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Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:59 |
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 Popular author, David Baldacci, takes a departure from his usual thrillers with the holiday novel, The Christmas Train. Join Lit Lovers Book Discussion Group as they meet to discuss The Christmas Train in room AB on Tuesday, December 1st at 6 p.m. Copies of the book may be obtained at the Norman Information Services Desk. Please call 701-2620 for more information.
The story follows journalist Tom Langdon as he makes a cross-country train ride from Washington D.C. to L.A. to meet his girlfriend. Banned from flying after an incident at an airport security checkpoint, he is forced to ride the rails. Aboard the train he encounters an interesting cast of characters including a young couple preparing to wed on the train, a former Catholic priest, and his ex-girlfriend. This heartwarming story is also filled with train lore, romance, and plenty of good cheer.
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Monday, 16 November 2009 16:46 |
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 Programs and services of the Norman Public Library are going beyond the library walls with new technologies and traditional services. The Sooner Mall, 3301 W Main, of Norman is now home to a children's story time, innovative book boxes, and a drop box to return library materials. B&B Country Store, 3831 Alameda, now features a book delivery locker and a book drop for library customers near Lake Thunderbird.
Tuesdays at 10 a.m. is story time in the mall in front of Sears. Librarians Charlotte Gordon and Susan Lura lead the preschool age story time. Each week’s activities are centered on a single theme. In addition to reading books, Miss Charlotte and Ms. Susan (as they are called by the children) play music for the children, sing and dance with the children, and tell stories of their own creation using laminated paper figures on a whiteboard. Next to the story time area at the mall, a table is set up displaying children’s books from the library for parents to check out. |
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:20 |
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 Norman teens will become half-baked pastry chefs at the Apple Pie 101: Make It to Bake It workshop on Wednesday, November 25, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the library, 225 N. Webster in downtown Norman. There is no fee for the workshop but registration is required. To register, visit the library, call 701-2620, or register online via the events calendar by clicking here.
In the workshop participants will be given all the ingredients for an apple pie and will leave with a pie ready to take home and bake. Friends of the Norman Library are providing the ingredients for this project.
“This workshop is as American as apple pie,” jokes Norman teen librarian Rebecca Spence, “and this is the sixth year that we have done this at the library. It’s a great way for young people to contribute to their families’ Thanksgiving menu.”
The Norman Public Library is part of the Pioneer Library System. For more information about this program or any of the services for teens, children, or adults offered at the library, call, visit, or log on to the website. |
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 09:22 |
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 Cleveland Area Rapid Transit and the Norman Public Library will be turning wheels and pages with Story Time on the Bus the first Saturday of the month. The story time, designed for children ages 2 to 5 years with their parent or caregiver, is part of a growing partnership between the bus system and the library.
"We are always looking for ways to take our library services beyond the library walls," says Norman children's librarian Charlotte Gordon. "We have story time activities for children in schools and daycare centers all over the area. We even have a story time at Sooner Mall every Tuesday morning. Now, we are taking our show on the road by having a special story time on the bus."
The inaugural Story Time on the Bus will be Saturday, November 7. Space on the bus is limited so story time riders are encouraged to save a seat by registering in advance at the library or by calling 701-2600.
Story Time on the Bus riders should meet Gordon, or Ms. Charlotte as regular library visitors know her, at 11 a.m. at the bus stop on Webster Avenue on the west side of the library, 225 N. Webster in downtown Norman. Gordon and CART staff will explain bus procedures for first-time riders and will have a special gift for her story time participants.
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:03 |
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 The Norman Public Library presents its fifth annual Native American Festival on Sunday, November 8, 1-6 p.m. at the library, 225 N. Webster in downtown Norman. The theme for the free event is Living Stories. Activities will focus on preservation and celebration of Native languages and storytelling through traditional and non-traditional formats.
“Each year we have a different theme,” says event organizer Julie Moring. “Our first four years have focused on honoring local Native American educators, Native American veterans, prominent Native Americans from Oklahoma, and, last year, Oklahoma’s Native American Athletes both past and present. 2009 finds us looking at the literary art of storytelling.
“This year’s theme, Living Stories, looks at storytelling as being something live and fluid and expressive. Storytelling can take place through words, art, music, dance and so much more.”
Storytellers Kricket Rhoades Connywerdy and Patrick Redbird will share stories from various Native cultures. The Oklahoma Fancy Dancers will demonstrate how dancing, as a narrative art, can tell stories in a more abstract way.
“Most Native arts and crafts are narrative in some way,” Moring says. “The Tribes Gallery of Norman has prepared an exhibit for the library that illustrates how moods, emotions, and sometimes specific activities or actual events are expressed through the arts of painting, pottery, sculpture, weaving, and other media.”
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The Norman Public Library will present a Read and Ride story time on the first Saturday of every month. The next story time will be Saturday, December 5, at 11 a.m., with stories, songs, and activities on a Wintertime theme. This time, however, the number of story time riders will be limited and registration is required.
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