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head’s up
Why Libraries Need
Friends By Joanne Brangman
Head Librarian, Bermuda National Library
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“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we’ve always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts … Libraries remind us that truth isn’t about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. --Barack Obama
n 1839, Governor William Reid, seeking to improve
Like other government departments, our library is being chal-
the quality of life and educational standards of the
lenged to do more with less—less money, less staff, and less
people of Bermuda, founded the Bermuda Library.
time. It has never been more important for Library staff, the
The importance of a library in the community was
Library Committee, the Friends and others with an interest in
once again recognized in 1897, when Governor
the Library to become advocates and to convey the value of
Lyons suggested that “a fitting tribute for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations would be a purpose-built
the library. Advocacy, the process of acting on behalf of the library
library. Last year, we celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond
to increase public funds and ensure that it has the resourc-
Jubilee and we still do not have a purpose-built library; one
es need to be up to date, is critical to the success of the
which could house the Youth and Adult Libraries in one
Bermuda National Library.
facility.
While one of our dreams is still to have a purpose-built
In this new Digital Age for Bermuda to remain competitive, we need to provide value for money and ensure that the people of Bermuda have the essential skills and knowledge. To do this a quality library facility, which is adequately funded and staffed is essential.
Unlike public libraries in the
US, UK or Canada, the Bermuda National Library is not part of a network where each library can choose the role it wishes to play in the Community, the Bermuda National Library must be all things to all people. Newsletter Committee
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Nikki Bowers Keith Caesar Contributors Fredrina James Ashley Stone Randy York
library, as the quote above reminds us, a library is more than a building. A library needs to have adequate resources to ensure that users have access to the up-to-date and correct information. In the past, libraries have existed exclusively as physical spaces, but this is changing as content moves online. So become a Friend and assist us in our efforts to become a real 21st Century Library with a significant physical and virtual presence that better meets our community needs.
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OUR HISTORY AND MORE
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hat is it that makes us who we are? Is it our white rooves and pastel colored houses? Could it be that no matter where you go in the world, you’ll never find a people that at their hearts mean the best and are warm and friendly? From our sandy shore, and deep blue seas to the rain-
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fall into our tanks on a rainy night. There are reasons why we are you we are. As we celebrate Heritage Month, The Bermuda National Library would like you to consider becoming reacquainted with your island home through our Bermudiana collection and Bermuda History and Cultural Studies Room (BHCSR). Stop by for a visit to see what we have to offer! Whether it is a paper, project, or just general information - we have what you are looking for. Start your visit on the second floor at the Information Desk and let a helpful staff member introduce you to our Bermuda Reference Collection. There you will discover just about everything in print related to Bermuda. From architecture, to cooking, politics, sports, history, music‌ the lists goes on. If we cannot find it on the shelf there might be a chance it is in the closed collection. To access materials from the closed collection, simply fill
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out a closed collection request form and we will be happy to have them retrieved for you. One of the most commonly used areas in the reference section is the genealogy section. Looking for a long lost relative? Want to discover your roots? Stop by the Information Desk and we can get you started on your family history journey. There is bound to be something intriguing tucked away on the shelves of the Bermudiana Collection. Don’t forget to visit the Bermuda History and Cultural Studies Room located on the ground floor oposite the Circulation Desk. Opened in 2010, here you will find the lending col-
lection of Bermuda books, cultural studies resources and authentic artifacts. There is also a collection of local DVD’s available are for professional use only, i.e. schools and institutional loan. However you can arrange for a private on site viewing. But what makes this room a gem are the displays which tell some of the island’s stories through paintings, pictures and crafts. So if you are looking to find out what makes us who we are then stop on by... ...you might be amazed by what’s come before.
The first book about Bermuda was written in 1610 by Sylvester Jordain, one of the survivors of the ‘Sea Venture’. It included descriptions about the abundant wildlife they found when they arrived on the island. Within only a few short years the early settlers so depleted certain species, that in 1619 an act was passed against the killing of young turtles. This is considered to be the New World’s earliest written conservation legislation. The settlers unfortunately did not know that sea turtles take up to 50 years to mature. On June 4 1944, the U.S. captured the U-505, a long range German IX-C type submarine operated from Lorient France, and was based in the South Atlantic was captured by the U.S. near the Cape Verde islands. This was the first time that a German submarine was ever captured at sea. Because allied leadership was worried that if the Germans found out that one of their submarines had been captured, they would know that the allies had broken the Enigma code. It was therefore decided to tow U-505 to Bermuda. The prize was towed into Bermuda on June 19, 1944. Shrouded in secrecy, U-505 remained in Bermuda until the end of the war. To further protect the secret, the prisoners from U-505 were kept in Bermuda for several weeks and later sent to a prison camp in Louisiana, while the Germans were told that they were killed in battle.
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Produced by Universal Studios at the then huge cost of $35,000 ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was filmed in Bermuda. The filming largely took place at Crystal Caves and the Hamilton Princess Hotel where the company stayed. Underwater scenes were filmed at the Bermuda Biological Station, which at that time was located on Agar’s island. This film was produced in 1914 and is classified as a silent-movie classic.
