Minnesota Public Health Data

Minnesota Public Health Data Access is an online portal within the Minnesota Department of Health website that provides access to “health and environment” data.  Librarians, students, and the public can now access and download data for use in research projects, grant applications, and for public awareness.

Minnesota developed this portal in collaboration with the National Tracking Network which includes data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23 states, and New York City.  Nationally consistent data and measures may be used to compare trends over time and geographic patterns at the county, state, and national level.

·        Explore data on over 17 health and environment topics, including asthma, cancer, childhood lead poisoning, and air quality, drinking water, and more
·        Find resources about common risk factors and disease prevention measures
·        Sign up for regular email updates



Check it out today!

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Library Solar Panels

In 2012, 96 solar panels from Silicon Energy were purchased and installed on the library roof with a $250,000 Renewable Energy Grant from the IRRRB.

Did you know:

Minnesota receives about 4.5 sunlight hours per day.  Even with our extreme winters, solar works!  The amount of sun Minnesota receives is comparable to some southern states.  Also, solar modules work more
effectively in cooler temperatures.

Solar photovoltaics reduce your carbon footprint and helps save the planet.

In the future the solar photovoltaics will reduce the library's electric energy bill.


Click here to see how much power is being generated.

Here is Where: discovering America's great forgotten history by Andrew Carroll

Andrew Carroll writes:
"Here is where it all began: The Exchange Place PATH Station in Jersey City, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. This is the spot that sparked my almost compulsive desire to seek out unmarked history sites throughout the country." Read the book to find out what little remembered incident happened at The Exchange Place PATH Station in 1863 or '64 - exact date unkown.
The author goes on a journey across the United States to search for unmarked sites of interesting but largely forgotten history.
Find in the new book section under 973 CARRO
Website: www.HereIsWhere.org Readers are encouraged to recommend their own favorite little-known spots that are worthy of attention.

The Drunken Botanist: the plants that create the world's great drinks by Amy Stewart

Amy Stewart explores herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that have been transformed into alcohol over the centuries. Fifty drink recipes and growing tips for gardeners with biology, chemistry, history, etymology and mixology thrown in make this a popular read.
581.632 STEWA in the new book section.
Website: www.drunkenbotanist.com

Buying a Car? Here’s What You Should Know

USA.gov gives you information on safety, buying a used vehicle, leasing, and financing.

Buying a Car? Here’s What You Should Know

The Spark: a mother's story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett

The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment, and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with autism, to flourish into a universally recognized genius-and how any parent can help their child find their spark. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798364-the-spark
This book is available through interlibrary loan.

Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo

30 day meal plans designed to support: Autoimmune conditions, digestive health, blood-sugar regulation, thryoid health, cancer recovery, heart health, fat loss, athletic performance and more.
If you have tried other diets to improve your health and overall appearance and those diets didn't work, may this whole-foods approach is for you.
The recipes eliminate gluten, refined grains, legumes, dairy, refined sugar, and processed foods. The recipes are made from meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. A healthy fats and oils guide is also listed.
This book is available through interlibrary loan.

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris

The last Sookie Stackhouse mystery has all the beloved characters - vampires, shapeshifters, fairies and humans. Sam, Sookie's best friend and owner of the bar, Merlotte's, has just been brought back to life by Sookie using the magical cluviel dor. Eric, Sookie's vampire husband, has his own problems with the vampire royalty of the South and could have used the cluviel dor himself.
If you haven't read the series, start with Dead Until Dark or watch the series Trueblood in its sixth season coming next month on HBO.
Website: www.charlaineharris.com

Learning Express Library

The library has a database called Learning Express that is available to all registered borrowers.  It includes test preparation for GED, college and and graduate school admissions.  There are also tutorials for reading, writing, and math skills improvement for grades 4 and older, in addition to job-search, resume writing, and interviewing skills improvement, tutorials for basic computer skills and much more!  Work at your own pace and it is free.  

