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1685 West First Avenue
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone Numbers
(614) 486-2951 Circulation
(614) 481-3776 Reference
(614) 481-3778 Youth Services
(614) 486-2954 Administration
HOURS
10 am-8:30 pm Mon-Thurs
10 am-6 pm Friday
10 am-5 pm Saturday
1-5 pm Sunday
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MUSIC
Freegal (Free mobile apps: Android, iPhone). Download free, legal music (MP3) from Sony Music's huge collection. Limit: Three downloads each week.
E-BOOKS
Freading (free mobile apps: Android, Apple, Kindle Fire). Compatible devices include e-readers, smartphones, tablets, and computers. Get access to all titles—no holds or waiting lists. Not currently available for Kindle.
E-BOOKS / AUDIOBOOKS / MOVIES
Digital Downloads (free mobile apps). Download books, movies & music, including on your Amazon Kindle.
HAVE A QUESTION?
Ask A Librarian (free Apple mobile apps). Live online help from a Reference Librarian 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
HAVE A HOMEWORK QUESTION?
Live Homework Help (free Apple mobile apps). Students K-12 & adult learners: Get help from an online tutor every day, 3-11 pm. Spanish help available in math & science Sun-Thurs, 3-10 pm. Generously funded by the Grandview Library Foundation.
LANGUAGE LESSONS
Mango Languages (free mobile apps: iPhone, iPad, or iPad). Free online language lessons that are quick & easy.
RESEARCH
Gale Virtual Reference Library (free mobile app). Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
World Book (mobile version). Research tools, including encyclopedia articles and primary source collections.
Wilson Biography Reference Bank (mobile version). Information for more than 550,000 people worldwide from ancient history through present day.
Ohio Legal Forms (free mobile app).
ReferenceUSA (free app for Apple iPad with iOS 4.0 or later). 14 million U.S. businesses (updated monthly) and over 100 million U.S. residents (updated continuously) to aid in job searching, market research, and locating friends and relatives.
EbscoHost Research Databases (mobile version). Subscription-only, Internet-based collection of periodical & pamphlet databases. Provides abstracts & indexing for more than 3,600 periodicals and includes searchable, full text for more than 1,700 periodicals and pamphlets. (Provided by OPLIN)
Opposing Viewpoints (free mobile app). Social topics with newspaper, magazine, and viewpoint articles, plus overviews, statistics, images, podcasts, and more.
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
1-on-1 Career Coaching
Explorw career options & make effective career decisions. Call Fred Points, of the Career Center at Jewish Family Services, at 559-0118 to reserve a free 30-minute session in our Conference Room on one of these dates:
- May 22: 5-7 pm
- June 4: 3-5 pm
- June 12: 5-7 pm
- July 9: 3-5 pm
- July 17: 5-7 pm
- August 6: 3-5 pm
- August 14: 3-5 pm
- September 10: 3-5 pm
- September 11: 5-7 pm
- October 8: 3-5 pm
- October 16: 5-7 pm
- November 5: 3-5 pm
- November 13: 5-7 pm
- December 4: 5-7 pm
- December 10: 3-5 pm
Questions? Call Circulation at 614-486-2951.
12:00 am - 12:00 am
12:00 am - 12:00 am
UPCOMING LIBRARY CLOSINGS:
- May 27
- July 4
- September 1 & 2
- November 27 (at 6 pm)
- November 28
- December 24 & 25
- December 31 (at 6 pm)
12:00 am - 12:00 am
Space is limited to 25 participants and is open only to ages 7-11.
Register in Youth Services or by calling 614-481-3778 beginning May 28. Friends of the Grandview Library registration begins May 20.
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12:00 am - 3:00 pm
No burying required, but registration is required beginning May 28. Friends of the Grandview Library registration begins May 21.
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A Celebration of Reading!
Read each selection & join us for a spirited discussion!
Last Wednesday of each month (except 11/20) at 7 pm in the Conference Room.
With staff member Michele Reinhart:
- May 29: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Each May, the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in celebrating Jewish American History Month, paying tribute to generations of Jewish Americans who have helped form the fabric of our history, culture, and society. This month we will join the celebration by reading and discussing Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America.
The Plot Against America is an alternate history. In the world that Philip Roth creates, Franklin D. Roosevelt is President, but he is not re-elected in 1940, he is defeated by legendary aviator Charles A. Lindbergh.
Drawing on authentic sources, including an actual speech that Lindbergh gave in 1941 expressing isolationist, anti-Semitic views, Roth offers a version of history hinging on the "what if" of a Lindbergh administration. In Roth’s scenario, the United States never enters World War II and America’s Jews find themselves increasingly and systematically marginalized.
Could it really happen here?
Although a work of fiction, The Plot Against America is presented as the memoir of a Jewish American man named Philip Roth. He is looking back half a century from one pivotal time in our country’s history to another. “Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear,” the fictional Philip Roth says. He wonders, Could it really happen here again?
Please check our online catalog for copies of the book and join us for our discussion on May 29.
COMING UP
With staff member Wendy Wise:
- June 26: Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- July 31: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- August 28: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffry Lindsay
- September 25: Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
- October 30: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- November 20: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Questions? Call Reference at 614-481-3776.