Find out about what's happening at the library this winter, including a visit with Rick Steves, eMagazines for your smartphone or tablet, upcoming events and more.

1. Between the Pages
Winter 2013 westervillelibrary.org
Coming to Westerville...
eMagazines
at the Library
You can now have free access to over 120 popular
magazine titles on your computer, smartphone,
tablet or Kindle Fire by using Zinio Magazines.
TV Host and Author
Rick Steves 1
Friday, March 15, 7:30-9pm Find the new Zinio Magazines
Doors open at 7pm in the alphabetical list on our
online collections page or by
You've read his European travel guidebooks and scanning the QR code.
tuned in to his popular travel shows on public television
and public radio. Now, join the travel expert as he
shares all the latest in smart European travel. Steves' 2
presentation will be held at the Westerville Central High
School auditorium. Use your library card and email address to set up
a free Zinio account to begin reading your favorite
Tickets are $5. Payment by credit card is available online,
magazines. After downloading, you can read
and cash or check payment is accepted at the library's
wherever you wish, without Internet connection.
Adult Services desk. Books will be available for purchase
and signing following the presentation. For more
information, call the Programming office at ext. 2103. 3
Be sure to go back to the library's website to add
7th Annual Celebrate the Arts more titles. Ordering magazines directly from
Writing Contest Zinio will prompt a subscription fee.
Writers of all ages are invited to submit
original work of 800 words or less in any genre.
First place winners will be published in the
newspaper. To enter your work, please email
your submission to artscouncilwesterville@yahoo.com or drop
it off at Youth Services by March 6. Finalists will be honored at
the Writers Reception on April 14.
Presented by the Arts Council of Westerville, ThisWeek
Westerville News & Public Opinion and the library.

2. Directions Thanks for 17 years
In December, the Friends Shoppe
Notes from Library Director Don W. Barlow marked 17 years of operation
thanks to our amazing staff of
loyal volunteers and the support
Looking back at a record year of our customers. We are proud to
report that the shop is run entirely
by volunteers and that we work
exclusively to support the Library.
For more than 80 years our mission has been to provide the best services possible. I hope
you feel we were successful in doing so in 2012. Thanks to our community’s support, We have ordered the new van for
the library was able to reopen on Sundays, purchase many more materials, invest more Outreach Services, and truly
appreciate the donations for our
heavily in electronic books and magazines, and offer more programs than ever before. Our
"Help Replace the Van" campaign.
community responded in record numbers. Donations are still being accepted.
Last year the library circulated 2,269,798 items, an increase of 17.14%. Over 45,000 people On March 30, 10am to 4pm at the
attended programs of all kinds, representing an increase of 25.53%. And, our website Library, the Friends will host a day
had 1.9 million visitors. Thank you for your continued support of one of America’s finest for fiber enthusiasts who enjoy
libraries. arts including knitting, crocheting,
quilting, fiber spinning, rug hooking
This year, a rejuvenated Youth and Teen area will welcome children. The Activity Center will and cross stitch. Details can be
be enlarged, a permanent Homework Help Center will be added and the Teen Center will found on the Friends link through
receive touch-ups. the Library's website or on fliers
available at the Library.
In Adult Services, the Technology Center will be renovated with new flooring and lower – Arlene Roeder, President
walls at the computer stations, to improve airflow. Two new Online Conference/Skype Friends of the Library
stations and a 3D print station will be installed in the department.
Throughout the year we will be replacing outdated HVAC systems with more efficient ones,
beginning in early spring with the 1965 and 1979 units.
As we look forward to another outstanding year, we invite you to experience all that your
library has to offer.
Still giving
Little hands moving a computer
mouse to count the jelly beans on
Between the Pages the screen. Eager faces matching
colors to Green Eggs and Ham. The
Newsletter Reader Survey Early Literacy Stations sponsored
by the Foundation in 2010 continue
We appreciate your input to be heavily used by youngsters
learning to read.
More than 200 of you mailed, emailed or dropped off your responses to the reader
survey that appeared in our fall issue. We're grateful to you for sharing your opinions. Just as those stations are still giving,
you can set up a trust or a permanent
Based on your comments, we’ve included eBooks in our Hot Titles section and are
fund that will continue to give.
giving you more details on upcoming programs for adults. Several readers told us they The Foundation invites your gift of
aren’t receiving ePages, our enewsletter. Please be sure to add no-reply@westervilleli- continued philanthropy. To ask about
brary.org to your email address book or contact us at answers@westervillelibrary.org to a fund or annual donation please call
be added to our mailing list. Thank you, and keep in touch! administration at ext. 2140 or visit
westervillelibrary.org/foundation.

