Summer Spice Club

Get creative in the kitchen this summer with our Summer Spice Club!  These online chef chats will be on select Thursday nights, June through August.  All registrants will receive a free spice kit to take home. Register today to reserve your spot and a spice kit!

Thursday, June 10 @ 6:30pm with Camille Henry Autry, chef/owner of Crestwood Coffee Co & Café  (Register here)

Camille recommends The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs by Karen Page.  Reserve it for check out here!

 

Thursday, July 15 @ 6:30pm with Josh Haynes, chef/owner of Alloy Thai Restaurant (Register here)

Josh recommends Thai Food (Arharn Thai) by David Thompson.  Reserve it for check out here!

 

Thursday, August 12 @ 6:30pm with Julie Grimes, chef/owner of Black Sheep Kitchen (Register here)

Julie Grimes has her own cookbook, $10 Dinners: Delicious Meals for a Family of Four that Don't Break the Bank!  Reserve it for check out here!

For more information, contact Holley at 205.445.1117 or hwesley@oneallibrary.org.  

Adulting 101

Adulting is hard!  Let Emmet O’Neal Library (and your library card!) lead the way.

·       Look through Flipster for Bon Appetit or Food & Wine magazines to learn a new recipe.
Click here to login with your library card/pin number and begin reading magazines.

·       Explore Universal Class to learn western calligraphy, how to meditate, cupcake decorating and much, MUCH more.
Click here to login with your library card and start learning today.

·       Use the Chilton Car Repair Library to learn how to repair that pesky brake light that’s gone out.
Click here for free access to car repair information. Find Chilton in the Health & Science section.

·       Read up on healthy living in Libby.
Click here to login with your library card and start reading today.

·       Download a book on sewing from Hoopla.
Click here to login with you library card, create an account, and search for sewing.

·       Use LearningExpressLibrary’s Personal Success Skills Center to learn more about personal finance and investing.
Click here to login with your library card, create an account, and explore.

·       Niche Academy is available to show you how to use many of our digital resources.
Click here for brief training on many services.

·       Many more activities and resources are available on the Library’s homepage at www.eolib.org. Visit and click around to find out more! Please note that some resources have limited service areas.

Cities for Life Diabetes Education

Public Libraries In Jefferson County, in partnership with the Birmingham Public Library System, and UAB Lister Hill Library/Health InfoNet of Alabama have been named the recipients of a Cities for Life Collaboration Award. The Collaboration Awards are designed to help expand resources for people living with diabetes or at risk for the disease in Birmingham and Jefferson County. These entities will partner to provide materials on diabetes for the community and house informative displays in each library; host an estimated 35 programs at area libraries on diabetes education involving experts from local universities and health organizations; purchase approximately 100 additional diabetes education titles that will circulate between the 40 public libraries; distribute diabetes education materials via library staff to other community venues (e.g., senior centers).

Granted to 24 organizations in Birmingham, the Collaboration Awards are an initiative of Cities for Life, a diabetes management program led by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation with support from Sanofi US. The Collaboration Awards will provide enhanced programs and services for the city of Birmingham to help ensure that people living with diabetes or at risk for diabetes are aware of and have access to the programs they need to effectively manage their condition.

Jefferson County residents can find these enhanced programs and services by visiting the recently launched website, mydiabetesconnect.com, a free searchable database that alerts people to the availability of local programs and services in Birmingham. Check with your local Jefferson County public library also.

To learn more about the Cities for Life program, visit www.aafpfoundation.org/citiesforlife and http://PublicLibrariesInJC.org.

This summer, the Emmet O'Neal Library is partnering with the UAB Nutrition Sciences

Department and the Cities for Life Initiative led by The American Academy of Family 

Physicians to present programs and information to the community about diabetes, 
health, nutrition, and exercise. 



Our first event will be on Thursday evening, August 22nd at 6:30. Dr. Douglas Moellering, 
Assistant Professor in Nutrition Sciences at UAB, will discuss healthy eating for all ages and we will sample some late summer fruits and vegetables.  

Programming will continue on September 12th with a discussion of healthy physical activity, and on October 5th with a program on nurturing healthy families. The series will continue 
throughout the year, a full calendar for the fall will be available at the first program. 



For more information, contact us at 445-1121.

Bad Art Night

It is almost time for one of the Library's most beloved, highly anticipated programs, Bad Art Night!

Each year during the Adult Summer Reading Program, we pull out the crayons, glue, pipe cleaners, stickers, paint, googley eyes, and more so that adults everywhere may get back in touch with their inner rapscallion!

Bring a friend and head on over to the Library's Community Meeting Room on Tuesday, June 14th at 6:30pm. There'll be some good eats and chilled wine to get the creativity flowing! If you've signed up for Adult Summer Reading, or you sign up at the program, you'll get another entry in the drawing for the Nook Color as well as being able to mark a square on your Bingo card, getting yourself one step closer to a BINGO and another entry in the drawing for the iPad 2 3G!

There will be four categories of creation available: painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. Participants will vote for the absolute worst work of art in each category and winners get a prize! One lucky winner will be awarded a prize for Worst Art of the Night! For more information, contact the Adult Dept at 205-445-1121!

Stay cool!

Holley

Images from the Museum of Bad Art (http://www.museumofbadart.org/)

Genre Reading Group, plus knitting!!!

We meet Tuesday, September 28th at 6:30pm to discuss banned books. Bring any book that has been banned or challenged and tell us about it, plus get ideas from other readers! October's topic will be fiction by Alabama authors and I'm working on pulling those now. Stop by this weekend to get a headstart if you'd like! For more information, contact Holley at 205/445-1117 or kmoellering@bham.lib.al.us.

Also, don't miss out on Knit & Knibble on Saturday, October 2nd from 2-3:30pm! Bring your knitting projects and we'll provide the "knibbles" plus experts from Memory Hagler Knit Shop to answer all your knitting questions. For more information, contact Katie at 205/445-1118 or kmoellering@bham.lib.al.us.

Happy reading!

Holley