New Library Update Available to View

The newest episode of Library Update is up on YouTube. This is part one of Episode 19, Financial Literacy. Make sure to catch parts 2 and 3 of the episode as well.

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When Disaster Strikes

Bill Kershner from the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (WVDHSEM) will present ways to be prepared for natural and other disasters as well as how WVDHSEM can assist in the aftermath.  This event is free and open to the public.

May 16, 2013, at 12:00 pm in the Library Commission Childer's Room.

Literary Lunch with Jamie Summerlin

On Thursday, May 23, the West Library Commission State Library Services will host ultra-marathoner and Marine Corps veteran Jamie Summerlin for a Literary Lunch presentation of his book Freedom Run: A 100-Day, 3,452-Mile Journey Across America to Benefit Wounded Veterans. Mr. Summerlin, a Morgantown resident from Burnsville, West Virginia, will have copies of his book available to purchases and will sign copies.   Literary Lunch is a noon event and is free and open to the public.

Freedom Run tells of Summerlin’s 2012 transcontinental run across America and the heartfelt stories of courage and determination from the U.S. veterans he met along the way.  With light humor and great emotion, Summerlin provides the many elements involved in preparing for and accomplishing his journey, as well as some of the milestones and people who shared the experience with him.  While many have attempted to run across the country, few have completed it.  Mr. Summerlin became the 48th person known to have finished a true coast-to-coast-run in America.

Mr. Summerlin had another motivation for making his way across the county on foot.  As a veteran, he wanted to recognize the men and women who defend our country.  Mr. Summerlin captured the attention of individual and corporate sponsors to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and other veteran-based charitable organizations during his run.

For more information about this event, or other West Virginia Library Events, check out the Events Calendar or call 304-558-2045.

Choose Privacy

Choose Privacy is an education and awareness campaign that in­vites everyone to discuss our privacy rights in a digital age.  The goal is to give individuals the resources they need to critically think and make informed choices about their privacy. Join State Library Services throughout the month for informational sessions and events.    Visit our Events, Facebook, or blog page for more detailed and up to date information on events during the month.

Writer's Toolkit in Wheeling, May 11th

FREE, intensive creative-writing-skills workshop sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Library Commission, the West Virginia Center for the Book and the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission.

WHERE: West Virginia Independence Hall, Wheeling, WV

WHEN: Saturday, May 11, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Changing Education Paradigms - Friday Film

A thought-provoking 12 minute video.This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

(The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.)

Capitol Reads

April's Capitol Read is Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.

So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.

In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.

More information about Capitol Reads selections can be found on the WVLC website.