JULY LIBRARY HOURS

JULY LIBRARY HOURS

FRIDAY 7/1 8:00AM – 6:00PM

SATURDAY 7/2, SUNDAY 7/3, MONDAY 7/4 CLOSED

TUESDAY 7/5 – THURSDAY 7/7 8:00AM – 10:00PM

FRIDAY 7/8 8:00AM – 4:00PM

SATURDAY 7/9, Sunday 7/10 CLOSED

MONDAY 7/11 – THURSDAY 7/14 8:00AM – 10:00PM

FRIDAY 7/15 8:00AM – 6:00PM

SATURDAY 7/16 CLOSED

SUNDAY 7/17 2:00PM – 10:00PM

MONDAY 7/18 – THURSDAY 7/21 8:00AM – 10:00PM

FRIDAY 7/22 8:00AM – 6:00PM

SATURDAY 7/23 CLOSED

SUNDAY 7/24 2:00PM – 10:00PM

MONDAY 7/25 – THURSDAY 7/28 8:00AM – 10:00PM

FRIDAY 7/29 8:00AM – 6:00PM

SATURDAY 7/30 CLOSED

SUNDAY 7/31 2:00PM – 10:00PM

SPRING BREAK HOURS

Spring Break Library Hours

Friday 3/4 8:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday 3/5 & Sunday 3/6 CLOSED
Monday 3/7 – Friday 3/11 8:00am – 4:30 pm
Saturday 3/12 CLOSED
Sunday 3/13 1:30pm – 10:00pm

Book Sale at the Library, Feb. 24 & 25

The Friends of the Baron-Froness Library invite you to

Books Are Fun

Top Quality Books

Savings! up to 70% off retail price

Everyone Invited

Thursday and Friday, Feb. 24 & 25

From 9am to 3pm

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman is the EUBDC selection for March.

The Edinboro Univerisity Book Discussion Group selected The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman as its book for March. The group will next meet on March 15 from 6:45-8:15 pm in Baron-Forness Library room 715.
     This first novel by Tom Rachman, a London-born journalist who has lived and worked all over the world, is so good I had to read it twice simply to figure out how he pulled it off. I still haven’t answered that question, nor do I know how someone so young — Rachman turns out to be 35, though he looks even younger in his author photo — could have acquired such a precocious grasp of human foibles. The novel is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching, and it’s assembled like a Rubik’s Cube. I almost feel sorry for Rachman, because a debut of this order sets the bar so high.
     “The Imperfectionists” takes place in Rome. The characters are, for the most part, the staff of an unnamed English-­language newspaper founded in the 1950s — for reasons not revealed until the end — by an eccentric American businessman with the perfect name of Cyrus Ott. By 2004, his grandson, Oliver, will be in charge of the fates of the staff members whose stories make up the novel. More’s the pity, since Oliver’s only concern in life is for his basset hound, Schopenhauer. (from New York Times Book Review by Christopher Buckley)

JUNE LIBRARY HOURS

JUNE LIBRARY HOURS

Wednesday 6/1 – Thursday 6/2 8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday 6/3 8:00am – 4:00pm

Saturday 6/4 & Sunday 6/5 CLOSED

Monday 6/6 – Thursday 6/9 8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday 6/10 8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday 6/11 CLOSED

Sunday 6/12 2:00pm – 10:00pm

Monday 6/13 – Thursday 6/16 8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday 6/17 8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday 6/18 CLOSED

Sunday 6/19 2:00pm – 10:00pm

Monday 6/20 – Thursday 6/23 8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday 6/24 8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday 6/25 CLOSED

Sunday 6/26 2:00pm – 10:00pm

Monday 6/27 – Thursday 6/30 8:00am – 10:00pm

LAST DAY Feb. 18th. FOREVER FREE

EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
and the
Friends of the Baron-Forness Library

Cordially invite you to attend

FOREVER FREE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S JOURNEY TO EMANCIPATION
A Traveling Exhibition Tracing Lincoln’s Changing Views of Slavery

All programs are free and open to the public. University regulations require a parking pass available from Edinboro University Police. Please be sure to stop at the Campus Police office, now located at the Rt. N6 entrance to the University, for a free parking permit.

• Exhibit times and Location
  The exhibit is available for viewing anytime the library is open to February 18th. Library hours are 8 am to Midnight Monday through Thursday; 8 am to 6 pm Friday; 9 am to 5 pm Saturday; and 1:30 pm to 10 pm Sundays.
  
• Lecture: "Reflections on Lincoln at Gettysburg -- Grandfathers, Gettysburg, and Government"
  Dr. David Ferster, Political Science/Criminal Justice Dept. Hendricks Hall G-13, Tuesday February 1, 2 pm.
  
  Lecture: "Forced into Glory: Political & Moral Considerations of the Emancipation Proclamation"
  Prof. Umeme Sababu and Dr. Ihor Bemko, History Dept. Hendricks Hall G-13, February 9, 6-8 pm.
  
