Online Resources For DiabeticVegan Cooking

These links take you to websites for more  information on making healthy food choices and taking control of your diabetes.

Joslin Diabetic Center

Diabetic Health Center

Foodnetwork

How To Become A Vegan

VeganCooking

Vegan Outreach

American Diabetes Association

The New york Times

Google-play

Davita – Bringing quality to life

Learn, Shop and Save

Eating and Diabetes

Search the Fountaindale Public Library’s Databases for quality and up-to-date full text articles on living with diabetes. Databases can be viewed Alphabetically or by Subject.

Recommended Databases

JAMA Online

Journal of the American Medical Association offers limited searchable access to the current and past issues of this medical journal. Some full text is available.

Consumer Information

A large collection of links to government websites including statistics, health, travel, financial information, and other consumer issues.

Facts On File

Collection of databases on history, geography, science, and health. Includes career and curriculum resources.

FirstSearch

Collection of databases including WorldCat, Medline, Government Publications (GPO) and ERIC that offer both citations and full-text. WorldCat is the largest international database featuring more than 54 million items from the 50,000 plus OCLC member libraries. Available in-house and remotely.

Gale Info Track

A collection of databases including Ancestry Plus, Business Resource center, Health Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, and General Reference, Opposing Viewpoints, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and Something about the Author. Provides citations and full-text information on a variety of subjects.

~Vera O.

FROM THE MAGAZINE SHELF

FROM THE MAGAZINE SHELF is an occasional feature of the FOUNTAINDALE LIBRARY REFERENCE BLOG. Postings will highlight titles that you might find of interest, but haven’t yet picked up to read and explore.

If you’re a guitar player or if you’re just interested in seeing some fabulously crafted recent and vintage instruments and tons of rock music memorabilia from the collection of Rick Nielsen, guitarist for Cheap Trick, you should visit the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL and tour the exhibit: “Rick’s Picks: A Lifelong Affair with Guitars and Music.” I made the journey to Rockford last month and was rewarded with an eye-popping, mind boggling experience. To get an idea of what you will see and hear at the exhibit, also have a look at Christopher Borrelli’s excellent article that appeared in the Chicago Tribune, titled “The ax collector” . I spent several hours at the exhibit and didn’t see it all. It is certainly worth a return visit. The exhibit runs through April 10, 2013.

After you’ve seen the exhibit, you may want to have a look at two popular guitar related  magazines that we have in our library collection. Vintage Guitar magazine is a monthly publication that has been around since the late 1980s. It focuses on vintage and classic fretted instruments and amplifiers, as well as covering effects and related gear. The scope of the magazine also includes articles on notable players, from all genres and eras. Among the contributors to the magazine is George Gruhn , owner of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, TN and one of the country’s leading experts on vintage guitars. The magazine’s classified-ad section provides readers with access to a classic, used and new guitars, amps, accessories, videos, books, and more for sale. If you are a player or a collector or simply a fan, you owe it to yourself to have a look.

Guitar Player has a longer history and goes back to the late 1960s. This monthly magazine has appeal to a wide range of guitar enthusiasts and there is usually a little something for everyone in each issue, like in-depth artist features, extensive lessons, gear and music reviews, letters to the magazine, and more. Real players read Guitar Player.

You can find both Vintage Guitar magazine and Guitar Player at the Fountaindale Public Library on the 2nd Floor, in the Magazine and Newspaper area. With the exception of the most recent issue, these magazines are available for checkout with your library card. Stop by and have a look.      – Tom D.

FROM THE MAGAZINE SHELF

FROM THE MAGAZINE SHELF is an occasional feature of the FOUNTAINDALE LIBRARY REFERENCE BLOG. Postings will highlight titles that you might find of interest, but haven’t yet picked up to read and explore.

Say it isn’t so! I certainly would like to, but the reality of the details in my post about BIRD TALK magazine is that this monthly publication, which has survived into it’s 30th year, is no longer going to be available as a printed magazine. The library has carried this informative magazine, whose motto is “Dedicated To Better Care For Pet Birds,” for at least ten years and it has been very popular with our customers. The September 2012 issue shown here will be the last print issue.

I had received word from our magazine supplier at the end of July that Bird Talk was no longer going to published, but they did not provide details. It wasn’t until I heard an interview on National Public Radio a few weeks ago that more information came forth. The NPR News segment, on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, was hosted by Audie Cornish. The piece was called ‘Bird Talk’ Magazine Folds Its Wings After 30 Years and was an interview with Susan Chamberlain, a longtime columnist and writer for the magazine. The demise of the print version of Bird Talk had gone the way of a number of long lived publications that ceased to exist over the past several years…economics…it was no longer profitable for the publishers to continue printing the magazine.  Shrinking advertising revenue was a main contributor. The readership was there. If anything, more people than ever are pet bird owners, according to Ms. Chamberlain.

I wondered what readers would do to get the same type of information from the columns that they regularly went to for tips like “How to give your bird stress-free nail trims” and “How to promote healthy skin and feathers on your pet.” Well, there is a silver lining to this grey, bleak cloud.  Some of the content of Bird Talk magazine will now be going online on BirdChannel.com

The solution to moving content online is not a perfect one. Not everyone has Internet access.  Some people just like the feel of holding a real print magazine in their hands. Anyway, pets and their caregivers are resilient. Most will make the best of the transition and continue doing what they enjoy most…being in each other’s company.

