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Our Community Stories
Our Community Stories is a multi-year local oral history project where we collect and organize audio stories and related photographs share from our rich social and cultural history around the Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, Indiana Township, O’Hara Township, and Sharpsburg communities. Check out the website to hear some of these stories and consider contributing your own!
March Book Clubs
¡ Leamos Juntos ! (We Read Together!) | Monday 03/04 @ 7:00pm
Join Diana Morales for a fun way to improve your Spanish! This group will meet virtually on Zoom for a fun book club where you’ll read bilingual picture books together. Each participant will receive a PDF of the book. Learn and chat with others from the comfort of home. Diana will choose some fun picture books with text that will gradually increase in difficulty each month. Each month, you’ll spend some time on vocabulary and verb conjugation and then have an opportunity to discuss the books. Participants should know basic Spanish. Register here
Booked for Lunch | Friday 03/08 @ 12:00pm
This group meets in person AND online in a hybrid format on the 2nd Friday of the month. We read fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, memoirs etc! In March we will be discussing Solito by Javier Zamora. We are now meeting in the Program Room in the lower level of the Library. Copies are available for you at the Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)! Register here regardless of how you’re participating, you’ll receive the Zoom link if you need it.
Speculative Fiction Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Wednesday 03/13 @ 7:00
This month’s theme is Grimdark Fantasy. Join the thieves’ guild and read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Copies will be available at the circulation desk. Zoom available for those who prefer to meet virtually. Register here.
Memory (Memoir + History) | Wednesday 03/13 @ 6:30pm
DATE CHANGE! Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The new Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you! Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction through selected memoirs and historical books. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us in Poet Warrior (2021) to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. This event occurs after the library is closed so please park in the back lot and use the doors on the far right. Copies are available for you at Cooper-Siegel’s Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)! The audiobook version is also available on Libby. Register here.
Evening Book Group | Monday 03/25 @ 7:00
The Evening Book Group meets in person AND online in a hybrid format on the 4th Monday of the month. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right to enter the library. This month we’re reading Search by Michelle Huneven. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right. Register here.
Sharpsburg Sleuths Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Tuesday 03/26 @ 7:00
Get a clue with the Sharpsburg Sleuths! We read all mysteries, all the time. A father and daughter living off the grid find their way of life under threat after a disappearance in their woods in These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham-Grant. This group meets in-person in the Fiction Room at the Sharpsburg Branch. Zoom available for those who prefer to meet virtually. Register here.
Events and Programs!
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- 1-on-1 Tech Helpon March 17, 2024 at 7:52 pm
03/17/24 @ 3:00pm - 03/17/24 @ 4:00pm McLaughlin (Harry W. McLaughlin Jr Room) Cooper-Siegel Adults 18+ only please. Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL). Registration is required. Registration starts: 12/01/2022 @ 8:00am Registration end: 03/15/2024 @ 12:00pm Make a 60 minute appointment to get some help with your technology questions. Troubleshoot with an expert high schooler who will help with devices like cell phones (iphone and android), e-readers (iPad, Chromebook), laptops, library apps (Hoopla, Libby, the Library app) and more! The tech appointments are coordinated through a partnership with a nonprofit that was founded by local high school student David Feder. David started Technology Trained by Teens because it helps those who are often left behind connect to the world. Every week we will post the available times for the following week.
- Light Flight: Jessica Pixie Exhibiton March 17, 2024 at 7:52 pm
03/18/24 @ 12:00am - 03/23/24 @ 12:00am Sharpsburg Jessica Pixie is a symbolist folk artist. She writes, creates, and takes inspiration from the not-so-secret magic of the natural world. Her work is about what is underneath and within. She is always in collaboration with energies unseen. She translates grief - her intent is not to erase pain, but to integrate it and find beauty in the wreckage. Her mediums include fibers, paint, and light. The exhibit will be on view daily during library hours through 4/5. Join us for a closing reception on 4/5 from 6 to 9pm during First Fridays! Prints of her work will be available one-night only during the closing reception. Instagram: @jessicapixiestudios Website: https://www.jessicapixie.com/
- 1-on-1 ESL Chaton March 17, 2024 at 7:52 pm
03/18/24 @ 11:00am - 03/18/24 @ 12:00pm McLaughlin (Harry W. McLaughlin Jr Room) Cooper-Siegel One-on-One ESL Session. If you're interested, please email Lauren Williams at williamsl2@coopersiegelcommunitylibrary.org
- DIY Lab Appt (Kari)on March 17, 2024 at 7:52 pm
03/19/24 @ 12:00pm - 03/19/24 @ 2:00pm DIY Lab Formats our lab supports: photographs, documents up to 8.5″ x 11″, negatives/Film ( 35mm, 4” x 5”, medium and 8” x 10”), 35 mm slides, audio cassette tapes, VHS cassette tapes, 8, Hi8 and digital 8 video cassette tapes Formats our lab cannot support: betamax, reel to reel audio, 8 and 16mm film and slides in any format other than 35 mm Adults 18+ only please. Registration is required. Registration starts: 12/31/2022 @ 3:00pm Registration end: 03/18/2024 @ 8:00am This event is for a 1-on-1 Digitize It Yourself (D.I.Y.) Lab appointment. During the appointment, you can transfer and store your analog memorabilia, such as photos, slides, audio and video cassettes, into a digital format for safekeeping. Before making your appointment, please review our late/cancelation/no-show policy. Our volunteers donate their personal time to this work, therefore you are expected to arrive for your lab appointment at the appointment time or to notify the library at least 24 hours in advance of your appointment if you cannot keep it. if you arrive 20 minutes or more after your scheduled time, your appointment will be canceled. Please call the library if you are running late or need to cancel your appointment. if you fail to show up twice, within 12 months, you will be dismissed from the opportunity to use our DIY Lab. Click here for information on formats and equipment.
Looking for a good book?
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NYTimes
Enjoy full access to The New York Times, compliments of Cooper-Siegel Community Library. Read at the library or anywhere else. Create a free NYTimes account and then start exploring today. To make it really easy, download the NYTimes app on your phone! The NYTimes is an essential source for fearless reporting, varied perspectives and practical advice on nearly every topic — from the vital issues shaping our world to the simple pleasures that make everyday life better. Click HERE to start reading.
Resources & Online Learning
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