3. Local
History
Hot Titles Center
Now open Saturdays
Artist and animal lover
Books and Movies coming soon
Book and magazine illustrator Will Rannells
was noted for his drawings of dogs. Creating
Books in his studio on Central College Road near
Hoover Dam, he was inspired by his own
Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy (February)
menagerie of animals that at one point
Chicky Starr turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and welcomes an unlikely
cast of characters for a winter week together, sharing laughter and the heartache of included 13 dogs and several cats.
respective challenges. Rannells discovered a passion for sketching
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (February) at an early age. Upon graduating from
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is accustomed Cincinnati Art
to digging up clues, but not bodies. What she finds in the crypt on the five-hundredth Academy, he
anniversary of St. Tancred’s death will halt the proceedings dead in the tracks. began to work
as a commercial
Six Years by Harlan Coben (March) artist. He quickly
Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry Todd. realized that his
When Jake comes across his obituary, he attends the funeral to get a glimpse of Todd’s wife best work was not
… but she is not Natalie.
the humans in his
Guardian by Beverly Lewis (March) illustrations but instead the animals drawn
When schoolteacher Jodi Winfield becomes increasingly attached to a mysterious girl, an in charcoal or his beloved water colors.
unexpected opportunity brings Jodi to Hickory Hollow and into the cloistered world of the
His artwork graced the covers of Life
Lancaster Old Order Amish. Will she find answers there?
and McCall’s magazines and was used in
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Hot eBook title) calendars distributed by Buckeye Union
It is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and Insurance Company.
reservations are being made when Amy disappears. Nick is strangely evasive and definitely
bitter, but is he really a killer? In 1926, Rannells joined the faculty of
OSU where his desk was known as the
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by headquarters for stray dogs with its supply
Katherine Boo (Hot eBook title) of scraps, bones and biscuits. One student
New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo spent three years among the declared that if anyone wants to find
residents of the Annawadi slum, unearthing tragic and poignant stories about residents’ Rannells just follow a hungry looking mutt
efforts to raise families, earn a living or simply survive. and it will lead you to him.
Movies Will Rannells has a small collection of
artwork in the library's Local History Center.
January: Taken 2 (PG-13), Frankenweenie (PG), Hotel Transylvania (PG), Possession (PG-13)
February: End of Watch (R), Here Comes the Boom (PG), Master (R), Hit & Run (R) – Compiled by Beth Weinhardt
March: Wreck-it Ralph (PG), Anna Karenina (2012) (R)
Local History Coordinator
– Compiled by Belinda Mortensen, Collection Development Coordinator
Did you know the library offers . . .
Over a dozen book clubs?
From the popular Cookbook Club and the brand new Read Between the Wines Club, to the clubs
that meet at the two senior centers in our district, the library hosts six book clubs for adult readers.
Youth and teen readers can join the American Girl Book Club, Beta Books: A Read-It-First Club, Teen
Book Challenge and four other clubs just for them. And, if you're still looking for a club, you can
start your own by using our kit that includes multiple copies of a title, sample discussion questions,
hosting tips and a canvas tote. We're talking about books!

4. Events for Adults
Register online at westervillelibrary.org or call ext. 5004
Author her illustrations with children at
10:30am. Her numerous picture books
AFTER HOURS @ THE LIBRARY
WHISKEY MILE Presentations include Time to Sleep, Caldecott Honor
with
Book In the Small Pond and most recent
Sunday, Feb. 10 6-8:30pm release Underground. A book signing
Brain Fitness Program with will follow.
A part of America's Music, a music and Patrick Hartory
film series sponsored by the library and At 6:30pm, she will share her passion for
Tuesday, Mar. 5
Otterbein University. This Irish folk and papermaking and show how she creates
7-8:30pm
rock ensemble plays everything from her illustrations. Meeting Rooms.
traditional jigs and reels, to the sounds National speaker Registration required for each event.
of Jethro Tull and Jimi Hendrix. Library and author Patrick
Atrium. Registration required. During Hartory will present Mystery Writer Cara Black
this performance, no library services will his new book, Your Wednesday, Mar. 20 7-8:30pm
be available. Ageless Mind: The Complete Guide to
a Strong, Young and Healthy Mind. Contemporary noir mystery writer Cara
Hartory discusses super brain foods Black will speak about her series set in
Two Wandering Women that slow mental aging and natural beautiful Paris, featuring spunky and
Travelogue: ways to improve memory. A Q&A and stylish P.I. Aimee Leduc. Black's newest
book signing will follow. Meeting installment, Murder Below Montparnas-
Turkey sem, will be released March 5. A book
Room A. Registration required.
Monday, Feb. 18
signing will follow the presentation.
7-8:30pm
Enter for a chance to win a trip to Paris.
Storytime and the Art of
Having traveled
Papermaking with Pulitzer Prize Winner
2,000 miles
around Turkey, Carol Gray and Denise Fleming Deborah Blum
Nancy Staley are ready to share Monday, Mar. 11
Thursday, Apr. 4 7-8:30pm
their Top 10 Turkey experiences. Storytime
Witness stunning images of 10:30-11:15am Author of five books, Deborah Blum will
Istanbul's Blue Mosque and Hagia Papermaking speak on her newest title, The Poisoner's
Sophia, view the natural wonder 6:30-7:30pm Handbook. Blum shares the untold
called Pamukkale and wander the story of how poison rocked Jazz Age
ancient city of Ephesus where Celebrated New York City. A book signing will
Cleopatra strolled. Meeting children's author and illustrator Denise follow. Meeting Rooms.
Rooms. Registration required. Fleming will read samples of her award- Registration required.
winning stories and discuss
Mysteries of Credit Thumbprint Painting WWII
Reports Revealed Thursday, Mar. 14 7-8:30pm Monday, Mar. 25 7-8pm
Wednesday, Feb. 27
7-8pm Calling all adults to join us for Dr. Mark P. Gingerich, the James S.
thumbprint painting as we stamp Britton Professor of European History
Certified Consumer whimsical cards or cardstock at Ohio Wesleyan, was born in Beirut,
Credit Counselor paintings. Create everything from Lebanon. He has lived, traveled and
Richard Korn will disclose how your caterpillars to trees with your unique studied in the United States, Europe
credit score impacts your life, even fingerprints. Meeting Room B. and the Middle East. Dr. Gingerich will
when you are not seeking a credit Registration required. speak on his specialized field - the era
card, car loan or mortgage. Meeting of the World Wars. Meeting Rooms.
Room B. Registration required. Registration required.

