Happy New Year!

The Orland Park Public Library will be closed Dec. 31 & Jan. 1.

Wishing you a happy 2013!

Are You Having a Boring Break???

Try this website for teens 

if you're looking for something to do!

GAMES, PUZZLES, VIDEOS!

...keep yourself busy! Click on link below to get started

http://www.iamboredr.com/

Important info. for all OPPL Media On Demand Users

On December 27, the Orland Park Public Library will move from Media on Demand, an ebook and downloadable audiobook collection, and transition to our own digital download collection. (Please click on the link for further information.)

Closed

The OPPL will be closed 12/24 & 12/25.

Can it be...

Reuters reports that a "new" book by J.R.R. Tolkien goes on sale on Tuesday. Tolkien's son and literary executor Christopher, now in his eighties, constructed "The Children of Hurin" from his father's manuscripts, and said he tried to do so "without any editorial invention". Already told in fragmentary form in "The Silmarillion", which appeared in 1977, the new book is darker than "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", for which Tolkien is best known. 

The story is set long before "The Lord of the Rings" in a part of Middle-earth that was drowned before Hobbits ever appeared, and tells the tragic tale of Turin and his sister Nienor who are cursed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Hollywood studios are eager to buy the film rights of the new book, according to David Brawn, director at Tolkien publisher HarperCollins. "We all want this first and foremost to enjoy life as a book," said Brawn. "No one's saying never to a film (but) the film rights are reserved by the estate. We want to see what reaction it gets and then let it run its course."

Take A Break From School Work!

Exams are done, right?  

Classes are over until JANUARY!

   Come in to the OPPL to warm up and chill out in our 

Teen Area!

Cozy up with one of our new books, 

watch a movie you've never seen before,

experience a different type of music...

"...throw off the bowlines

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails

Explore.  Dream.  Discover."

                        -Mark Twain

Studying Tips for Finals!

1) Study groups can motivate you to get started when it's hard to motivate yourself.

2) Earlier this year, the New York Times explained that rather than sticking to one study spot, you should switch things up when reviewing for exams.

3)  If mere mention of the phrase "final exam" makes your heart beat a little faster--calm yourself down. To prevent from blanking during the test, spend some time before the exam imagining yourself acing it out. 

4)  Just 20 minutes of cardio a day can help improve your memory and for those of you who can, cardio outside is even better!

5) Make a realistic study schedule for yourself and leave yourself time for breaks.

GOOD LUCK!

Best Teen Spot in Town!!

Come to OPPL and see our new Teen Area.  

With a valid Orland Park Library card, 6th graders thru 12th graders can discover EVERYTHING  

the Teen Department has to offer!

Come Play XBOX or watch a movie...

...Create on the iMAC...

 

                  ...Discover new things on the iPad!        

And don't forget our ever growing selection of books, Playaways, magazines, CDs, movies, and fantastic Teen programs!  

With resources like Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Publisher and more to help with school, you can find it all at the OPPL!

Finals are here!!!

If you need a quiet place to study, computers, magazine articles, etc... well look no further!

The OPPL has it all! 

We have  3 computer areas, quiet study rooms, databases, reference materials, and much more!

Hours are: Monday-Friday 9-9

                 Saturday 9-5

                 Sunday 1-5

Way Cool Hobbit-inspired house!

Would you like to live in a house inspired by the movie The Hobbit?  Well someone does..READ ON..

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (AP) — Worlds away from the Shire, a stone cottage tucked into the Pennsylvania countryside would make Bilbo Baggins feel like he was back home with his Hobbit friends in Middle-earth.

This Hobbit house belongs to a lifelong fan of author J.R.R. Tolkien. The 600-square foot building is a short walk from his main house, on a flat stone path and through an English-style garden. They used stones taken from a long-collapsed section of an 18th-century low wall running through the center of the 16-acre property.

"We weren't going to do a Hollywood interpretation. We wanted it to be timeless," architect Peter Archer said. "It was built in 2004 but looking at it, you could think it was from 1904, or 1604."

The 54-inch diameter Spanish cedar door — naturally with a knob right in the center just as Tolkien described — opens with a single hand-forged iron hinge. Several craftsmen said they couldn't hang the 150-pound door on one hinge but a Maryland blacksmith "succeeded on the first try," Archer said.

A Delaware cabinet-maker built the mahogany windows, including the large arched "butterfly window" — its Art Nouveau-ish flourishes inspired by Tolkien's own drawings. The roof is covered with clay tiles handmade in France.

