Monthly Archives: August 2021
🎢Williamson County – TV: Music from the Fair
There are a lot of concerts from the 2021 Williamson County Fair airing next week on WC-TV!
Here is a link to the complete program schedule through September 5th, 2021
WC-TV Programming Schedule
Comcast 3 / Charter 192 / AT&T 99 / United Communications 207
If you want to watch a past event or live stream on you computer or device, WC-TV’s YouTube channel the link is here.
Search in the Playlists for the 2021 County Fair Playlist.
(Pssst – the Williamson County Public Library Playlist is here!)
SUMMER SHAKESPEARE in Franklin
William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT
Presented at
Williamson County Performing Arts Center at Academy Park
September 18 & 19, 2021
Directed by Jim Warren
Join us just outside of Nashville in beautiful Franklin, Tennessee to enjoy this
great playwright at Academy Park! This will mark the 5th year that Nashville Shakes has toured its summer festival to Williamson County.
5:30pm INSIGHT
5:30pm Vendors open
6:00pm Pre-show Entertainment
6:45 – Elf & Fairy and ApCo Performances (12th Night only)
7:00pm Main Performance
General Admission is FREE ($10 Suggested Donation)
Nashville Shakes is also bringing August Wilsons’s play JITNEY: Thursday and Friday, September 16th & 17th
JITNEY is an unflinching look into the stories and struggles of Black life in 1970’s Pittsburgh through the lens of a group of tight-knit, independent cab, or jitney, drivers. Please be advised that JITNEY is rated MA for mature audiences.
Check the Season Calendar for Franklin Vendors and Entertainment.
Academy Park is located at 112 Everbright Avenue, Franklin, TN
Bring your own chairs/blanket and pick your favorite spot to watch the show!
There is limited bleacher seating available in the rear.
For more information on performances in Nashville, please visit The Nashville Shakespeare Festival website.
More, more, more at WCPL!
Now you can enjoy more reading, listening and watching courtesy of your local Library! The new borrowing policy increases the amount of items you can borrow and extends the amount of time that movies are loaned out.
The new checkout policy:
- 40 items per library card account
- 10 books per subject
- 10 audiobooks – CDs and MP3s combined
- 10 DVDs for 2-weeks
- Multivolume DVD sets of 4 discs or more checkout for 3 weeks.
- BONUS: late fees on movies have been lowered to 50 cents per day.
Investment Research Database Available to WCPL Patrons
Value Line’s Investment Research platform offers access to financial data, news, expert analysis, and more!
DYK that Williamson County Public Library card holders have online access to Value Line, an database resource for investment research and an unbiased authority on financial data for free with your Library card?
Value Line offers four key assets to our patrons:
Data
Value Line includes a vast array of financial measures for over 5,500 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, 500,000 options, and other securities. The investment research platform includes expert estimates, projections, and historical data to help its users discover opportunities that match their investment strategy.
Tools
Value Line’s investment research is designed to work for the individual. Customization tools allow library patrons to view statistical analyses, projections, and insightful commentaries in a way that is most visually sensible to them. Users may consult pre-defined screens for quick ideas. Graphic indicators bring trends and comparisons to life to help judge investment opportunities.
Ranks
Performance-tested ranks and ratings allow library patrons to make decisions with confidence. The platform includes a Timeliness™ Rank feature to help users anticipate a stock’s relative price performance potential for the coming six-to-12 months, while gauging risk with its Safety™ Rank. In addition, Financial Strength and other Value Line ratings help users fine-tune their insights.
Expert Analysis
The Value Line platform includes commentaries on companies, industries, markets and economies by a team of 70 analysts, researchers and statisticians to make company financial pictures and future earnings potential clear. One of the world’s largest teams of stock experts will provide information updates.
Available only to Library card holders accessing the database through our website (wcpltn.org) and our institutional account. The navigation is Reader’s Corner –> Homework and Research –> Articles & Databases (choose Business as a topic) OR Databases by Title.
Any Williamson County resident can receive their free library card at any WCPL branch. For help accessing Value Line or any of our databases call the Reference Desk at 615-595-1243. Again, card holders have access to these fabulous subscription databases through our website at wcpltn.org, whether at home or in the library.
