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Erik R. Bishoff | Online & Photo Editor The Eugene Public Library, located at the corner of West 10th Avenue and Olive Street, offers a variety of resources, including music, cultural events, lectures, classes and more. Eugene library benefits students, community The Eugene Public Library complements University services and provides plenty of material for students EVA SYLWESTER FREELANCE REPORTER If University students take a mo ment away from their books to tour downtown Eugene, they could end up with many more books by visiting the Eugene Public Library. “It’s a chance for students to get off campus,” Ward 3 City Councilor David Kelly said. “Downtown Eu gene has a lot to offer students, and comparatively few that I’ve talked to over the years spend time downtown or have even been downtown.” The library opened at its present location, 100 West 10th Ave., near Lane Transit District’s downtown sta tion, in late 2002. The new building has won awards and has a full floor of extra space, currently used as city offices, so the library can accommo date its expanding collection of books and other media. “This is a town piece that U of O students can be proud to be part of,” Library Director Connie Bennett said. Bennett said she hopes that University students are taking advantage of the Eugene Public Library’s services: “It’s something that comes with residency in Eugene, and it’s a great place to come.” But why go downtown with the Knight Library right on campus? “The collections are vastly differ ent,” University Librarian Deborah Carver said. “They are complementa ry, but overlap very little.” While the Knight Library offers more help for classes, Carver ex plained, University students might use the Eugene Public Library for its selection of popular books and music — “things that would apply to your general recreational interest rather than your scholarly interest.” “It can be a specific kind of tool that students can use for recreation and classwork, and it’s just a nice place to be,” Kelly said. “You can take coffee into the book stacks as long as it’s got a lid on it,” he said, adding that the library includes an in-house coffee shop. Like the Knight Library, the Eu gene Public Library’s catalog is In ternet-accessible so patrons can search for and reserve library items at home. Bennett said the Eugene Public Library has services for children, which students with families might find useful, as well as a strong fiction department with a reader’s advisory desk. “If you like [Dan Brown’s] “The Da Vinci Code,” but you read it and you want to read something else, they can help you,” Bennett said. Bennett helps the library select new books by reading book reviews and looking at shelves of new books in stores, and readers are welcome to suggest books for ordering at the service desks. Bennett’s favorites among the li brary’s newest selections are Charles V. Ford’s “Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit” — about the social role of lying — and Richard Florida’s “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Com munity and Everyday Life,” which discusses the social trend to value increasingly the freedom to create. The Eugene Public Library is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday. The library is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. the first Friday of every month, when it features free music, literary, artistic and cultural events in the evenings. Eva Sylwester is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. 016958 --■■■■ ■■ ' ■'. FREE LEGAL SERVICES • Legal Services handles a wide range of legal problems from divorces to landlord tenant disputes. • There is never a consultation or settlement fee. • Legal Services staff members are experienced, qualified professionals. • Legal Services are FREE to current fee-paying UO students. Contact Legal Services, EMU, Room 334 (Third floor above the Fish Bowl) Or call 346-4273 to set up an appointment. http;//darkwing.uoregon.edu/~legal UPCOMING LIBRARY EVENTS Banned Books Week Taboo Tunes: A History of Banned Bands and Censored Songs Multimedia presentation by Peter Blecha, Seattle author and anti-censorship advocate Sunday, Sept. 26,2-3:30 p.m., Free Friday, Oct. 1 ♦ 6:30: Readout - Local notables read from their favorite banned books • 7:30: Michael Kay - Hip-hop performer Sponsored by the Eugene Public Library, Friends of the Library, and the Eugene Public Library Foundation. Writing My Way Out of Adolescence Jeff DeMark’s Funny, Poignant'Solo Show Kicks Off Windfall’s 20th Year -Tuesday, Sept. 21,7 p.m. When Oregon Rocked: The Far-Out Story of VORTEX I Multimedia presentation by author Matt Love - Saturday, Sept. 18,2-3:30 p.m. First Fridays at the Downtown Library The downtown library will be open until 9 p.m. the first Friday of each month, offering a vari ety of programs ~ music, authors, artists, cul tural events, and more. Friday, Sept. 3 • 6:30 pm Music by Amazon Creek • 7:30 pm New Jordan Schnitzer Art Museum Preview For more information about any library event, call 682-5450. Source: Eugene Public Library 019493 early bird WASH! Top Load Washers 7 am4 pm WSKDAYS r thru Oct. 15th -- 14 TOP LOAD & 9 FRONT LOAD WASHERS accommodate all your laundering needs -• NEW EXTRACTOR-saves time and extends the life of your clothes -- EXCEPTIONAL CUSTOMER SERVICE for more than 29 years MR. 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