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On Tuesday, March 1, Harrison County Public Library will merge with a large consortium of libraries called Indiana Digital Library. HCPL is excited for the change, because it will give our patrons access to a collection of books and audiobooks from almost 200 libraries across the state. The Indiana State Library will pay the platform fees for the group, which means 100% of the member libraries’ fees will be spent on digital titles.

The new consortium will also have a team of librarians who will actively monitor holds and purchase additional copies of books that have long wait lists. This means you shouldn’t have to wait as long to get the books you want to read.

Some things to note:

  1. You will need to log in to your app again, using the same library card number and PIN you currently use.

  2. Items you currently have checked out and your hold list will still be there when you log back in.

  3. Your reading history will not be there. If you want to keep your reading history, you can download it.

    Here’s how (click on line 1 or 2 to learn more):

    1. Libby – exporting reading history

    2. OverDrive – exporting reading history

If you currently use the OverDrive app, you might consider making the switch to the Libby app. The OverDrive app is no longer supported and the Libby app is OverDrive’s updated version of its original app.

HCPL expects the merger to go smoothly, but if you run into trouble you can always contact us.

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Short upgrade could affect access to some services

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At 1:00pm today, an upgrade of HCPL Web Services will take place that will last approximately 5 minutes.

This upgrade is in preparation for valuable new services that HCPL plans to implement soon.

Please note that this short upgrade will possibly affect access to library accounts through the online catalog, access to OverDrive/Libby and Axis360 accounts, as well as logging on to HCPL public computers.

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Together We Read program from OverDrive offers free digital copies of “The Five Wounds”

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During Together We Read from OverDrive, borrow The Five Wounds for free with no waitlists and no holds from February 7 through February 21!
Download Libby or visit OverDrive to borrow the eBook or audiobook from HCPL using your phone or tablet.

The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade

It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother’s house, setting her life on a startling new path.

Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby’s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo’s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel’s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn’t speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda’s uncle and keeper of the family’s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to.

Click to download the book discussion guide
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Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds, which is currently shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and is longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her story collection, Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Kirstin is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Princeton.

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