"A Difference Made" Essay Contest

St. Andrew’s TeenSpot Black History 

"A Difference Made" Essay Contest

OFFICIAL RULES AND GUIDELINES 

Middle School (Grades 6-8) and High School (Grades 9-12)

St. Andrew’s TeenSpot Black History “A Difference Made" Essay Contest is open to all Charleston area students in grades 6-12.  One winner will be chosen from each level and will be awarded a PRIZE PACKAGE. Entries must be submitted by February 26, 2016. 

The winner will be notified on March 4, 2016.

Official Rules and Guidelines

• Essays must be brought in, emailed, or postmarked by February 26, 2016. Mailing address is St. Andrews Regional Library c/o Patrice Smith, 1735 North Woodmere Drive, Charleston, SC 29407. When sending by email please remit to smithp@ccpl.org and place in the subject line- “A Difference Made” essay contest
• Each student may only enter one essay.
• Essays should be no longer than 500 words in length, and should be typed or hand written in print only. No cursive writing will be accepted.
• Essays submitted must include the contestant’s name, home address, telephone number, school the student attends, grade level and the title of the essay.
• Each essay must reflect the contestant's own research, writing and original thinking.

Essay Topic

Write about an African-American who inspired and motivated you to make a difference in your life. How did this person motivate you and how would you continue to use the knowledge that they gave you?

 If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, 

feel free to contact the

Young Adult Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Computer Classes January - March

Computer Classes

Call 843-805-6885 or email tlc@ccpl.org for more information or to register for these free classes. As a courtesy, please make every effort to arrive five minutes before the class starts and call to cancel if you will not be able to attend the class. Classes will be taught at Hurd/ St. Andrews Regional Library.  

January-Exploring the Web (Part 1)

Internet: The Basics

Dive into the World Wide Web with Internet Explorer. Learn how to find a website, understand URLs, navigate web pages, evaluate sites and set Favorites. Completion of Computer Fundamentals (or previous experience) is expected.

     Tuesday, January 12 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

     Registration begins January 5

Internet: Beyond the Basics

Learn how to conduct specific searches with Google. Take a look at some common video, shopping and social media sites, and discuss online safety. Completion of Internet: The Basics (or previous experience) is expected.

     Tuesday, January 26 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

     Registration begins January 19

February- Exploring the Web (Part 2)

Email Essentials
Practice sending email messages with a Yahoo training account. Explore attachments, folders, and contacts, too. Completion of Internet: The Basics (or previous experience) is expected.

     Tuesday, February 2 1:30-3:30 p.m.
     Registration begins January 26 


Internet Security Tips and Tactics
Learn about the most common online threats and how to stay protected while searching the Web and working with email. Completion of Internet: The Basics (or previous experience) is expected.

     Tuesday, February 9 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
     Registration begins February 2 


Online Job Searching
Discover helpful tips for conducting a job search and applying for jobs. Practice using popular sites and resources. Completion of Internet: The Basics (or previous experience) is expected.

     Tuesday, February 16 1:30-3:30 p.m.
     Registration begins February 9


Resume Tips and Tools
Use a Word resume template to effectively represent your experiences. Adjust the layout and format text professionally. Completion of Word: The Basics (or previous experience) is expected.

     Tuesday, February 23 1:30-3:30 p.m.
     Registration February 16

March- Introduction to Computers

Introduction to Computers

Unravel the mystery of the computer as you learn the parts of the computer, the difference between hardware and software, what an operating system is, and how files are stored. Practice using the mouse and keyboard, too! No previous computer experience expected.

Tuesday, March 1 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Registration begins February 23 

Using the Mouse and Keyboard

The mouse and keyboard are your computer’s communication tools. Learn how to click, double click, click and drag, and scroll with the mouse. Then practice typing and editing text, numbers, and symbols with the keyboard. No previous computer experience expected.

Tuesday, March 8 1:30-3:30 p.m. 

Registration begins March 1

Working with Windows

Explore the typical commands you’ll see when working with Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 2016, including the Start menu. Learn how to customize settings and make selections. Experience using the mouse and keyboard is expected.

Tuesday, March 15 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Registration begins March 8

File Storage and Organization

Learn how to save and organize your files more efficiently. Discover how to rename and copy files, create folders, and delete file. Experience using the mouse and keyboard is expected.

Tuesday, March 22 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Registration begins March 15 

 Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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SUSIE EADES BOOK CLUB SPRING 2016

SUSIE EADES BOOK CLUB

March- July 2016

Book club meetings are held on the third Tuesday in each month from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p. m. 

March 15, 2016 

 “Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford 

Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.

But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope
of Genghis Khan's accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.

In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World , Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn't just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made. - From the Hardcover edition.

                

April 19, 2016

“The Colored People” by Henry Louis Gates

The man touted as America's most celebrated black scholar reminisces to his daughters about his boyhood in the polluted, dying Allegheny Mountains' papermill town of Piedmont, West Virginia. Laying out the social and emotional topography of a world shifting from segregation to integration and from colored to Negro to black, Gates evokes a bygone time and place as he moves from his birth in 1949 to 1969, when he goes off to Yale University after a year at West Virginia's Potomac State College. His pensive and sometimes wistful narrative brims with the mysteries and pangs and lifelong aches of growing up, from his encounters with sexuality, to the discovery of intellectual exhilaration as he is marked to excel in school, to his suffering a crippling injury to one of his legs and struggling frightfully for his father's respect. There is much to recommend this book as a story of boyhood, family, segregation, the pre-Civil Rights era, and the era when Civil Rights filtered down from television to local reality.

