Summer Reading Program Ends August 18

Westfield Washington Public Library Board of Trustees: Mike Thomas, President Carolyn Wheeler, Vice President Paul Catlin, Treasurer Mic Mead, Secretary Nancy Knochel Dan Pitcock David Weiss The Library Board meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. The Summer Reading Program comes to an end on August 18, so be sure to get all your books entered! There are some terrific incentives to work toward, including lots of great items donated from around the Westfield business community. Adults have a chance to win a Kindle Fire and kids can win a Color Nook! There is also a special drawing for kids and teens to win an iPad! So hurry and get all your reading logged!

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Thanks to Summer Reading Program Sponsors

We would like to sincerely thank the local merchants who generously donated prizes for adults, young adults and children, and we hope you will thank them with your patronage. Applebee's Arctic Zone Ben & Ari's Car-X Charleston's Chick-fil-A Chili's Climb Time Indy Coldstone Creamery Domino's Pizza Don Pablo's Eiteljorg Museum Friends of the Westfield Library Hamilton County Community Tennis Association IMMI Indiana Fever Indiana Repertory Theater Indiana State Fair Indiana State Museum Indianapolis Children's Museum Guild Indianapolis Colts Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis Museum of Art Jazzercise Kit & Kaboodle Laser Flash Live Nation Max & Erma's Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt Papa John's Pizza Papa Murphy's Pizza Paradise Bakery Petite Chou Regal Theaters Simply Sweet Shoppe Snapperz Steak & Shake Taco Bell Tony Sacco's Coal Oven Pizza Union Street Flowers and Gifts Wendy's Westfield Automotive Westfield Lion's Club Westfield Woman's Club White Castle

Library Hours Monday-Thursday 10:00 AM-8:00 PM Friday 10:00 AM-6:00 PM Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM Closed Sunday

From the Board of Trustees

The board meeting minutes and construction management firms. packets are posted on the librarys Those requests were to be website at www.wwpl.lib.in.us. submitted to the library by Wednesday, July 18, 2012. The July 11, 2012 Building Committee will review Board Meeting those documents and make a recommendation to the Library Circulation for June 2012 was Board most likely at the August 45,736, and of those circulations board meeting. 1,778 were from Hamilton County Reciprocal Borrowers. 69 items were circulated by patrons from other Evergreen Libraries, and a total of 732 items from WWPL were sent to other Evergreen Libraries. We issued 276 new library cards, and of those 31 were issued to Hamilton County Reciprocal Borrowers. 1,830 items were checked out using the Self Check Station. The Building Committee reported that Library Director Sheryl Sollars had sent out Requests for Qualifications to five different Preliminary work on the 2013 budget has begun. The Budget Committee will meet later in July, and the meeting with the representative from the Department of Local Government and Finance is during the last week in July. The Library Board voted to advertise the notice for an additional appropriation from the Rainy Day Fund. This additional appropriation is for the purchase of materials, paying for service contracts and to fund the possible recommendations the Personnel Committee is currently working on. The Public Hearing for the additional appropriation will be at the August 8, 2012 Board Meeting. The Library Board discussed various fund raising ideas for the Library Renovation/Addition Project.

Did You Know?

Our paper recycling bin has arrived and is located at the south end of the parking lot. All funds from this program will go to Friends of the Westfield Library to be used to support library programs. E-mail notices are automatically generated by our Evergreen Circulation System. If your current email address is on your account, these courtesy notices alert you to holds that have become available, as well as upcoming due dates for items you have checked out. Please check Yes, Please the SPAM folder of your email to Newspaper and Inserts see if these notices may have Magazines/Catalogs been filtered as junk. If you will Office/School Papers add the email address webmaster Junk Mail @wwpl.lib.in.us to your Safe Sender List, it helps assure the No, Thanks.. notices are sent to your inbox. No Cardboard/Food Boxes No Textbooks or Hard Cover Also add PHull@wwpl.lib.in.us to this list, so youll be sure to Books receive our monthly newsletter! No Phone Books The Gale Virtual Reference Library is coming to our website! With electronic reference books, you can instantly access hundreds of eBooks on virtually any subject. These trusted, authoritative reference works are available 24/7! Also you can translate, download audio of the individual articles, and save your favorites. Subjects include: Biography Business Education Environment General Reference History Law Literature Medicine Multicultural Studies Nation and World Religion Science Social Science

