PCPL Unveils Covid-19 Reopening Plan
by Library Admin
At the Putnam County Public Library, we believe that libraries are one of the most essential industries. We provide access to vital resources, such as government programs, resources and research for schoolwork, free internet and technology. We offer a place for the community to meet and discuss ideas, children to play, learn, and grow, and even as a place for someone to simply get warm. During the library’s closure, the library staff has worked tirelessly to continue to provide these essential services to the community outside of the library building.
On April 29, 2020, the PCPL Board of Trustees approved a phased plan to reopen the library. PCPL is a hub of connection, creativity, entertainment, and information in the Putnam County community. Throughout the library’s closure, the library has continued to provide essential services through remote reference by email, digital programming, digital materials (eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, streaming video, and talking picture books), digital library card sign-ups, free public Wi-Fi, and much more.
The library will continue to provide these digital services, but will begin the process of reopening the library beginning Monday, May 11. On Monday, May 11, library staff will be able to return to the library building on a limited basis, in order to asses whether library staff has appropriate PPE for working in the library and technology to work remotely. Additionally, library staff will use that time to process returns and mail, and put the finishing touches on procedures for offering curbside and remote services. Safeguarding the health of library staff and patrons is the primary goal in the library’s reopening policy.
Phase 1 of reopening the library will use the following guidelines in order to provide the best safety measures for staff and patrons:
It is our hope that we will be able to begin providing curbside services, as well as more access to free Wi-Fi and public computers in the coming weeks. Please check back on our Covid-19 Updates page for more information on when the library will begin providing these services.
We miss our patrons and we hope to see you soon. Stay safe and stay healthy, Putnam County.
Virtual Programs From DePauw University, Greencastle City Councilpersons, IU Auditorium and Indiana Humanities
by Adult Services
Missing live musical performances? We are too, so we’ve put together a list of virtual programming/performances by some of the best local performers, venues, and more.
Check out these videos and programs from IU Auditorium, Greencastle City Council Member Veronica Pejril, DePauw University and more.
ERIC EDBERG
Eric Edberg: Eric Edberg, cello and May Phang, piano DePauw Faculty Select recital 8-29-18 music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, F. Chopin, Vivian Adelberg Rudow and F. Mendelssohn.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/eric.
VERONICA PEJRIL
INDIANA HUMANITIES
THE SHOWS MUST GO ON!
IU AUDITORIUM DIGITAL EVENTS
IU SIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ART
Make Your Escape With These Fantasy Audiobooks
by Adult Services
Do you need a vacation, but are stuck in a house? Craving adventure and valor, but you can’t leave your couch? These eAudiobooks through Overdrive are just for you!
Title: Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman
Summary: Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
Link: https://iddc.overdrive.com/iddc-putnam/content/media/144579?cid=31327
TItle: The Aeronauts Windlass
Author: Jim Butcher
Summary: Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships to keep the peace.
Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is damaged in combat, Grimm joins a team of Albion agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring his ship.
Link: https://iddc.overdrive.com/iddc-putnam/content/media/2160036?cid=31327
Title: The Water Cure
Author: Sophie Mackintosh
Summary: King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.
But when the King disappears and two men and a boy wash ashore, the sisters’ safe world begins to unravel. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent.
A haunting, riveting debut, The Water Cure is a fiercely poetic feminist revenge fantasy that’s a startling reflection of our time.
Link: https://iddc.overdrive.com/iddc-putnam/content/media/3949010?cid=31327
Title: God Help the Child: a novel
Author: Toni Morrison
Summary: Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”
A fierce and provocative novel that adds a new dimension to the matchless oeuvre of Toni Morrison.
Link: https://iddc.overdrive.com/iddc-putnam/content/media/2032156?cid=31327
Title: The Keeper of Lost Things
Author: Ruth Hogan
Summary: Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects—the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind—and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners. As the end nears, he bequeaths his secret life’s mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and and all its lost treasures, including an irritable ghost.
Link: https://iddc.overdrive.com/iddc-putnam/content/media/2813083?cid=31327
LIBRARY HOURS
Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday & Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday: Closed
Kanopy Watch Party : Midsommar
Discussion
Thursday, April 16 @ 6:30-9 p.m.
Grab your library card, pop some popcorn, and get your phone out! The library is hosting a digital watch party on Facebook & the library’s website. Queue up Ari Aster’s Midsommar on the library’s FREE digital streaming app Kanopy and comment along as you watch the film.
This film is rated R. 148 mins.
Kanopy: pcpl.kanopy.com
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2668595913410292/
To participate in the discussion, comment below using your Facebook account for Facebook comments or use the Disqus comment box at the bottom of the page.
2020 Indiana Voter Registration
by Adult Services
Primary elections will be on June 2, 2020, have you registered to vote? Indiana residents are allowed to apply for online voter registration, here is how you can register.
ONLINE
Voter Registration Portal Indiana residents will need a valid Indiana driver’s license or an Indiana state-issued identification card.
REGISTER TO VOTE BY MAIL OR IN-PERSON
To register to vote or update your current registration by mail or in person, you will need to complete and return the Voter Registration Form (En Español) On or before April 6 before the 2020 Primary Election or on or before October 5 before the 2020 General Election.
More important information can be found at the source here.
IMPORTANT DATES
December 2, 2019 Voter Registration Begins
May 4, 2020 Voter Registration Ends
June 2, 2020 Primary Election Day
October 5, 2020 Voter Registration Ends
November 3, 2020 General Election Day
(source: https://www.in.gov/sos/elections/2403.htm)
Free Online Learning Courses: Coursera
by Adult Services
Online-learning site Coursera is offering 100 classes for free from now through May 31, 2020, to support access to online education for the one-third of people around the world who are currently under lockdown to prevent spreading the new coronavirus.
Some of the courses currently available are The Science of Well Being by Yale University, Chinese for Beginners by Peking University, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Princeton University, and plenty of other courses.
Join for free today and start your educational journey with the top universities around the world!