Introducing My Library DV (MLDV)

The library now offers over 500 videos, including award-winning movies, foreign and independent films from Film Movement, and lifestyle programming that you can download in minutes via your Internet connection and watch on your home computer workstation or laptop.

To get started, call the library's reference desk (770 431-2860 x 4) to request your My Library DV (MLDV) password. Then go to the library homepage, click on the MLDV link, then click on the icon that looks like this.

Follow the simple download instructions and you'll be set to watch Antiques Roadshow, Rick Steves' Europe, Globe Trekker, Today's Homeowner, Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, as well as children's shows such as Caillou and Boobah.

We've just added 23 more videos to the MLDV roster, including the entire 6th season of America's Test Kitchen. You'll get ideas on how to make everything from Apple Pie to Zuppe. Yummm...

Enjoy!

Ruth

Art in the Library

Growing up within the dynamics of two divergent cultures Grace Hashimoto found constancy and purpose in creative expression - practicing music, creative writing and drawing in her formative years, progressing to formal training at Kyoto Art college where her studies focused on weaving and batik.
In her early 20's Grace married, took the name Hashimoto, and gave birth to a son - the perfect expression and promise of unity. Today, Ms. Hashimoto, her son and other members of her family continue to offer their unique bi-cultural perspective in their livelihoods both in the United States and abroad.
In Grace Hashimoto's art, one can see the sparse and elegant lines of eastern culture merge with the numerous colors and complexity of western culture in expressions of diversity and union.
Ms. Hashimoto's exhibit will be on display through April 30.

Living Wills Without Legal Bills

The Smyrna Library subscribes to Thomson Gale LegalForms. Thomson Gale Legalforms is an online database that contains thousands of state-specific, lawyer-prepared forms, so you can be sure you're using the right one. Examples of the forms include:

Bankruptcy - Bills of Sale - Contracts - Copyright - Divorce - Employment - Incorporation
Leases - Name Changes - Powers of Attorney - Real Estate - Taxes - Trusts - Wills

Thompson Gale Legal Forms can save you time and legal fees. The forms are available online 24 hours a day to Smyrna Library cardholders through our website. Call the Library's reference department today at 770-431-2860 to find out how you can logon to them at home or work.

Just arrived! Great Courses on DVD

The library has just received 7 new additions to our Great Courses lectures collection. Published by The Teaching Company, these DVDs (with accompanying booklets) offer lectures by some of the finest professors in the country.
Our most recent acquisitions include: A History of European Art -- Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre -- Classical Mythology -- The Nature of Earth: an introduction to Geology -- The Foundations of Western Civilization -- The History of Ancient Egypt and From Monet to Van Gogh, a History of Impressionism.
To see all of the Great Courses we offer, simply go to our on-line catalog and search by keyword:"great courses".
Enjoy.
Ruth

These Just In!

Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times best-selling author of Savannah Breeze and Hissy Fit. (This author was recently featured in the Sunday Atlanta Journal Constitution.)
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight. (An oh-so-scary vampire young adult love saga.)
Variety is the spice of life!
Ruth

Have You Read Jodi Picoult Yet?

May we suggest some fiction that will knock your socks off?

Try reading Jodi Picoult. We can promise you that the characters in Jodi's novels will stay with you for a very long time.We carry all of her books and we've just received her latest effort: Change of Heart about which Publisher's Weekly writes:

"Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate's desire to be an organ donor."

Published comments about her earlier works include:

"Picoult has become a master-almost a clairvoyant-at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable page-turners about them…It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong.”
—The Washington Post

“Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships.”
—The Boston Globe

"In My Sister's Keeper, the author has crafted a compelling story that is heartbreaking and literate in equal measure."

-Barnes & Noble

So head to the Fiction section and check out her novels today.

Ruth

If you'd like to know more about this popular novelist and her work go to: http://www.jodipicoult.com/

New Exhibits

There are two new exhibits in the library. Bob Meadows uses a wide variety of exotic and handmade papers with wood, leather and other materials to create one-of-a-kind artist's books in a wide variety of styles and formats. Examples of his work are in the library display cases. Grace Hashimoto is exhibiting her works in the art gallery. The sparse and elegant lines of eastern culture are merged with the numerous colors and complexity of western culture in expressions of diversity and union. Both exhibits will be in the library through April 30.