Inside the small dwelling are curved arches and rafters of Douglas fir, a fireplace finished in stucco and accented with thin slices of clay tile, and plenty of shelves and ledges for the owner's library and displays of Hobbit figurines, Gandalf's staff, hooded capes, chess sets, chalices — and of course, The One Ring. The rustic structure cleverly hides its thoroughly modern heating, cooling, electrical and security systems.

New Man of steel trailer!!

Awful Christmas Gifts?

For the true couch potato, this pillow comes with a built in remote control. You'll never have to worry about losing the remote between cushions ever again.







 
A Remote Control Pillow...Not too bad, right?  How about...

Santa's Farting Butt Travel Pillow...only $20.

'Tis the season for traveling! Why not cozy up with this pillow while you're on the go? Well, we can think of a few reasons, though we're sure no one will stare when your pillow farts.

 Can you think of some other terrible gifts?
See just one list: Marie Claire 12 worst holiday gifts

The countdown has begun!!

Need Community Service Hours??????

Teen Inc

Friday, December 7

5:15-8 p.m.

This is a special Teen Inc meeting where you can receive community service hours by creating winter decorations and reading stories at a special “Frosty” Cozy Corner Storytime.

Pizza will be served!

New find!

A cave-dwelling fish with no eyes and no scales has been discovered on a tiny island in Vietnam's scenic Ha Long Bay, according to conservation group Fauna & Flora International.
The newly described fish, a type of loach, has been named Draconectes narinosus, which derives from the Greek words for dragon "drakon" and swimmer "nectes," as well as the Latin word "narinosus," which means "who has large nostrils."

Draconectes narinosus, a species of cave fish discovered in Vietnam.

Its lack of eyes and scales are actually common adaptations for animals that have evolved in the darkness of deep limestone caverns. Like other cave fish, D. narinosus is limited to a life in freshwater, which means it is likely confined to a system of subterranean caves on Van Gio Island, unable to swim out into the surrounding sea.
Researchers with Fauna & Flora International say it's amazing that the fish has survived in such a small, precariously positioned habitat. Van Gio Island is a formation in Ha Long Bay with long, narrow arms that have a maximum width of just 1,300 feet (400 meters). Moreover, the freshwater lake in the cave where the fish was found is hardly 650 feet (200 meters) from the salty sea.
Scientists do not yet know whether there are analogous species on nearby islands, or whether this is the only surviving species in its genus. (Draconectesis a newly described genus.) A number of loaches, however, are already known from caves in the region and more await description, researchers said.
Draconectes narinosus was detailed recently in the Revue suisse de Zoologie.
Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook & Google+.

Drawing Class

Totally Tolkien

Saturday, December 1

2 p.m.

Mirror Tolkien's fantastical style of drawing by creating pen and ink illustrations.

Build your Writing Skills and Muscles Tonight!!

Join the Teen Group here at OPPL tonight for some serious FUN!

Come in and sharpen your writing skills at the Writers' Corner

Friday 4:30pm

THEN...

Join our Boot Camp workout Friday at 6:00pm and get your heart rate going doing plyometrics and strength exercises.  A certified trainer from the Orland Park Sportsplex will be here to show you the moves!

Who won DWTS last night?

 Melissa Rycroft (previously on The Bachelor) was named the winner of Dancing With the Stars - All Stars on Tuesday night. Rycroft, this time with partner Tony Dovolani,  first competed three years ago in Season 8. They triumphed over Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, who many thought would become the first competitor to win two seasons of the reality dance competition.

Ebooks are Awesome!

Buy an E-Reader on Cyber Monday and start downloading ebooks from OPPL website!

It's easy!!

check our selection on Media On Demand

http://www.mediaondemand.org/133FBF5B-7B1F-412A-B664-DA2E2ACA5FBC/10/685/en/Default.htm

Now everyone can be a Bookworm!

Fun & Free Online Game! 

Let's see how many words you can make!

http://www.popcap.com/games/bookworm/online

Optical Illusions - Love 'em!

Try this:             Stare at the gray dot in the center... 

Now move your head forward and backward.
As your head moves closer to your monitor
and then back away from your monitor, the circles
will appear to be spinning!

CLOSED

The library will be closed Thursday, November 22.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Teen Dept. is looking for computer help!

Need Community Service for School or church?  Do you know how to use a computer?

We can use your computer expertise:  sign up to be a computer volunteer for December.

