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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.
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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
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