What's New at PPLD!

“Is there life on Mars?” is the question, but what’s the answer you’re looking for? A Google search will provide one set of answers, but are they authoritative? Search the PPLD Catalog and you’ll find a wealth of Science Fiction novels along with some scientific entries. Search popular magazines and you’ll get another perspective. Search academic, peer reviewed journals, and you’ll get yet another. Wouldn’t you like to survey many or all of these options in one fell swoop?

Introducing the PPLD subscription database Info Trac Onefile, provided free to PPLD patrons. This database allows you to search simultaneously more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes — a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present, including magazines, academic journals, books, newspapers, multimedia, and more.

To find Info Trac, go back to PPLD’s homepage, click on Electronic Reference, and then click on the Magazines and Newspapers category. You’ll find it listed alphabetically.

Want to know more? Click here for a quick Power Search online tutorial (Adobe Captivate download required) Further free, online tutorials on the convenient, practical features and use of this resource are listed below. You can access them through the above link. Check it out. You’ll be surprised what you have at your fingertips!

There are also online tutorials available, including:

• Document Options Guided Tour
• How to Cross-Search Guided Tour
• Managing Your Results Guided Tour
• Search Options Guided Tour

David Lubar, popular author of The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies and many other books, will be making two appearances in the area. No registration is required for these free programs, which are sponsored by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund.

• Monday, June 29, 5 – 7 p.m. Lubar will participate in a meet and great mixer at Ute Pass Branch (8010 Severy Ave. in Cascade). PPLD Foundation will provide a picnic dinner, with refreshments from the Ute Pass Friends of the Library.
• Tuesday, June 30, 10 a.m. Lubar will speak, followed by a book signing and discussion at Ute Pass Elementary School (9230 Chipita Park Road).
• Tuesday, June 30, 2 p.m. Lubar will speak, followed by a book signing and discussion in the East Teen Center at East Library (5550 N. Union Blvd.).

Artists are invited to depict an aspect of the Carnegie Garden and submit it for consideration in PPLD’s 2009 Juried Art Competition, benefiting the Carnegie Garden.

Jurying

• Drop off: Wed. Aug. 5, 10 a.m. – noon
• Pick up: Wed. Aug. 5, 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Artists will be notified of the jury’s decision within two weeks of jurying.

Categories

• Ages 12-17
• Ages 18 and older

Entry Fees

Submit up to 3 works at $10 per piece, payable at jurying drop off.

Exhibit

September 1, 2009 at the Carnegie Garden, with an Awards Ceremony on Sat. Sept. 12 at 2 p.m.

Click here for more information and application

Join in the Juneteenth Celebration at Ruth Holley Branch (685 N. Murray Blvd.) from 1 – 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. At this free family event, enjoy snow cones, popcorn, and the following special events:

• 1 – 2 p.m. Reverend Lonzie Symonette, author of Everyday Soaring Since My Emancipation, discussion and book signing (copies of her book will be sold)
• 2 – 2:30 p.m. Pressman Chapel Children’s Gospel Choir



• 2 – 4 p.m. Crafts and games for children, including a ring toss, face painting, mask making, and storyteller Connie Black
• 3 – 3:30 p.m. Hotboyz, local hip hop dancers

Have your own art show at a Pikes Peak Library District art gallery!

The PPLD Art Evaluation Committee will be jurying art for future month-long, individual shows. Interested artists should bring five pieces of 2 or 3 dimensional art in show-ready format (matted, framed, picture-wired).

• When: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
• Where: Penrose Library, Carnegie Reading Room, 20 N. Cascade Ave.
• Time: Drop off: 10 a.m. – noon; Pick up (same day): 4:30 – 6 p.m.
• Contact: Susan Alexander, 531-6333, x2303 or email salexander@ppld.org

Please note: artists will be notified of Committee’s decision within two weeks.

This summer, Master Gardeners will teach a series of one hour classes in the Carnegie Reading Room at the Penrose Library (20 N. Cascade Ave.):

Waterwise Garden Tour
(and brown bag lunch)
Monday, June 15 at noon
Spend your lunchtime with Cathie Schroeder & learn how to apply Xeriscape principles to your own garden, with the Carnegie Garden as a living example.

Plant Select® for Your Garden
Friday, June 19 at noon
Carey Harrington will talk about these plants that are especially suitable for our region; chosen for their beauty, resilience, and low maintenance.

Ornamental Grasses Plants for All Seasons
Saturday, June 20 at 10 a.m.
Carol Stringer will tell you which grasses are best for Colorado Springs and how to use them in your garden.

They Came Back!
Saturday, Aug. 29 at 10 a.m.
Cheryl Conklin will cover basic skills necessary to cultivate a perennial garden that will bring years of happy returns.

Brown is a Color, Too
Saturday, Sept. 12 at 9:30 a.m.
Cheryl Conklin will share her expertise in planning a garden that is still attractive from November through the first crocus of spring.

Come see a great exhibit of 19th Century maps in the East Library art gallery the entire month of June. PPLD’s Special Collections put together the impressive collection, entitled Drawn West: Mapping the Way to Colorado – from the Louisiana Purchase to Statehood. The maps of western North America traced the geographic, political, and cultural contours of a continent largely unexplored by European Americans and showed an expanding nation the way West. This exhibition focuses on the exploration and development of the United States’ western lands, from early government expeditions and commercial fur trapping enterprises to the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, railroad building, and Colorado statehood.

Do you:

• Want free access to otherwise costly genealogical information?
• Need instant access to printable car repair procedures from home?
• Want data about a specific business in the area with detailed information about its operation?
• Want to print off the full text of a Consumer Reports article or other magazine and newspaper articles?

Then PPLD subscription databases are for you! The Library is pleased to offer these authoritative databases, providing information not available on the Internet, to PPLD patrons. Most patrons, once they discover these resources, return to them again and again. Click below for a brief, online introduction to the various databases, the information they supply and how to search them. Don’t miss out on this valuable benefit to most PPLD card holders.

Click here to audit the introduction to these great resources.

World Music Series 2009 kicks off June 12 with a free performance by Quetzal. Their music combines Mexican and Cuban rhythms, jazz, and rock behind the powerful vocals of siblings Martha and Gabriel Gonzalez. The group was formed in East Los Angeles by guitarist-composer Quetzal Flores, who wanted the band to not only have a unique sound, but also a social consciousness. They have been hailed by Los Lobos and others as the new torch bearers of Chicano music. The World Music Series is presented by PPLD, Colorado College, and KRCC Concerts. There will be two more free shows in the series this summer: La Fanfare du Belgistan on July 17 and Issa Bagayogo on August 6.

• When: Friday, June 12 at 7 p.m.
• Where: Armstrong Quad, Colorado College (Armstrong Theater, rain backup)

This summer, Old Colorado City Branch is pleased to offer two workshops on the popular software: Family Tree Maker. If you have this software but have questions about using it, or if you are an expert willing to share some secrets, please come. If you already own a version of Family Tree Maker, preferably installed on a laptop, please register and bring your laptop with you to the session. Register online or call the branch. If you have heard about this and are interested in seeing what it can do, feel free to come as well. No registration necessary if only observing. First session is Friday, June 12, 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Contact the branch (634-1698) for further information.