The Summer Reading Program is Coming!!!

Pet Lovers of all kinds are invited to join “Paws, Claws, Scales & Tales” at the San Marino Public Library. The 2006 Summer Reading Program is open to young people, preschool through young adult, with entertainment, prize drawings, pajama storytimes, movies and more. Parents are encouraged to sign up their pre-readers in the Read-to-Me portion of the program. The Summer Reading Program is scheduled to run from Monday, June 10th – Saturday, July 29th, with a special kick-off party being held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 10th. Entertainment will be provided by Flights of Fantasy Story Theatre. All summer programs are free to the public and sponsored by the Friends of the San Marino Public Library.

Make It & Take It Craft Days

‘Round and ‘round you’ll go - from one table to the next at the Make-It and Take-It Craft Days, Thursday June 15th and Thursday, July 6th. Children, preschool age through 5th grade, are invited to the public library to make a variety of animal themed crafts. Craft tables will be available from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Girls’ and Boys’ Department. You can drop in any time to work on a project. Registration is not required.

Animal Tales on the Small Screen

The San Marino Library will be showing a series of family-oriented animal movies as one of the many activities available during the Summer Reading Program. Join us as we show these furry and fantastic movies on the following Tuesdays June 20th, July 11th and July 25th at 2:00 p.m. Registration is not required.

The Animal Guys

Have fun with “The Animal Guys” as they bring a “zoo” to the San Marino Public Library!! Come and enjoy this fascinating wildlife show that will entertain the whole family. You will see different animals and learn about their defense mechanisms and habitats. This fun educational show will be on Saturday, June 24th at 2:00 p.m.

A Evening Filled with Magic

Magic Wayne will be at the public library on Wednesday, July 12th at 7:00 p.m. He will present a family friendly magic show with tricks and illusions that will captivate all. There will be loads of comedy and plenty of audience participation. Don’t miss out on this magical event.

B.A.R.K. the Robot Dog

Come and see what happens when eccentric inventor Mr. Johnson leaves his pets Ratchet the Cat and Rivet the Dog home on a rainy day. Watch as they turn the house upside down and see what happens when Rivet discovers B.A.R.K., an unpredictable robot dog. All children who joined the San Marino Public Library’s Summer Reading Program and read at least 5 books will received an invitation to our exciting End of Summer Final Party on Saturday, July 29th at 2:00 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by Swazzle Puppets.

TEMP or STORAGE?

The library is getting ready to move to the San Marino Center this summer, we will be there for about 18 months while the old library is being demolished and rebuilt. You may have noticed little yellow and green stickers on books lately, only the books marked “TEMP” will be available for checkout, the other books marked “STORAGE” will be packed into storage boxes. Because the Temporary Library can only house about one-third of the materials we have, we need to put the rest in storage until 2008. We will continue to buy new books, magazines, DVDs, and audiobooks, which is why we can’t bring over all of our existing books.

The librarians have taken great care to only bring the most up-to-date nonfiction, most popular fiction authors, and most researched subjects to the Temporary library. We plan to maintain the same level of reference service even though we’ll be in a smaller space. If something you need is unavailable or packed away in storage, we will find it for you at another library. We apologize for the inconvenience; please bear with us as we take some necessary steps to bring you a brand new, state-of-the-art, San Marino Public Library.

Donation Builds Library Music Collection

Thanks to a generous donation by Lucy Medz to the Friends of the Library, the San Marino Public Library has purchased 42 CDs and 35 DVDs for cultural development. Music on CD purchased by the library includes opera, jazz, and world music. New DVDs include live opera and dance in performance and fine art.

The library has purchased opera on CD, including Verdi’s Aida, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Pucini’s Tosca and Turandot. Jazz CDs now available include music by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and Louis Armstrong. Multicultural and world music is also available—music from France, Spain, the Sahara, Japan, Scotland, Africa, Hungary, Morocco, and other styles are also available for check out. Three main areas of collecting were targeted for DVDs: live performances of opera and dance and the fine arts. Major operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Rossini, and Bizet are now available, including Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida, and Rigoletto by Verdi; La Bohème, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, and Tosca by Puccini; Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, and Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart; and Rossini’s popular La Cenerentola and Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Performances by the Metropolitan Opera, Theatro alla Scala, and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera are featured, including such famous performers as Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, and others.

Dance on DVD includes both classic ballets as well as contemporary dance. Three of Tchaikovsky’s most popular ballets have been purchased—The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake. Other ballets purchased by the library are Giselle, Romeo and Juliet featuring Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and Nijinsky’s performances with The Kirov Ballet. Contemporary dance DVDs include Merce Cunningham, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, and the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.

Fine art DVDs purchased by the library include a six-volume set called Landmarks of Western Art, a survey of Western art from the Renaissance to contemporary times. Other boxed sets purchased by the library are The Art of Mexico, Great Women Artists, and the complete Sister Wendy collection. Individual DVDs purchased are biographies of Jackson Pollock, Marc Chagall, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas. Lastly, the library purchased contemporary art DVDs on environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy, a documentary on graffiti art, and seasons one and two of the PBS series Art 21, focusing on art in the 21st century.

Please come to the library to check out our new cultural offerings on CD and DVD. CDs and documentary and instructional DVDs can be borrowed for up to three weeks, and there is no fee to check them out!

Film and Music Purchases with Lucy Medz Cultural Development Collection

Opera DVDs

Verdi: Il Trovatore La Traviata Aida Rigoletto
Puccini: La Boheme Madame Butterfly Turandot Tosca
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte Don Giovanni Le Nozze di Figaro
Rossini: La Cenerentola Il barbiere di Siviglia
Bizet: Carmen

Ballet/Dance DVDs

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
George Balanchine
Adam: Giselle
Romeo and Juliet: Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn
An Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Martha Graham: An American Original in Performance
The Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky: Sheherazade, La Spectre de la Rose, The Polovtsian Dances, The Firebird

Art DVDs

Landmarks of Western Art, 6 DVD set
Great Women Artists Box SetJackson Pollock
Marc Chagall Art: 21—Art in the 21st Century (Seasons One & Two)
Sister Wendy—The Complete Collection (Story of Painting/Grand Tour/Odyssey/Pains of Glass)
Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
Graffiti Verite: Read the writing on the wall
The Art of Mexico Box Set
Cezanne: Three Colours
Degas and the Dance: The Man Behind the Easel

Operas on CD

Chandos (Operas in English)
Verdi, Aida
Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
Puccini, Tosca
Maria Callas Sings Puccini’s Turandot
Renee Fleming’s By Request
Sumi Jo Sings Mozart
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd.

Jazz on CD

The Very Best of John Coltrane
Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue
Nine Simone’s Anthology
Louis Armstrong’s Jazz in Paris Concert

Multicultural Music on CD

There is a series of travel books called “The Rough Guide.” About ten years ago they started producing a series called “Music Rough Guide.” We have purchased about 30.

The music of:
Brazil
France
Spain
Sahara
Japan
Scotland
Africa
Mambo
Hungarian
Mediterranean
CaféParis
CaféMorocco
Samba
Tango

Come in and borrow a few today!