Connect Your Summer Feedback

August 11, 2017 | beesleya

Canton Public Library’s mission is Connecting Your Community. Connect Your Summer aims to be an exciting way to bring the community together to share their summer experiences and their summer reading, and to emphasize the library as an important resource for all.

Because Connect Your Summer is the mainstay of our summer library programming, we are asking you to help us learn and improve by sharing feedback about your Connect Your Summer experience. The survey will take about five minutes to complete:

  • If you participated in Connect Your Summer, Take the Participant Survey
  • If you did not participate, Share your feedback
  • If you would prefer to fill out a paper survey, stop by the CYS Command Center in the library to fill out and submit your thoughts

The surveys will remain available until August 28, so tell your friends! Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts with us. 

Savvy Seniors: Michigan Senior Olympics 2017

August 10, 2017 | madame librarian

Check out the Michigan Senior Olympics 2017 being held in Oakland County, August 11-20. The Summer Games begin with an opening ceremony at Bloomer Park in Rochester Hills on Friday August 11th and end with a Celebrations of Athletes Dinner August 17th.  A full list of games, times, and locations can be found on the Michigan Senior Olympics 2017 website under the “Summer Games” tab, and select “Schedules”.

Library Board Meeting Agenda — Thursday, August 17, 2017

August 10, 2017 | gladdenk
  • Call the Meeting to Order
  • Call to Audience (5 min. maximum)
  • Approval of Agenda
  • Approval of General Meeting Minutes
  • Communications
  • Report of the Library Director
  • Trustee Comments
  • Unfinished Business
    • Siemens Energy Analysis Proposal
    • 2018 Draft Budget Proposal and 2019-2020 Projections – 2nd Look
  • New Business
    • Approve Donor Gift Agreement
      MOTION: Move to Approve the Donor Gift Agreement as presented
    •  Communications on Library’s Pest Control Programs
    • 2018 Draft Schedule of Board Meetings and Library Closures – 1st Look
  • Call to Audience (5 min. maximum)
  • Adjourn

National Book Lovers Day

August 9, 2017 | librarianintraining

Today is National Book Lovers Day and, needless to say, we here at Canton Public Library are definitely book lovers! In honor of the day, here are some of our favorite books that have been turned into films.

Share your favorite book-into-movie in the comments!  

Holes by Louis Sachar
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | video
The zookeeper's wife : a war story by Diane Ackerman
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | video | large print
Sphere by Michael Crichton

Gale Courses Begin August 16

August 9, 2017 | MegIntern

Educators- school is about to be back in session! Get ready for the new year with Gale Courses. With courses like Empowering Students with Disabilities, Understanding Adolescents, and Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success, you'll be all set to start the school year on the right foot. Will this be your first year? Check out Survival Kit for New Teachers.

All Gale Courses are free with your Canton Public Library card, and the next set of classes will begin on Wednesday, August 16. Learn on your own schedule, and receive a certificate of completion when you've finished. Our goal is to provide lifelong educational opportunities for you to gain new skills or improve existing ones. New sessions are offered every month. Take advantage of these instructor-led courses on our databases page!

Wayne County Household Hazardous Waste Collection in Westland Saturday 8/12

August 8, 2017 | Patton

Wayne County is holding a household hazardous waste collection event on Saturday, August 12, 2017 from 8 am to 2 pm at the Westland Shopping Center, 35000 Warren Rd. The collection event is open to all Wayne County residents. For a list of acceptable and unacceptable materials please call (734) 326-3936 or visit the Wayne County Land Resource Management website.

What We're Reading: August 2017

August 5, 2017 | madame librarian

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." —James McCosh (1811-1894)

The unruly city : Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution by Michael Rapport

In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one? And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution.

MatchUp
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook

"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille. The stories are edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child"--.

In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary
Also available in: e-book

The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure. 

Technology Challenge: Coding

August 4, 2017 | agudenburr
Code

Technology Challenge Experience: Attend a coding program at the library or try coding at home. Record what you did on your challenge sheet. 

Technology Challenge Explore: Learn about coding by reading materials from the library.

Technology Challenge Engage: Share your coding experience by telling someone else (a friend, family member, or neighbor) or share your experience on social media with the hashtag #CYSStoryBox. 

Books About Coding for Kids

Coding with ScratchJr by Adrienne Matteson

"ScratchJr is a beginner's programming language that is fun and easy to use. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will the art of innovation. Large, colorful images show students how to complete activities. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information."--.

Look What's in Large Print: August 2017

August 4, 2017 | madame librarian

"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness." —Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948)

Two nights [large print] : a novel by Kathy Reichs

A standalone thriller featuring a "tough-talking, scarred heroine"* from the author of the Temperance Brennan series, the basis for the hit TV show Bones . Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct. . . . Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing. But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie's help. Is the girl dead? Did someone take her? If she is out there, why doesn't she want to be found? It's time for Sunnie to face her own demons--because they just might lead her to the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

The late show [large print] by Michael Connelly

Introducing Rene Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Rene Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the investigations entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job, no matter what the department throws at her.

Beautiful tempest [large print] by Johanna Lindsey

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey now reveals the tempestuous story of Jacqueline Malory whose furious desire for revenge leads to a confrontation with the handsome pirate who abducted her--and sparks a much steamier kind of desire. For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It's payback time for the culprit who kidnapped James and Georgina's beloved daughter Jack from her American debutante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter thatshe escaped unscathed. James figured out who masterminded the dastardly plot and is leading a fleet of ships to the West Indies to deliver some Malory-style retribution. More interested in revenge than in finding a husband during her first London Season, Jack is furious that her father left her behind. Then an intriguing stranger leads her and her older brother Jeremy to her mysterious abductor. But instead of capturing him, the Malory siblings wind up as his " guests" on a ship sailing away from England. As Jack re-engages in a battle of wills with her all too attentive captor, she realizes he is no ordinary pirate, perhaps no pirate at all, but a nobleman determined to settle a score that dates back to the days when her father was known as Captain Hawk--and what endangers her most is the increasingly passionate attraction they feel for each other"--.

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