We're your friendly, local library, here to serve you! The majority of our patrons come from the Houston Boro & Chartiers Township areas, but we have others from Canonsburg, Strabane, Washington, and even Allegheny County! All are welcome, whether "local" or not, and we're working on finding ways to reach those who can't come to us. That "mission" is why we're here on MySpace, and now we're on FaceBook, too! If you have additional suggestions for making this outreach possible, please feel free to
email
us!
Music
Audiobooks are music to my ears! ;) Through an online friend, I've learned of a couple great sites. The first is Project Gutenberg - the good folks there were the first to produce FREE ebooks, and are currently working on an
audiobook project. The other is
LibriVox. There (to quote the description on the website) "LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books." I love free stuff - especially books! - don't you?
Of course, we do have audiobooks of our own - over 550 books on cassette and an ever expanding collection of books on CD, not to mention a selection of rotating CDs (these change quarterly).
Don't forget about the "new kids on the block" - playaways are here! Now that we've stepped into the 21st century, in addition to our audiobooks on cassette and on CD, we've got a small but growing number of playaways. (For your convenience, we also sell sets of earbuds at the circulation desk.) If you're unfamiliar with playaways and how they work, you can follow this link for a better explanation than any I could give:
What is a playaway? If you happen to be interested in my thoughts on them, view my
blog entry ;-)
Movies
We've got them! We offer a large selection of movies on VHS and now have nearly 400 on DVD. Up to 10 movies can be borrowed in a visit, and they circulate for one week. Be careful not to get too carried away, though...late fees are $1.00 per movie per day.
The list directly below is a list of our movies on DVD
About Schmidt Absolute Zero Air Force One
Amistad The Avengers Aviator Awakenings The Bachelor A Beautiful Mind The Best Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet The Black Swan Black and White Blind Witness Break Up Bridget Jones' Diary A Bright Shining Lie Bringing Down the House Captain Corelli's Mandolin Christy Returns to Cutter Gap Collateral Damage Coma Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen The Core The Count of Monte Cristo Covert Assassin Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course Daredevil The Day After Tomorrow Death of a Salesman Death Train Detonator Dumb & Dumber Discovery's 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Don Juan DeMarco Dr. Dolittle Dr. Dolittle 2 Eddie & the Cruisers Ellen DeGeneres-The Beginning and Here & Now Escape Under Pressure Eye for an Eye Eye of the Killer Fahrenheit 9/11 Falcon Down A Few Good Men The Fighting Temptations Finding Forrester Finding Neverland The Firing Line The Five People You Meet in Heaven Gang of Roses Gettysburg>br>Gilmore Girls Girl Interrupted God's Gun/Death Rides a Horse Good Will Hunting Ground Control Hangmen Hard Day's Night The Haunted Mansion High Risk Hitch Hollowpoint Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves The House on Haunted Hill The Hulk I, Robot Identity: The Secret Lies Within Into Evidence Iron Thunder JFK Jules Verne's Mysterious Island The Junction Boys Last Light Lean on Me Little House on the Prairie (Season One) LotR: Return of the King Lost in the Wild Matrix Max Magician & the Legend of the Rings McLintock! Men of Honor Million Dollar Baby Miracle Mortal Thoughts Must Love Dogs My Big Fat Greek Wedding Mystic River National Geographic's Secrets of the Titanic Network The Never Ending Story Ocean's Eleven Paradise Found The Passion of the Christ Patch Adams The Phantom of the Opera Pressure Point
Pride and Prejudice Purple Rain QB VII Rage of the Master Ray The Red Skelton Show Rescue from Gilligan's Island The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Rock
Schindler's List Shall We Dance? Simon Birch Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World Spiderman Spiderman 2 Splash Standing in the Shadows of Motown Suicide Kings The Sum of All Fears Summer with the Ghosts Sweet Bird of Youth Taffin Taking Lives
The Terrorists
The Three Musketeers Titanic A Time to Kill The Tommyknockers Total Recall The Towering Inferno Training Day Traitor's Heart Trapped in Silence True Crime Two Brothers Underneath The Untouchables The Vanishing Wild Kingdom (2006 Season) Windtalkers World War II: The War in Europe The World's Fastest Indian X2: X-Men United Young Guns
This list shows some of our kids' movies on DVD
The Adventures of Milo and Otis Agent Cody Banks Agent Cody Banks 2 All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 The Apple Dumpling Gang Arthur's Missing Pal The Berenstain Bears Bingo Caillou: Big Brother Caillou The Chronicles of Narnia Dog Park Blues Dora the Explorer Dr. Seuss's ABC Elmo's World: Happy Holidays Eragon Far from Home Ferngully II: The Magical Rescue Finding Nemo Fluke Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns Garfield Get a Clue! Go, Diego, Go! Good Boy Goosebumps: Cry of the Cat/Dead Cat Walking Goosebumps: Perfect School Goosebumps: Scary House Harriet the Spy Holes The Incredibles Madeline's Christmas/Madeline & the Toy Factory Madeline's Winter Vacation/Madeline in London The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Meet Angelina Ballerina Over the Hedge Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Santa Claus is Coming to Town A Series of Unfortunate Events Shark Tale Shrek 2 Snow Dogs Spy Kids Spy Kids 2 Spy Kids 3-D The Trial of Old Drum The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other stories The Wild Wishbone A Wrinkle in Time Young Sherlock Holmes
Television
This seems the ideal place to point out that a couple of current TV shows first "came to life" in books! We've got the show Dexter
(which originally aired on Showtime) on CBS, based on the books by
Jeff Lindsay, and ABC offers
The Women's Murder Club
(based on the
James Patterson series
).