- Tom D.

Arrrrrr! Tis talk like a pirate day!

Ahoy mateys! Today is talk like a pirate day, it tis. The Fountaindale Public Library has a resource that can help you master your pirate speaking skills.

Mango Languages is an easy to use online resource that has over 40 different languages you can learn. Try it out today by clicking on the picture below. You will need to set up an account, but once you do that you can start learning!

See you landlubbers on the high seas! Arrrrrrr! – Tony L.

Julia Child’s 100th Birthday Celebration

Back in June of this year, Chicago Tribune columnist Bill Daley did an article titled “Celebrating Julia Child’s 100th birthday.” It was about the 100 day long celebration that Julia Child’s longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, is having to honor The French Chef. Tomorrow, August 15, 2012 would have been her centenary birthday.

Reading the article made me stop and think about the huge influence this woman had on generations of people. The influences were not only on how we look at food and cooking in America, but also on how people look at the culinary field as a career choice. I’m a good example of the range of her influence.

As a teen, growing up in New Jersey, I was intrigued with Julia Child’s first television series, “The French Chef.” I watched those episodes in black and white every chance I had when they were on my local PBS station, WNET-TV, out of New York City. Julia Child was inspirational. She made classic French cooking and baking interesting, enjoyable, and achievable by the average person.

I’m sure she was part of what motivated me years afterwards to explore and follow an alternate career path to my library work that included attending and graduating from The Culinary Institute of America (The CIA) and then working at several well known restaurants, bakeries, and confectioneries in New York State and Vermont. The picture to the right shows me with one of the awards I helped earn in the 1980s for the shop I worked at in Vermont. Thank you, Julia, for instilling in me a sense of culinary inquisitiveness!

So, there’s time still to join in the Julia Child celebration. Check out Bill Daley’s column from June 20th at the link above and have fun with the JC100 celebration on Facebook at facebook.com/JuliaChild; on Twitter at @JC100; on Pinterest at pinterest.com/knopfbooks/jc100; and on Tumblr at jc100.tumblr.com.

Bon Appetit!

- Tom D.

Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Woody Guthrie, one of America’s greatest and most prolific songwriters. If you’ve ever sung This Land Is Your Land, you’ve sung one of the best known songs of the man who had been dubbed the “Dust Bowl troubadour.”  That work was only one of the more 3,000 songs, essays and stories the folk musician wrote in a span of about 15 years.

Woody Guthrie’s songs were about people displaced by the dust storms of the 1930s, migrant workers, unions, the disparity between the rich and the poor, and about the beauty of this country. The influence of his music has touched countless people, from campers singing at a summer get-together to well known performers like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and John Mellencamp.

To learn more about the man behind the songs and about his music, a great place to start is at the website of the Woody Guthrie Foundation. You’ll find biographical information, lyrics to songs, news articles, and much more.

You can listen to an interesting interview about Woody Guthrie and his music on  Fresh Air, hosted by Terry Gross on National Public Radio. The recent program titled Fresh Air Celebrates Woody Guthrie At 100  featured Ed Cray, who wrote the Guthrie biography,  Ramblin’ Man, and Jeff Place, Archivist at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, who co-produced a new 3-CD boxed set of Woody Guthrie’s music, Woodie At 100.

Finally, you can take an in-depth look at the song This Land Is Your Land in the book of the same title, by Robert Santelli.  You’ll learn a lot both about the work and the songwriter in this fast-paced, yet detailed history of this classic song.  You’ll find it  in the New Adult Non-Fiction area on the 3rd Floor of our library.  Check it out.

- Tom D.

Fire Up the Grill

With the 4th of July just a few days away, many people are making plans to get their grill fired up for their holiday get together. If you’re looking for some new ideas, a great place to check is the Barbecues and Grilling blog that is done by Derrick Riches. It’s a wealth of information for outdoor cooking at this time of year. Some of his recent posts included: “Making Stuffed Burgers” (June 30, 2012), “Top 10 BBQ Chicken Sauce Recipes” (June 26, 2012), and “Top 10 Pork Marinade Recipes” (June 22, 2012).

Several other resources that are well worth exploring are the websites for several of the well known names in grilling and barbecue:

• Weber has a wealth of information for you to check out. Under the GRILL OUT tab on their website, you’ll find recipes & videos, grilling tips, and a number of free, downloadable booklets.
• Kingsford, a name long associated with high quality charcoal, offers a wide range of tasty recipes. Just click on the GET GRILLING link. There is lots of instructional information under the KINGSFORD UNIVERSITY tab. Here you’ll find both tips and videos.
• Johnsonville = brats. Their website is chock full of tips and recipes. Click on the GRILLVILLE tab on the site.

In addition to these helpful resources, our library has a large variety of books and DVDs that can help you improve your grilling and barbecue skills and make your guests happy. Check some of them out on your next visit!

- Tom D.