• Lecture: Civil War Roundtable of Erie County meeting, Pogue University Center, Rm 303b, 7 pm, February 15.
  George Deutsch, "President Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: The Great Antagonists"
  
• Closing Lecture
  Ed Bearss, prominent Civil War historian and author of numerous books on the subject, delivers the exhibition lecture at the H. O. Hirt Auditorium, Blasco Memorial Library, Erie, PA, February 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
  "Lincoln comes to Washington: His First Days in the White House"
  
• Displays: Originals and and reproductions of Civil War memorabilia throughout the Baron-Forness Library during the exhibition.

Visit our website: http://www.edinboro.edu/departments/library/lincoln-exhibit.dot

For more information, contact Jack Widner at 814-732-2175 or widner@edinboro.edu.

"Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" has been organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. This exhibition was made possible by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities, and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, created by Congress and charged with planning the national celebration of Lincoln's 200th birthday.

Locally Sponsered by

Friends of the Baron-Forness Library -- WJET-24, Erie PA -- Mainstreet Media, North East, Pa -- Northwest Tri-county Intermediate Unit, Edinboro, PA -- Edinboro Area Historical Society.

All events are free and open to the general public.

Winter Break Library Hours

Library Hours

Monday 12-13 -- Thursday 12/16: 8:00am -- 2:00am

Friday 12/17: 8:00am -- 6:00pm
Saturday 12/18 & Sunday 12/19: CLOSED
Monday 12/20 – Wednesday 12/22: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Thursday 12/23 – Sunday 1/2: CLOSED
Monday 1/3 – Friday 1/7: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Saturday 1/8 & Sunday 1/9: CLOSED
Monday 1/10 – Friday 1/14: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Saturday 1/15 – Monday 1/17: CLOSED
Tuesday 1/18 – Thursday 1/20 8:00am – 12:00am

University Book Club Selection for Early January is The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton.

The reading for January is The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton. The next meeting for the Book Discussion Group will be held on January 4, 2011. Our meeting location will change for the January meeting. For further information either about the meeting or about the group please contact either Don Dilmore (ddilmore@edinboro.edu) or Catherine Whitley (cwhitley@edinboro.edu).

What a gift that this treasure, written in 1962 and the author's one and only masterpiece, is available to us again. Carleton unashamedly wrote an old-fashioned book, filled with values and priorities sadly missing today.

Set in the early part of the twentieth century in rural Missouri, the story is based on Carleton's own life experience. Exquisitely told, the book chronicles the lives of Matthew and Callie Soames and their four headstrong daughters. The farm and the natural world are a warm and embracing backdrop for all the dramas that befall the family—broken hearts, tragedy, and infidelity—and most of all, for their deep and abiding love and loyalty.

The characters come intricately alive because the story is told through each person's eyes and masterfully woven together into a rich and unforgettable saga. Likened to To Kill a Mockingbird for its honesty, power, and beauty, this book will stay with you long after you have turned the last page. Review by Jane Smiley

Tuesday, Feb. 15 University Book Discussion Group Meets to Discuss Zadie Smith's On Beauty

The Edinboro University Book Discussion Group will meet Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 6:45, high atop the Baron-Forness Libarary in room 715. The Book Discussion Group agreed to read the novel, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, for their next meeting.

Howard Belsey is a middle-class white liberal Englishman teaching abroad at Wellington, a thinly disguised version of one of the Ivies. He is a Rembrandt scholar who can't finish his book and a recent adulterer whose marriage is now on the slippery slope to disaster. His wife, Kiki, a black Floridian, is a warm, generous, competent wife, mother, and medical worker. Their children are Jerome, disgusted by his father's behavior, Zora, Wellington sophomore firebrand feminist and Levi, eager to be taken for a "homey," complete with baggy pants, hoodies and the ever-present iPod. This family has no secrets--at least not for long. They talk about everything, appropriate to the occasion or not. And, there is plenty to talk about.

The other half of the story is that of the Kipps family: Monty, stiff, wealthy ultra-conservative vocal Christian and Rembrandt scholar, whose book has been published. His wife Carlene is always slightly out of focus, and that's the way she wants it. She wafts over all proceedings, never really connecting with anyone. That seems to be endemic in the Kipps household. Son Michael is a bit of a Monty clone and daughter Victoria is not at all what Daddy thinks she is. Indeed, Forster's advice, "Only connect," is lost on this group.

The two academics have long been rivals, detesting each other's politics and disagreeing about Rembrandt. They are thrown into further conflict when Jerome leaves Wellington to get away from the discovery of his father's affair, lands on the Kipps' doorstep, falls for Victoria and mistakes what he has going with her for love. Howard makes it worse by trying to fix it. Then, Kipps is granted a visiting professorship at Wellington and the whole family arrives in Massachusetts.

From this raw material, Smith has fashioned a superb book, her best to date. She has interwoven class, race, and gender and taken everyone prisoner. Her even-handed renditions of liberal and/or conservative mouthings are insightful, often hilarious, and damning to all. She has a great time exposing everyone's clay feet. This author is a young woman cynical beyond her years, and we are all richer for it. --Valerie Ryan

Father's Day Facts -- June 19, 2011

 Father's Day: June 19, 2011

The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father's Day celebration — 101 years ago, June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane's mayor because it was the month of Smart's birth. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Father's Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.