And this is not TV, exactly, I'll take this opportunity to point you to a YouTube video of a recent program at
Heritage Library.
Books
We don't mean to brag, but sometimes we just can't help it! ;-) We're quite proud of our collection of large print books, and we want everyone to know it! These aren't just for senior citizens however...our large print collection contains a number of options to suit a variety of reading preferences.
It isn't only our large print section that offers variety...We try to have something for everyone - and the choices are always changing (just a little)! If you can't find what you're looking for, we can help! If we don't have the title you want, and it isn't too new (published this year), we can request it from other libraries in the state through the Access PA system.
If available, it will be shipped to us for you to pick up.
If you're the type who is more interested in newspapers or magazines than books, well, we can help you with that, too! In addition to the
magazines that we receive each month, we've also got a new resource, and searching the news has just gotten easier...If you follow this link to
NewsBank, you'll be asked to enter your CHCL library card number, and then you're on your way! From there, you can easily search both the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Sure, you can do that from their websites, but NewsBank also offers you the option of searching more than 25 magazines - many go back to the 90's but one can be searched as far back as 1986! Pretty cool, eh?
Heroes
Are you a Library Lover?
It's easier than ever to show your support and be a hero to the library! Consider honoring someone special...You might honor an anniversary, thank a co-worker, donate a graduating student's favorite book, or present a memorial. If you prefer, you can donate on-line by visiting our wishlist at Amazon. A nameplate will be placed in the book acknowledging your generosity.
You may find this difficult to believe, but we have need of things other than books, too. On the office-supply side of things, stamps for letters and postcards are always needed, as are business sized envelopes and reams of paper (white or colored). Items that are used on a daily basis are needed as well...things like wetwipes for cleaning the computer keyboards. Granted, these are all little things, but added up over the course of the year, they take a bite out of the library budget!
You can also be a hero to our community! The patrons of the Chartiers-Houston Library help their neighbors in a number of ways. Thanks to the Lions Club, we have collection boxes for old eye glasses and empty ink cartridges and the library is also a collection point for non-perishables for area food banks. As always, we continue to gather toiletries for the Washington Women's Shelter and over the next couple of months, we’ll be having craft-a-thons to benefit the WWS and other local shelters.
Not too long ago, we expanded our community outreach and are proud to say that continue to be a drop off center for Project Linus, a volunteer organization that provides blankets to traumatized children in our area and throughout the country. Be sure to check out this blog entry for a pic of one such blanket!
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About me: ..The Chartiers-Houston Library is located at ..730 West Grant Street.
Our hours are from 10am - 8pm, Monday through Friday and 9am - 4pm on Saturday. For directions or information about our programs, please call 724-745-4300.
Remember, if you're added to our friends list here, you'll receive bulletins with information about new books & movies and upcoming programs and events!
Who I'd like to meet: Generous Patrons: Just like with having a home, the work here is never done! Our next big project is going to be getting a circulation desk that is ADA compliant and again, your help is needed. Don’t forget - your donation is tax-deductible!
Young Readers: The current StoryTime session will continue through Monday, December 21st. It's not too late to sign up for this six-week long, Monday evening session...You can even register online at our website! Click on the calendar on the main page to to be taken to a listing of our events.
Paper Recyclers: Be sure to keep bringing in your junk mail, catalogs, and newspapers to one of the three Abitibi bins in the parking lot...but please, no "kitchen cardboard" or phone books!
Friends: Be a Friend! Join the Friends of the Library at our next meeting on Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30pm to discuss the budget for 2010 and the upcoming Tree-Trimming Party! You can become a member for as little as $5 for an individual or $10 for a family.
Alexis and Ralph the Dragon...The # 1 Children's Book. of 2009 ...From first time Published Author....Barney Kowalski This NEWLY released children's book is an adorable story of a baby dragon left on a human couple's doorstep.Raised as a little boy ,Ralph doesn't know he's a Dragon until he meets other children.Befriended by a little girl "Alexis" ,they discover Acceptance ,and learn to celebrate their differences and how much they have in common.
Written in language for young children,Ralph has a tongue-in-cheek humor that the adult that reads to them will get a few chuckles .
I wrote this book ,Dawn Phillips did the eye-popping illustration and the publisher is publishamerica.Contact Publishamerica for your copy or ask your bookstore to carry it.
Thank you for being a friend. I look forward to getting to know you and your community.
During this month, I will finish up my Summertime recipe exchange on my blog. Plus, I have monthly contests for free books. Today is the last day to enter ! Also, I had an interview with Margaret Moore in which you can learn more about The Viscount’s Kiss and what to expect from her next. In September, Blythe Gifford will be spending some time with me.
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Keep your eyes out for my YA fantasy novel, Paraworld Zero (ISBN 978-0-9819227-3-7). So far it's hit a couple of bestseller lists and placed in 10 contests. Have a wonderful day!
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