5. Events for Youth
Register online at westervillelibrary.org or call ext. 5006
Supernatural Sweethearts
Thursday, Feb. 7 2013 Teen Book Challenge
3-4pm Thursday, Feb. 28 Budding Artists
Tuesday, Mar. 26 3:30-4:30pm Thursday, Mar. 21 2-3pm
Teens, do you
suspect that We double dog dare teens to read Focusing on art as process rather than
your boyfriend a book a month with us. Those art as a finished
or girlfriend may who do will get a book badge as product, children
have secret fairy proof of their awesomeness. We'll ages 4-6 will
wings or might be meet each month to make our explore and try
a creature of the night? Explore the honor badges, talk and bring the a specific art
Teen Paranormal Romance Fiction book to life. Meeting Room A. medium, chalk.
craze with crafts, quizzes and snacks. Registration required. Come dressed to make a mess. Meeting
Registration required. Room A. Registration required.
Feb. The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Mar. Tilt by Ellen Hopkins
Tunes & Tales: Funny Bunny Puppet Show
Peter and the Wolf Wednesday, Mar. 27 10 & 11am
Saturday, Feb. 9
ages 4-8 with families My Life in Pictures: Photo Meet Ed, Ned, Ted, and Bob - the
9:30am; 10:30am with sign Rhyming Dust
Storytelling for Teens Bunnies! Based on Jan
interpretation; Friday, Mar. 1 3:30-5:30pm
and 11:30am Thomas' books, the
Everyone has a story to tell, and Big Mean Dust Bunny
The 25th annual teens can learn to tell theirs through will be there, too, with
performance features the photographic art. Participants will a special appearance
Westerville Symphony with narration be given cameras for photographing by Rosemary Wells'
by the library. Families will receive a their story, then will be shown how to Max and Ruby, from Max's New Suit.
copy of the Peter and the Wolf book/CD. edit those photos. Photo stories will Rhyming is loads of fun. You'll rhyme,
An instrument petting zoo will follow be displayed in the library's meeting too, by the time we're done! Meeting
each performance. Meeting Rooms. rooms. Meeting Room B. Rooms. Registration required.
Registration required for each family Registration required.
member attending.
For more information, please contact
the Program office at 882-7277 Duct Tape Crafts
ext. 2103. Thursday, Mar. 28 4-5pm
Back by popular demand. We’ll make a
Amelia Bedelia Family Night
wallet or a flower - just by using duct
Tuesday, Mar. 19 6:30-8pm
Sesame Street Sing tape. Ages 8-11. Meeting Room A.
and Dance Along Amelia Bedelia
Tuesday, Feb. 12 1-2pm turns 50 this year!
Celebrate with Storytimes for
Move to the songs of Sesame Street: stories, activities,
C is for Cookie, Sunny Days, I Love Trash, crafts and a
every age
and more. Parents and caregivers (you special guest Winter II Registration
all know the words, right?) are invited appearance from opens Feb. 4
to join in. Ages 2-6. Meeting Rooms. Amelia. Meeting
Registration required. Spring Registration
Rooms. Registration required.
opens Mar. 19

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