Special Speed Dating Event with Prizes from local Restaurants.
Looking for a fun and easy way to meet other singles? Try speed dating for singles 18 or over @ your library! The Butte-Silver Bow Public Library will be hosting speed dating on Saturday, February 13 from 3:00-5:00pm.
Single parent? The library will offer a children`s program for ages 4-10 from 3:00-5:00pm the same day.
Sign in starts at 2:30pm. Please bring ID and we will do the rest. Register for gift certificates at local restaurants to help you and your date celebrate!
Many thanks to the Acoma, Metals Sports Bar & Grill, Trimbo`s Pizzeria, Uptown Cafe, Venus Rising, and The Friends of the Library for their sponsorship of this event.
For more information, visit the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library at 226 W Broadway, call 723-3361, or email ppierson@buttepubliclibrary.info.
Tags: Adult Program, Event, Public library
Free Play Saturdays!
Join other teens (12-18) for open gaming (Wii and board games) and snacks, February 6 from 1:00-3:00pm. The next Free Play Saturday will be March 6th .
For more information, visit the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library at 226 W Broadway or call us at 723-3361.
This week @ your library!
Explore the basics of word processing using OpenOffice.org Writer, including cut, paste, copy, and formatting text. Students need to know how to use a mouse and keyboard. Classes are offered Wed. Feb. 3 from 6:30-7:30pm and Thurs. Feb. 4 from 9:00-10:00am.
Sign up at the reference desk or over the phone. Classes are free, but space is limited.
You can see the complete Tech Tips schedule on our online events calendar or come by the library.
For more information, visit the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library at 226 W Broadway or call us at 723-3361.
Backcountry Film Festival @ Your Butte-Silver Bow Public Library, Thursday February 4th at 7pm.
The Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival will come to the library for a Thursday evening showing of their 2009 films (click here for film list and previews). Each of the short films “tell compelling and entertaining stories of backcountry, non-motorized recreation and environmental preservation.” -from Backcountry website. What a treat to have a showing at our library with the new sound and viewing equipment!
For more information about the Winter Wildlands Alliance and the Backcountry Film Festival please visit their website. If you have any questions about the showing call us at 723-3361. We hope to see you here for this event!
Tags: Adult Program, Event, Movie
FRIDAY STORY HOUR
11:15 AM
2/5 Chinese New Year (2010 is the Year of the Tiger)
2/12 Valentine`s Day
2/19 Everyone Is Special
2/26 Dr. Seuss
Tiger in Training from Flickr user Kevin Law (law_kevin)
TUESDAY NIGHT STORY HOUR
6:30 PM
2/9 Valentine`s Day
2/23 Pajama Party
The Butte-Silver Bow Public Library is launching a FREE homework help program, the Homework Zone, on Tuesdays after school, beginning February 2, 2010.
Our tutors are volunteers from the Montana Tech Campus Corps, Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), and other community groups. They are capable of assisting with homework assignments in English, Math, Science, and other basic areas for students K-12.
The Joys of Homework image from Flickr user Cayusa
Homework Zone hours are 2:30-5:00pm each Tuesday during the school year.
For more information, visit the Butte-Silver Bow Library at 226 W Broadway, or give us a call 723-3361.
Tags: children, Homework, library, Montana Tech, RSVP, Teens, YA
January 15 , 1895 (Image from "Souvenir History of the Butte Fire Department" by Peter Sanger, Chief Engineer, 1901)
Here is a selection from the Souvenir History of the Butte Fire Department by Peter Sanger, Chief Engineer (1901):
It was about five minutes before ten o`clock on the night of January 15, 1895, that an alarm of fire was turned in from what has since come to be known as “Fateful Box 72,” located at the corner of Utah Avenue and Iron street. In this section was a thickly covered railroad and warehouse district. Just east of Arizona street and between the tracks of the Northern Pacific and Montana Central railways, but nearer the latter, were some five big warehouses… Some railroad men in charge of the switch-engines first saw smoke issuing from the roof of the Kenyon-Connell Company building and the whistles blew the alarm. Policeman James Steinborn, who was on duty in that part of the city, heard the whistles, soon ascertained the cause and turned in the fire alarm from box 72.