The following new content and updates were just added to the database:

New and Updated Online Practice Exams

NCLEX-PN^® Practice Exams

• NCLEX-PN^® Practice Exam 1
• NCLEX-PN^® Practice Exam 2
• NCLEX-PN^® Practice Exam 3

AP* Biology Practice Exams

• AP* Biology Practice Exam 1: Section I
• AP* Biology Practice Exam 2: Section II
• AP* Biology Practice Exam 1: Section I
• AP* Biology Practice Exam 2: Section II

Additional Civil Service Practice Exams

• Civil Service Practice Exam 3
• Civil Service Practice Exam 4

ISEE^® Practice Tests

• ISEE^® Practice Test: Lower Level
• ISEE^® Practice Test: Middle Level
• ISEE^® Practice Test: Upper Level

SSAT^® Practice Test

• SSAT^® Upper Level Practice Test

Praxis II^® Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) Practice Tests

• Praxis II^®: PLT Practice Test: Early Childhood (0621 and 5621)
• Praxis II^®: PLT Practice Test: Grades K–6 (0622 and 5622)
• Praxis II^®: PLT Practice Test: Grades 5–9 (0623 and 5623)
• Praxis II^®: PLT Practice Test: Grades 7–12 (0624 and 5624)

New eBooks
Professional Skills

• Civil Service Exams Power Practice
• Firefighter Exam, 5th Edition
• Health Occupations Entrance Exams, 3rd Edition
• Medical Assistant Exam, 2nd Edition

Academic Skills

• GED^® Test Flash Review
• College Placement Math Success in 20 Minutes a Day

Just go to the library's database page and click on Learning Express.

Silken Prey by John Sandford

Lucas Davenport takes on the political machine in Minnesota when he is asked by the governor to investigate a charge against Porter Smalls, republican senator, for child pornagraphy. Guilty or framed? Davenport is on the case.
John Sandford, Minnesota author, has written twenty three Lucas Davenport mysteries as well as the Virgil Flowers and Kidd mysteries.
John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp. Camp has lead an interesting life and you can read about him here: http://www.johnsandford.org/author.html

2013 Guinness World Records

"Do world records have their limits? Is there a point beyond which a record cannot be broken? This is a key question here at Guinness World Records, because one of the fundamental criteria for us is that a record is breakable(apart from significant 'firsts,' of course). Yet, surely, there is an upper limit to every record..." from the introduction.
Some of the big questions:
How much climate change can we survive?
How big can animals get?
How long can we live?
How heavy can we lift?
How tall can we build?
And many more.
Find the book in Reference 031 GUINN 2013
Website: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

The Broken Places by Ace Atkins

Esau Davis and Bones Magee escape from Parchman with help from a fellow inmate, Dickie Green. The convicts are on their way to Jericho, Mississippi, to retrieve their hidden getaway money. Their nest egg consists of a Wells Fargo truck they crashed into and caused to sink into a Tibbehah County pond and vanish.  The men make their way to Tibbehah while avoiding U. S. Marshals to hole up in an empty hunting lodge. Becky, Esau Davis’s girlfriend, who helped them with the logistics of their escape, joins them as they plan a strategy to get the money out of the pond.

Sheriff Quinn Colson, ex-Army Ranger, along with his family and associates, is back in the third book in this gritty new series. Caddy, Colson’s sister, off drugs and getting her life back on track, is dating Jamey Dixon. Dixon, pardoned by the governor for murder, builds a church and attracts a congregation. Freed from drugs, he found Jesus in prison. Davis and Magee, friends with Dixon while at Parchman, told Dixon where the money is, never thinking Dixon would get out of prison first. Davis and Magee wonder if Dixon hasn’t taken the money and used it to set up his new church, The River.

The local sheriff’s department, police and U. S. Marshals search for Davis and Magee throughout the county.  As a tornado makes its way towards Tibbehah County, Sheriff Colson and Deputy Lillie Virgil, find themselves with their hands full as bodies turn up in the wake of Davis and Magee travelling towards the money and freedom. 

Find the book in the new book section under Fiction ATKINS.Ace Atkins Website: http://www.aceatkins.com/

M C Beaton, Mystery Author

M. C. Beaton is best known for her Hamish Macbeth mysteries where twenty-four episodes have aired on the BBC. Death of Yesterday is the twenty-ninth book in the series. Unlucky in love, Hamish Macbeth has an uncanny ability for solving the murders that occur in his small patch in Scotland.

About the author, from the www.mcbeaton.com website:
While Marion wrote her historical romances under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, as well as several pseudonyms (Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, and Charlotte Ward), because of her great success with mystery novels as M. C. Beaton, most of her publishers both in the U.S. and abroad use the M. C. Beaton pseudonym for all of her novels.

Musical Cultural Exchange at the Library

On Monday, April 29th, both the Orchestra of Fes and the Crescendo Youth Orchestra performed at the Hibbing Public Library.

