It's Library Card Signup Month! Complete the Library Quiz for a chance to win a Kindle Fire tablet.
September 2021 Natchitoches Parish Library Lagniappe
What Do You Know About Your Library?
The NPL hosts in-person after-school tutoring for preschool and elementary students, Monday through Friday, from 3-6 PM. Appointments are recommended and can be made by calling 318-238-9222.
September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when the Natchitoches Parish Library (NPL) joins the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to remind parents, caregivers, and students that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path to academic achievement and lifelong learning.
There is nothing more empowering than signing up for your own library card. Through access to technology, media resources, and educational programs, a library card gives students the tools to succeed in the classroom and provides people of all ages opportunities to pursue their dreams and passions.
The NPL offers everything from early literacy programs to live and virtual homework help, introducing the opportunity to transform lives and communities through education. At the NPL, you’ll find a wide variety of educational resources and activities, including no-cost ACT/SAT and HiSET practice testing, along with digital checkout of books, and online access to learning modules for coding, photography, and other technology skills.
“Libraries play an important role in the education and development of their communities,” said Alan Niette, NPL Community Outreach Coordinator. “For students in our parish, we have library programs that serve all ages and backgrounds, such as in-person afterschool tutoring for Pre-K through 5th grades, as well as online live tutors seven days a week for all grade levels, including college.”
The NPL, along with libraries everywhere, continue to adapt and expand services to meet the evolving needs of their communities. During September, the NPL will have a “Library Quiz” for teens and adults to complete for a chance to win a Kindle Fire, courtesy of the Friends of the Natchitoches Parish Library. The quiz can be picked up at any circulation desk and must be completed and turned in by 6 PM Thursday, September 30th.
This year, Marley Dias, founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, author, and executive producer is taking on a new role as honorary chair of Library Card Sign-Up Month. In her new role, Dias will promote the value of libraries and encourage everyone to get their very own library card.
Since 1987, Library Card Sign-up Month has been held each September to mark the beginning of the school year. During the month, the ALA and libraries work together in a national effort to ensure every child signs up for their own library card.
For more information on getting a library card, you may visit either library branch location, call 318-357-3280, or message the NPL on Facebook.
New and On Order
Would you like to share your writing with others? Have a poem, story, review, or an excerpt that you have selected from your writings?
Please contact Alan Niette, NPL Community Outreach Coordinator, at alan@natlib.org. We will gladly share your tales with our readers!
Library To Offer Free Fall Shredding Service
The industrial-strength shredder can handle a lot: paperclips and staples don’t even need to be removed.
Do you have old files laying around that you need to properly dispose of? Or confidential information that you do not want to toss in the trash?
After receiving patron requests for another shredding service following the Spring event, the Natchitoches Parish Library (NPL) Community Shred Service is back again for Fall.
The four-hour shredding event will take place in the NPL parking lot, Friday, September 17, from 10 AM to 2 PM. An industrial-strength mobile shredding truck will be available for public use at the NPL Main Branch (450 Second St.) for no cost.
Only paper documents may be disposed of, and staples and paperclips DO NOT need to be removed. Everyone is welcome, businesses included!
Those making use of this fee-free service must stay with their documents until they have all been loaded into the shredder. No drop-offs are allowed. There will be an unloading zone near the shredding truck for those with large amounts of documents.
Be sure to mark your interest on the NPL’s Facebook Event page for a reminder as the event gets closer.
Digital Hoopla Picks From the Library
Audiobook: Never Saw Me Coming (11h 47m, 2021). By Vera Kurian, read by Brittany Pressley.
YOU SHOULD NEVER TRUST A PSYCHOPATH. BUT WHAT IF YOU HAD NO CHOICE?
It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre… She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.
Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths-students like herself who lack empathy and can't comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smartwatches that track their moods and movements.
When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey. As she races to identify the killer and put her own plan for revenge into action, she'll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath.
Movie: C.S. Lewis Onstage (1h 17m, 2018, NR).
The Most Reluctant Convert
Using C.S. Lewis's own words, award-winning actor Max McLean inhabits Lewis to take us on his rigorous journey from hard-boiled atheist to "the most reluctant convert in all England." Discover how the "Hound of Heaven" pursued Lewis relentlessly until he finally "gave in"...only to become the most influential Christian writer of the 20th century.
eBook: After the Fall (2016).
By Various Authors.
New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed.
Within days of September 11, 2001, Columbia's Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the city to collect the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York neighborhoods and backgrounds. With follow-up interviews spanning years, the project produced a deep and revealing look at how the attacks changed individual lives and communities in New York City.
After the Fall presents a selection of these fascinating testimonies, with heartbreaking and enlightening stories from a broad range of New Yorkers. The interviews include first-responders, taxi drivers, school teachers, artists, religious leaders, immigrants, and others who were interviewed numerous times since the 2001 attacks. The result is a remarkable time-lapse account of the city as it changed in the wake of 9/11, one that will resonate powerfully with New Yorkers and millions of others who continue to feel the impact of the most damaging foreign attack to ever occur inside the United States.
From the Stacks: Featured Cookbook
641.86 PAN—Nerdy Nummies, by Rosanna Pansino.
The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook is quirky, charming, and fun, featuring the recipes behind Rosanna Pansino's celebrated, one-of-a-kind creations, as well as beautiful, mouthwatering photographs throughout. It is the perfect companion that you'll turn to whenever you want to whip up a delicious treat and be entertained all at once. And best of all, these treats are as simple as they are fun to make! No need for costly tools or baking classes to create these marvelous delights yourself.
The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook combines two things Rosanna loves: geek culture and baking. Her fondness for video games, science fiction, math, comics, and lots of other things considered "nerdy" have inspired every recipe in this book. You'll find the recipes for many beloved fan favorites from the show as well as many new geeky recipes, such as Dinosaur Fossil Cake, Moon Phase Macarons, and the Periodic Table of Cupcakes. The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook showcases Rosanna's most original and popular creations, and each recipe includes easy-to-follow photo instructions and a stunning shot of the finished treat in all its glory, sure to please the geek in all of us!
Unicorn Poop Cookies (pg. 112)
Things You'll Need:
Cream cheese sugar cookie dough (pg.33)
Food coloring gels: electric yellow, electric orange, electric pink, electric green, sky blue, and purple
White sugar pearls
Rainbow daisy sprinkles
Nonstick baking sheet
RO TIP: Keep the dough chilling in the fridge as often as possible during each step. This dough is sticky.
Let's Get Started!
Make the Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Dough.
Divide the dough into 6 even portions. Tint each portion with a different food coloring.
Wrap each colored dough tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour.
Roll each colored dough into a log on top of a piece of wax paper.
Cut each dough log into 12 equal sections and roll each section into a ball. Place the balls in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Gently roll the balls into 5-inch logs on wax paper.
Stack the colored logs three across and two high: yellow, orange, and pink on the bottom; green, blue, and purple on the top. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Curl each log into a spiral poop shape, placing the end over the top. Transfer the cookies to a nonstick baking sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Then freeze for 2 minutes to help the cookies hold their shape while baking.
Bake until the cookies are set and dry but not browned, about 11 minutes.
Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly (you want to decorate while they are still warm).
Time To Decorate!
Place the white sugar pearls on the cookies while they are still warm.
Sprinkle the rainbow daisy sprinkles on top of the cookies, then let them cool completely.
