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Seniors

The library provides several programs for people ages 55 and up.                                     

 

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Classes  Senior Book Discussion Group
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Senior Internet Instructions

View our current class schedule on the Events Calendar.

Mouse Instruction

If you are looking for some practice using the mouse, click here. 

Internet Instruction for Seniors

Prerequisite:   Know the basics of using a computer mouse

This half-hour session provides personal instruction by a Librarian on Internet basics such as navigating the task bar, searching with known addresses and using search engines to look for information.

Find out more about the Internet by clicking here.


E-mail Instruction for Seniors:

Prerequisite:

Know the basics of navigating the Internet 

This half-hour session provides personal instruction by a Librarian on e-mail basics such as how to create an e-mail account and how to type and send a message. If time allows, creating folders and an address book will be discussed.

Learn more about email by clicking here

 

Senior Book Discussion Group

The Senior Book Discussion Group is currently full and not accepting new members at this time.

2012 Senior Book Discussion Book List

January 12: Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt
February 9: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
March 8: The Girls: A Novel by Lori Lansens
April 12: How to be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
May 10: Cleoptra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
June 14: Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
July 12: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert Edsel & Bret Witter ALSO Hitler’s Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire by Sidney Kilpatrick
August 9: Room by Emma Donoghue
September 13: Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Connor Grennan
October 11: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
November 8: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
December 13: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

 

2011 Senior Book Discussion Book List

January 13: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell
February 10: Black and White by Dani Shapiro
March 10: Run: A Novel by Ann Patchett
April 14: An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
May 12: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck AND Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
June 9: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
July 14: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
August 11: The Sisters of Sinai by Janet Soskice AND Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell
September 8: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
October 13: Annie’s Ghost by Steve Luxenberg
November 10: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
December 8: Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

 

Archives of past Senior Book Discussions, click here.