The Moroccan musicians were part of the caravanserai and the Youth Orchestra was represented by some very talented area musicians.

After a very entertaining performance the two groups posed for pictures.

Sara Stonich at the Library

The Arrowhead Library System and Hibbing Public Library are bringing the Minnesota Author of Vacationland, Sarah Stonich to our area:

• Hibbing Public Library, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.

At the heart of her book Vacationland is Naledi Lodge, inspired by those rustic Mom & Pop resorts now disappearing along with their big fish, bad mattresses, wood docks, flashlight trots to the outhouse, bear-fear, and bonfires. Up north vacations might not always live up to the brochures versions of canoe paddling under pine-scented skies; in the fine print of rusted beer cans on the trail or a barbed hook through a thumb lies a more realistic picture of Vacationland.

Vacationland is published by The University of Minnesota Press.

Sarah’s first novel, These Granite Islands was translated into eight languages and won numerous awards and was Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick. The author originally from Duluth, now makes her home in Minneapolis with her husband Jon and spends summers on a small lake in Northern St. Louis County.  

This event is sponsored by the Arrowhead Library System and funded by money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Check out Vacationland  at the library and meet the author on May 14th.

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl

Christine Byl says: "Who knows how any of us ends up where we're meant to be? I'm lucky that I stumbled into this life and got to stay."
Byl graduates from college and joins the Glacier National Park trail crew as a seasonal worker maintaining mountain trails and finds the work rewarding.
Find under 363.6809798 BYL in the new nonfiction area.

The Hit by David Baldacci

The latest book by David Baldacci features Will Robie, a hit man employed by the US government when all else fails. Start with the first book, The Innocent. The Hit is the second book in the series and Robie's assignment is to bring in Jessica Reel, a fellow assassin who has gone rogue.

See David Baldacci's Website: http://davidbaldacci.com/

Here I am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman

Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world’s most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. from cover

From the book:
"War photographers hit their stride during World War II, and by then most had their own agendas-to share the drama with the public. Among the first well-known war photographers was Robert Capa, who covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the First Indochina War, where in 1954 he was killed by a landmine. The role of war photographers became pivotal during the Vietnam War, when photographers such as Burrows-another Brit who, like Capa and Hetherington, died at war brought home powerful images that not only entertained the public but illustrated precisely and on an intimate level what was at stake in war."

Hethington is best known for Restrepo, a documentary film about the Afghanistan War he codirected with Sebastian Junger. Find in 796.92 HUFFM

Consumer Guide Magazine

Consumer Reports Magazine is a very good reference on where to spend your money. Everyone wants a product that is reasonably priced and performs well. Whether you are choosing a blender, car, laptop, e-book reader or television, Consumer Reports will help you with your selections.
Hibbing Public Library keeps five years in binders in the reading room.

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961.
Frank and his younger brother Jake go with their father, a Methodist minister, in the middle of a dark sultry night to the jail to retrieve a drunk and disorderly Gus whom Captain Drum served with during World War II. The Drums had taken Gus in when he showed up on his motorcycle with his belongings destitute and out of work. The summer starts with an accident of a young boy killed on railroad tracks nearby and moves on to suicide and murder.
A stand-alone book from a thirteen old boy's perspective penned by the author of the Cork O'Connor mystery series. Place your name on the reserve list for this popular Minnesota author's new book.

Free Tickets

The library has a few free tickets for the County Scat Theater Company production of "Leaving Iowa".  It is a hilarious sentimental comedy about family and family vacations.  The show is on May 9-12 and May 15-19 at 7:30 p.m. except Sundays are at 2:00 p.m.  The location is the Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery at 2035 Hwy 33 South (on frontage road), Cloquet, MN.

Pick up your tickets at the library and then call the theater at (218) 878-0071 to make a reservation.  Doors open 30 minutes before the performance.

This project was funded in part by a grant from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Orchestra of Fes and Vocalist Francoise Atlan

The Arrowhead Library System, in cooperation with The REIF Center, is bringing Orchestra of Fes and Vocalist Francoise Atlan to the Hibbing Public Library on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.

Orchestra of Fes will perform two traditional Andalusian classical compositions.  One will be instrumental and one will be sung in Arabic and Hebrew.  Francoise Atlan will join the Orchestra to perform three songs in Ladino, Hebrew, and Arabi languages.

