today’s
Ne w s l e t t e r o f t h e Ti m b e r l a n d Re g i o n a l L i b r a r y
Compiled by TRL Collection Development
Specialists, Kim Storbeck and Jean Barnett
Non-Fiction
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
by Bob Newhart
The legendary comedian shares
anecdotes from his life and entertain-
ment career, as well as hilarious
observations on life, television, golf,
family holidays, drinking, his beginnings
as an accountant, and more.
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
A vivid portrait of the Edwardian era
recounts two intersecting stories –
the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who
murdered his wife and fled to America,
and Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of
wireless communication. A new
technology is used to capture a killer.
A Good Dog: The Story of Orson,
Who Changed My Life
by Jon Katz
A portrait of one remarkable dog recalls
Orson, a troubled border collie that
turned the author’s world upside down
and became a beloved companion.
I Like You: Hospitality Under
the Influence
by Amy Sedaris
An unconventional hostess offers a witty
guide to the art of entertaining, furnish-
ing a treasury of recipes, helpful advice
and offbeat tips. (Humor!)
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library Wi n t e r 2 0 0 7
“Timberland Reads Together”
Program Receives $20,000 Grant
In 2006, the district followed-up with a
more compact edition of Timberland Reads
Together, featuring Jim Lynch, one of western
Washington’s bestselling writers, and his novel
The Highest Tide. Over 600 people flocked to
five events to hear Lynch read from and discuss
his luminous novel about a teenage boy
growing up on Puget Sound.
The National Endowments for the Arts
has awarded Timberland Regional Library
a $20,000 “Big Read” grant for the
Library’s third district-wide Timberland
Reads Together program for 2007!
This April and May, adults and high school teens
will be invited to read the novel My Ántonia,
by Willa Cather, and take part in related
community events.
Set on the prairie in late nineteenth century
Nebraska, and first published in 1918, My
Ántonia is the classic American immigrant story.
Ántonia Shimerda struggles with a foreign land
and tongue with mixed success. Told by her
childhood friend, Jim, her life is the tale of
many immigrants and pioneers.
“This program will focus on two principal Jim Lynch, author of The Highest Tide, was featured
themes: the world as portrayed in the book, in the 2006 “Timberland Reads Together” program.
and our world as set forth in our own stories of
migration, settlement and cultural integration,”
Reading the same book as the rest of the
explains TRL Reference and Adult Services
community is a powerful experience. Timberland
Coordinator, Tim Mallory. “With theatrical Reads Together programs are satisfying an
presentations, discussions and historical exhibits, expressed desire for in-depth literary-based
we hope to achieve a region-wide perspective of community discussions and presentations
our common culture and our individual roots.” designed around ideas and issues that matter.
Timberland Regional Library presented its The Big Read: Timberland Reads Together,
first Timberland Reads Together program My Ántonia event calendars, reader’s guides
in 2005 featuring Sue Monk Kidd’s bestseller, and other materials inviting your participation
The Secret Life of Bees. Fifteen hundred people will be available in Timberland libraries in March.
throughout the library system’s five-county
Meanwhile, adults can start reading for TRL’s
service area participated in 85 events and
10th annual Adult Winter Reading Club.
asked for more.
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Great Reads
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Fiction
Armageddon’s Children
by Terry Brooks
Seattle plays a major role in this first
volume of a series, set 80 years from
now. It is a prequel to the author’s
famed “Shannara” fantasy series.
The Other Boleyn Girl: A Novel
by Philippa Gregory
Narrated by Mary, Henry VIII’s mistress
before her sister, Anne Boleyn, this
novel features romance, political
intrigue, sex as power, and the rivalry
that ultimately led to the sisters’ ruin.
Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
translation by Sandra Smith
During World War II, writer Irène
Némirovsky was a Russian Jewish
immigrant living in France. She and
her husband were sent to Auschwitz
in 1942, where both died. This is
the diary Némirovsky left behind.
The Man of My Dreams: A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Through her teens and late 20s,
Hannah searches for idealistic
romance, meaningful friendships,
and reconciliation with her father
who abandoned her at age 14.
