Library Highlights: 8/14: Relationship Fiction Titles, Online Resources for Business, Latest Podcast Episode, hoopla Bonus Borrow Themes, September Book Clubs, Friends of FPL Annual Meeting & Author Event

Library Highlights 8/14

Summer Genre Reads

Each week we will spotlight

new and upcoming genre reads.

Relationship fiction.

Database Spotlight

Business Resources Online

BUSINESS

ABI/Inform (A researchIT CT database)

· International in scope

· Company information

· Industry trends

· business periodicals, economics periodicals, major news sources

Reference Solutions (formerly Reference USA)

· premier source of business and residential information for reference and research

· business and consumer databases

· continuously updated from more than 5,000 public sources

· find jobs and business opportunities

· conduct market research

· track down addresses and phone numbers

Small Business Resource Center (A researchIT CT Database)

· Top small business reference books available in full text

· covers many small business topics

· includes business videos

· help and advice section

· details on how to create business plans

**Traveling Internationally for Work or Pleasure?

Passport Applications and Renewals

What to expect with wait times.

Passport renewal times are experiencing delays due to COVID backlog.

Check out this website for information on obtaining a new passport or renewal.

Adult Friendship Bracelets

Despite a heat wave adult patrons gathered together this past Friday

to create friendship bracelets outside under our awning.

Librarian Jessica Stevens led the program

at the Fairfield Woods Branch.

Check out our event page for more awesome programs coming up!

https://fplct.librarymarket.com/events/upcoming

Fairfield What Are You Reading?

Episode 7!

Children's Librarians, Middle Grade Reads,

and #OwnVoices

DROP IN EVENT

Tech Help

Get cozy with Ancestry's Library Edition access from home through December 31.

Creativebug helps you find your next

craft obsession.

Be smart with your job search using

Workforce Solutions including Job and Career Accelerator & Computer Skills. and JobNow.

Get authoritative with Newsbank for personal or school research.

Conduct Market Research with

Reference Solutions.

Create a business plan with Small Business Reference Center.

Tutor.com offers free, live one-to-one tutoring and a real-time writing center.

Find your next insurance company or bank with Weiss Financial Ratings

The list is virtually endless.

hoopla Bonus Borrows are back from

August 1 - 31

with new themed collections!

hoopla Bonus Borrows are back

for August!

Throughout the month, over 1,000 audiobooks, ebooks, comics, movies and

TV series are available at Hoopla without using any of your monthly

Hoopla borrows

August themes include:

All Things British
Back to School: STEAM!
Biographies & Memoirs
Pop Culture Celebration
Relaxation
Romance
Sci-Fi
Series You'll Love

Just 2 of the many themes available!

Congratulations

to our

Week 7

Adult Summer Reading Winner

Dane L.!

VIRTUAL EVENT

Senior Literary Society

The Feather Thief by

Kirk W. Johnson

Wednesday, August 18

11:00 a.m.

"A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods,

The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief."

Please join us by Zoom for a virtual session of the Senior Literary Society book club that usually meets in-person at the Bigelow Center. We will be discussing August's selection

The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson.

Please sign up with your email address and you will get the Zoom link to join the meeting. f you have any questions please email

Mary Coe at mcoe@fplct.org.

Hope to 'see' you there!

A zoom link will be provided when you register.

VIRTUAL EVENT

Women & Money Roundtable

Wednesday, August 18

1:00 p.m.

How to Make Sense of Today's Financial Markets

We’ll cover the latest market news and how that might affect your decision making. We’ll also give you background and context for understanding why market movement occurs and we’ll share strategies for keeping ahead of what might come.

Women often wish they were more informed about finances as they relate to their family and themselves. This monthly discussion group, offers an opportunity to learn more in a comfortable setting with other women.

You will receive a confirmation and a link for the meeting from the Darien Library.

VIRTUAL EVENT

Portrait Drawing Class

August 19 and September 2

Thursdays 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

An in-depth look at portrait drawing, including key proportions, line quality, shading techniques, and capturing the eyes. Classes will include demos and drawing time, with option of feedback and class critique.

Questions are encouraged. Class is aimed for adults - beginners and current artists.

Thursday, Aug 19: Class 2.

Drawing techniques - Eyes and lips: shading and highlighting.

Thursday, Sep 2: Class 3.

Drawing after the masters.

Presenter: multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Katonah NY,

Hodaya Louis (B. 1981, Israel) is influenced by her Orthodox upbringing, multi-cultural background, and training in fashion design. Her work explores the female narrative and its abstraction, seeking an emotive response to color and movement.

Awarded "Distinguished artist of Israel", Louis exhibited at The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and Society Of Illustrators Museum in NYC. Her art was selected for the Garment District Banners and has been commissioned for the Tribeca Featured Film “Egg” (2018), as well as numerous commercial projects and private collections. She has also been featured in Architectural Digest, Insider, W Magazine, and Brides Magazine.

www.hodayalouis.com

August 19

September 2

COMING SOON!

VIRTUAL EVENT

Senior Literary Society

Big Lies in a Small Town

by Diane Chamberlain

Wednesday, September 15

11:00 a.m.

"From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman’s quest to find the truth…

“A novel about art and secrets...grippingly told...pulls readers toward a shocking conclusion.”—People magazine,

Best New Books"

Please join us by Zoom for a virtual session of the Senior Literary Society book club that usually meets in-person at the Bigelow Center. We will be discussing September's selection

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain.

Please sign up with your email address and you will get the Zoom link to join the meeting. If you have any questions please email Mary Coe at mcoe@fplct.org.

IN PERSON EVENT

Main Book Club

(Formally Woods Book Group)

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

Wednesday, September 22

Fairfield Public Library Downtown

Memorial Room

1:30 p.m.

"This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York City congregation in the 1960s."

We will be discussing The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall in person. Meeting will take place in the Memorial Room downtown

If you have any questions please email

Claudia Silk at csilk@fplct.org.

Looking forward to "seeing you".

FROM OUR FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

Annual Meeting & Author Event

Fairfield Public Library Downtown

Rotary Room

Tuesday, September 21

7:00 p.m.

Join the Friends of the Fairfield Public Library for their Annual Meeting and Author Event with New York Times Bestselling Author,

Joyce Maynard.

Brief business meeting and installation of 2021-2022 officers, followed by author talk and book signing.

Books will be available for purchase.

Light refreshments will be served.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Fines To Return in September

Excluding museum passes, late fees are being waived until August 31, 2021.

We ask that you return material on or before the due date.

Holding materials beyond the due date without renewing may impact your ability to place holds, access services or prevent other patrons from borrowing wanted materials.

For more information please

check out our Loan Period/Fine Schedule Page.