Adult Activities
Book Discussion Groups The Mystery Book Discussion Group is talking about Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin, when they meet on Wednesday, August 1 at 1 p.m. Come join other mystery lovers at a once-amonth discussion group that meets at the library. You are invited even if you havent read the book! Future discussions are: September 5: Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet October 3: Still Missing by Chevy Stevens websites and sources about family history, as well as meet some terrific people. The club meets on Saturday, August 4 at 10:15 a.m. in the Sumner Room. Beginning and experienced genealogists are welcome to become members. Euchre Group Are you a euchre enthusiast looking for three other players? Join in the fun when the Euchre Group meets at 5:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Come enjoy a relaxing evening of fun with some great people at this free program on August 8 and 22! you to create everything from simple flyers to greeting cards and newsletters. The class is presented on Thursday, August 16, at 6:30 p.m. Join us for a free class called Email Basics, designed for beginners who want to learn how easy it can be to keep up with friends and family through the Internet. Learn to set up a free email account, as well as how to send and receive messages. The class is offered on Tuesday, August 28, at 6:30 p.m.

Want to get started on Facebook? Already have a Facebook account Come join other book lovers at a but not sure what to once-a-month do next? Come to discussion group the library for that meets at the Intro to E-Books Facebook library. The Fundamentals, a class for With the explosion General Group beginners that teaches you to set of e-readers such reads a wide as the Nook, up your page, manage privacy variety of genres settings, and connect with friends Kindle, iPad and and meets on the and family! Learn to update your all the various third Wednesday of status and add a photo, all while apps to use with them, you may each month at 1 p.m. You are want to try the free books the you interact with others online. An invited even if you havent read email address is required to library has to download to your the book! These Things Hidden by reading device. Intro to E-Books is register for Facebook, but the Heather Gudenkauf is the topic for offered at the library on Monday, class is free and is offered on this month, and the discussion will August 20, at 6:30 p.m., and it Thursday, August 30, at 3 p.m. be in the Sumner Room on shows you how to search for, Wednesday, August 15. Future Watercolor Painting Class download and read e-books for discussions are: free from the library website! Be Talented artist Jan sure to bring along your reader! Roland teaches a September 19: Double Bind class in Watercolor by Chris Bohjalian Computer Classes Painting and Come to the free class at the Techniques on October 17: The Caretakers library and learn all about Thursday, August by local author Shauna Nosler Microsoft 16, at 10:15 a.m. No Publisher. previous art experience is Genealogy Club This desktop necessary, and the class fee of Join the Westfield Genealogy publishing $12 includes all materials. Club and share ideas, new software allows

More Adult Activities

Weve got Matinee Movies: Based on the Book at the library! Go Between the Covers with our series of movies based on popular books. Join us on one Saturday each month at 1 p.m. as we screen some fantastic films. The film on August 11 is War Horse ( Dreamworks) Refreshments will be served. Why buy a ticket when you can see movies for FREE at WWPL! Almost everybody has a digital camera, but the results can often be disappointing. On Saturday, August 25, at 10:30 a.m., learn some tips and techniques like lighting, composition, downloading your photos and storing them. There will be a question and answer session, too. The cost is $15, and you may register with Information/ Reference Services at 317-896-9391. Join Westfield Police Departments Detective Brett M. Bays at the library for Identity Theft and You, on Saturday, August 18, at 2 p.m. Detective Bays will explain what identity theft is, how to avoid it and what type of identity theft is taking place in the Westfield area. Please contact Information/Reference Services at 317-896-9391 to register for this free program.

Summer Activities
Art Club School age kids to teens are invited to be part of the WWPL Art Club. This free club will meet 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday August 2: Torn Paper Art - Making different themed pictures from torn paper. Xtreme Science MagicShow On Wednesday, August 8, at 11 a.m., you can see a fire tornado, smoke-ring cannon, optical illusions, floating beach balls, bouncing bubbles, and lots more! Its science, magic, and most of allfun! This free event is sponsored by the Westfield Lions Club.