The Orchestra of Fes and Francoise Atlan will interact with the audience and teach them a refrain from one of their musical selections.  They will also demonstrate how each instrument from the Orchestra is played and teach the audiences response phrases in different languages. 

Adalusian classical music is at the core of contemporary Moroccan culture.  The vibrant performance planned for Monday; are present at most any Moroccan celebration or ceremony, and refrains can often be heard dancing over the streets and alleys of incredible cities like Fes, Rabat, and Casablanca.

This event is sponsored by the Arrowhead Library System and funded by money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. 

Immediately following the Hibbing Crescendo Youth Orchestra will perform.  Everyone is welcome to attend this wonderful musical event.

National Stress Awareness Day!

Today is National Stress Awareness Day! Learn How to Relax with this article from wikiHow:
http://www.wikihow.com/Relax

Practice Positive Thinking:
Use visualization techniques. While you might not feel calm and relaxed, imagining a calm and relaxed scene in your mind can do wonders to improve your outlook. Picture beaches, lying down resting, going for a hike, etc., to help you stay relaxed. from article

We have books on managing your stress at Hibbing Public Library or through interlibrary loan.

In Honor of National Poetry Month

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Night Moves by Randy Wayne White

Doc Ford gets involved with a missing cat, an intelligent but stray dog, Tomlinson and his latest psychotic married girlfriend, Voodoo drug dealers, a Brazilian assassin and a search for 5 navy bombers missing since World War II. 
While Dan Futch, Doc Ford and Tomlinson take a plane ride over the Everglades with an idea about where the missing planes could have crashed, they almost crash land themselves when they find their plane’s rudder sabotaged. All three have made enemies during their remarkable careers and have told their friends different stories about their flight plans over the Everglades. 
Tomlinson and Ford –as in previous books –keep to a line of patter guaranteed to amuse and entertain the reader. Tomlinson’s latest married partner, Crescent Arturo, somewhat unstable and on the prowl for a new lover or three, has a menacing husband as well as homicidal brother-in-law. Despite warnings by Doc after Crescent tried to sabotage his relationship with Hannah Smith, Tomlinson tries to help her - calling her a tortured and confused soul.
Ford finds himself trying to keep his life in Dinkin’s Bay on Sanibel Island from blowing up in his face while protecting his friends and himself.
Night Moves is book twenty in the series. Start this adventurous series with Sanibel Flats.

Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg

Cecelia Ross, motivational speaker and author, loses her best friend to cancer. Feeling adrift in her new life without her longtime friend, Penny, she decides to try new things like selling her house and moving into a charming neighborhood in St. Paul to rent a room in a comfortable house with a few roommates. Cecelia rebuilds her life into something new and magical and invites the reader to come with her.
Find in new fiction under Fiction BERG.

Alone on the Ice by David Roberts

We have the book available in print at Hibbing Public Library under 919.8904 ROBER in the new book section. You may also find the book on audiobook in the Arrowhead Library System Digital Media Catalog: http://arrowhead.lib.overdrive.com/3497CDA0-5883-4343-A1EA-9774464B802E/10/50/en/ContentDetails.htm?id=f3f7133a-82d4-4acf-9284-23f3c0b7e468

All you need is a library card in good standing and you can download books to read or listen to on your devices.

Free Museum Tickets

The library has free passes for participating museums and sites that are valid until 9/2/13.

New to the Library and Museum Pass Program is Glensheen.  Located at 3300 London Road in Duluth, the Glensheen Mansion and grounds are a must see.

This historic 39-room mansion at the Congdon estate on the shores of Lake Superior offers a slice of turn-of-the-last century opulence.  Its 1908 collection is intact.

Go to https://glensheen.wp.d.umn.edu for more information.

Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear

Tenth in the Maisie Dobbs series, Maisie Dobbs, after several difficult cases, feels that she must travel and visit other cultures to expand her knowedge and experience to better assist and understand the clients who come to her for help. Her former mentor has died and left her the means to travel, but she hesitates to leave her business and her father.
Detective Inspector Caldwell, Scotland Yard, brings her a case where Usha Pramal, governess with an important family in England, has been murdered and the case remains unsolved. Scotland Yard and Mr. Pramal, Usha's brother, ask Maisie for help.

Start with the first book in this series set in England, just after World War I: Maisie Dobbs.

Check out the Jacqueline Winspear Website: http://www.jacquelinewinspear.com/