Mango

There is something in Mango Languages for everyone.  Impress your English teacher by quoting (and understanding) the Iliad in its original! Astound your friends with essential phrases in Pirate! {Shiver me timbers! The ship be founderin!}  Gain insight into international food cultures! Convince your parents that you really are ready for that trip to Santiago, Sarajevo, or Seoul! Enter the diplomatic service and help negotiate world peace! 

This site offers conversation-based courses including explanations and cultural hints that are missing in a lot of other apps. And the variety of available languages? Massive! Over 70 to choose from including:

Romance and Germanic: Spanish, French, German

• Asian: Hindi, Chinese, Arabic
• Uncommon: Javanese, Haitian, Gaelic
• Eccentric: Shakespeare, Pirate
• Archaic: Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek

Lots of great features help you learn to actually communicate with people.

• Built-in translator
• Literal and understood meanings 
• Usage and cultural clues 
• Pronunciation evaluation

Whatever your language learning goal, Mango can help you reach it.  At the very least it will provide hours of entertainment with a little learning along the way. 

While you’re at it, augment your international investigations with ProQuest CultureGrams

ProQuest CultureGrams is made available through the Traveler Online Database Program. The Traveler program is made possible by a grant from U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Arkansas State Library under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. Additional state funds were provided by the Arkansas Department of Education.

RPL Teens Write! This Saturday!

The RPL is starting a new writing group for teens with the first meeting’s themes being Breaking Down Barriers. Practice getting your thoughts on paper, learn different writing techniques, and get the chance to share your work!

Check Out a Telescope

If you stopped by RPL on Eclipse Day in August, you might have gotten a chance to use our telescope. Finally, that telescope is available to check out by the public!

The Orion Starblast Tabletop Telescope was donated to us by NWA Spacethrough the Cornerstones of Science STAR (Sharing Telescopes and Astronomy Resources) Program. Cornerstones of Science work with public libraries to “create experiences of science that spark curiosity and foster a deeper connection to the world around us.” They supply libraries with small modified telescopes for adults and families to take home and explore space from their very own backyards.

NWA Space is a local astronomical group that works to inspire a lifelong love of learning in the people of NWA by supporting STEM education. They recently received the sixth-largest refractor telescope in the U.S. from Philadelphia, and plan to reassemble it right here in Northwest Arkansas for residents to enjoy.

To check out our telescope, there are a few rules. You must be 18 or older and be a cardholder for more than 6 months. You must sign an agreement stating that you’ll take care of our telescope because, although it is sturdy in some aspects, it is a fragile little thing full of small mirrors! The circulation staff will go over the rules with you before checking out the telescope and you’ll have a whole week to take a peek at the skies!

One rule we must emphasize is DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN! You can only use special filters on telescopes to look at the sun or else you’ll hurt your eyes!

For more information, come by the library and ask!

Reading Challenge

#RogersReads Reading Challenge         

1. Read a Non-Fiction book on a topic you don’t know much about
2. Read a book picked from our display tables
3. Read a book set in another country
4. Read a book written by an Arkansas author
5. Read a book featuring food
6. Read a book with an “ugly” cover
7. Read a short story collection
8. Read a work published before 1980
9. Read a book with your favorite color in the title
10. Read a book suggested to you by RPL staff
11. Read a book that’s won an award
12. Read a book of poetry or novel in verse

“Love Your Library Month” is always celebrated in February, and Rogers Public Library is hosting a reading challenge for our patrons! Complete these twelve prompts by February 2019 and be entered in a drawing for a fantastic prize just in time for another Love Your Library month.

If you want to show off your progress on social media, tag us and use #RogersReads! We love seeing what people are reading!  We will be creating reading lists on Facebook and Tumblr to help you choose what book to read all throughout the year, so keep an eye out.

We’re excited to kick off our RPL reading challenge starting February 1, 2018. 

