June Happenings
Author Talk:
Driving While Brown:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance
Monday, June 14
4pm

Monica Campbell, senior editor and reporter of public radio’s The World, will lead a conversation with authors Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block.
 
Author Talk:
Agents of Influence:
Britain's Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA
Thursday, June 17
11am

Aaron Edwards discusses his new book that is filled with recently declassified top secret documents and first-hand testimonies of agents and their handlers.
 
Mental Health and Covid-19 workshop from United Parents and CalHOPE
 
Wednesday, June 2
10am
Decoding Chinese Opera with Director and Designer Jon Wai-keung Lowe 

Saturday, June 12
1pm
Stream the celebrated LGBTQ film, Moroni for President,
all month long. 
 
Watch now
Children's Author & Illustrator event:

Diary of a Traveling Hedgehog
Friday, June 11
11am 
 
Hope Silver, Russian author, and Julia Kosivchuk, Ukrainian illustrator, present an interactive, humorous storytelling experience.
Women in STEM:
M is for Math
 
Saturday June 12
10:30am 
Kids Virtual Yoga Class
 
Thursdays @ 4pm
June 10
June 17 
June 24
Animals of the Rainforest

Friday, June 18
3pm
Cartooning for Kids
 
Monday, June 7
4pm
There are many other virtual events happening in June! 
Please check out the calendar of events.
 
Summer Reading Starts Friday
Adults, Teens & Kids
 
Beginning this Friday, June 4th, sign up for summer reading on the Library's website or stop by one of our libraries for a paper game card. Log your reads all summer long to earn tickets for the big end of summer raffle! 

After you sign up, pick up a free sign-up book (while supplies last).
 
Adult Summer Reading Sign-up Books
Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong

An award-winning poet and essayist offers a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune

Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets.
Honey Girl
by Morgan Rogers

After completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality goes on a girls’ weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t even know.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker

Tells the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, 6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Teen Summer Reading Sign-up Books
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
by Sabina Khan

Hoping to hide her authentic self from her conservative Muslim parents until she can depart for college, 17-year-old Rukhsana is caught kissing her girlfriend and whisked away to Bangladesh, where she fights an arranged marriage by consulting the wisdom she finds in her grandmother's diary.
Opposite of Always
by Justin A. Reynolds

After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.
Superman Smashes the Klan
by Gene Luen Yang

When her family is targeted by the KKK after moving from Chinatown to 1946 Downtown Metropolis, misfit Roberta Lee uses her keen skills of observation to help Superman thwart a string of terrorist attacks.
The Beast Player
by Nahoko Uehashi

When her mother is executed for the mysterious deaths of their kingdom's protective water serpents, a girl with an inherited ability to communicate with magical beasts finds her talent ensnaring her in life-threatening war plots.
Kids Summer Reading Sign-up Books
Kids can choose from 15 different sign-up books including young teen reads, middle grade, early chapter books, readers and picture books. Click here to see the list.
 
Summer Reading & Virtual Programming is made possible by the generous support of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.
 
Updates on Library Services during Covid-19
Express indoor browsing, holds pick-up, self check-out & computer use begins at three locations:
  • North: opened May 28
  • West: June 7
  • Central: June 15
Currently all indoor service hours are Monday-Saturday 2pm-6pm.
 
Staff teams are continuing to make plans for providing more indoor services. The teams are working in coordination with the City of Berkeley, Labor Unions and Public Health. Additional services will be announced via this e-newsletter, on social media and on berkeleypubliclibrary.org.
 
Outdoor Pickup of holds continues at four locations:
  • Central - Monday 12-6; Tuesday-Saturday 10-6
  • Claremont - Monday-Wednesday 10-6; Thursday 12-6; Friday-Saturday 10-6
  • Tarea Hall Pittman South - Monday-Wednesday 10-6; Thursday 12-6; Friday-Saturday 10-6
  • Tool Lending Library - Monday &Tuesday 10-6; Wednesday & Thursday 12-6; Friday & Saturday 10-6
From the City of Berkeley
The City of Berkeley would like to know which health and safety issues residents are most concerned about and what programs and services residents see as key to community safety.
 
The Re-Imagining Public Safety survey is part of a larger effort to create a public safety paradigm in Berkeley that aims to continue Police Department work on violent and criminal matters and de-escalation while redirecting some funding currently spent on policing to violence prevention and diversion programs, including those targeted on domestic violence, youth outreach, mental health, crisis response, substance abuse, housing and homeless services, and restorative justice.
 
Complete the survey online in English or Spanish by June 15. All responses are anonymous.
 
 
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