Get acquainted with computers and our training series! Discover the differences between hardware and software, learn about storage devices and other computer components, and explore the Windows operating system.

All branch classes are demonstration-style and include handouts.

Please call the Portage Lakes Branch to sign up for this class: 330.644.7050

Please visit our website for more information: Electronic Services Computer Training    

Chef Sarah will demonstrate some fast, easy and stress-free techniques for carefree holiday entertaining.

Advance sign-up beginning November 9

Learn basic functions of the Windows operating system that enable you to create, save, close, and open files. Practice using various Windows components, such as working with multiple windows and using menus. Attendance at Computer Mouse Skills and Introduction to Computers is preferred.

All branch classes are demonstration-style and include handouts.

Please call the Portage Lakes Branch to sign up for this class: 330.644.7050

Please visit our website for more information: Electronic Services Computer Training    

Back by popular demand! Test your wits Jeopardy style as we get ready to celebrate the holidays. Prizes will be won by all! This program is for 4 - 12 graders only. Sign-ups are requested and begin November 16.

Is your computer running slower and slower everyday? Is your computer's memory running low? Has the "n" key on your keyboard stopped working? Learn how to perk up your machine, dispose of unneeded files, and more with basic maintenance tools in Windows XP. Attendance at Windows for Beginners or equivalent experience is preferred.

All branch classes are demonstration-style and include handouts.

Please call the Portage Lakes Branch to sign up for this class: 330.644.7050

Please visit our website for more information: Electronic Services Computer Training    

Fun for the whole family.

6:30 pm Crafts for children and adults.

7 pm The Manchester Singers.

7 pm Stories with Mrs. Elaine

All TAB members are invited to attend our annual holiday party. We will do a little TAB business first, then enjoy some fun activities and treats! This program is for 7 - 12 graders.

Lisa Graziani from America's Best Organizing helps us get a handle on the clutter that is complicating our lives. Please call the branch to register.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.

Iris Lockhart, a young Scottish woman, is suddenly informed that she has the power of attorney for her great aunt, Esme Lennox—who Iris never knew existed. Esme has been locked away in a mental institution for over 60 years—a fact never mentioned by her sister Kitty, Iris' grandmother, who now has Alzheimer's. In compelling prose, O'Farrell gradually pieces together the puzzle of Esme's life up to the age of 16, when her cold and repressive parents sent her away to the hospital that is now closing down. Esme had a bold and independent spirit, unseemly for a girl at that time. That as well as a younger brother who died in her arms and a never-mentioned rape contributed to her lost life—a life "half strangled by what-ifs." A gripping read with superbly crafted scenes that will blaze in the reader's memory long after the novel is returned to the shelf.

Books available one month prior to the meeting.

Teens in grades 7-12 are invited to attend our monthly TAB meeting. We spend the first half of the meeting doing some business and the rest of the meeting doing something fun. Snacks will be served. Call 330-644-7050 for more information.

Lisa Graziani from America's Best Organizing helps us get a handle on the clutter that is complicating our lives. This session will consist of a question and answer period to help climb out of the clutter.

Please call the branch to register.

Confessions Of A Jane Austin Addict

Talk about an out-of-body experience. One moment Courtney Stone is a modern-day L.A. career woman lamenting a lost love; the next she is Jane Mansfield, a well-to-do, willowy (though not particularly buxom, unlike her twentieth-century namesake) lady in nineteenth-century England. What could account for this transplant of time and place? Courtney has no opportunity to ruminate over such matters; she must quickly learn to interact with inhabitants of the brave old world in which she finds herself. There's her mother, determined to marry 30-year-old Jane off to handsome Mr. Edgeworth; her artist father, more inclined to his daughter's free-spirited frame of mind; and faithful servant Miss Barnes, who helps her mistress manage everything from chaperones to corsets. (Thank goodness Jane has read Pride and Prejudice more than a dozen times.) It's not long before Jane finds the lines blurred between her two vastly different selves. Like her heroine, debut author Rigler boasts an obsession with the novels of Jane Austen.

Book will be available one month prior to meeting.

Whether you love Valentine's Day or you loathe it, there will be fun activities for you to do. All Valentine's Day lovers wear red, and all Un-Valentine's Day loathers wear black. This will help set the mood. (You don't have to wear either color if you don't want to.) For those of you who fall somewhere in the middle, that's great! You get to try activities from both sides of the party and you can wear red AND black if you want! This program is for 4 - 12 graders only. Sign-ups are requested and begin January 11.

Teens in grades 7-12 are invited to attend our monthly TAB meeting. We spend the first half of the meeting doing some business and the rest of the meeting doing something fun. Snacks will be served. Call 330-644-7050 for more information.