Freshly picked fiction
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The Power Trip
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By Jackie Collins
n a state-of-the-art luxury yacht off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Aleksandr Kasianenko, a billionaire Russian oligarch, his sexy supermodel girlfriend and their guests--five powerful and famous couples--are all held hostage by a master pirate who is working for a Russian mobster with a grudge.
The house girl
By Tara Conklin
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novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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Family pictures By Jane Green
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iving on opposite coasts and preparing to see their children depart for school, two women, the wives
of frequently traveling husbands, are shattered by a devastating secret that brings them together and tests their beliefs about forgiveness.
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See now then
By Jamaica Kincaid
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n a haunting novel about marriage and family, a mother and father and their two children, living in a small vil-
lage in New England, move, in their own minds, between the present, the past and the future.
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The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch By Sam Garrett
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eeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons’ act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love..
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By Lutisha Lovely
By Jodi Picoult
hen disaster leaves her lavish wedding and her life in shambles, Princess is thrown into marital mayhem, while her mother, Tai, trying to keep it all together, deals with menopause and other issues that show her
ecoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who’s particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her question her beliefs--and to wonder if his request would be murder or justice.
Divine intervention
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that God is all you need to get you through the tough times.
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The comfort of lies : a novel
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By Randy Susan Meyers
races the intersections of three women five years after a fateful love affair, including a searching woman who gave up her baby for adoption, an adoptive mom who questions her suitability as a parent and a married woman who views her husband’s affair differently upon learning about the baby.
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The song of Achilles
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By Madeline Miller
atroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that fol-
low will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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The Accursed By Joyce Carol Oates
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fter a lynching in a nearby town is covered up, a horryfing chain of events begins to happen in
early twentieth-century Princeton, New Jersey.
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The storyteller : a novel
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The perfect marriage
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By Kimberla Lawson Roby atching her parents struggle with their drug addictions, their loss of control,
and diminishing family unity, Mackenzie Shaw takes matters into her own hands.
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A deeper love inside : the Porsche Santiaga story By Sister Souljah
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atural-born hustler Porsche Santiaga refuses to accept her new life in juvenile detention after her family is torn apart and fights to regain what she has lost.
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Trouble & triumph : a novel of Power & Beauty By Tip “T.I.” Harris with David Ritz
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eaving behind Power, the boy she’s come to love, Tanya “Beauty” Long makes a name for herself in New York City’s fashion industry, while Power becomes trapped in a world of drugs, women, and money where he makes a shocking discovery that brings Tanya back to him..
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By Fay Weldon
By Jonathan Kellerman
Habits of the house
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Guilt : an Alex Delaware novel
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he award-winning writer for Upstairs Downstairs presents a first entry in a new trilogy about the shared lives of masters and servants at the turn of the 20th century, tracing the family life of Cabinet hopeful Lord Robert, who hopes to alleviate financial woes by marrying his son to a disgraced Chicago heiress.
hen he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains in a neglected fixer-upper Tudor mansion, psychologist-investigator Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unprecedented narcissism and unspeakable cruelty.
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By M.C. Beaton
By James Patterson
Death of yesterday
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ergeant Hamish Macbeth pays no mind to a bothersome woman who had been out drinking and forgot all
the events of the previous evening, until she turns up murdered.
The sound of broken glass
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By Deborah Crombie
hile investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know about their world and those they trust most.
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A question of identity : a Simon Serrailler crime novel
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By Susan Hill
particularly unpleasant murder, that of a very old woman in a housing project, rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive “sign” on the body and at the scene of the crime. A couple of weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and a month or so later, so does another. Initial investigations discover that the mysterious “sign” left on the body was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of the country, tried but acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
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n the aftermath of a disgraced plastic surgeon’s release from prison, Detective Alex Cross investigates the
murder of a young mother whose newborn has disappeared, a case that is further complicated by two additional killings.
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Calculated in Death
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hen Marta Dickenson, a welloff accountant and a beloved wife and mother, is murdered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, using herself as bait, immerses herself in her billionaire husband Roarke’s world of big business to figure who hired a hit on an innocent woman.
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hen their attractive, dashing new neighbor turns up dead, everyone in the
apartment building becomes a suspect .
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By Victoria Rowell
By Maya Banks
The young and the ruthless
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survived a drug rehab and returned to the
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to risk and betrayal.
he Young and the Ruthless continues the adventures of soap diva Calysta Jeffries who has
abe Hamilton enters into an intense, secretive relationship with her older brother’s best
friend, as they both leave themselves open
the Rich and the Ruthless.
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By Reshonda Tate Billingsley & Victoria Christopher Murray
By Tracie Peterson
Friends & Foes
The Icecutter’s daughter
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them is accused of murder and the other
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may be the only one who can help hunt
Minnesota community.
wo female rivals in the American Baptist Coalition continually try to one-up each other, until one of
nconventional woman Merrill Krause and carpenter Rurik Jorgenson find their chance at
love threatened by a major scandal in their
down the real killer.