Here’s a few rules regarding the challenge:
You must have a library card with Rogers Public Library to be able to participate. You may only enter once for the Final Drawing after completing all the challenges. You cannot use the same book for multiple challenges. You can use an audiobook, ebook, or physical book—it’s all reading! You do not have to complete these challenges in order; choose the one that sounds the most fun and go from there! As long as you complete the whole challenge, you will be entered in the Final Drawing.

We will also have monthly prize drawings. As you complete each monthly challenge, visit the library to show us the #RogersReads Reading Challenge sheet with the title listed under the challenge to be entered in that month’s drawing. Enter by the last day of each month. The 1st drawing will be March 1st. 

Teen Brochure, February

Teen Scene Brochure Spring 2018

Collection Highlight: YA Steampunk

What happens when the future’s technology meets the past? Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that seamlessly blends the past with the future, bringing robots, airships, and all types of gadgets and gizmos to Victorian England. With this genre you can enjoy the aesthetics of the past without the story being limited by the technological realities of the time!

The Brass Giant by Brooke Johnson 

“Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl.[…] When Emmerich Goss–handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild–needs help designing a new clockwork system for a top-secret automaton, it seems Petra has finally found the opportunity she’s been waiting for. But if her involvement on the project is discovered, Emmerich will be marked for treason, and a far more dire fate will await Petra. Working together in secret, they build the clockwork giant, but as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra discovers a sinister conspiracy from within the Guild council…and their automaton is just the beginning”–Page 4 of cover.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.

Want more steampunk? Take a look at these additional titles available in the RPL Teen Scene.

Collection Highlight: YA Fantasy Written by Women

Fantasy is a genre of stories in which humans are not limited by the rules of the real world- and are often not even set in the real world!- and is characterized by fantastical elements. These could be superpowers, mythology, magic, or creatures like mermaids or dragons that do not exist in our world. Fantasy has historically been dominated by male authors whose novels are usually set in a pseudo medieval Europe. Times are changing however, and these women authors are bringing a breath of fresh air to an old genre, and offering representation to groups of people traditionally invisible in fantasy literature along the way!

The Young Elites by Marie Lu is the story of Adelina Amouteru, a survivor a plague that swept her country and took her mother’s life. Like all who survived the plague, she is marked and considered a malfetto, an abomination.  Adelina suddenly finds herself sentenced to death after accidently killing her father when the powers she did not know she had, gifted to her by the gods, go haywire. She is saved by a young man known as The Reaper and is introduced to a group called the Young Elites. Their mission is to fight back against Inquisition Axis who are dedicated to killing off people like Adelina and her new friends.

Serpentine by Cindy Pon is a novel steeped in rich Chinese mythology. Skybright was abandoned by her mother as a baby and taken in by a wealthy family to be raised as their youngest daughter’s handmaiden. As Skybright turns sixteen things begin to change within her, and one night she awakes to find a serpent coil where her legs used to be and the spirits of the dead at her doorstep asking for offerings. She tries to keep the life she lives at night a secret from her family, but the two worlds inevitably collide and Skybright finds herself right in the middle of the mess.