May 17, 2016  

“All the Light We Cannot  See” by Anthony Doer

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

June 21, 2016  

“Gray Mountain”  by John Grisham

John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises

The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track--until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back.

In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems." For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren't so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.


Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.

July 19, 2016  

“Flood of Fire” by Amitav Ghosh

"The final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy. It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong. Along the way, many characters from the Ibis Trilogy come aboard, including Zachary Reid, a young American speculator in opium futures, and Shireen, the widow of an opium merchant whose mysterious death in China has compelled her to seek out his lost son. The Hind docks in Hong Kong just as war breaks out and opium "pours into the market like monsoon flood." From Bombay to Calcutta, from naval engagements to the decks of a hospital ship, among embezzlement, profiteering, and espionage, Amitav Ghosh charts a breathless course through the culminating moment of the British opium trade and vexed colonial history."-- Provided by publisher.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the

Reference Department at 843-766-2546.

 Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Adult Programming

Adult Programming

Lowcountry Creative Writing Group 

Saturday, January 2 at 1 p.m.

Join a group of local writers for a chance to write, critique and network.

Why Sustainable Forestry Matters 

Saturday, January 9 at 3 p.m.

Join the Center for Heirs Property as they discuss their “Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention” initiative. This initiative, begun in 2013, is in response to the need to restore and conserve African American forested acres and increase its value and productivity through education, technical assistance and forest management resources.

The Mayor : Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston by Brian Hicks; foreward by Pat Conroy.

In December 1975, Charleston voters elected a young attorney and former state lawmaker as the city's new mayor. The rest is history. Joseph Patrick Riley Jr., just 32 at the time, promised to make Charleston an inclusive city, heal the lingering wounds of the civil rights movement, stem the rising crime rate and open more public parks for all residents. And that was just in his first term of office. Over the next 40 years, Riley led the city through disasters and divisiveness, tragedy and triumph, all the while transforming Charleston from a sleepy Southern town devastated by civil war into one of the most vibrant, fastest-growing cities in the nation - and the most popular tourist destination in the world.. Riley built the Charleston Place hotel and conference center that sparked the city's revitalization; saved the Spoleto Festival; built the Waterfront Park, the South Carolina Aquarium and a baseball stadium named in his honor. He rebuilt Charleston after a devastating hurricane nearly destroyed the city. And in his final months in office, Riley led the city through a tragedy that threatened to destroy the peace and harmony he had worked toward his entire life. This is the modern history of an American city, its Phoenix- like rise and return to prominence and the man most responsible for it all. Through 10 terms as mayor, Joe Riley changed Charleston forever. This is his story.

Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham.
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture is a vintage pool table. He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Sebastian defends people other lawyers won't go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house. Why these clients? Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if he, Sebastian, has to cheat to secure one. He hates injustice, doesn't like insurance companies, banks, or big corporations; he distrusts all levels of government and laughs at the justice system's notions of ethical behavior" -- provided by publisher.

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King.

Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in “Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil’s pact they can win.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the

Reference Department at 843-766-2546.

 Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Teen Programming

TeenSpot Black History "A Difference Made" Essay Contest

Throughout January
This essay contest is open to all Charleston area students in grades 6-12. One winner will be chosen from middle and high school to receive a prize package. Entries must be submitted by Feb. 26, and the winner will be notified March 4. For contest details, contact: Patrice Smith at 843-766-2546. 

TeenSpot Celebrates National Book Blitz Month

Throughout January 

In honor of National Book Blitz Month, vote for your favorite between two books each week. Those who chose the winning book will be entered into a weekly drawing for prizes. 

TeenSpot Wired Monday/Teen Ambassadors Meeting

Monday, January 4 at 4 p.m.

Do a little homework, play computer games or just chat with friends during an open technology lab. Also help plan fun and interesting teen programs at the library. 

TeenSpot Theater presents San Andreas. 

Wednesday, January 6 at 4 p.m.

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.

Rated PG-13; 115 minutes. Refreshments will be served.

STEM at STA: Marshmallow Engineering

Monday, January 11 at 4 p.m.

Come and build marshmallow towers using mini marshmallows and toothpicks.

TeenSpot Theater presents Pitch Perfect 2.

Wednesday, January 13 at 4 p.m.

After a humiliating command performance at The Kennedy Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.

 Rated PG-13; 116 minutes. Refreshments will be served.

TeenSpot Theater presents Age of Adaline. 

Wednesday, January 20 at 4 p.m.

A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into.Rated PG-13; 113 minutes. Refreshments will be served.

TeenSpot Short Stack Book Club

Monday, January 25 at 4 p.m.

Some Girls Are by Courtney Summer. 
Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard—falling from it is even harder.  Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her—and her best friend's boyfriend—start going around.  Now Regina's been frozen out, and her ex-best friends are out for revenge.  If Regina were guilty, it would be one thing, but the rumors are far from the terrifying truth, and the bullying is getting more intense by the day.  She takes solace in the company of Michael Hayden, a misfit with a tragic past whom she herself used to bully.  Friendship doesn't come easily for these onetime enemies, and as Regina works hard to make amends for her past, she realizes Michael could be more than just a friend...if threats from the Fearsome Foursome don't break them both first. Refreshments will be served, and attendees will be entered into a $10 Amazon gift card prize drawing. 

TeenSpot Theater presents Avengers: Age of Ultron. 

Wednesday, January 27 at 4 p.m.

When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. Rated PG-13; 141 minutes. Refreshments will be served.

 If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, 

feel free to contact the

Young Adult Department at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED