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Head of Adult Services
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Staff
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Debbie Sue
Tammy
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Career Works: The In's and Out's of Online Applications: |
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Monday, June 10 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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Join Samantha Uster, from Ben Gordon to learn ways to learn ways to improve your online applications and improve your chances of getting the interview . After her program, there will be coffee and time for networking.
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Spring 2013 Book Club: |
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Third Tuesday of the month at 7:30
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You know those great books that you've always meant to read, but have never gotten around to? Now's your chance! The Spring 2013 Book Club will be reading five great titles that everyone will enjoy. Books are available at the Reference Desk one month prior to the meeting date.
Tuesday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
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Photo Club Show-and-Tell: |
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Wednesday, May 15 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
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It's Show-and-Tell time. Bring your flash drive with 3-7 images to share and discuss. What settings did you use? What were you trying to accomplish? Did it work? What questions to you have?
What are you learning and trying that you want to share and discuss? Be there or be square.:) Photographers Rock!
April/May Assignment: Railroad
Sycamore Public Library Photography Club meets on the first and third Wednesday from 7 - 9 p.m. of every month.
Past Assignments
March/April Assignment: Farm Life
February/March Assignment: Black and White
January Assignment: Artifical Light. Use your flash, use your stobes, turn on the lamp or flashlight and light up that photograph.
December Assignment: Orange Bowl
November Assignment: Self Portrait
October Assignment: Use Your Flash. Yes, that's it, use your flash. Practice, test it out and learn how to make your flash work for you.
August/September Assignment: Sell It! Practice your marketing and/or advertising skills this month and photograph It like you want to sell it.
July/August Assignment: What is it? Where is it? Look at things in a whole new way. Can you tell what it is? Can you trick your friends and photo club cohorts?
June Assignment: Black and white and/or egg. Let you imagination go with the egg and take some time to look at the world through the beautiful tones, lights, darks and inbetween of black and white photography.
May Assignment: The Night Sky.
April Assignment: To process or not to process. Part One: Focus on creating the best in-camera image that you can possibly take. Is your horizon line straight? Can you print or show the image without cropping it? Did you get the color balance correct? How was that exposure? Part two: Check out what your editing software can do. What does that well shot image look like in black and white? What do I create if I play with special effects?
March Assignment: Get Your Science On: Fibbonacci, Pi, Gravity, Time Travel, E=MC2, put on your science geek hat, grab your camera and dabble in the world of theories and hypothesies.
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Zinio Downloadable Magazines are Here: |
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Today
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Link to Sycamore Library Zinio Magazines
There are 99 Downloadable Magazine titles for you to download and read on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. All you need is a Sycamore Library Card and a few minutes to set up your Zinio Accounts. We recommend that you take a few moment to read the User Guide as you set up your account. (Click Here for the Guide) You must set up two accounts. the first one is to verify that you have a library card and it sets you up as a Sycamore Library Zinio patron. The second one is to join Zinio.com so the magazines will actually download on your devices. Once you have the two accounts set up, getting magazines is as easy as a click of the button.
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WLBK 1360 AM and 98.9 FM: |
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The fourth Friday of Every Month at 9:40 a.m.
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Listen in to library library staff and WLBK's T.D. Ryan on 1360 AM or 98.9 FM radio at 9:40 a.m.
Click here to listen online.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Search more than 300 online reference books and thousands of
articles with just one click. From any computer, you can quickly search
hundreds of online reference books, covering a wide range of
subjects, including arts, biography, business, education, the
environment, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science and
the social sciences.
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| Adult Services Department |
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Need help downloading e-books and e-audio books from the Library? Stop by for some one-on-one help to get comfortable with your new device and the library E-book process.. Whether it's a Nook, a Kindle, an iPad or an iPod, or any kind of tablet, e-reader, smart phone or mp3 player, we can show you how to download books for free. No appointment is necessary. Please bring your devices and any cables that came with it.
