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Adult Services
Films @ the Library:
 Join other area adults in viewing and discussing films in the library's Community Meeting Room this fall. Tom LaVille will select the films and lead discussions. All films will start at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 9 To Kill a Mockingbird (Celebrating its 50th Anniversary)
Thursday, October 14 TBA
Thursday, November 11 TBA
Thursday, December 9 TBA
Book Discussions:
Join a new library reading and discussion series!
 Tuesday Sept. 21 Keeping The House by Ellen Baker
(Pick up your copy of the book starting September 1st)
Tuesday, October 19 Man Killed by Pheasant by John T. Price
Tuesday, November 16 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
All discussions will be held at 2:00pm in Community Meeting Room A. A limited number of copies are available at the Check Out Desk in advance of each event. Program funded by the Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library.
Readers’ Social Hour:
Mingle with other Marshalltown readers! Talk about what you've been enjoying lately and get recommendations from others in the library's Café on the last Tuesday of every odd-numbered month.
September 28, 5:30 - 6:30pm . . . . . . Banned Books Week
November 30, 5:30 - 6:30pm
oTALKu:
 Talk with other fans of manga, anime, and Japanese culture at oTALKu! Now held in the library's Cafe. Join the group on 
Friday, September 17 Plan our costumes for next month
Friday, October 29 Cosplay
Friday, November 19 Just talking about what we've been reading/watching
Friday, December 17 Karaoke Christmas party
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 Adult Summer Reading Program 2010
We read over 400 books this summer! Thanks for participating!
Congratulations to the AUGUST prize winners:
Judy Oswood ("I
♥ Books" note cube)
Jolynn Stoneking (water bottle)
Jennifer Lustyk ($5 Hy-Vee gift card)
Molly Brant (bookmark by an Iowa artist, donated by the Perfect Setting)
LuAnn Lawrence ($2 Tremont gift card)
Katie Faircloth ($20 Borders gift card)
Melissa Reddick (free Ongoing Book Sale book)
Mary Emke (free Ongoing Book Sale book)
Jan Nevins (free Ongoing Book Sale book)
Local Author Showcase:
The Marshalltown Public Library periodically hosts local author talks about their published works. Past programs have included Ronda Bagnall-Rohde, Robert Kerr, Judith Kay, and Debra Franklin.
Free Tax Assistance:
Volunteers from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) assist citizens in electronically filing their income taxes during tax season. Assistance has ended for tax year 2009.
All Iowa Reads
 The All Iowa Reads book for 2010 is Driftless, by David Rhodes.
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Recommended Books:
Looking for a good book? Let us help you!
- Stop by a desk to talk to a librarian.
- Want a good book? Try NoveList, a useful online database to locate fiction books by title, author or subject. Create themed book lists or find author read-alikes.
- Have you read all the titles by your favorite author? Check our “If you like...” booklists to find similar authors.
- Check the Best Seller lists on the catalog computers. New York Times Best Seller lists, Oprah's
Book Club and other bestseller lists are posted.
- Stop, You're Killing Me!
is a great resource for mystery and suspense fiction readers. This site
features hundreds of authors and complete chronological lists of their
books. It also has alphabetical lists of series characters.
- Check these sites for booklists, reviews, author interviews, and more:
www.bookreporter.com
www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/readadvice.htm
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Automatically Yours:
Register for Marshalltown Public Library’s AUTOMATICALLY YOURS program and you will be placed on the reserve list for all the new books by the popular adult fiction authors you choose. (Limit: 5 authors per patron) It’s that easy!
- The goal of AUTOMATICALLY YOURS is to place titles in patron’s hands in a timely fashion. Everyone wants that new book as soon as possible. Now your name will be on reserve lists with very little effort on your part.
- Books by AUTOMATICALLY YOURS authors generally have a shorter, 10-day, circulation period.
- The order of patrons registered for each author will be rotated so that the same patron is not always at the top of the reserve list for a given author. Nor will a patron be at the same point on the reserve lists for all the authors s/he requests.
- Your record will remain on file for the duration. If you ever choose to modify it, complete another form, marking “redo.”
- For more information, contact Sandy at the Check Out Desk or Monica at the Information Desk.
Copy and complete the Automatically Yours form and return via mail, fax or in person to the Check Out Desk. Your name will be added to the reserve list as each new title becomes available.
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