August 2009 Archives

Greenwich Library has installed three new Sentry QuickCheck™ machines to allow patrons to check-out all formats of library materials. The Express Checkout station is intuitive and easy-to-use. The system has a touch screen monitor and offers step-by-step instructions to guide patrons through the process. One advantage of the new equipment is the ability to check-out all library materials including books, CDs, DVDs, video and audiobooks. Patrons may also select from a menu of multiple languages. They may scan either their library card or the key tag.

Greenwich Library has relaunched PrepMe, a new SAT test preparation service, to local students for free.

PrepMe is a premium test preparation company dedicated to bringing high-quality, customized learning to students across the world. PrepMe makes customized test preparation affordable and accessible while providing highly impactful results and learning for students and their families.

"With the exception of expensive private tutors, what's out there has always been a mass-market approach," said PrepMe CEO Karan Goel in an interview with CNN/Money. "We're changing the way test preparation is taught."

Greenwich Library's Friends Friday Film Series, running through January 2010 in the Cole Auditorium, offers an eclectic mix of new, classic, foreign and popular films and documentaries. This season's Friday Films at the Library offer you a chance to see illegal immigration from the immigrant's point-of-view with The Visitor; view Oscar nominees in Doubt; get a glimpse of pre-Lucy Lucille Ball with The Dark Corner; and much, much more.

Friends Friday Films are shown each week, at 8 p.m., in the Cole Auditorium, 101 West Putnam Ave. Free and open to the public through the support of the Friends of Greenwich Library. Doors open at 7:40 p.m.

All musicians are inspired by other artists -- performers from the past that resonate with the individual's artistic spirit. Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was a staunch admirer of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Author, critic and scholar, Mortimer Frank, will discuss Toscanini's reprise of Mendelssohn's work during Greenwich Library's Toscanini Lecture Series, Tuesday, September 29, at 7 p.m., in the Meeting Room.

Greenwich, CT -- Expand your imagination with illusion and magic when Dan Bowen

performs "Creative Imagination" on Saturday, August 8 at 11 a.m. in the Cole Auditorium at Greenwich Library.

Bowen blends a childlike imagination with the latest illusion technology to create an unforgettable magical experience. The show will feature laughter, audience participation and baffling magic, including Bowen's signature "Flying Table" routine.

According to the Greenwich Post kids all across Greenwich are getting creative with the Summer Reading Program.