TRL Reference & Information: 704-INFO (4636) Outside Olympia Area: 1-800-562-6022 • www.trlib.org
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Beat the Winter Blues with
Timberland’s Adult Winter
Reading Club
Want to get your mind off winter weather and
enter to win great prizes? Just read some good
books! Enter once for every five books you read
or listen to from January 2 - March 31. Pick up
an entry form, titled “Bringing Home a World of
Stories” at your local TRL branch, list the books
you’ve read, and write a sentence about each.
District News: Focus on Facilities
The new Westport Timberland Library was
dedicated on Saturday, December 9. An open
house celebration followed and the people of
the South Beach were welcomed to their new
library with music and other entertainment,
demonstrations and refreshments.
Three times larger than the old facility, the light-
filled, maritime-themed library is the result of a
special partnership between the Friends of the
Westport Timberland Library building fundraising
group, the LEAP (Library Expansion Action
Program) Committee, The City of Westport, and
Timberland Regional Library. Numerous foun-
dations, businesses, agencies and individuals –
from the South Beach area to Washington, D.C. –
provided generous financial and in-kind support.
Thanks to these partners, the facility is debt-free.
The library’s new hours are: Tue 11am-7pm,
Wed 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-7pm, Fri 11am-5pm,
Sat 11am-4pm. Closed Sun and Mon.
Your completed form enters you for local and
districtwide prize drawings. Participants must be
18 or older and have a Timberland library card.
Materials and complete information are available
at all Timberland libraries.
Districtwide grand prizes, donated by area
businesses, include overnight stays at resorts and
inns, gift baskets and books. All TRL libraries will
also have local drawings for prizes provided by
businesses and library Friends groups. Grand
prizes will be drawn on April 10, 2007, during
National Library Week (April 8-14).
People in the Hawks Prairie area of Thurston
County can now access some library services at
the South Puget Sound Community College
Hawks Prairie Center, 1401 Marvin Rd. NE,
Suite 201, Lacey. A kiosk with two TRL computers
is located in the Center’s lobby. One computer
provides access to the Timberland catalog, Web
site, and reference databases. The other allows
TRL cardholders to check out their holds that
have been delivered to the Center.
For the first time since it was built in 1913,
the South Bend Timberland Library is
wheelchair accessible. An additional entrance
equipped with a lift was completed this summer
and now people who cannot climb stairs can
get from street level into the library. Extra parking
for people with disabilities and a new paved
walkway also improve access.
The new Westport Timberland Library is three
times larger than the old facility.
New at TRL: Free, Downloadable
Online Audio Book Service
TRL’s new online service lets library card-
holders download audio books from the
TRL website at www.trlib.org to enjoy on
their Windows PC or portable audio
devices. Best of all, it’s FREE!
Choose from a wide range of fiction and non-
fiction titles. Relax with the latest James Patterson
thriller or Debbie Macomber romance. Catch a
classic such as My Ántonia by Willa Cather. Learn
a new language or explore other interests with
a biography, business, self-development, history,
or travel title.
To use the service, start by searching the TRL
downloadable audio book catalog. When you’ve
made your selection, simply enter your library
card number and download titles right to your
PC. Audio books remain available for listening
on your PC for two weeks, so they are never
overdue. Some titles can even be burned to CDs.
Target Awards Grant for TRL’s
Family Reading Project
Timberland’s hugely successful Mother
Goose Family Literacy Project is entering a
new phase with the help of a $2,000 grant
from Target. The staff of the Target Import
Warehouse in Lacey personally delivered
the donation.
Since 2002, the Mother Goose Project has
worked with community partners, such as local
Headstart programs, to reach parents-in-need.
The project provides hands-on training that shows
parents how reading, talking and playing with
their children results in powerful learning
experiences and stronger families.
Now, Mother Goose techniques and materials are
also being developed into family programs for
presentation at Timberland libraries.
TRL Reference & Information: 704-INFO (4636) Outside Olympia Area: 1-800-562-6022 • www.trlib.org
Now you can
download selected
TRL audio books
from your PC to
your portable
audio device!
