BCC, Upper Level
Need hands-on help with your smartphone, tablet, laptop or e-reader? Trying to download an app or program and getting stuck? Want to use free library media resources like eBooks and audiobooks from Libby? Sign up for a thirty-minute Device Advice session for in person assistance. Bring your personal tablet, laptop, smartphone, or e-reader with you. Make sure you have all passwords you might need during the session. Registration is required.

January 23, 6:30 – 8 PM in the Community Room

Take a safari drive through Thula Thula Game Reserve and see elephants, rhinos, leopards, hippos, and if you are lucky, a hyena at night. Located in the former Zulu Empire, Thula Thula, in partnership with local communities provides almost 14,000 acres of natural land for wildlife in South Africa. Learn about their efforts to protect endangered rhinos and meet elephant land size needs.
Recommended reading by author, Françoise Malby-Anthony, owner of Thula Thula, available at the library include: “An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival,” and “The elephants of Thula Thula.” Plus, “The elephant whisperer: my life with the herd in the African wild,” by Thula Thula founder, Lawrence Anthony.

2 pm Small Meeting Room
New to meditation? No problem! A certified trainer from the Heartfulness Institute (www.heartfulnessinstitute.org) will help you in taking that first step to develop calmness from within. As a practitioner, you can experience better concentration, inner balance and true wellness of being. Come and experience the peace and love as a starting point of many good things in life. REGISTER HERE. 

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in the Community Room 

Between 1935 and 1975, the pursuit of mental health became a social priority in the United States particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. How did San Francisco, once a sleepy outpost of the mental health professions, become a world-class psychiatric city after World War II? Why did the pursuit of self-improvement through psychotherapy become commonplace in certain regions of the country but not in others? Join writer and historian Justin Suran in this discussion of his Substack series “Reasons’ Frontier: How Psychiatric Science and Therapeutic Culture Became Part of Everyday Life.” No registration required.

Come prepared for a discussion at each meeting by reading these articles on Substack:

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in the Community Room 

Between 1935 and 1975, the pursuit of mental health became a social priority in the United States particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. How did San Francisco, once a sleepy outpost of the mental health professions, become a world-class psychiatric city after World War II? Why did the pursuit of self-improvement through psychotherapy become commonplace in certain regions of the country but not in others? Join writer and historian Justin Suran in this discussion of his Substack series “Reason's Frontier: How Psychiatric Science and Therapeutic Culture Became Part of Everyday Life.” No registration required.

Come prepared for a discussion at each meeting by reading these articles on Substack:

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. with Discussion from 4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the Community Room  

Watch the selected film and join fellow movie enthusiasts for a lively and thought-provoking discussion moderated by Lee Johnson. View the film at the library or at home. Sponsored by Bill and Jane Murray. 

December 13: Le Samourai (1967) 

A neo-noir crime thriller starring Alain Delon as a professional hitman trying to find out who hired him for a job and then tried to have him killed. French. Not rated. (105 minutes) 

Community Room, Lower Level

Join your fellow videophiles as we watch films available on Kanopy or on DVD in Fredricksen’s collection. Selections include films, TV shows and documentaries. Curious about the library’s free streaming service?  Head to the Reference Desk for information about Kanopy.

December 13: The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) 

This is the story of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebeneezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and other classic characters from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.