Book Hunters

Today, September 18th, is National Hide a Book Day! There are a few rules below and then the clues are underneath that!
The library has hidden books throughout town at SIXTEEN local businesses and other places where people can hunt for them and be “Book Hunters.” We have posted clues on where to find the book bags below, so put your thinking caps on! Some businesses are opening in the afternoon, so, hopefully that will give more people a chance to hunt.
If you find the book, please come to this post and let us know that you've found it! Post a picture that you’ve found the book so we can mark it off the list and people can stop looking for it. Then, you can take the book and goodies home with you!
Feel free to post your photo on social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the hashtags #hideabookday, #RogersPublicLibrary, and #BookHunters. Also, tag the place you found the book bag so everyone knows how awesome those places are about teaming up with the library.
If you find a book bag, we ask that you let others have a chance to find goodies before you seek out more. You can also read the book and set it free again!
The goodies will be in a bag with our logo on it; a picture of our book bag can be found below the text.
The Children's Library is also having their own Hide a Book Day adventures inside the Children's Library. Be sure and see the Children's librarians for clues!
Have fun hunting! And now, for the moment we've all been waiting for.. THE CLUES!
1. Be sure to ask this place for a free edible cookie dough sample, you’ll experience pure bliss and get the goodie bag!
2. This is the cheesiest place around, but it’s still pretty cool to go eat at.
3. **FOUND AT AKiN's Natural Foods** If you’re “achin'” for something natural, this is a place to go for fresh ingredients.
4. This whole place screams “Kawaii” and the staff is always so bubbly!
5. This place “takes pride” in the fact that you want to “sit, stay, and heel” with them.
6. There is a museum in Rogers where you can find out why BB guns couldn’t be made in the early 1940s. Tell the museum gift shop employee why and you’ll get the goodie bag!
7. If you want to visit the library’s best “Friends,” go here and ask the desk about the goodie bag.
8. When you want your morning drink to be a little “bolder,” go here and they’ll fix you up a cup.
9. It may seem strange to go to a farm animal for decorating advice, but walk in and this place will help you on the dot—er, spot.
10. This “noble” place is a great place to be surrounded by thousands of words for hours.
11. If you’re looking for loose leaf to fill your mug, this place fits you to a “T.”
12. If you’re wondering about the history of our town, this is a great place to start. You can also find a goodie bag here.
13. This cozy shop sells everything from old to new, antique to vintage. They probably sell the Barn door too!
14. If you hear the train a’comin’, but your nose is stuck in a book, you’re probably here.
15. You can’t see the mountains from here, but you can enjoy some local brew that’s made from hard work.
16. **HAS BEEN FOUND AT Yum Yo's in Rogers** You can create your own YUMmy frozen concoction to satisfy yo’ sweet tooth here.

Anime Club

Craft Catch All!

Come this Thursday at 6pm when we flood the community room with crafts galore! Come make something to take home. Ages 13-18.

 

Come to our teen program tonight at pm, were we'll play werewolf and other party games for your enjoyment! Ages 13-18 are welcome to come!

Eclipse Craft

Are you having trouble finding eclipse viewing glasses? Fear not! You can make this fun craft instead!

We do not have glasses available to the public. The library will have an eclipse viewing party from 12:30 to 1:30 where we will be making pinhole viewers and streaming the NASA live stream of the eclipse.

August Teen Events Flyer

Last Chance for Summer Reading!

Did you remember to log in your books for summer reading? If not, log them now before it's too late! We'll be giving out prizes all week! Come pick up your book if you finished your goal.

Events this week:

Monday, 6:30 pm: Teen Craft: Chalkboard Notebooks
Thursday, 6:00 pm: Teen Movie

Lock In!

If you've been reading for the Teen Summer Reading Program, you're invited to come to our Teen Lock In after Library hours from 6-11 pm. We'll have games, movies, make our own snacks and lots of prize give aways! Pick up your permission slip at the library and  come ready to have fun!

Upcoming

Check out what's going on in July for RPL teens. Call for movie info.

Superhero Movie Marathon Continues!

The Superhero Movie Marathon is continuing this week.

Tuesday, 6pm: Movie
Wednesday, 6pm: Movie
Thursday, 2pm: Life Sized Board Games
Thursday, 6pm: Movie

Call for movie titles and other information.

This Week at RPL Teens

Coming this week:
Monday, 6:30 pm: Teen Craft: Popsicle Crafts 
Thursday, 2:00 pm: Book Buffet:Come read for your Summer Reading goal quietly while we provide an afternoon snack.
                 6:00 pm: Teen Mystery Night: A crime has been committed in the library! Can you solve it? Yes or no, you’re sure to have fun trying. Ages 13-18.