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Marigold Newsletter January 2018
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Marigold Welcomes Kristine den Boon
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Save the Date! - Marigold Member Libraries' Workshop
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Marigold Making a Difference Awards
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Stoney Nakoda Nation - Morley, AB
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Chestermere Public Library
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Drumheller Public Library
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I was Santa for their Christmas party this year.
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My name is Lachie Macfadden. I have worked at the Drumheller Public Library for 13 years now and love my job and the community. I do 5 regular programs a week and various others in the month. My background is early childhood education but I like working with all ages of children which also includes coaching youth football for 10 years now. I would like to share with you one of the programs I'm passionate about. For the last 4 years, I have planned and implemented a program for adult special needs in the area. Originally, I read a junior novelisation of a movie book for 3 half hour sessions. We would then watch the movie together. To break up the story, we would play charades or I would tell them a random tale. I generally work with preschool children but I tried to make this program "older"; half the group are older than me. I have changed the program a few times over the years and now started something different this past Fall.
Since the Fall, I have changed it to a 1 hour program. The first half hour is crafts, the second half is reading picture books, singing songs, and being even more interactive. When we first started, the patron's workers would "help them" do their craft. I had a nice talk about letting them create their own art and being independent. We still watch a movie every 4th week. My numbers haven't changed since I started, at least 10 every week.
-Lachie Macfadden, Drumheller Public Library
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Gleichen & District Library
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Minister's and YOU Libraries Awards - Deadline Coming Soon!
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Freedom to Read Week: February 25 - March 3, 2018
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On-Demand Webinar Achieve $20 Board governance done poorly creates significant frustration for members and can lead to organizational dysfunction. When run well, boards contribute to the vibrancy and success of the organization they govern. This webinar will enhance the effectiveness of your Board of Directors by building clarity and understanding about the roles and responsibilities of the board, the relationship and authority between staff and board, and the specific, supportive duties of individual board members. Viewers will learn tools for effective board meetings and decision making. They will also come away with a deeper understanding of the policy, procedure, and processes essential to a well-functioning board.
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Mental health is recognized as an integral part of a healthy workplace. Supportive workplaces promote the total health and well-being of their employees and offer protection from psychological harm. Changing the culture, especially to a culture of caring that embeds all forms of health in all aspects of the workplace, takes effort and time. This webinar will provide you with an overview of the tools and resources your organization needs to create and implement a comprehensive healthy workplace program.
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Nebraska Library Commission If Hunger Games can inspire young women to take up the bow and arrow, then surely other young adult (YA) titles can inspire enthusiasm for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). This program will discuss the role of YA fiction in teen development and specific YA titles to encourage STEM interests with teen girls.
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Meet Lynn! Lynn Blain is a Cataloguer at Marigold. Early Life: I was born in Alberta but grew up in BC. I lived in 5 different towns (8 houses) and went to 6 different schools by the time I graduated high school. Family: I don’t have any brothers or sisters, but I have lots of extended family. Favourite Things: Reading (especially Fantasy/Science fiction), animals, swimming, time with family, cuddling with Koko (my mom’s puppy), learning history, travelling Fun Fact: I love tea - drinking at least six cups a day! My current favourite is Stash Holiday Chai. What I Like About Marigold: The team here is great to work with and there’s always lots of laughs. Everyone is open to new ideas and willing to listen to even the craziest suggestion. Book Recommendation: Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey. This book takes fairy tales and turns them upside down; it gives you a look at what happens in the situations that don’t quite work like the original fairy tale does (like Cinderella if the prince was only a child).
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Brother by David ChariandyAn intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
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American Warby Omar El AkkadA first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
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Sputnik's Children by Terri FavroNarrated by a successful, lorazepam-addicted comic artist, the novel jumps between two realities: the one we all know (Earth Standard Time) and another, which has been ravaged by nuclear war (Atomic Mean Time).
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Little Sisterby Barbara GowdyExperiencing disturbing dreams about being in another woman's body during a summer thunderstorm outbreak, Rose discovers from her dementia-patient mother the existence and traumatic story of her late younger sister.
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Scarborough by Catherine HernandezScarborough, Catherine Hernandez's debut novel, is a moving multi-voiced story about a Toronto neighbourhood that refuses to fall apart in the face of poverty and crime.
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel : A Novelby Heather O'NeillTwo orphaned soulmates—one a piano prodigy, the other a dancing savant—dream up a plan for the most extraordinary circus show the world has ever seen against a backdrop of the Great Depression.
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This Accident of Being Lost : Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonDrawing from her Nishnaabeg storytelling roots, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has created a poignant collection of songs and stories in This Accident of Being Lost that explores the contemporary Indigenous identity and experience.
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Son of a Tricksterby Eden RobinsonWith striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Fellowship, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy.
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The Dark and Other Love Stories by Deborah WillisThe award-winning author of Vanishing and Other Stories presents a collection of 13 tales of dreamscape worlds, haunted houses and danger, from the story of a drug dealer's girlfriend who signs up for a first manned mission to Mars, to a girl who falls in love with a man who would turn her into a bird.
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Access the new mobile version of www.tracpac.ab.ca like an app!
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iOS - Using your device's Safari web browser, visit www.tracpac.ab.ca
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Android - Using your device's web browser, visit www.tracpac.ab.ca
- Tap the menu icon
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