Summer Reading Programs Start

Children's Summer Reading Club

Teen and Tween Summer Program

Adult Summer Program

For the first time, this summer we have an adult summer reading program, “Master the Art of Reading.”  There is no registration.  After you read a book, fill out a Reader’s Review card, with whether you liked the book or not and this enters you in a weekly prize drawing.  The adult program runs from June 22-July 31.

The new downloadable books are finally here.  Six Arkansas public libraries are joining forces to provide a new service for their library patrons.  Arkansas River Valley Library System, Bentonville Public Library, Crawford County Library System, Fort Smith Public Library, Pope County Library System and Rogers Public Library are providing free downloadable audio books via Overdrive.  You must have a library card from one of the libraries in the consortium to be able to download the books.  Just click on the link above and enjoy.

Practice tests that could help you reach your school and career goals used to be expensive and inconvenient. Now it’s free and completely accessible at your local library at:

Learning Express Library

Click on the link and register by creating a user name and password.  If accessing from home the username is your card number.  Each person needs their own username and password.

Auto Repair Reference Center and Small Engine Repair Reference Center are now available on line.  Detailed instructions are available at the Circulation Desk or online at  Directions.

Current Events

Book Club, 2^nd Thursday of the month, at 6:30 pm.  The Pope County Library is a proud sponsor of the Heritage Hall Book Club.  For more information about attending this meeting contact Mellena at mellanad@yahoo.com or Judy at the library 968-4368.

Quote of the Week

"Never mistake motion for action."   

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), 

his distinctive writing style is 

characterized by economy and 

understatement and had a 

significant influence on the 

development of twentieth century 

fiction.   

Simon & Schuster Launches Teen Networking Site
By Jim Milliot
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing hopes to attract more teens to its books through the creation of a new Pulse It social networking site (www.simonandschuster.com/pulseit). The site is aimed at 14 to 18 year-olds and will let teens do things they can do on such places as Facebook--like create personal profiles and befriend other members--as well as read and react to S&S titles. S&S will make two books per month available to be read online for free and members can choose one of those titles and have 60 days to finish the book. Message boards will let readers discuss the book and rank it. The site will also have an author section where teens can interact with their favorite writers.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Prints from the Curzon Collection: Images of Napoleon and British Fears
of Invasion, 1789-1815
A collection of 1400 prints of political cartoons from the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The collection includes prints from both British and European publications and focuses on changing representations of Napoleon and on British fears of invasion. Visitors to the site can make their way through this collection, which is searchable by artist, title, and subject.  First-time visitors might get a good sense of the materials covered here by looking at the subject list which ranges from "Allegorical figure" all the way to "Whig party".

Trivia

There are approximately 5,500 

potato growers in the United States.  

The thickness of an ordinary potato 

chip is 55/1000 of an inch. Ridged 

chips are 4 times thicker, 210/1000

of an inch.  Pringles Potato Chips 

were introduce in 1969 by Procter 

& Gamble.  Potatoes are high in 

vitamin C and potassium. In fact, 

just 1 medium potato has 45% of

the vitamin C and 21% of the potassium 

our bodies need every day for good 

health. Just one serving of potatoes 

have 12% of the fiber we need every 

day.  During the Alaskan Klondike gold 

rush (1897-1898) potatoes were 

practically worth their weight in gold.  

Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin 

C content that miners traded gold for them.