Monthly Events for June 2017

Monthly Events

Homer Community Library

June 2017

June 6^th 1pm

Summer Reading Program Begins

For kids entering grades K-5^th, we will have a weekly activity hour with crafts and games. Kids will receive a reading log to take home and earn prizes as they read! SPR runs through July 11^th.

June 13^th 7pm

Library Board Meeting

June 14^th 1pm

Movie Matinee: Hidden Figures

Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.

Rated PG                                                                                                                  2 hrs 7 mins

June 16^th 7pm

Family Movie:  Rock Dog

For the Tibetan mastiffs on Snow Mountain, a dog's life has a simple riff -- guard a peaceful village of sheep from the thuggish wolf Linnux and his rabid pack. To avoid distractions, mastiff leader Khampa forbids all music. However, when his son Bodi discovers a radio that fell from the sky, it takes just a few guitar licks for the lad's fate to be sealed. Wanting to be a rock 'n' roll star, Bodi heads to the city to locate Angus Scattergood, a legendary musician who needs to write a new song.

Rated PG                                                                                                      1 hour 30 mins

All library programs are free and open to the public.

E-books at the Homer Library!

Did you know that you can now access e-Books through our library?  Thanks to the Secretary of State and the Illinois State Library, we now have access to e-Books through a great program, eRead Illinois. This program was created to help expand access to e-books across the state and is a great benefit to small, rural libraries like ours. This program gives our patrons access to thousands of e-Books and audio books on the Baker & Taylor Axis 360 platform.  

Homer Community Library card holders can download an app to their smart phone, iPad, most Kindles, or software for either their Mac or PC computer.  Each device has a slightly different set of instructions but they are all pretty easy to set up and use.  You can find full instructions and more information at our website www.homercommunitylibrary.com - just click on the eBooks link at the top of the page. If you can't access our site or just prefer in-person help, come to one of our help sessions.

The Homer Community Library will hold two help sessions where people can come in and find out more about e-Books and get help setting up their devices.  Come and visit us from 5-7pm on either Thursday, October 20th or Monday, October 24th to find out more about this program or to get assistance.  If you can't make it either of these times just call the librarians and schedule a time to come in.

If you don't currently have a Homer Community Library card and would like to take advantage of this new service, contact us.  If you live in the Village of Homer proper, you pay taxes that support the library so are eligible to receive a library card.  We just need proof of residency and a photo ID.  If you live within the Heritage School District and do not have another library that serves you (Sidell, St. Joseph, or Vance Township might be your home library) you can purchase a non-resident membership for just $37.00 per year which covers everyone in your household. If you're not sure of your status, contact us and we will help you out.

The Homer Community Library is located within the Village Hall at 500 East 2nd Street in Homer. We are open 2-7pm Mon, Tues, Thur, and Fri; 9am-2pm Weds; and 10am-2pm Sat.  Our phone number is 217-896-2121 and our email is homerlibrarian@gmail.com.

DVD Wish List

OMG - I am so bad about trying to keep this blog up to date.  I just need a volunteer social media person to update my blog and Facebook page.

Anyway.... today's topic is about movies - specifically, those we don't have.... (Seriously??? We don't have a copy of Titanic on DVD?!?!?)

While we have a considerable (I think) movie selection for a library our size, every now and then I am shocked when a patron asks for a movie that I'm sure we have but we don't. After weeding out all of our VHS movies, there is a long list of titles we are missing. We are hoping the community may be able to help by donating any of these movies on DVD that they may have laying around and no longer watch. Remember, donations to the library can be tax deductible, just ask the librarians.

Here is our list:

13 Assassins 2010
90 Minutes in Heaven
A Christmas Story 1983
Anastasia (Disney)
Annie Hall 1977 (or any Woody Allen)
Back Draft
Before Sunset 2004
Being John Malkovich 1999
Big 1988
Blade Runner 1982
Bloody Sunday 2002
Boys Don’t Cry 1999
Brazil 1985
Cape Fear 1962
Children of Men 2006
Chinatown 1974
City of God 2002
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
Duck Soup (the Marx Brothers) 1933
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
The French Connection 1971
From Here to Eternity
Gandhi 1982
The Godfather 1972
Gorillas in the Mist
Gunsmoke Season 1 TV series
Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001
Hocus Pocus (with Bette Midler)
House of Flying Daggers 2004
Iron Man 3
The Joy Luck Club
The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) 1921
The Kids Are All Right 2010
The Lives of Others 2006
La Dolce Vita 1960
The Muppet Movie 1979
Memento 2000
Metropolis 1927
Monty Python and the Holly Grail 1975
On the Waterfront 1954
The Producers 2005
Pan’s Labyrinth 2006
Patton 1970
Persepolis 2007
Pride & Prejudice (with Kiera Knightly)
The Red Balloon 1956
Raging Bull 1980
Rio Grande
Rushmore 1998
Rocky 1976
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Say Anything 1989
Seven Samurai 1954
Shakespeare in Love 1998
Some Like it Hot 1959
Stand By Me 1986
The Straight Story 1999
The Ten Commandments
The Thorn Birds
The Tree of Life 2011
The Triplets of Belleville 2003
The Truman Show 1998
Taxi Driver 1976
Thelma & Louise 1991
There Will Be Blood 2007
Time Bandits
Titanic 1997
Tuck Everlasting
Vertigo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
The Yearling
Yellow Submarine (the Beatles) 1968

rev 5/19/16.

January 2016 Events

January 2016 Events

Homer Community Library

Welcome Back to the Library! We are so happy to be able to start offering our regular programs again and hope to see both our regular attendees and some new faces during the coming year. Here are our upcoming January events.

