Category: Adult Resources

Sheet Music and Scores Online

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Are you (or a musician you know) in search of new music to play while you’re staying at home? Here a few resources to explore:

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)/ Petrucci Music Library
“Sharing the world’s public domain music.” Hover over “Scores” at the top of the page to browse by composer, instrumentation/genre, and more.

MusOpen
Provides “recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.” You can browse sheet music by composer, instrument, form, or time period.

Mutopia Project
“2124 pieces of music – free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses.” Browse by instrument, composer, or style.

Digital Scores: A Guide to Online Notated Music Sources
This very comprehensive guide from Princeton University Library broadly defines “scores” as “all notated music in all formats,” and links to many different types of collections, most of which are freely accessible.

Virtual Unemployment Compensation Workshop

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Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (LASP) & Phoenixville Public Library are hosting a virtual workshop on Wednesday, May 27th, at 10am. 

LASP Staff Attorney Deborah Steeves will present an update on Unemployment Compensation/Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and will answer your questions.

Register now for this online workshop: https://bit.ly/2SHyRnC. 

After you register, you will receive a Zoom link through email.

These Flipster magazines can point you to your next book

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Did you know that many of the magazines available to you on Flipster include book reviews, excerpts, suggestions and other bookish discussions?

You can start with these:

The New Yorker
The New York Review of Books
Reader’s Digest

Many other Flipster magazines have book talk tucked into their pages:

Oprah
Men’s Health
People
Time
Vanity Fair
Woman’s Day

To read magazines on Flipster:
visit https://chescolibraries.org/downloads and scroll to Flipster to sign in with your library card.

Need more?

Be sure to visit NoveList Plus for reading recommendations including reviews, lists, articles, and more. Use NoveList to find read-alikes in both fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages. NoveList also has series information, award winners, best-of lists, top ten lists, and much more!

Sign up for our NextReads book suggestions in up to twenty different subject areas delivered to your email.

What’s next on your bookshelf?

“8 Blooming Botanical Gardens To Explore Virtually”

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Library Journal brings you “8 Blooming Botanical Gardens To Explore Virtually,” connecting you with some of the many gardens that “have created engaging virtual video tours of their flowers, trees, and greenhouses, allowing virtual visitors to enjoy their soothing sights and sounds from the safety of their homes.”

Highlighted gardens include the New York Botanical Garden, The U.S. Botanical Garden, Portland Japanese Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden, Chester County’s own Longwood Gardens, and more!

Virtual Program: Victory Gardening in 2020

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Join us for Victory Gardening in 2020, Wednesday, May 20, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

The continuing uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about safety and challenges from increasingly hard to predict weather might have you wondering how you can have a productive vegetable, herb and fruit garden. With some planning you can easily grow your own fresh and healthy produce – whether in raised beds, mixed in with the flowers or in containers. You don’t need acres to have an abundant harvest!

This online workshop presented by Elizabeth Alakszay will teach you timesaving and sustainable methods on how to set up and select the fruits, berries, herbs and vegetables best suited for sustaining your family. Soil preparation, transplanting, care, irrigation, pest management, harvesting and preserving your harvest will be covered. Techniques for extending your season in the spring and fall will also be discussed.

Please register for the program: Wednesday, May 20, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.

Virtual Program: Virtual Book Chat

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Join us for a Virtual Book Chat on Wednesday, May 20, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Let’s get together (virtually) for an informal chat about what everyone’s reading or has read during quarantine.

Please register for the program: Wednesday, May 20, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.

Enjoy a front-row “seat” at virtual Haverford Spring Fest!

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Image by Kelly Music for Life, Inc.

Enjoy the 7th Annual Haverford Spring Fest online from 4:00-10:00 pm each day on May 15, 16, and 17! This 3-day live streaming musical event will feature over 50 performers from many musical styles. For music lineup and viewing options, visit the Haverford Spring Fest page. Admission to the festival is free, with donations appreciated.

Haverford Spring Fest is brought to you by Kelly Music For Life. “Formed in 2012 as an all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization, Kelly Music for Life, Inc. produces and promotes Music and Arts events to benefit community.” Visit their “About Us” page to learn more.

Celebrate National Nutty Fudge Day with a sweet recipe on Flipster

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Happy National Nutty Fudge Day! Did you know that you can search for recipes in our cooking and baking magazines?

Here’s how:

  • Go to https://chescolibraries.org/downloads, scroll to Flipster and click to enter your library card. Pick one of our many food magazines.
  • Enter “fudge” in the search bar in the upper right of your screen.
  • Select “all issues” in the Search dropdown to find your next fudge recipe.

You can find a delicious recipe for Makinac Fudge from the June/July 2020 issue of Taste of Home and a recipe for Lime Fudge in the December/January 2018 issue of AllRecipes

We have a wide selection of food-related magazines inviting you to try something new!

What’s your favorite fudge recipe? Leave a comment and share the sweetness!

Virtual Program: Social Security Strategies

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Join us for Social Security Strategies on Tuesday, May 19, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

This presentation will educate you on the many decisions involved in claiming Social Security, as well as their consequences, and provide strategies to maximize your benefits.

This informational webinar walks you through the common, yet surprisingly complex situations including:
•How to choose from the hundreds of possible strategies
•How to give your Social Security check a government-guaranteed boost
•How benefits for one spouse are affected based on when and how the other spouse files
•How being married, divorced or widowed impacts your benefits

This program supports PA Forward’s Financial Literacy. Provided by Wienken Advisors.

Please register for the program: Tuesday, May 19, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the program starts. Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link. You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual program.