Help Me Learn Days: Free school supplies for eligible Geauga students

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July 19, 2018

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Geauga County Public Library is thrilled to partner with Geauga County Job and Family Services for Help Me Learn Day, a school supply distribution program for eligible Geauga County students. Children entering grades K-12 who meet financial requirements will be able to get school supplies for the upcoming year.

There will be two Help Me Learn Days:

Fri., Aug. 10, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Morning Star Friends Church, 12550 Ravenna Rd., Chardon, OH 44024)

Tues., Aug. 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Chagrin Falls Park Community Center, 7060 Woodland Ave., Chagrin Falls, OH 44023)

GCPL will be on hand to pass out their new and improved lanyards for students. The Fun Bus will also be present for children to check out books. GCPL is glad to collaborate with community organizations to help provide resources for Geauga County residents.

For more information on these and other programs, please contact Sara Shininger, Community Support Coordinator, Geauga County Job and Family Services, 440-285-9141, ext. 1263.

Volunteer drivers needed to deliver books to Amish schools

Geauga County Public Library provides a rotating collection of books to Amish schools throughout the school year. We are currently looking for drivers to deliver books. Volunteers spend between one and two hours per month during the school year while school is in session between 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Volunteers will deliver books and pick up the previous month's returned materials at GCPL's Middlefield Branch. Reliable transportation is necessary.

Interested volunteers may contact Mobile Services Manager Nick Fagan at 440-632-9496.

Featured eBook/Audiobook

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

"One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates

"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly." -Melinda Gates

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends-what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school-we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective-from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.

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"This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn't enough. But I hope this book will be." Hans Rosling, February 2017.