The apparatus and the men at the Central Fire Station, in the City Hall, responded to the alarm. It was the last [alarm] for all but two of them…
When the Central station appratus reached the scene of the fire the flames were bursting through the roof of the Kenyon-Connell warehouse. John Flannery, the plugman of the crew, left the rest at the plug near the Montana Central passenger depot to couple the hose, as his duty required him to do. The hose cart and the hook and ladder continued on till they reached the warehouses. There the nozzle end of the hose was handed over to the pipemen and the Driver Dave Magee took his team a few yards further on, where he stopped and proceeded to blanket the horses, as it was apparent the fire would last some time…
A. B. Cameron, Chief, Butte Fire Department, killed the night of the Great Explosion
Sam Ash, Butte Fire Department, killed the night of the Great Explosion
Then came the first great death dealing explosion. The exact time of its occurrence is given as eight minutes after ten, just thirteen minutes from the sounding of the alarm.
The shock and sound can be better imagined than described. The former was so violent that people blocks away were stunned, and others over a mile away felt the force of it. As for the noise there are authentic cases where it was heard over fifty miles away. How much dynamite had been stored in the warehouse of the Kenyon-Connell Company has never been accurately ascertained, but the quantity must have been enormous…
Though the official report placed the list of the dead at fifty-seven it is by no means certain these figures actually cover the loss of life… it could not take into account that there are at all times in Butte hundreds of strangers; that many such have no friends or relatives to make anxious inquiries for them on such occasions…
Butte paid high tribute to the brave men who met death in the discharge of duty… It has been suggested that a monument be erected to their memory. Some day, perhaps, it may be, as it should be; for no braver men ever wore the uniform of the fire brigade or trained with those who did than they who laid down their lives at the call of duty that fateful January night.
Selection taken from pages 39-67 of the Souvenir History of the Butte Fire Department by Peter Sanger, 1901. You can read the entire account and see all of the images at the Montana Memory Project.
Additional resources available include:
- Hidden Fire: the Great Butte Explosion (DVD) Available for checkout at the library, PBS Documentary – On a winter`s night in 1895, Butte`s first company of professional firefighters prepared to suppress the flames in a burning warehouse. They had no way of knowing that an illegal and enormous supply of explosive powder was burning inside. By morning, Butte`s unprecedented growth and development would have a darker side. — from the program website.
- The Great Dynamite Explosions at Butte, Montana, January 15, 1895 by John F. Davies, first Butte-Silver Bow Public Library librarian, 1895. This title is available online via Google Books. If you happen to own a copy of this title, please contact Catherine McMullen, Digital Collections Librarian at 723-3361 as we are looking for a copy to scan and make available online as part of the Butte Digital Image Project.
- Newspaper articles covering the event are available here at GenDisasters.
Tags: Digitization, Flickr, Great Explosion, Montana Memory Project, Online service, Public library
Opportunities to take advantage of ALL that your Butte-Silver Bow Public Library has to offer abound in the New Year!
If you are an Adult you can attend any of our 6 Tech Tips sessions offered this month and learn the basics of computers and the Internet including E-mail, Google, and Using Your Library Account. You can come in for a special Laptops 101 workshop or come to the first Movie Night at the library.
If you are a Teen you can join us for the NEW monthly Teen Movie matinee, attend a special FAFSA & other College Financial Resources workshop, or submit your creative work to the Teen Zine.
Families with Young Children can take part in any of our Friday morning or Tues evening story hours in the Children`s room.
There are more than 20 free events going on at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in January. Please see our always-up-to-date events calendar for ALL the events, dates, and times. It is there under What`s Happening @ Your Library?…
And the answer to that question is, A Lot!
Tags: Adult Program, Event, Public library, Teens, YA
New Year`s resolutions do not have to be difficult or costly to be worthwhile. Consider joining the Book Discussion Group at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library for your low stress, no cost New Year`s resolution in 2010!
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean (2006)
Meet up at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library for a discussion of The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean on Friday, January 15, 2010 from 2 – 3pm. Be ready to share your thoughts and opinions.
Extra copies of the book are available NOW to check out at the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor. For more information, visit the Butte-Silver Bow Library at 226 W Broadway or call us at 723-3361.
Happy New Year! We hope to see you often in 2010!
Tags: Adult Program, Book Group, Event
The Children`s Story Hours in January offer up chilly themes of penguins and polar bears, snowmen and snow fairies. Remember in addition to the Friday morning story hours we also offer a Tuesday evening story hour twice a month. Dates, times and themes follow. We will see you and your little ones at the library!
FRIDAY STORY HOUR
11:15 AM
1/1 Closed for the New Year`s Day Holiday
1/8 New Year Story Hour
1/15 Snowmen
1/22 Penguins
1/29 Polar Bears
TUESDAY NIGHT STORY HOUR
6:30 PM
1/12 Skippyjon Jones
1/26 Fairies (Make snow fairies!)
