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UAB’s Regions Institute for Financial Education to Offer Money Matters Workshop Series at Central Library on First Wednesdays Beginning July 6, 2016
It’s never too late to start building a better understanding of your personal finances and begin developing a plan for the future. To assist you in this endeavor, the Birmingham Public Library is partnering with the staff of the Regions Institute for Financial Education at UAB to offer a series of Money Matters workshops at the Central Library on the first Wednesday of each month from July 2016 to May 2017. Please join us at these informative workshops to take part in discussions about a variety of money management issues and learn ways to achieve your economic goals.

Events & Programs

Hit a Home Run with the Negro Southern League Museum
Central Library, June 28, 10:00 a.m.
Toby Richards, curator for the Negro Southern League Museum, will be sharing artifacts from the rare and priceless collection of Dr. Layton Revel for a hands-on experience for youth, teens, and adults to enjoy. Join us for a look into Birmingham's past with America's favorite game: baseball!

Young Leadership Tuesday
Inglenook Branch Library, June 28, 3:30 p.m.
We are developing leaders and readers at our Young Leadership Tuesday program! A child chosen from a group of participants will lead a reading program by reading a story at his/her comfort level to the other participants, stimulate questions based on the story, facilitate a craft, and clean up afterwards.

Get in the Game with Virtual Reality
Five Points West Regional Branch Library, June 29, 2:00 p.m.
Love to play video games? Ever thought about designing them? UAB’s ET (Enabling Technologies Laboratory) will provide an interactive presentation and discussion for teens regarding virtual reality complete with giant screens, Oculus Rift headsets to test out, and more! We’ll talk about virtual reality in technology, why it’s important, and what role it will play in the future.

Resources & Classes

Body Changing Weight Loss Support Group
Springville Road Regional Branch Library, June 26, 4:00 p.m.
Provides informal support in reaching healthy weight goals. Nutritional and exercise information is available, but no specific diet or plan is preferred. Provides a forum for discussion of common obstacles, healthy recipes, encouragement, and successful tips.

Word 2010 Advanced Part 1; Part 2
Central Library, Computer Center, June 27, 2:15-3:15 p.m.; 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Public Computer Services trainers will show participants how to use headers and footers, columns, tables, and work with images.

Learn to Knit: Knitting Basics for Adults
Powderly Branch Library, June 29, 2:00 p.m.
Learn the basics of knitting. From a simple cast-on to knitting and purling.

Books & Materials

Book Review: Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
This one came to me by an odd route. I’m not a typical Steve Martin fan. Though I adore his seventies stand-up and SNL appearances, I’ve deliberately missed most of his movie career (there are some winning exceptions) and don’t get his New Yorker humor pieces (though I have to admit I don’t respond to most written New Yorker humor).

Series Review: The Sunday Philosophy Club
Isabel Dalhousie is a piece of work, a happy, complex, intelligent, and amusing piece of work, the narrator and protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s ten book (and counting) series, The Sunday Philosophy Club. As with McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street series we are in contemporary, bourgeois Edinburgh, but, in this case, on the south side of town, near the university, and it takes place entirely from one person’s point of view: Isabel’s.

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