Clean-up Your Computer @ Your Library

The following was published in the September 20th Dakota County Star.  Stop by your favorite store and pick up a copy of this week's paper.

 Technology Classes

Microsoft Word 3:  We have learned all about saving, new documents, text editing, cut and paste and much more. In this class you will learn bullets, undo/redo, setting margins, page numbers, page breaks, headers/footers and print preview and printing your document (Sept. 24 at 5pm).

Clean-up Your Computer:  Is your computer running slower? Do pop-ups keep appearing? Does your computer randomly crash or freezes up? Then this may be the class for you.  Clean-up Your Computer shows you how to maintain your computer on both the outside and the inside. Learn what basic procedures and what free software you can use to improve the performance of your computer (Sept. 25^th at 5:30).

Windows Basics:  We will start at the very beginning of Windows 7 with an introduction to the Desktop, Start Menu and the all new Taskbar (Sept. 26^th at 11am).

Facebook Basics:  This class will help you get up to speed on how to create, use and maintain a Facebook page of your own and understanding the privacy policies and settings (Sept. 26^th at 2pm).

Microsoft Publisher 3:  Learn how to create a variety of documents using Microsoft Publisher (Sept. 27^th at 5pm). 

Children’s/ Youth Programming:  We are into fully into our new youth program schedule:  Movie Mondays Monday afternoon at 3:30pm, Alphabet Party Monday at 6:30pm, Preschool Story Time Tuesday at 1pm & Wednesday at 4:30pm, Crafts @ your Library Tuesday at 4:30pm & Friday at 4pm, Pat-a-Cake Pals Thursday at 10am, Night of Fun @ your Library Thursday at 6:30pm and Toddler Time Friday at 10am.

B movie Night at the Bijou:  In this movie three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world (September 27^th at 6pm).

Autumnal Reads

The autumnal equinox occurs on September 22^nd.  This means that we are wrapping up our summer activities and will have more time for reading and other indoor pleasures.  We would like to recommend these reads for your autumn book shelf.

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst:  Autumn 1939. In Paris American motion picture producer Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and spies of every sort. For as a celebrity from neutral America -- who can travel across the continent freely -- Stahl could be very useful indeed. - from the catalog.

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James: It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball. But now, Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered. - from the catalog.

Knock Out by Catherine Coulter:  FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are back in this electrifying thriller as they attempt to keep Autumn Backman, a seven-year-old telepath, from falling into the hands of her uncle and his growing army of exploited children. - from the catalog.