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Monday, May 20, 2013
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Join us for a movie night for the family!
Call 202-645-4532 for this week's selection.
6:00 p.m.
Join us for our weekly Teen Advisory Group meeting and earn community service hours for planning and participating in library programs.
Plan this month's game nights, book club, crafts and other programs.
Ages 12 - 17.
6:00 p.m.
Join us for a free yoga class for adults provided by Yoga Activist.
Yoga Activist is an organization dedicated to providing free yoga instruction to communities by partnering instructors with social service organizations interested in promoting the benefits of yoga.
Mats will be provided. Registration is preferred, but not required.
Please email alana.quarles@dc.gov or call 202-698-6373 for more information.
For more information about Yoga Activist, please visit their website at www.yogaactivist.org.
6:00 p.m.
Summer is so close we can almost taste it. We will be reading One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia.
Steps to Book Club Fun:
- Pick up a copy of One Crazy Summer at Woodridge Library.
- Read the book* at home, at school, at the library...wherever!
- Come to the book club meeting for discussion, activities and PIZZA!
- Did we mention PIZZA!??!
Best for grades 3-8.
*If you've already read the book, please re-read it before the book club meeting, and don't forget to bring the book with you.
6:15 p.m.
Learn more features of this spreadsheet software that can help you further your career. Seats will be filled on a first-come, space-available basis.
Instructor: P. McFadden
Computer Lab, Room 311
Required Skills: The ability to read and comprehend English well, and the skills acquired in PC Basics, Word I Basics, Word II Intermediate and Excel I Basics.
You will learn to:
- Manage the screen view and navigate multiple worksheets in a workbook.
- Construct 3-D formulas, using the Consolidate feature, and execute the Paste Special function.
- Engage and perform the Auto Outline, Data Validation and AutoFilter features.
- Apply the stylized Conditional Formatting feature to spreadsheet data.
- Protect worksheet/workbook environment.
Please bring your own flash drive to save class documents or send them to your email account.
6:30 p.m.
Come to the Philosophy Book Club/Cafe to discuss Philosophy Classics in a relaxed manner. The meetings are on the Third Monday of every month on a Monday night at 6:30 pm.
Our object to discuss the ideas of great philosophers in an informal way. The presider, the librarian, will outline the thought of a philosopher and a classic text in a short summary form at the beginning of a session and then the intention is to provoke discussion of the main ideas of that philosopher.
Reading the philosophy text will not be required only response to the selections from the text read to the group by the leader of the discussion. Sessions have been lively and thought provoking. Sample philosophers have been Plato in his Republic, Aristotle in his Ethics, and Spinoza in his Ethics.
The Philosophy Book Club/Cafe disucssions will be open to all adults and teens.
6:30 p.m.
Join us for our classic films series every Monday at 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
The Francis A. Gregory Library is sponsoring a knitting/crocheting weekly meeting.
Knitting will be the primary focus, but crocheting lessons and support will continued to be provided. All levels of experience welcome.
6:30 p.m.
Come join the Southwest Neighborhood Library for game nights!
Come play a host of Wii video games or enjoy a nice board game.
Game nights will be every Monday and Wednesday night.
6:30 p.m.
Please join The Fiction Lover's Book Club in Room 221 as we discuss Danielle Evans' Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. All those who cannot attend are welcome to post thoughts online in our Goodreads space all month long.
Contact Popular Services at 202-727-1295 for more information on how to join the group.deleted ex
This selection is part of the DC by the Book project.
6:30 p.m.
May is Jewish American Heritage Month!
In recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, the DC Public Library presents a poetry reading by award winning local poet Jean Nordhaus, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
Her newest book of poems, Innocence, won the Charles B. Wheeler prize from Ohio State University Press. Her previous book, The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn, was published by Milkweed Editions; a selection of these poems won the 1997 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner. Other books written by Ms. Nordhaus include My Life in Hiding, which won a Colladay award from Quarterly Review of Literature.
Ms. Nordhaus' poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Best American Poetry 2000, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. In addition, she has published articles, essays, and reviews on dance and poetry in The Washington Post and many other publications.
Ms. Nordhaus is a founding member of the Capitol Hill Poetry Group, a group of poets who meet weekly in Washington, D.C.
This poetry reading will take place in room 209 of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. For more information please contact Information Services, 202-727-1261.
7:00 p.m.
Three-part workshop on Jyoti meditation with David Newcomb.
7:00 p.m.
Join Faheem Chishty and members of the Yaro Collective as we discuss Leo Africanus and the historical politics of Islam in North Africa.
The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
10:00 a.m.
Need help with your resume, writing a cover letter or filling out a job application? On Tuesdays at the Shepherd Park Library from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., you can get individualized attention at our Job Seekers Drop-In Clinic.
For more information, please contact Marilyn Smith at 202-541-6025.
10:00 a.m.
Story Time for ages 3-5. Class groups welcome.
To ensure that children can participate fully in this program, we ask that children who attend this program be at least over 2 years of age.
10:00 a.m.
Stories, songs, and rhymes for ages 0-2, with their caregivers.
For safety's sake, there is a limit of 75 participants for each story time.
Remember -- there is a story time at 10 a.m. and another at 11 a.m.
To schedule a class visit, please call 202-671-3125.
10:00 a.m.
Stories, songs, and SO much more.
Join us for a program for children ages 1-4 and their caregivers.
10:00 a.m.
Participants receive hands-on training in job readiness skills, including computer searches, assistance with resumes and creating email accounts.
Ages 18 and older.
10:00 a.m.
Singing, talking and reading for 0- to 3-year-olds.
10:30 a.m.
Join us for baby and toddler story time.
Designed for children ages birth to 2 years and their families, the story time will include lots of fun songs, finger plays, baby bounces and rhymes as we work together to develop early literacy skills.
10:30 a.m.
Story Time for ages 3-5.
Class groups welcome.
To ensure that children can participate fully in this program, we ask that children who attend this program be at least over 2 years of age.
10:30 a.m.
Enjoy the world of reading through stories, movies, crafts and action rhymes.
Ages 3-5.
10:30 a.m.
Join us for songs, stories, finger plays and rhymes.
This story time is for ages birth to 2 years.
Groups, please call 202-243-1188 to schedule a story time for your group.
10:30 a.m.
Stories, songs, and rhymes for children aged 0 to 5 and their caregivers.
10:30 a.m.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, come and enjoy stories, songs, rhymes, finger plays, movement and more for children ages 0-5.
10:30 a.m.
Join us for a half hour of stories, songs, movement, finger plays, rhyme, and dance! Large groups of ten or more please contact, Lizzie Nolan, children's librarian at 202-541-6226 or elizabeth.nolan@dc.gov
Best for ages 2-5.
*Crafts every first Tuesday and Thursday of the month*
11:00 a.m.
Stories, songs, and rhymes for ages 0-2, with their caregivers.
For safety's sake, there is a limit of 75 participants for each story time.
Remember -- there is a story time at 10 a.m. and another at 11 a.m.
To schedule a class visit, please call 202-671-3125.
11:00 a.m.
Stories, songs, rhymes, finger plays, movement and more for children ages infant to five and their parents/caregivers.
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