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Become a Hotspot Hotshot No, it’s not about the latest trendy club to hang out. But you can still get hip with a mobile hotspot and go online anywhere that has 4G LTE Sprint coverage.Save your cell phone minutes and batteries. The only library where you can check them out in Washington County? Yep. Tigard.
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A Law Librarian Walks Into a Library… …the Tigard Library. Want to find out about wills? Or learn about what your landlord can and cannot do? On the second Thursday of each month beginning January 10, from 3-7 p.m., a librarian from the Washington County Law Library will visit the library to help people find the answers to their legal questions. Although they cannot offer legal advice, law librarians can show people what legal resources and documents might help them with their legal issues. They will meet with people on a walk-in basis. No appointment necessary.
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Catalog Love: The Sequel The library’s new catalog has been up-and-running for about six weeks. Hopefully, you’re getting to know each other, and the relationship is blossoming. Did you know that it is quite the social animal? Social and sociable. It’s an online literary matchmaker, encouraging you to develop rapport with other like-minded readers. Create lists on specific topics and share them in the catalog. When you find someone else’s list, you can follow them and sign up for notifications when they add more content. If you prefer not to share your faves, you can always set your account to private mode.
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Monday, January 21 | 1-5 p.m. | All Ages Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that strong communities were essential to overcoming hate, fear and prejudice. The best way to build a strong community is to talk with each other. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Tigard Library will honor Dr. King with a program to bring the community together. Together at the Table pays tribute to Dr. King’s dream that people “sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” Drop by the Burgess Community Room to converse with others about anything with a pastry and a hot beverage.
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Tweendom: Bad Robot Battle Thursday, January 31 | 4-5:30 p.m. Ages 10-14 only, please Create bad robots out of mechanical toys. No mechanical or engineering skills required. Duct tape, a little ingenuity and a sense of humor is all you need. A fun and educational way to repurpose mechanical toys.
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Incredibles 2: Family Movie Matinee (PG) Friday, January 4 | 2-4 p.m. | Kids & Families They’re back! That family of undercover superheroes who try to live a quiet suburban life. Not that easy when you have to save the world!
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel
This best-selling Japanese novel offers a cat’s-eye view of a road trip across Japan. Sassy and wise cat Nana, a former stray, and his owner and rescuer, the gentle Satoru, embark in a silver van to visit three of Satoru’s childhood friends to find the cat a new home. They enjoy Japan’s beautiful scenery en route, including Mt. Fuji and the northern island of Hokkaido. Their life stories and Satoru’s impact on his friends, told in flashbacks, are gradually revealed in this deceptively simple bittersweet story. Grab your hanky.
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On A Sunbeam
by Tillie Walden
Mia joins a rag-tag crew that specializes in restoring old buildings that float untethered in space. She finds a place among this diverse group of misfits. When she discovers their surprising connection to Grace, her long-lost first love, she also learns of the group’s history conducting risky rescue missions to free people trapped on isolated, forgotten outposts.
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Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
by Susan Hood
Check out this book of poetry about 14 famous and perhaps not-so-famous yet extraordinary young women who were trailblazers and activists, one as young as 6 years old. Each poem is illustrated by a different amazing female artist and devoted to these young woman who in their own way shook things up to change the world.
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1. What are your main duties at the library? My official job title is Senior Library Assistant for Youth Services. If you’ve ever watched M.A.S.H. (I’m dating myself here), just think of me as Radar O’Reilly. My duties are programming, story times, outreach, displays, coordinating projects for a fabulous group of Youth Services volunteers, reference desk shifts and a cornucopia of everything “glittery” in between. 2. You’ve worked at the Tigard Public Library for 29 years. What do you like best about working here? How has the library changed over the years? I started out part time in Youth Services in the library and in a fledgling Parks and Rec program. As the Library grew, my time in Youth Services working with our smallest patrons became my only focus. Unofficially, I’ve supported the library ever since I was a child, helping my neighbors bring about the dream of a library for the city. My friends and I enjoyed going house-to-house collecting books often after a good tree climbing adventure and pollywog chase. Tigard was a lot smaller then, and the library was just a small spare room. One of the things I like about working here is meeting such a diverse population of individuals with so many fun, challenging and unique questions, interests and opinions. At times I feel like I’ve traveled the world without leaving the states. I can honestly say I have and will continue to learn at least ten new things each day from patrons and our fantastic staff. However, my heart belongs to all the children who’ve come through the library doors over the years. Seeing so many return with their families, talking to them about their successes and challenges in life, it is so easy to see why the library is called the living room within the Tigard community. 3. What are some of your favorite memories related to the Mitten Tree? Tigard as a whole has always been proactive about giving back to the community. The Mitten Tree evolved as a way to bring together a variety of inspired community projects under one roof or, shall I say “Tree.” Everything about the Mitten Tree represents the spirit of those who give and the community in which they live. Personally I enjoy the groups of folks who make gorgeous hand-made items and place them on the tree, wanting only to give and remain anonymous. The sparkle in everyone’s eyes and the conversations adults have with their children about the importance of thinking about someone else are priceless.
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