A READING BY KRISTIN HUNTER LATTANY

In Celebration Of NATIONAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH the Ferry Ave Branch (852 Ferry Ave) of CFPL will present celebrated author Kristin Hunter Lattany reading from her works on Saturday, Feb. 17th at 2 p.m. Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served. All are welcome; come by and celebrate with us.

Free Income Tax Assistance (VITA) at CFPL

For Your Information

Rutgers University Law Students will return to CFPL in early February to do the Free Income Tax Assistance Program they do every year.
Check their 2007 Schedule for the VITA Program is listed on our website in the Ongoing Events Page. See here for details.

AMNESTY MONTH - January 2007

AMNESTY MONTH

January 2007 is Amnesty Month at the Camden Free Public Library!

All LIBRARY MATERIALS MAY BE RETURNED WITHOUT CHARGE!

During the entire month of January, you can return any books, audio books, movies or any other materials you may have overdue that belong to the library and no fines will be collected*.

Camden Free Public Library

Main Library
418 Federal Street
Camden, New Jersey 08103
(856) 757-7640

Fairview Branch Library
1503 Collings Road
Camden, New Jersey 08104
(856) 962-6669

Ferry Avenue Branch (Centerville)
852 Ferry Avenue
Camden, New Jersey 01804
(856) 342-9789

*Note: Does Not Apply to materials previously returned, fines owed (overdue books, or lost/damaged items.) Amnesty only to items not yet returned.

BOOK CLUB

Our next book will be Stephen King's Different Seasons, which is comprised of four separate novellas. The book club meets this month Thurs. Feb. 8th. at 5:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join us for a lively discussion of the book in the Community Room at the Main Branch, 418 Federal St. Light refreshments will be served.

FYI - For Your Information

To CFPL Staff
Anyone interested in learning how to use any of the Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Front Page, Publisher) Programs or HTML Programming (useful when posting to WebPages & Blogs) There a Tutorial for each and everyone of these programs on the Library Use folder on the File Server.
The Tutorials are simple just follow along point and click and typing a word or two once in a while. If you have speakers or headphones you can hear the lesson play along.

Once your in the "LibraryUse" folder on the Server folder just click on the Program you would like to learn.

It’s that easy!
Frankie

Winner of the Fall 2006 Poetry Contest

Phil Terman chose Rocky Wilson's "Early for the Ferry" as the winning entry in the Pat Dillenschneider Poetry Award Contest. Our congratulations to Rocky and all the poets that submitted work, and watch for our spring contest to be announced on the blog. Below is the winning poem:

Early for the Ferry
Red in the morning, sailors' warning...

My body jogs wearily along the waking Delaware,
as my mind calculates how far this month's bills will
outdistance my paycheck.

In his book Islands Aldous Huxley had myna birds
land on people's shoulders and repeat the refrain,
"Here and now, boys, here and now!"

A triangle of grass, near the summer stage, whispers Walt Whitman's name.
Moments later I am spinning on a circle of bricks,
where I once danced to boombox music,
as smiling picnickers handed me dollar bills
and a bologna sandwich.
A squirrel waits on the ferry ramp, his tail,
like a piece of Whitman's beard, points west.
Out past the docked ferry, a cormorant dives looking for breakfast.
I imagine Jennifer and Button, the aquarium's hippo sisters,
clambering down the river bank to take a swim before work.
Sounds from a construction site keep getting louder,
until I can make out, "sweet home Alabama..."
Another worker takes a welding mask and torch out of his truck.
Across the river the buildings are starting to catch fire.
A red-breasted gull flies over
It is the first day of autumn.
Someone has painted a pink happy face
beside the walkway, along with the words, "Have a happy day!"
Rumbling over the blue bridge, a commuter train passes
the sand-colored state prison, built like an adobe
without ladders.

On Linden Street I pick up a dead sparrow
and lay it in the wet grass with some cookie crumbs.
Words come to me from a communion service
at St. Mary's By-the-Sea, "Strength for the journey."

A shortcut through the community garden
leaves me standing among hundreds of purple morning glories,
while, below me, the roots of sunflowers
pass along the promise of rain.

BOOK CLUB

We'll be reading Lee Stringer's Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street as our next book for discussion. The club will meet Thurs. Nov. 30th from 5:30 to 6:30 in the Community Room at the Main Branch, 418 Federal St. As soon as copies of the book are available I'll be calling club members. Anyone who wishes to join us, please call Alfred at (856)757-7640 ext. 26.