Nonfiction Book Group August 2015

June 4, 2015 | AmyJo

How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie

First published in 1936, Carnegie offered advice on how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding, this work teaches readers how to: make friends easily, increase popularity, win people to a way of thinking, win new clients and customers, become a better speaker, and arouse enthusiasm among colleagues.  Does this classic work still stand the test of time?  Join us and find out. 

Nonfiction Book Group July 2015

June 4, 2015 | AmyJo

One summer : America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, and Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days. At the same time, the gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business and the first true "talking picture," Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer," was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness.

Your Credit Score and You

March 17, 2015 | AmyJo

Your FICO score is 90% of a credit decision and can affect your ability to buy a home or be part of a new business venture.   In this program, the representatives from SCORE will teach you how to calculate your credit score and potentially fix it. They will also teach you the elements that make a good credit rating and how it affects your decisions and relates to business.

Join us on Monday, April 27 from 7:00-8:00 PM.  No registration required.

Social Networking for Small Businesses

February 9, 2015 | AmyJo

Learn the basics and etiquette of social networking for your small business with SCORE. Content will include how to leverage social networks to help grow your business while reducing your marketing costs. Benefits, disadvantages and tricks of the major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) will be discussed.  

Join us on Monday, March 23 from 7:00-8:00 PM.  No registration required.

Business Research With Reference USA

February 4, 2015 | AmyJo

Through a series of case studies, Rick White training expert at ReferenceUSA, will show how to use this powerful tool in practical business settings.  Along the way we’ll look how to access the database, how to create searches, how to manage the results as well as exploring all of the features that make ReferenceUSA a unique tool for business research.
Explore topics such as  
  • locating hard to find vendors, both locally and nationally
  • creating marketing lists 
  • understanding community demographics 
  • surveying locations for expansion 
  • conducting competitive analysis 

Join us on Monday, March 9 at 10:00-12:00 PM for this interactive program.  No registration required.  

Where's It Hanging? Keys to Selling More Art

February 4, 2015 | AmyJo

'Where's It Hanging? Keys To Selling More Art' is a training session for artisans, creators, and handicrafters.  

The purpose of this program is to think about art in business terms and to market your creative works so you can sell them.  We will look at marketing art and engaging customers in a new and dynamic way!

 
Join us on Monday, March 30 from 7:00-8:00 PM as Steve Feinman, District Director for SCORE, provides insight and tips to the creative community so that your hard work and creativity can find a home.  

No registration required. 

New eBook Titles For the Holidays!

December 12, 2014 | AmyJo

The library has added many new titles to our eBook and eAudiobook collection, just in time for the holidays and your new devices! Choose from bestsellers such as:

Nonfiction Book Group December 2014

December 5, 2014 | AmyJo

On Saturday, December 20 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM we will be discussing:

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh's sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.

Nonfiction Book Group January 2015

December 3, 2014 | AmyJo

On Saturday, January 17 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM we will be discussing:

The secret rooms: a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess and a secret family by Catherine Bailey ?? For fans of Downton Abbey , this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records;but why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I.

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