🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #101 | 👀 Don't miss the July library news!
Library Champion,
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What's inside this issue ⤵️
🎓 Dissertation scholar events
🎨 New displays at the library
🏡 Upcoming Penn State Master Gardeners children's workshop
🚸 Youth Summer Reading Events in July
📢 New books at the library
🎓 Dissertation scholar events
Our next dissertation scholar event is Saturday, July 13 at 2:00 PM. Dr. Bill Galbraith will present on his dissertation, titled “Developing communication and improving behavior for children with autism.”
Bill’s dissertation was a validity study for adolescent adoptive behavior, which was a new instrument used to collect information on adaptive skills in adolescent age individuals. This allowed him to be a school psychology, eventually working with children with autism and supervising a state wide program for classroom support.
Past dissertation scholar events
Upcoming dissertation scholar events
Saturday, August 17 at 2:00 PM - Dr. Sara (Wagner) Keefer. The event is titled “Learning to eat: understanding the role of the environment and the brain mechanisms that drive us to eat.”
Thursday, September 12 at 2:00 PM - Dr. MeeCee Baker. The event is titled “Want to know the secret to recruitment and retention? MeeCee Baker will highlight the importance of mentoring.”
🎨 New displays at the library
Two new installations to view at the library. The next time you're in check out the beautiful and whimsical art by local artist and children's book author Hannah Tamanini. We also have a beautiful display of colorful sea glass in our display case on loan from Friend of the Library Patty Imes.
🏡 Upcoming Penn State Master Gardeners children's workshop
The next Penn State Master Gardeners children's workshop will be held on Thursday, July 18. Come join us for a weed walk and scavenger hunt in the garden and then learn about the spotted lanternfly. We are having so much fun with these workshops and hope that many families will join us in July.
🚸 Youth Summer Reading Events in July
This summer we celebrate the theme of Adventure Begins at Your Library with programs and reading challenges for children and teens. Our summer reading program is designed to allow you to read what you want, as much as you want, when you want, and maybe win a prize! At our kick-off event on June 7th, kids and families can:
- enjoy a fun, interactive show called Science Heroes: Adventure of the Lost Treasure
- register for the reading and prize portion of the SRP
- learn about and register for programs happening at the library during the months of June and July
Visit our website for all the details: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/youth/sr2
📢 New books at the library
So far in 2024 we have added 1,588 new items to our collection!
Below are just a handful of our latest releases.
Search our extensive catalog online: https://juniata.chilipac.com/r1s/eg/opac/home
📖 Book of the week! – if you are going to read one book, give this one a try…
American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy by Aquilino Gonell & Susan Shapiro (purchased per a patron request)
(New adult nonfiction: biography & autobiography, military, law enforcement, immigration) ~ 240 pages
Borrow this book
In a nutshell: A former U.S. Capitol Police officer recounts the events of January 6, 2021, in the context of his life as an immigrant.
Gonell lifted himself up from poverty, joined the U.S. Army and served in Iraq, put himself through college, and stood by the Constitution in the course of doing his job. Sadly, it’s hardly surprising that, “of the 265 elected Republicans in Congress, [Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger] were the only two who ever thanked me” for standing against the mob on that fateful day.
Gonell writes that the combat that he saw on January 6 was far more violent than anything he experienced in Iraq, and the damages he sustained required him to retire early, “one of the 20 percent of Capitol Police officers who wound up leaving as a direct result of the attacks.”
As an up-close view of that combat, Gonell’s account both squares with and complements that of Michael Fanone’s Hold the Line and Harry Dunn’s Standing My Ground. It also resounds with the same righteous anger, for Gonell was one of the first officers to speak before Congress and to the public about the attempted coup. As he notes, bitterly, “Despite the courageous [January 6] Committee’s recommendation to prosecute Trump, as of this writing, not one person responsible for planning, instigating, or paying for January 6 has been arrested yet.”
Legal matters are still unfolding, and one hopes that Gonell’s sacrifice will not have been in vain. Among the book’s many revelations is that the police were forbidden to use rifles against the “civil disturbances” and that well into the mêlée, senior officers remained certain that Black Lives Matter and Antifa were “our real enemies.”
Bottom line: A memorable account of a life of public service.
Borrow the book: American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy by Aquilino Gonell & Susan Shapiro
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