About Value Line
Value Line is an investment research platform that helps position its patrons for financial success. As an authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line offers accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. Using the latest data, sophisticated tools and proven ranks to expert analysis and guidance, Value Line provides its users with the ability to evaluate investments with confidence.
~JN
Virtual Alzheimer’s & Dementia Series: Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease
The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease makes planning for the future more important than ever. Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease offers you a chance to learn about important legal and financial issues to consider, how to put plans in place, and how to access legal and financial resources near you. Elder care attorney Barbara Moss will be leading the program and can answer your legal and financial questions.
This program will cover information for families and individuals dealing with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Topics covered will include:
- Making legal plans that fit your needs
- Legal documents you’ll need and what they mean for all of you
- How to find legal and financial assistance
- Practical strategies for making a long-term plan of care
- Tax deductions and credits
- Government programs that can help pay for care
🖥 The Williamson County Public Library and the Alzheimer’s Association Tennessee Chapter are happy to present this program ONLINE so everyone can safely participate at home on your smart phone, tablet or computer. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please contact Kelsey Williams at kewilliams@alz.org or 615-622-4182 with any questions!
You can share questions you’d like our presenters to address during the presentation by typing them in the Questions & Comments box when you register.
Tennessee Disability Pathfinder Launches New Website
Pathfinder Launches New Website
Tennessee Disability Pathfinder is launching its updated website design, with a more accessible URL – TNPathfinder.org – and plenty of interactive features to make finding resources, service providers, and community events easier for individuals with disabilities and their families.
New features of the Pathfinder website make their database of more than 3,500 agency resources across Tennessee more accessible and searching for information has been made more customizable. Users can tailor their search to be as broad or as narrow as they’d like, using criteria such as:
- Stage of Life: Choose from Prenatal/Infancy, Early Childhood, School Age, Transition/Young Adult, Adulthood, or Aging;
- Topic of Interest: Twenty service categories to select, with a text box to type keywords;
- Diagnosis: Type of disability or health condition;
- Benefit/Payment Options: Forms of payment accepted by the agency provider, such as health insurance, government program, private pay, or no cost; and
- Service Area: Select counties where services are provided.
Getting the information and support you or a loved one needs can make a positive difference in your lives now and in the future.
Start your journey today!
WCPL Friends of the Library Book Sale
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Friends of the Williamson County Public Library used book sale is Friday, August 20, 10am to 5pm; Saturday, August 21,10ma to 5pm and Sunday, August 22, 1pm to 5pm. Friends Member Preview for early shopping is on Friday, 9am to 10am, before doors open to the public. Current members and new members can renew/join online or at the door for $15 single and $25 family. A member roster is at the front door for entry. Sunday is $10 bag sale all day. Plastic shopping bags will be handed out to shoppers and bags can be filled to top of the bag for the $10 per bag sale. The popular used book sale includes thousands of books in like new condition, with prices ranging from $3 for hardback; $2 for trade paperback; $1 for children’s hardback and .50 cents for children’s soft cover. Coffee table books are $5 and some of the autographed and vintage books are individually priced. There will be boxes and boxes of paperbacks at this sale. Cash and credit are accepted. The book sale is located at Williamson County Public Library, 1314 Columbia Avenue, Franklin, TN 37064. PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFO TO YOUR FRIENDS, and post to social media and NextDoor Neighborhood news forums. We look forward to seeing everyone at the sale! Friends of the WCPL Board The Friends of the Williamson County Public Library is a non-profit, 501(c)3 service organization dedicated to the advancement of our community through its library. Friends’ contributions, fund-raising activities, and volunteer efforts support adult and youth programs, maintain and increase collections, and provide new technologies, equipment and other improvements.
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🐝Support the Bees!
Click to register
Sharon Reily
Honey bees are our most important pollinator of food crops. An estimated one third of our food relies on pollination mainly by bees, but also by other insects, birds and bats. To learn how to attract bees and other pollinators to your garden, register for our next Garden Talk virtual program, “The Bee Friendly Garden,” to be presented this Monday, August 9 at 1:00. The Williamson County Master Gardeners will share their expertise on creating pollinator-friendly landscapes and offer suggestions for plants that will help feed the bees and also supply great flower cuttings for your home.
