library news, Volume 6 number 12, December 2004 The Grand Reopening & A Lalapalooza! The John Trigg Ester Library is reopening! The books are all back on the shelves, and a new desk holds the computers and library cards. A large set of shelves by the door has space for donations, for bread pickup, for item return and checkout, and for display of new books. Everything should be ready by the New Year. The Book Bash Every year the JTEL will hold a fundraiser. The first John Trigg Ester Library Lalapalooza and Book Bash will be at the Annex, Sunday March 6, starting at 3 p.m., and will feature music, a theatrical performance by Dennis Stephens, readings, an auction, and—with any luck—a gong show. Publishers, authors, or bookstores interested in donating books to auction are encouraged to contact the librarians at library [at] esterrepublic.com or 451-9892. Victims wishing to expose their talents to the public in a gong show format are requested to contact the library board members posthaste. Those wishing to participate in Stephens’ one-act play, Being a Librarian: Multi-Tasking at the Reference Desk, ca. 1890, please contact the librarians. The play is available for review at www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffdjs1/being18_integ.html. Donations We accept the following items: hardback or trade paperback books, jigsaw puzzles (with all their pieces, please), books on tape or CD, videos, and DVDs. If you wish to bring items to the library, please make sure they are in good condition. Do NOT leave them in a heap on the floor or in the chair. Please leave them on the new donation shelf by the door, in tidy stacks. If you have mass market paperbacks in good condition, you can take them in to Gulliver’s and donate the used book credit to the Ester library’s account there. Please do not leave toys, maps, magazines, or battered books at the library—they clutter the place up and we just take them down to the post office exchange shelf anyway, and would rather not have to do that for you. However, we do need bookends! New Items An intriguing new movie, Abandon, has been donated to the library. This film, starring Katie Holmes, Charlie Hunnam, and Benjamin Bratt, has received mixed reviews, described as a “dense, moody psychological thriller” by the promoters, but seen as “too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills” by Rotten Tomatoes. I enjoyed it, and found it to be an excellent personality study, with the central mystery the workings of the main characters’ minds, and very interesting indeed. The quirks of the various characters’ personalities, ranging from sinister to bizarre to funny, were the highlight of the movie for me. Adam Cox Meets the Cracklecrunch for Lunch is the newest book by Walter Benesch, and features illustrations by Sandy Jamieson. It is filled with rousing rhyme that I can easily imagine children shouting at the top of their lungs in gleeful delight at the truly horrible Adam Cox’s antics. A signed copy is now in the Young Readers section of the library. Other new books include two titles by James Joyce, Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man; Robert Ludlum’s The Hades Factor; several books on chess and chessmasters’ techniques, and Louis L’Amour’s memoir, Education of a Wandering Man.
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