To learn more about this new service, visit the
downloadable audio book page at www.trlib.org.
You’ll find a quick start guide, detailed help, the
free audio book software to download to your
PC, and a list of compatible computers and
devices. (Some devices are not supported.)
Because electronic equipment is so varied,
library staff do not provide technical assistance.
Target’s generous donation will make a real
difference, as TRL Youth Services Coordinator
Ellen Duffy explains, “Support from community
giving programs like Target’s means that TRL’s
Mother Goose Project will be able to reach even
more families to provide them with shared,
positive reading experiences centered around
quality children’s books.”
@ the Library:
Something is always happening at the
Library, for your information, inspiration,
and enjoyment. Look for these
districtwide programs at your local
Timberland Library:
ONGOING PROGRAMS:
• Story Times for Preschoolers
and their Families It’s never too
early to develop reading readiness
skills and learn that reading is fun!
• PageTurners Book Discussions
for Adults and Children
• Individualized Library Computer
Lessons
2007 PROGRAMS:
January-March
Annual Adult Winter Reading Club
Come in from the rain and let reading
be your cozy quilt. Enter for chances to
win prizes. Check with your library for
program details and materials and see
the article on page 2.
April-May
Timberland Reads Together 2007
Enjoy public presentations, perform-
ances and discussions developed around
Willa Cather’s My Ántonia.
For a calendar of the hundreds of
Timberland library events presented
each month, visit www.trlib.org or
ask at your local library.
Because your local property taxes fund
your library, attendance at library pro-
grams and use of library collections and
services are free of charge. Anyone
needing special accommodations may
contact the library a week in advance.
Tip #6 Got Questions? Need Information?
About TRL’s Reference Databases
Wireless in the Library
Featured Database: Opposing
Timberland subscribes to online reference
databases just like it subscribes to magazines Viewpoints Resource Center
Free wireless Internet access is available
in all TRL libraries in Grays Harbor, and newspapers. Database subscriptions give A must-have for student reports, debates or
Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston people easy access to much more information anyone seeking information on the pros and
counties. For information about using than a paper subscription. They provide vital cons of headline-making topics. Opposing
TRL’s wireless access and general setup resources for personal and professional Viewpoints provides in-depth information –
information for your laptop computer, research. both facts and arguments – on issues like
visit www.trlib.org. Library staff do not You’ll find full-text magazine and newspaper censorship, eating disorders, terrorism, home-
provide technical assistance. articles, maps, AP photos and reliable infor- lessness, pollution, racism and hundreds more.
Central Reference Hours* mation about health and wellness, investing, Searching is easy. Either choose from a list of
9 am - 9 pm Monday-Thursday genealogy, business, schools, tests and careers, popular topics or enter a subject, keyword or
9 am - 6 pm Friday literature, art music, homework topics, phrase. Get up-to-date coverage with articles
9 am - 5 pm Saturday and thousands of other subjects. from over 45 major news-papers and news
1 pm - 5 pm Sunday 50 databases on a variety of topics can be magazines. Results are listed by source, includ-
accessed from the computers in any Timberland ing viewpoint articles, reference books, acade-
*Except holidays.
library. Most are also available online for use mic journals, news, primary sources, and statis-
at home or work at www.trlib.org You’ll need tics. A sidebar with links to related subjects
reference & information: your library card number to access the data- helps refine the search.
704-INFO (4636) bases from outside a Timberland library. The 2,400,000 item database includes:
outside Olympia area:
1-800-562-6022 - Nearly 7,000 viewpoint articles
www.trlib.org - 274 primary documents
- 300 social activist & reformer biographies
- Nearly 5,000 statistical tables/charts/graphs
- Nearly 4,100 topic overviews
- Over 775 court-case overviews
- Over 1,265 images on the topics covered
Today’s Library Editor: - Student “Toolbox” featuring 13 tools such
Leanne Ingle as how to judge information, how to make
TRL Communications Specialist an outline, and how to build an argument.

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