Kids, Social Networking & Safety

MONDAY September 20TH - 7:00 P.M. Facebook, instant messaging, texting: kids love it, but parents have legitimate concerns about their children’s incessant chatting with friends and strangers. Are there really predators lurking around every post? Join IRENE McDERMOTT for a back-to-school presentation about how best to manage a family’s involvement in the overwhelming new world of online social networking. She will discuss many aspects of the phenomena including: pornography, predators, paying to play games, commercialism, bullying, privacy, revealing too much information and generally, what is dangerous on the internet for children. Irene McDermott is a reference librarian and systems manager at the Crowell Public Library in the city of San Marino. Her next book, The Internet Book of Life, will be published in spring 2011. Her column, "Internet Express," appears monthly in Searcher magazine. This program is free and will take place in the Barth Community Room at Crowell.

Free Friendly Landscape Training Classes

September 4-October 9, 2010 The City of San Marino is sponsoring a series of four free presentations on water preservation by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The California Friendly Landscape Training classes have proven to be an important and successful tool for reducing outdoor water use through the education of professional landscapers and home gardeners. The classes that are being offered in San Marino are geared for residential homeowners, and participants will find them quite interesting. Note the two locations: · Saturday, September 4 - Landscape Basic Design-8:30am-12pm at Crowell Public Library, 1890 Huntington Drive, San Marino 91108 · Saturday, September 18 - California Friendly Plants-8:30am-12pm at Crowell Public Library, 1890 Huntington Drive, San Marino 91108 · Saturday, October 2 - Efficient Irrigation Systems-8:30am-12pm in the San Marino Center, Fireside Room, 1800 Huntington Drive, San Marino, 91108 · Saturday, October 9 - Soil, Fertilizer, and Watering-8:30am-12pm in the San Marino Center, Fireside Room, 1800 Huntington Drive, San Marino, 91108 Registration is necessary and will close one week prior to scheduled class date. Participants should be aware that classes with fewer than 20 registrations will be cancelled, so prompt registration is important. To register, please call or Ron Serven, Environmental Services Manager at (626) 300-0711 or email rserven@cityofsanmarino.org

Figaro Weds!

The LA Opera Talk Series continues @ Crowell Public Library: SUNDAY, September 19th 2:00 p.m. Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro L.A. Opera will present a free audio-visual presentation of Mozart’s comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro, as part of their ongoing LA Opera Talk series at Crowell Public Library. Whether a hardcore opera aficionado or a curious novice, attendees will be delightfully entertained and encouraged to ask questions and offer comments. One might even be inspired to make a trip to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the full production conducted by Placido Domingo. The opera is set in Seville in the late 18th Century. It is a sequel to The Barber of Seville, which LA Opera performed in November of 2009, so some of the characters will ring a bell for those patrons who attended the Barber Opera Talk: Count Almaviva, with substantial help from Figaro, wooed and won the lovely Rosine who became his wife, but their marriage has gone sour because of his philandering. Figaro has quit barbering and is now the Count's major-domo. He is engaged to Suzanne, who is the Count's intended conquest. “Sublime mayhem and mischief on a midsummer’s day…” http://www.laopera.com/ And there’s more to come: October 17: Wagner’s Lohengrin November 21: Verdi’s Rigoletto Make Crowell Library your LA Opera gateway!

Thanks to Our SRP Sponsors!

A great big thank you to the business who gave their support to the Summer Reading Program at Crowell Public Library this year. They helped us all to Make a Splash!

AMF Bowling Square Lanes of Arcadia	Aquarium of the Pacific
Armstrong Garden Centers	Auntie Anne’s
Bed Bath & Beyond of Pasadena	Borders Books of Glendale
Build-A-Bear Workshop	Steve Domier of The CW Television Network
Domino’s Pizza San Gabriel	Golf N’ Stuff
Jump 'n Jammin	Legoland California Resort
Los Angeles Dodgers	Los Angeles Lakers
Mimi's Cafe	The Old Spaghetti Factory
One West Bank of San Marino	Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Park	Pasadena Ice Skating Center
Pei Wei Asian Diner, Inc.	Pie n' Burger
Ross Dress for Less	San Marino Masonic Lodge no. 408
San Marino Toy & Book Shoppe	Santa Anita Park
Shakey's	Teri & Yaki
Tommy’s World Famous Hamburgers	Vroman's Bookstore of Pasadena

The Kitchen Shrink

MONDAY August 16TH - 6:00 P.M. In the past two decades, the medical profession, once considered a sacred, cherished vocation, has devolved into a business motivated by a desire for profits. Even psychiatry, once the mainstay of the human interaction between doctor and patient, has fallen victim to rising costs and dictates by insurance sources. How has medicine strayed so far from its roots? In The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World, psychiatrist and lecturer DORA CALOTT WANG delves into what happened. Dora Calott Wang, M.D., is a psychiatrist, a medical school professor, and the recipient of a prestigious Lannan Foundation Writer's Residency. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and moved to the United States as a child. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley M.A. program in English literature. Dora Calott Wang lives in New Mexico with her husband where she spearheaded an effort to remove Article 2, Section 22 of the state constitution, an unenforced law forbidding Asians from owning land. She hosts a television talk show, “Duke City Magazine.” This program is free and will take place in the Barth Community Room at Crowell.

Pain Management

Traditional & Interventional Treatment Options for Chronic Pain with Dr. Paul H. Chiu Monday, August 2, 2010, 6 p.m. DR. PAUL CHIU is the ideal physician to present this health topic due to his extensive training and experience in the field of anesthesiology and pain management. Dr. Chiu is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiologists and is a fellowship-trained interventional pain management specialist. He received his bachelor degree in biology from the University of Houston in Texas, and his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. He continued his training in anesthesiology and pain management at the USC Keck School of Medicine and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. There will be an opportunity to ask the doctor questions at the end of the talk. The program is FREE, but space is limited. Call (626) 300-0777 to reserve your space. This lecture is part of the ongoing The Doctor Is In! series of educational programs designed to help you stay healthy and active. The lectures, by some of the communities most accomplished physicians, are being presented at Crowell Public Library, in conjunction with the San Gabriel Valley Medical Center. Join us and learn about important health topics from the experts.

New Online Career Services@Crowell Library!

Job hunting just became a lot easier thanks to the fabulous new online services offered on the Crowell Public Library’s home page, http://crowellpubliclibrary.org. Gale publishers have developed a step-by-step interactive guide called Career Transitions, which will take the job seeker through the entire process -- from identifying the job that will fit their particular skill set and interests -- through interview preparation. Other services include updated lists of job postings, tips on writing an eye-catching resume, and completing the perfect job application. Career Transitions was made available to the Library through a grant from the Southern California Library Consortium (SCLC) and is supported in whole by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. “These services are so easy to use and engaging, I only wish they existed when I began my career,” said Ann Dallavalle, City Librarian. And, since everyone is looking to improve their odds in a very competitive job market, adding a language to that resume may be just the advantage needed. With PowerSpeak, also accessible on Crowell’s home page, learning a new language will become as easy as pie -- or empanada, pâté en croûte, 饼 or even torte. “Language is one of the last barriers in today’s global marketplace,” said Ms. Dallavalle. “We’re thrilled to have language learning products available for our library. This will give our patrons the opportunity to learn Spanish, French, Mandarin or German at their own pace.” Log on now and see for yourself at http://crowellpubliclibrary.org. These services are all free with your Crowell Library card: the best bargain in San Marino!