To supplement the bee-friendly advice from our Master Gardeners, the Library offers some great print and electronic resources.
BOOKS
You can browse through our gardening section (635 call numbers) to find just the right book to help you support our bee population. Here are few titles to consider.
The following titles can be found on the second floor display:
The Bee-Friendly Garden
by Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhn 639.92 FRE
Buzz: the Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson 595.799 HAN
Dancing With Bees: A Journey Back to Nature
by Brigit Strawbridge Howard 595.799 STR
Honeybee Hotel : the Waldorf Astoria’s Rooftop Garden and the Heart of NYC
by Leslie Day 638.1097 DAY
Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey
by Roger Morgan-Grenville 638.1092 MOR
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
by Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy 712.2 DAR
Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening: How to Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators
by Kim Eierman 576.8 EIE
Victory Gardens for Bees: a DIY Guide to Saving the Bees
by Lori Weidenhammer 638.1 WEI
Novel
The Bees
by Laline Paull F PAULL
We couldn’t resist including this very unique novel set in a beehive. It won’t help you with your pollinator garden, but it does offer a fascinating look at the amazing life of a hive. You’ll never look at a honey bee the same way again.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Books (from Tennessee R.E.A.D.S. with the OverDrive or Libby app)
The Bee Garden: How to Create or Adapt a Garden to Attract and Nurture Bees
by Maureen Little
Good Bugs for Your Garden
by Allison Mia Starcher
Articles
“How You Can Be a Pollinator Partner” by Nancy J. Ondra, Fine Gardening
“Designing a Stylish Pollinator Garden” by John Gwynne, Fine Gardening
There’s a lot we can do to keep our garden’s buzzing. Get off to a good start by signing up for “Bee Friendly Garden” on Monday, August 9! Register by calling the Reference Department at 615-595-1243 or online here.
Spend Your Tickets! – Beanstack Instructions
As we’re nearing the end of Summer Reading, don’t forget to spend your Summer Reading prize tickets! You earned them. Put them toward drawings for fabulous prizes.
Several prizes for adults are based on tickets only. Put your tickets toward anything you want to win! Prizes include an hammock, camping lanterns, and multiple book sets that you can choose to put your tickets toward.
Here’s how to spend those tickets!
Mobile App
First, find the word Discover at the bottom of the app and push that. Then in the Challenges Tab find the description for the Summer 2021 Challenge you’re enrolled in and push View Challenge.
Next, push Drawings, to see what drawings are available.
Here, you can view available ticket prizes. You can distribute your tickets to any of the prizes you want. When you see a prize you like in the list, like this Camping Hammock, just push it.
Now we Add Tickets.
A little box will pop up showing you how many tickets you have available, and you can add as many as you like. Then push Add Tickets again.
You’ll know when you’ve spent all your tickets, when it says Max Entered. You can still remove tickets to put them toward another prize. Just make sure all your tickets are used by the end of the challenge.
Desktop Browser
Finding the Ticket Drawings is a little easier on a computer than it is on the mobile app. First select the Summer 2021 Challenge you’re working on in the Challenges tab.
Next, click on the Ticket Drawings tab below the Challenge title to see what prizes are available for drawings.
Just click on the prize you want to add tickets to. Here’s an example with that cool Camping Lantern. Then click on Add/Remove Tickets.
Like on mobile devices, you can add as many as you have to whichever prizes you want, so you can spread it out, or put all your eggs in one basket! When you see 0 Tickets Available, you know you’ve spent them all.
At the end of the Challenge, we’ll draw from these tickets for these prizes. Don’t forget to spend all the free tickets you’ve been earning while completing Activities, and Logging your Reading. If you’ve signed up for the Challenge, you have a few tickets to use!
If you haven’t been involved in our 2021 Summer Reading Challenges this year, now’s your chance to enter the reading you’ve done, do some fun Activities, and win fabulous prizes. Head on over to our Beanstack Virtual Challenges, but hurry. The Challenge ends August 8th.
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