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Central's anniversary celebration SUNDAY features mini-golf, Book Cart Drill Team, & more!

professor.knowsitall@evpl — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:59:00 GMT

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Starting with a press conference on Thursday, September 17, we've been honoring Central Library's 5th anniversary with some special events. Our Film Festival wraps up this afternoon with a showing of Citizen Kane. On Saturday, we'll be hosting a Poetry Festival.

On Sunday, party with us at Central Library's Anniversary Celebration! There will be activities & entertainment for all ages to enjoy.

How many times have you had the urge to play mini-golf in the library? Satisfy that urge on Sunday, when we'll have 18 holes of mini-golf set up in Central's stacks (on the 1st & 2nd floors)! And don't worry...there won't be any water hazards. Get your golf game on from 1-5pm.

Enjoy some food & music in the café garden from 1-4:30pm. We'll be grilling hot dogs & hamburgers!

Over 20 cakes will be on display in the lobby from 1-3:30pm as part of our Cake Decorating Contest. Vote for your favorite! Winners will be announced shortly before 4pm, and the cakes (& punch) will be served from 4-5pm.

Nothing will prepare you for our Book Cart Drill Team's first public performance at 2:30pm in the lobby! With epic choreography & drama, the team will recreate a famous battle from literature (& a recent movie trilogy). With book carts.

We'll also have a scavenger hunt & appearances by literary actors (can you guess who they are?) throughout the celebration.

There will be something for everyone at Sunday's Anniversary Celebration. Hope to see you then!

Find out if you are registered to vote -- as well as your polling place

MediaPhile@evpl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:23:00 GMT

If you're not sure that you're registered to vote, or you want to double check the location of your Election Day polling place, go to the Indiana Statewide Voter Registration System. Click on "Voter Registration" and you will be asked to fill in these fields:

county
last name
first name
birth date

Hit FIND and you will see your registration status as well as your township and precinct. You can also see this other valuable information:

POLLING PLACE: Click on the PLUS sign in front of "Polling Place" and the location, address, and even driving directions pop up. You can also see if the polling place is ADA compliant.
DISTRICTS: Click on the PLUS sign in front of "Districts" and you will see your districts for U. S. Congress, State Senate, State House, County Commission, County Council, City Council and School system.

Visit the League of Women Voters of Southwestern Indiana website at www.lwvswin.org for links to this and other election information.

Early Voting On Saturday!

Bufkinite@evpl — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:57:00 GMT

An earlier post to this blog about early voting must've helped to get the message out, because the turnout has just been phenomenal!

Still, a number of people coming to the Information Desk at Central Library have asked if there is a place to do early voting on Saturday, since it is not offered at any of the EVPL locations. I'm happy to report that the answer is YES!

For the next two Saturdays - October 25 and November 1 - you can vote anytime between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the Civic Center, in Room 214. The same rules apply there as anywhere else: you must be a registered voter in Vanderburgh County, and have a valid photo identification with you.

So, Monday through Friday at EVPL, including Central Library, McCollough Branch, North Park Branch, Oaklyn Branch, and Red Bank Branch; and Saturday at the Civic Center, Room 214. Now you know: VOTE!

Get inspired to vote: American history art exhibition at Louisville museum

dsrs@evpl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:49:00 GMT

Based on this Courier-Journal review by Louisville attorney Richard Clay, I'm going to take a break from incessant TV election campaigning and get truly inspired to vote by visiting the Speed Art Museum. "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery" runs from now through January 4, 2009. Check the Planning a Visit page for directions and other suggestions for organizing an easy, top notch day trip.

While we're on the subject, here's a link from the library catalog to Vote: the Machinery of Democracy, an online, interactive exhibition from the National Museum of American History.

Fact vs Fiction in Political Campaigns

Meditatinglibrarian@evpl — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:34:00 GMT

As elections approach, decisions about how to vote are being made. And political campaigns and candidates have been known to bend the truth in their efforts to get the votes. The PBS blog, Media Shift, had a helpful article this week, Political Fact-Check Sites Proliferate, But Can They Break Through the Muck? The non-partisan, fact-checking sites recommended are Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org, the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly's PolitiFact and the Washington Post's Fact Checker blog. The title of the Media Shift article refers to their observation that the partisan fact-checking sites are being used more that these non-partisan sites. Links to those more biased sites are also part of the article, but I'm not going post them here.

Early Voting at EVPL

T-ref@evpl — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Early voting for the November 4 election will be held at the following EVPL branches from Tuesday, October 14 through Friday, October 31: Central, Oaklyn, North Park, Red Bank and McCollough. You must be a resident of Vanderburgh County and have a valid picture id to vote. The times will be Monday through Thursday from 1 pm to 7 pm and Friday from 1 pm to 5 pm. At Central, early voting will be in the Quiet Study room on the 2nd floor. If you would like additional information about early voting or absentee voting, you can contact the Vanderburgh County Election office.

Voter Registration Deadline

Shh_ImReading@evpl — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:59:00 GMT

October 6th is the deadline to register to vote if you're planning to vote in the 2008 election on November 4th. That's less than three weeks from now, so if you haven't registered yet, check out the links below to get started!

Want to see how our voting preferences have changed over the last 160 years?

SuDocQueen@evpl — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:36:00 GMT

Visit Voting America, United States Politics 1840-2008. A project from the University of Richmond, Voting America offers interactive maps, with data to the county level, of our Presidential elections. Along with this, the project offers expert video analysis of our voting trends and special periods in our voting history.

Over 100 people running for President in 2008!

SuDocQueen@evpl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:51:00 GMT

So far over one hundred people have announced or filed for candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. Visit Project Vote Smart to learn about them and the front runners McCain and Obama. Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan organization endorsed by leading newspapers and journals, the United States Government, and organizations such as the American Political Science Association. The organization provides information on candidates and government officials from the national to the local level. You can access information on your elected officials from voting records to campaign finances.