Chess and Strategy Games Camp Have fun playing chess and other strategy games at the Chess and Strategy Games Camp at the library. On Saturday, August 11, Aaron Deans Learning Through Games Group will guide school age kids as they have fun while developing their math and decision making skill. The camp runs Police Day from noon to 2 p.m., and the Friday, August 3, the library cost is $16 with prepayment and registration is sponsoring Police Day. required. Please contact the Childrens Department Meet at the Public Safety at 317-896-9391 for details. Building in Westfield (17535 Dartown Road) at 10:30 a.m., and learn about Secret Agent You! our local police department We need you for a special mission. Learn how to be a spy using codes, and even meet a police secret messages and other top secret dog! The program is free, activities. Be at the library on and no registration is Wednesday, August 15, at 10:30 a.m. required. and be ready for your assignment.

Childrens Activities
Baby Love Birth to 18 Months Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. August 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Give your child a head start to early literacy with this unique program of rhyme, play and song. Free Teddy Bear Picnic If you go down to the park August 6 and 7, you're sure of a big surprise, because on those days the library teddy bears have their picnic. The fun begins at 11 a.m. both days for toddlers and preschoolers, and siblings are welcome to attend, as well. If the weather is nice, the program is at Asa Bales Park, next to the library. If it storms either day, the program is in the library. The focus is on fun, with stories, songs, fingerplays and rhymes to strengthen early literacy skills and encourage the joy of learning. Each program ends with an art project, a craft or an activity, and its all free! Paws & Read All Ages Saturday, August 11, at 10:30 a.m. Sign up at the Children's Desk for 15 minutes to read to a dog who is a very good listener. Free Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon Club All Ages Second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Next Meeting: August 8 Bring your cards, play the games, trade cards, and have fun! Free American Girl Club All Ages Second Thursday of every month at 5:30 p.m. Next Meeting: August 9 Make fun items for your doll and

For Teens Only

Anime Manga is Back! Anime and manga enthusiasts are invited to join us Monday, August 27, at the Westfield Washington Public Library for the Anime Manga Club. Hang out, watch anime and have snacks starting at 2:30 p.m. You must be 13 or older, or have a parentsigned permission slip to attend.

hear an American Girl short story. Free Lego Freebuild Bring your imagination to the library and get creative at a Lego Freebuild. There will be plenty of Legos and lots of room to work. Be part of the fun on Thursday August 9 and Thursday, August 16. both at 2 p.m. Lego Mindstorms Team Parents Meeting The Westfield Washington Public Library Lego robotics team competes against other teams each fall. Learn all about this fun and educational program and how your child can become part of the team (for ages 9 to 14) at the Lego Mindstorms Team Parents Meeting on Tuesday, August 7, and Tuesday, August 14, both at 6:30 p.m. Kids are welcome to attend, too.

The library offers a wide range of materials and programs to enhance the homeschool experience. Please contact Childrens Services for more information.

New Arrivals
The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall Beth receives a package containing a scrapbook, a haunting record of a time long forgotten. Suddenly, she is swept back to the world she left behind, forced to confront the betrayal that destroyed herand to search her heart for forgiveness. their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. But this is no ordinary holiday. The family has gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings, an intrepid journalist and adventurer who was killed on that day in 2004, while on assignment in Iraq. marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington Stateand to do it alone. The Price of Inequality: How Todays Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz With characteristic insight, Stiglitz examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future. Any Day A Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family by Katherine Willis Pershey First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the minister with the baby carriage. In this collection of interrelated personal essays, Katherine Willis Pershey chronicles the story of her life as a young pastor, mother, and wife. New Craft Group If you do crafts of any kind, youll want to be part of the Craft Group at the library. This group will meet in the Craft Room on Friday, August 31 at 10:30 a.m. Bring your current project and share ideas with other crafters.

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Existence Hollywood film star by David Brin Fredric Stahl is on Thrown into the his way to Paris to maelstrom of make a movie for Paramount worldwide shared France. The Nazis know hes experience, the comingfor their purposes. What Artifact is a gamethey dont know is that Stahl, changer. A message in a bottle; horrified by the Nazi war on Jews an alien capsule that wants to and intellectuals, has become part communicate. The world reacts as of an informal spy service being humans always do: with fear and run out of the American embassy hope and selfishness and love in Paris. and violence. And insatiable curiosity. Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son Mary Magdalene by Martin Sheen by Diana Wallis Taylor and Emilio Estevez Long maligned as a In alternating prostitute or a chaptersand in woman of voices that are as questionable eloquent as they are reputation, Mary differentthey tell Magdalene's murky stories spanning more than fifty story seems lost to years of family history, and reflect the sands of time. on their journeys into two different Mary is a woman devastated by kinds of faith. circumstances beyond her control and plagued with terrifying dreams Wild: From Lost to Found on until she has a life-changing the Pacific Crest Trail confrontation with the Savior. by Cheryl Strayed Cheryl Strayed The World Without thought she had You lost everything. In by Joshua Henkin the wake of her Its July 4, 2005, and mother's death, her the Frankel family is family scattered descending upon and her own

Audio/Visual
Its National Golf Month! Since golf balls travel faster in hotter weather, its no wonder that August is the month that celebrates this pastime. The video department has a few videos to help you appreciate this great game and perhaps inspire you, too! disappears leaving Rannulph to finish on his own strength. The story of famous underdog golfer Francis Ouimet (Shia LeBeouf), The Greatest Game Ever Played tells how this common man breaks the class barriers and plays the game that he loves. From caddy to golf pro, Francis learns that you can be whatever you want to be if you try hard enough. NEW TV Series Berkeley Square Travel the Road Upstairs Downstairs Women of SNL

Seven Days in Utopia is a family-friendly video that tells the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black) who folds under the stress of his first big golf tournament. While he is stranded in Utopia, Texas, a NEW DVDs local rancher (Robert Duvall) teaches and inspires him. 25 Hill Because of the lessons he has learned, Luke goes on to play in Being Flynn the San Antonio Golf Tournament. Salmon Fishing The Legend of Bagger Vance compares golf in the Yemen to the game of life and shows The Flowers of the devastation War that war can bring upon The Three returning soldiers. Stooges: Rannulph Junah (Matt The Movie Damon) returns home from WWII to hide. The town pushes him to play golf again when a high stakes tournament is going to be held in his hometown. His mysterious caddy, Bagger Vance (Will Smith), is at his side to give him the courage he lacks. As soon as Rannulph is confident, his caddy

NEW Books on CD Night Watch by Linda Fairstein

I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson

Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult The Great Escape by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Phone: 317-896-9391 FAX: 317-896-3702 www.wwpl.lib.in.us Sheryl Sollars, Director Sandy Rowland, Assistant Director The Westfield Washington Public Library will strive, in partnership with organizations, to provide quality services, materials and facilities that fulfill the educational, informational, technological, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community.

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Friends of the Westfield Library

Friends Board: Sara Reitmeyer, President Virginia Fiscus, Vice President Jeanette Wachtel, Treasurer Marie Albertson, Secretary Carly Schull, Member-at-Large

2012 Book Sales

One part of the Friends fundraising efforts is Book Sales. There is always a special Preview Sale for Friends members on Friday from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., then the sale is open to the general public during regular library hours from Saturday through the following Saturday. Sales for 2012: September 7-15 Annual Nearly New Sale December 7-15

Thanks to Our Great Friends!

We would like to thank all of the fabulous Friends that took the time to make our June Book Sale happen. These folks helped to set up and tear down: Dottsie Grins Marie Albertson Nancy Dalton Anna Cousins Dee Ashpaugh Margy Scarl Edith Lambert Trudy Wagner Dorothy Neiman Donnamae Young Marilyn Zellers Maria de Bie Ann Enderle June Tyner Leanna Roberts Lydia Fairchok Judy Ackerson Sunny Johnston Carolyn Robinson Karen Dennison Jean Chance AnnRoy Rogers Ann Luckett Gene Fairchok Emily Wilkewitz Ed Rowland Val Riggs Sandy Rowland Sheryl Sollars Carly Schull Sara Reitmeyer

Visit our webpage: www.wwpl.lib.in.us/friends

Calling all Friends

The Friends needs you to volunteer as little as one hour of your time to help the library as a cashier at one of the Book Sales. Please contact Sandy at 317-8969391. We cant do it without YOU!