How Many Fathers?
70.1 million
Estimated number of fathers across the nation.
Source: Unpublished data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation


25.3 million
Number of fathers who were part of married-couple families with children younger than 18 in 2010.


•22 percent were raising three or more children younger than 18 (among married-couple family households only).
•3 percent lived in someone else's home.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements


1.8 million
Number of single fathers in 2010; 15 percent of single parents were men.


•Nine percent were raising three or more children younger than 18.
•About 46 percent were divorced, 30 percent were never married, 19 percent were separated, and 6 percent were widowed.
•39 percent had an annual family income of $50,000 or more.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements


Thinking of You, Dad
8,111
The number of men's clothing stores around the country (as of 2008), a good place to buy dad a tie or shirt.
Source: County Business Patterns


16,010
The number of hardware stores (as of 2008), a place to buy hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers and other items high on the list of Father's Day gifts. Additionally, there were 7,009 home centers across the country in 2008.
Source: County Business Patterns


22,116
Number of sporting goods stores in 2008. These stores are good places to purchase traditional gifts for dad, such as fishing rods and golf clubs.
Source: County Business Patterns


81.5 million
The number of Americans who participated in a barbecue in the last year — it's probably safe to assume many of these barbecues took place on Father's Day.
Source: Mediamark Research & Intelligence, as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011 , Table 1239


Mr. Mom
154,000
Estimated number of stay-at-home dads in 2010. These married fathers with children younger than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can care for the family while their wives work outside the home. These fathers cared for 287,000 children.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements


16%
In spring 2005, the percentage of preschoolers regularly cared for by their father during their mother's working hours.
Source: Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2005/Summer 2006



Child-Support Payments
$2.8 billion
Amount of child support received by custodial fathers in 2007; they were due $4.3 billion. In contrast, custodial mothers received $18.6 billion of the $29.8 billion in support that was due.
Source: Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support


45%
Percentage of custodial fathers who received all child support that was due in 2007, not significantly different from the corresponding percentage for custodial mothers.
Source: Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support


67%
Percentage of custodial fathers receiving noncash support, such as gifts or coverage of expenses, on behalf of their children. The corresponding proportion for mothers was 56 percent.
Source: Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support


Time with Daddy
53% and 71%
Percentages of children younger than 6 who ate breakfast and dinner, respectively, with their father every day in 2006. The corresponding percentages who ate with their mother were 58 percent and 80 percent. (The percentages of children who ate breakfast with their mother or father, respectively, were not significantly different from each another.)
Source: A Child's Day: 2006


36%
Percentage of children younger than 6 who had 15 or more outings with their father in the last month, as of 2006.
Source: A Child's Day: 2006


6
Average times children ages 3 to 5 were read to by their fathers in the past week, as of 2006.
Source: A Child's Day: 2006


66%
Percentage of children younger than 6 who were praised three or more times a day by their fathers. Source: A Child's Day: 2006

FOREVER FREE PROGRAMS

All programs are free and open to the public. If you are visiting the campus after January 18, please be sure to stop at the Campus Police office, now located at the Rt. N6 entrance to the University, for a free parking permit.

• Exhibit times and Location
  The exhibit is available for viewing anytime the library is open to February 18th. Library hours are 8 am to Midnight Monday through Thursday; 8 am to 6 pm Friday; 9 am to 5 pm Saturday; and 1:30 pm to 10 pm Sundays.
  
  
• Lecture: "Reflections on Lincoln at Gettysburg -- Grandfathers, Gettysburg, and Government"
  Dr. David Ferster, Political Science/Criminal Justice Dept. Hendricks Hall G-13, Tuesday February 1, 2 pm.
  
  
• Lecture: "Forced into Glory: Political & Moral Considerations of the Emancipation Proclamation"
  Prof. Umeme Sababu and Dr. Ihor Bemko, History Dept. Hendricks Hall G-13, February 9, 6-8 pm.
  
  
• Lecture: Civil War Roundtable of Erie County meeting, Pogue University Center, Rm 303b, 7 pm, February 15.
  George Deutsch, "President Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: The Great Antagonists"
  
  
• Closing Lecture
  Ed Bearss, prominent Civil War historian and author of numerous books on the subject, delivers the exhibition lecture at the O. V. Hirt Auditorium, Blasco Memorial Library, Erie, PA, February 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
  "Lincoln comes to Washington: His First Days in the White House" Admission is free and open to the public.
  
  
• Displays: Originals and and reproductions of Civil War memorabilia throughout the Baron-Forness Library during the exhibition.
  

Visit our website: http://www.edinboro.edu/departments/library/lincoln-exhibit.dot

THRUSDAY March 10, during break, electrical work in the library -- Computers down at least till noon.

Work will be done on the library’s electrical service Thursday, March 10th. The work is scheduled to begin at 6 am and facilities reports that the project could take up to six hours. During that time the generator will operate to give the library limited electrical service including some lights and some outlets, but the computer labs will not be working and the elevators will be shut down. They expect to restore power by noon.
ELEVATORS AND COMPUTERS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR USE THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 10th. HOPEFULLY THE SERVICE WILL BE RESTORED BY NOON.