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| Feature News
| | Central Library Hosts Computer Coding Camp for Middle and High School Students
More than a dozen Birmingham area teens now have insight on how computer coding is used to create movies and video games, thanks to the Birmingham Public Library and community partners. On July 11-15, the Central Library hosted the Steel City Hackers Coding Camp for middle and high school students. Generously funded by a UAB Benevolent Fund Local Agency Grant, the coding camp offered local teens a week-long opportunity to learn how to code and create their own movies and video games.
Libraries in Birmingham, Nationwide, Opening Their Venues to Pokemon Go Players
While some venues across the country are shooing away participants of Pokémon Go, the Birmingham Public Library system is welcoming patron players of the popular virtual game that is sweeping the country. Several of Birmingham’s 19 libraries have seen patrons come in trying to catch Pokémon while playing the game on their smart phones.
| Events & Programs
| | Pokémon Go Workshop
Central Library/Story Castle, July 23, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
The Central Library is hosting a free Intro to Pokémon Go workshop to educate people about the popular mobile game sweeping the country—and to promote safety at the same time. The workshop is being organized by Jennifer Hancock, a library assistant in the Central Library Youth Department who is an avid player of the game. Dolores Hydock
Springville Road Regional Branch Library, July 26, 6:30 p.m.
Master storyteller Dolores Hydock will regale her audience with stories of reading adventure. Party on a Stick
Five Points West Regional Branch Library, July 27, 10:30 a.m. Target audience: adults.
Create a wide variety of appetizers, hors d'oeuvres, and snacks without turning on a stove. All these tasty treats are on a skewer and are nutritious and delicious.
| Resources & Classes
| | Basic Crochet Class
West End Branch Library, July 26, 10:00 a.m.
If you are just learning how to crochet or need a refresher course, join in and learn all the basic techniques of crochet and have fun while you learn.
Computer Class – Advanced Microsoft Word
Five Points West Regional Branch Library, July 28, 9:30 a.m.
Class on advanced techniques using Microsoft Word. BPL Database – Tuition Funding Sources
Tuition Funding Sources (TFS) is a private website designed to help students find scholarships and college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information.
| Books & Materials
| | Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Author Ransom Riggs has collected odd old photos for much of his life. He and his editor thought it would be interesting to base a novel around the pictures. That novel became Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. I don’t know of anyone who’s ever done a novel like this before, but the Surrealists and Dadaists illustrated some of their fictions with pre-existing engravings taken from old magazines and catalogs. Book Review: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
The character Lazarus Long is the star of two Heinlein novels, Methuselah’s Children and Time Enough for Love. He also appears in The Cat That Walks Through Walls, The Number of the Beast, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset, the story of Lazarus’ mother. Lazarus is rich, wise, and extremely long-lived. He attributes his wealth to the fact he knew to never draw to a pair of deuces, and his long life to never giving anyone the chance to shoot him in the back.
| | | July 22, 2016
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