January 12 at 7pm

Board Meeting

January 13 at 1pm

Movie Matinee: The Last Song

Based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.

PG 107mins

January 15 at 7pm

Family Movie Night: Shawn the Sheep

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan, and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

PG 84 mins

The Homer Community Library Board of Trustees meets the 2^nd Tuesday of each month at 7pm in the library. Our Movie Matinee is held the 2^nd Wednesday and our Family Movie Night is held the 3^rd Friday of each month. Let us know if you have suggestions for programming or movie titles.

Long Overdue Update

Yikes! It has been quite a while since I've updated the blog.  

As most of you know, we had a bit of a disaster at the library and have had to move out while they rip out and replace some drywall and carpeting.  We aren't sure when we will be back in our permanent home but hope that it will be sometime this Fall. 

In the mean time, the Library is settling in to it's temporary home. It didn't take long for our die-hard readers and computer users to find our new location. We would like to again thank all of our patrons for their support and understanding while we do repairs to the main Library.

Now that life is getting more settled we are back to cataloging both new releases and donated items. We just added about three dozen newly donated movies and are in the process of adding several new release movies including: The Woman In Gold, The Longest Ride, Sons of Liberty, and the kids' movie Home.

As for books, of course we have Alert – the newest Michael Bennett book by James Patterson as well as the newest releases by Mary Higgins Clark, Catherine Coulture, Jonathan Kellerman and the new book out by Harper Lee. We have an order in that includes the newest books coming out by Sandra Brown and Debbi Macomber but these won't be available until after Aug. 18th. We are continuing to add to our Easy, Junior, and Young Adult collections as well in the hopes that we will be well stocked by the time school roles around and kids need to start accumulating those pesky AR points.

If you haven't been to our temporary home yet, come visit us! We are at 201 South Main Street and are open our normal hours: Mon & Tue 2-7pm, Wed 9am-2pm, Thur & Fri 2-7pm, and Sat 10am-2pm. We have a small collection here and can interlibrary loan anything else you need that we don't have. We have three public computer with wi-fi and limited printing capabilities. The only service we usually offer which we are not able to currently is faxing. We do not have a phone line here. Unfortunately, this also means you can't call us. The best way to get a hold of us right now is through email –homerlibrarian@gmail.com or to stop in and see is in person.

Don't forget, if you need to return materials and can't get them here when we are open, you can still return items to the outside drop boxes at the Village Hall. We are checking those regularly.

Homer Library DVD Wish List

Do you have any of these movies on DVD
and don’t watch them any more?

Consider donating them to the Library!

Don’t forget….. Donations to the Library may be tax deductible!

13 Assassins 2010

1984 (which came out in 1984)

A Christmas Story 1983

A The Artist 2011

About Schmidt 2002

African Queen

Aliens 1986

American Splendor 2003

Anastasia (Disney)

Annie Hall 1977

Apocalypse Now 1979

Before Sunset 2004

Being John Malkovich 1999

Big 1988

Blade Runner 1982

Bloody Sunday 2002

Boys Don’t Cry 1999

Brazil 1985

Cape Fear 1962

Children of Men 2006

Chinatown 1974

Citizen Kane 1941

City of God 2002

Dirty Dancing

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007

Do the Right Thing 1989

Duck Soup (the Marx Brothers) 1933

The English Patient 1996

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

The French Connection 1971

Fargo 1996

From Here to Eternity

The Godfather 1972

Gorillas in the Mist

Gandhi 1982

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001

House of Flying Daggers 2004

Home Alone 1990

In the Heat of the Night

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Jaws 1975

The Joy Luck Club

Key Largo

The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) 1921

The Kids Are All Right 2010

The Lives of Others 2006

La Dolce Vita 1960

Lawrence of Arabia 1962

Lonesome Dove

The Muppet Movie 1979

Memento 2000

Metropolis 1927

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Monty Python and the Holly Grail 1975 (we don’t have any Monty Python)

Old Yeller

On the Waterfront 1954

The Producers 2005

Pan’s Labyrinth 2006

Patton 1970

Persepolis 2007

The Red Balloon 1956

Rainman

Raging Bull 1980

Rio Grande

Rushmore 1998

Rocky 1976

The Silence of the Lambs 1991

Say Anything 1989

Seven Samurai 1954

Shakespeare in Love 1998

Some Like it Hot 1959

Stand By Me 1986

Star Wars – the only one we have on DVD is Revenge of the Sith (episode 3)

Steel Magnolias

The Straight Story 1999

The Ten Commandments

The Thorn Birds

The Tree of Life 2011

The Triplets of Belleville 2003

The Truman Show 1998

Taxi Driver 1976

Thelma & Louise 1991

There Will Be Blood 2007

Titanic 1997

Tuck Everlasting

Vertigo

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988

The Yearling

Yellow Submarine (the Beatles) 1968

Also, if you have movies  you'd consider donating but want to see if we have them first you can check our on-line card catalog (you can also use this to see if we have items you are looking for

and even put a hold on them) go to: 

     opac.libraryworld.com

     library name: Homer Library 

     no password required

Help Us Replace Our VHS Movies!

Thank you to those who have responded to our DVD donation request. If you didn't see the flyer, we are trying to replace any movies that we still only have on VHS with DVDs. You'd be surprised at some of the titles we don't have on DVD (like Titanic - whaaaaat?). HERE is how you can help -- if you have movies on DVD that are just cluttering up your house, please consider donating them to the library. We also have a list of 'wish list' movies if you'd like to look to buy a specific movie for us or if you'd like to give us money (we LOVE money) we will use it to order movies on our wish list. The librarians have a copy of our list at the circulation desk. We couldn't be as good a library as we are without the help of our generous donors, so THANK YOU for your help!