September Happenings
Author Event: Carolina de Robertis
Tuesday, September 28
7pm
 
Carolina de Robertis is the author of six novels, including Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; it was also selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, and numerous other honors. The President and the Frog is her newest book.
 
This virtual event is a partnership with San Francisco Public Library and San Mateo County Libraries.
 
Outdoor Dance Performance & Mini-lesson with La Mezcla 
In front of the Tool Lending Library
Saturday, September 18
12:30pm
 
La Mezcla is a polyrhythmic, multidisciplinary San Francisco-based dance and music ensemble rooted in Chicana, Latina and Indigenous traditions and social justice.
 
Popping the Science Bubble Lecture Series
Tuesday, September 21
5:30pm
 
Ever wonder what the scientists at Cal are up to? Now is your chance to find out during a thrilling series of short lectures on cutting-edge research directly from Berkeley grad students and postdocs. With new speakers each month, come learn about interesting discoveries and science related issues that affect your everyday lives.

September topics:
 
Moss Animals?
The Secret Lives of Overlooked Ocean Creatures

Maya Samuels-Fair, Integrative Biology

and

Quantum Chemistry in Service to Modern X-Ray Science
Scott Garner, Chemistry
 
Bike Camping 101: Outdoor Workshop 
in front of Tool Lending Library
Saturday, September 11
11am
 
Learn basic skills needed to plan a fun, comfortable, and safe bike camping trip, whether it is an overnight stay at one of our many great local parks or a week plus long expedition. Learn what to pack, where to go, and what to do when you’re there! 
 
Berkeley Old Time Music Convention Kids' Concert: Bayou Seco
Thursday, September 23
4pm
 
Using diatonic button accordions, fiddles, guitar, harmonica, banjo, and a limberjack, Bayou Seco focuses on keeping valuable traditions alive. They will get us singing in Spanish, French, English, and Navajo, and dancing up a storm.
 
Family Dance with Cunamacue: Afro-Peruvian Dance and Music
Friday, September 17
3:30pm
 
Cunamacue is an Afro-Peruvian dance company dedicated to promoting Afro-Peruvian culture through its music and dance. In our Family Dance Class you will learn to dance the Festejo as well as learn about instruments that are unique to Afro-Peruvian music.
 

Check the online event calendar for Outdoor Story time (with musical accompaniment!) as well as our weekly Virtual Storytime on Wednesdays.
 
There are many more library events in September!
Check out the online calendar for a complete list of upcoming virtual and outdoor events at the Library.
 
 Programming is made possible by the generous support of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.
 
Help! We want your feedback on Family and Children's events at the Library

Your feedback is very valuable to us as we plan family and children's programs for the future.
 
 
Spotlight on New E-Resources
Press Reader App
 
With your Berkeley Public Library card, use the Press Reader app to get digital access to more than * 7,000 * of the world’s top newspapers and magazines as soon as they’re available on shelves. 
 
Newspapers and magazines come from over 120 countries, are in over 60 languages and articles can be instantly translated in up to 18 languages.

Access to The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Daily Mail, L'Équipe, Der Tagesspiegel, Libération, China Daily, La Razon and more are just a few clicks away!
 
Consumer Reports Online Access

Consumer Reports is the world's largest nonprofit product-testing organization and has been helping subscribers find better, safer products for 80+ years. In addition to thousands of product ratings and reviews of appliances, electronics and more, you will find in-depth advice, tips and trends written by Consumer Reports experts.

Access with your library card includes Consumer Reports' Cars Best Deals Plus® to assist consumers looking for reliable information on new and used cars and Consumer Reports Online Health, a trusted and unbiased source of information designed to help consumers navigate the health care labyrinth.
 
Bay Area Consumers' Checkbook 
 
From auto repair shops to doctors to plumbers to vets, Checkbook helps you find the best local services—and avoid the worst. Staff research prices and provide consumer advice and users also write reviews and provide ratings based on their real-life experiences. Consumers' Checkbook never takes money from the reviewed companies so you can rely on the site to be independent and objective.
 
The Library has many e-resources for you to explore. See the complete list, here. 

If you need assistance using these e-resources, please just ask! Give us a call at 510.981.6100, option 4.
 
BUSD (Berkeley Unified School District) Students & Teachers
Access the Public Library's e-books with your berkeley.net email address

Reminder to all students in grades 3-12 and teaching staff - through a partnership between the Library and the District, you can access Berkeley Public Library OverDrive eBooks and eAudiobooks. All you need is your berkeley.net email account info!
 
All Library Locations will be closed on Monday, September 6. Enjoy your Labor Day!
 
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