Just register online or call or come in and we'll get you started!

Duties include releasing print jobs and assisting children and teens with basic Internet and MicroSoft Office questions . Volunteers must be able to commit to one shift a week for 4 weeks.

The wait is OVER!!!!

Breaking Dawn Part 2 is finally here! 

What did you think of the last installment of the Twilight Saga?

Book to Movie!

 

coming to theaters soon

Life of Pi

rated PG

Did you read the book?  

The movie is based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel.  It is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Pi and his family live in Pondicherry, India, but decide to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. 

After a shipwreck, Pi amazingly finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. 

Read the book before the movie comes out on November 21

Craft Wars...An amazingly creative night!

First Place Winner!

Movie Night?

Like James Bond? Here's the New One!

Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

PG-13, Action/Adventure, Crime!

It's James Bond!

Craft Wars!

 Craft Wars

Friday, November 9

7 p.m.

Let’s see if you have what it takes to become crafting royalty! Participants will be given crafting supplies to create a unique object that will be judged on originality, quality, and creativity. A prize will be given to the winner.

There's an election tomorrow!!

Who will be the next president of the United States?  

If you are 18 and older, you can help decide.  Maybe you have an opinion even if you aren't 18 years old. 

 Who would YOU choose and WHY?

Let us know!

Do You know how many parties are running this year?  Think there's only Democratic or Republican? 

Click on this link to see how many other parties there are!!!

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/candidates.phtml

Disney Channel Planning Boy Meets World Sequel Series!

The Disney Channel is planning a follow-up series to the hit 1990's television show "Boy Meets World." TV Line is reporting that the adventures of Cory and Topanga will continue in "Girl Meets World," a new show that follows the characters' preteen daughter.

RPatz almost NOT Edward!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Robert Pattinson was so overzealous in the early days of production on the "Twilight" series that, he says, "I almost got fired."

The 26-year-old star, who can laugh about the situation now, told Yahoo! Movies on Thursday that while working on the first film he took his method acting to such a "serious" level that "I was fighting with everybody in control all the time… to the point where I almost got fired."

When asked what he would tell himself when he was first cast in the series -- if he had the ability -- Pattinson expressed he has no regrets -- except for the level of intensity he brought to his co-workers early on as he was playing an angst-ridden teenage vampire. "I was so determined to make it so serious," he recalls of that initial Twilight film.

Indeed, Pattinson is also known to have butted heads with series creator Stephenie Meyer early on over character motivation. During the interview on Thursday, he indicated the onscreen payoff was worth it: "I like the first one having been so wrought."

Bent on being intense when he first got the part of vampire Edward Cullen, Pattinson moved to Oregon (one of the filming locations of the movie) and is said to have taken method acting to new heights for a teen movie -- isolating himself from the rest of the cast to get deeper into character. (He isolated himself from his family and friends too.) Pattinson also trained five hours a day learning how to do fight scenes and play baseball -- a favorite Cullen sport.

The prospect of getting fired may have seemed real to Pattinson because he got the axe on an acting gig just a few years prior. He was fired from a London play in 2005. Pattinson has since said in interviews that the experience was a good thing -- that he was let go because he was "trying to take risks."

Another reason Pattinson may have been sensitive on the set of the first "Twilight" is because he wasn't originally intended for the role of Edward. Henry Cavill -- who is starring as Superman in 2013's "Man of Steel" -- was "Twilight" creator Stephenie Meyer's first choice for the role. But by the time filming began, Cavill was 25-years-old and much too mature looking to play a 17-year-old-looking vampire.

Check back for more from Yahoo! Movies' extensive interviews with the cast and creators of "Twilight" as they discuss the final film, it's mind-blowing ending and memories as they say goodbye to the popular series.

Looking for a Movie this Weekend?

Opening this week

Starring Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter

Rated PG-13

Let us know what YOU think!!

WOW! What a partnership!

The Walt Disney Company announced today it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm and is planning Star Wars Episode 7 for 2015! In a later conference call, Disney revealed that they are planning a new trilogy starting in 2015 with a new movie coming every other year. They were also asked about "Indiana Jones," but said that they were going to concentrate on the "Star Wars" franchise for now. This is following such big purchases as Pixar and Marvel Entertainment.

Imagine the possibilities!

New Hobbitt TV trailer!

Read the book before the movie comes out!

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Need Volunteer Hours?

Computer Volunteer Training

Thursday, October 25

4 p.m.

Help with computers and earn community service hours!