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By J.J. Murray
By Elizabeth Wilhide
A good man
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ormer professional athlete Sonya Richardson agrees to appear on a reality dating program to show
America what a real black woman is like, but she is thrown off her game by former pastor John Bond, the show’s “designated white guy.”
stairs residents of an English country house spans more than
two centuries and includes the stories of its original architect, soldiers billeted in the house during World War I, and a young couple who restores the house in the 1950s.
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By Wiley Cash
By Kristina Ohlsson
teenage girl is assaulted and raped on a midsummer’s eve fifteen years ago. Cut to present, and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification on him, he is not reported missing nor wanted by the police. Simultaneously a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues are assigned to the seemingly unconnected cases…
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Ashenden
A land more kind than home
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ess Hall, growing up deep in the heart of an unassuming mountain town that believes in protecting its
own, is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he isn’t supposed to, which has catastrophic repercussions.
Pictured from left to right: Head Librarian Joanne Brangman, Winter Reading Fever winner Theresa Bean and Circulation Librarian Daurene Aubrey.
And the Winners are...
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By Keith Caesar
n the heels of a successful Summer Reading Programme, we decided to try something different to keep our customers excited over the long cold months and came up with the Winter Reading Fever. The aim of our programme was to encourage readers to read outside of their comfortable genre and discover new favorites. It was an opportunity to challenge yourself, while enjoying a good book with the added incentive of prizes! Theresa Bean was the top winner of our Winter Reading Fever Programme. She took the challenge and made reading an active part of her routine. Congratulations to our grand prize winner and also to the monthly winners along the way.
End-of-month winners and prizes:
January: Antonette Furbert $29 dinner gift card to a choice of one of four fine restaurants (value: $33.35 with gratuities) February: Lyn Vaughan $30 Gibbons Co. gift card
October 2012 Library Card Sign-Up Month Deborah Swan New Member
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Brian Perry Renewing Member IPod
March: Judith Alexander $30 Brown & Co. gift card
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Are you interested in helping your library? Are you interested in making sure that the Library continues to be an important resource for the Bermuda Community? Do you have spare time on your hands?
The Friends of the Bermuda National Library, Charity #309 is actively seeking volunteers and new Executive members.
Missed our meeting? You can still become our Friend If you are interested: please contact; friends@transact.bm or call 799-9042
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The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs and the Bermuda National Library in collaboration with Bermuda Library independent Poets (BLiP) present:
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P o e t ry a n d P e ac e , P e ac e a n d P o e t ry “We are calling upon all peoples to join our Poetic Assembly! Let us sow Poetry to reap Peace. May neighbours gather in every community, every city, wherever such a meeting is possible or impossible. May poets assume the word, and in this ritual, may this good bread be passed from hand to hand, illuminating every circle. May our flames end the night of war and greed, creating a long day in which our children can play. Open the windows to the collective song that will unite all peoples in this urgent task of creating fraternity. Our response to the merchants of hate is to join hands, sing, and open their eyes, to affirm the immense power of Love that expresses brotherhood and sisterhood in every language. And may the Tree of Peace, the fruits of poetry be shared in the great banquet of the Future that humanity yearns for so urgently. May the word in the world keep growing in each and every one of us, reaching out to meet all the needs of all peoples!”
Saturday, 18 May • 4pm – 6pm • Queen Elizabeth Park
(formerly Par-la-Ville)
Readings by BLiP Poets, and open mic.
ThIS EvEnT IS FREE To ThE PuBLIc
GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDA Ministr y of Community and Cultural Development Department of Community and Cultural Affairs
GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDA Ministr y of Education Bermuda National Library
blogger: palabraenelmundo.blogspot.com | space: festivalpalabraenelmundo.spaces.live.com For more information, contact the Bermuda National Library on 295-3104 or the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs on 292-1681.
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By Ashley Stone
Lucy Langston’s marriage is failing when her husband Darrell is suddenly offered a new job as CFO for an American insurance firm in Bermuda. With their twelve-year-old son Peyton, they leave their affluent Connecticut life to start anew in a paradise of pink
anarchist. Darrell slips into an intrigue to destroy Passjohn’s
beaches and quaint British decorum. All too soon, a darker reality emerges, and each of them becomes secretly entangled with Marcus Passjohn--a charismatic opposition leader known for his defense of the island’s underclass--and Marcus’s alienated son Zef, a budding
credibility. Peyton, bullied at school, takes refuge in a frightening delinquency with Zef. And Lucy, seeking to reclaim her son before it’s too late, enters a compelling alliance with Marcus Passjohn, one that quickly escalates into a powerfully transforming love affair.
Paw Paw Au Gratin
4 small green paw paw (peeled, seeded and sliced) 1 onion (chopped) 2 Tablespoons flour 2 Tablespoons butter 1 ¼ cups milk 3 cups cheddar cheese (grated) 2 Teaspoons prepared mustard Salt & pepper to taste Breadcrumbs The Bermuda Cook Book Parmesan cheese
Cook paw paw until tender. Drain and set aside Melt butter and sauté onion for about 1 minute. Add flour and blend until smooth. Gradually add milk and stir well. Just before milk reaches boiling point; add mustard, 2 cups of grated cheese, salt and pepper. Remove from heat immediately.
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