Welcome to RSA Bookgroups
The Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) is a consortium of libraries in Central Illinois that share a common library automation system. RSA facilitates sharing of materials among its member libraries providing you with access to materials from up to 193 different libraries. RSA's website is http://alsi.sdp.sirsi.net/client/RSAwebsite
Since we share our material, we try to coordinate our bookgroups through this wiki. Please post your library's schedule if it's available. Thanks!
PLEASE NOTE: CURRENTLY, THIS PAGE IS FOR 2016.
Libraries A-Z
Alpha Park Public Library in Bartonville
January 2016: Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki
Blessing Health Professions Library in Quincy
Contact us at 217-228-5520 x. 6970. Melissa DeVerger
Brimfield Book Club-4th Monday of the month @ 1pm
For more information, contact Abby at 309-446-9575 or amiles@brimfieldlibrary.org.
Books+Tea @ the Library (book club webpage)
For more information, contact Catherine at 309-274-2719 or cbarnett@chillicothepubliclibrary.org.
Musings on Main – Titles for 2016
January – Our Souls at Night |
Kent Haruf |
February – Seven Women and the secret Of Their Greatness |
Eric Mataxas |
March - Empty Mansions |
Bill Dedman |
April – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
|
Robin Sloan |
May – Cruel Harvest |
Fran Elizabeth Grubb |
June - Take This Bread |
Sara Miles |
July – Traveling With Pomegranates |
Sue Monk Kidd |
August – The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
|
Jonas Jonasson |
September – River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
|
Candice Millard |
October – No book choice / potluck at Maple Lawn/ choose 2017 titles |
November – After You |
Jojo Moyes |
December – A Highland Christmas |
M.C. Beaton |
Farmington Area Public Library District
Second Monday Book Group (Second Monday each month at 6:30pm)
For more information contact the Library at 309-245-2175
Fondulac District Library in East Peoria
YA For All Book Club (YA book discussion for teens and adults), meets second Tuesday of every month at 7pm
Teen Space Book Club (YA book discussion for grades 8 through 12), meets third Tuesday of every month at 7pm
To Be Continued Book Club (A series book club for 5-8th graders), meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30pm
Galesburg Public Library
Tuesday/Thursday Book Clubs (tentative list)
January - Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman
February - We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
March - Boom, Bust, Exodus by Chad Broughton (Big Read tie-in)
April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)
Tome Raiders Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club (tentative list)
January - The Science of Star Wars by Jeanne Cavelos
February - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
March - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
April - Sun, Stone, and Shadows (Big Read)
Food for Thought Book Club (tentative list)
February -Your Water Foot Print: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products by Stephen Leahy
March - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
April - Planet Taco by Jeffrey Pilcher (Big Read tie-in)
May - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
June - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Spring Bay Bookies, will celebrate 13 years in Jan. We meet once a month at our branch library. We did have two conflicts this past year of not being able to get our selection because not available when the time came to place holds. We take turns selecting books and hosting that meeting.
Usually meets last Monday of the month at 3 pm in Turner Room
Bookgroup blog is at: http://talkaboutagoodbook.blogspot.com/
Contact Beth Duttlinger lill@lmelibrary.org for more information.
Great Reads
Great Reads Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets from September through May (except for December) on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. (November is a first Wednesday due to the library's closing for Veteran's Day.) The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
2016 Selections for Great Reads Book Club
|
Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 13 |
Deep Down Dark
|
Hector Robar |
February 10
|
The House of Special Purpose |
John Boyne
|
March 9
|
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
|
Bill Bryson
|
April 13 |
Transatlantic |
Colum McCann |
May 11
|
My Notorious Life
|
Kate Manning
|
Mystery Book Club
Mystery Book Club is an adult reading/discussion group sponsored by the Friends of the Macomb Public Library. It meets the fourth Wednesday every month from August to May at 7:00 pm (*with slight deviations for November and December to accommodate holidays). The book club will meet at the Macomb Public library multi-purpose room.
2016 Selections for Mystery Book Club
|
Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 27 |
Blood Hina |
Naomi Hirahara |
February 24 |
New Tricks |
David Rosenfelt |
March 23 |
March Violets |
Philip Kerr |
April 27 |
The Circular Staircase |
Mary Roberts Rinehart |
May 25 |
North of Nowhere |
Steve Hamilton |
Patron-run book clubs.
These groups use Macomb Public Library for interlibrary loan of book club titles but are not directly sponsored by our library.
Book Club 1
This group usually meets the final Friday of the month and selects the title for the next month on their meeting dates. Some exceptions are made for holidays with this schedule, though. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a selection.
Book Club 2
Group usually meets on a Monday roughly every six weeks and selects the next title on their meeting dates. This group usually requests 4-5 copies of a title.
Book Club 3
This group meets on the second Friday of the month. The leader has expressed willingness to switch discussion dates of particular titles as needed to accommodate for conflicts with other groups. The group requests 9 titles for each discussion. The majority of selections for this group are borrowed in large print format to accommodate more seasoned readers from a local nursing home.
2016 Selections for Book Club 3
|
Discussion Date |
Title |
Author |
January 8, 2016
|
TBD Season-related title |
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There are also book clubs affiliated with our local university, so a few patrons sometimes request titles for those as well. Those patrons usually place their requests on RSACat with no assistance, so I am usually unaware the titles are intended for book club use or how long they may be in use unless the patron expresses concern about being able to renew a title. These particular patrons are usually very responsible about their usage, though, and the titles are usually not in high demand at the time these patrons place their requests.
When we see there is a situation of a book club title not being easily available, we expand our searches to I-Share, SHARE Illinois libraries, and non-RSA libraries in our region.
We are in the middle of a construction project. With such a small local collection available, we are not in a position to loan right now. We look forward to resuming loans to other libraries for book clubs and other purposes when the project is complete, though.
Contact Carla Ainslie macomblib.carla@gmail.com or macomb.pld.rsa@gmail.com for more information.
Held at the Morton Public Library at 315 W. Pershing St in Morton, IL
Contact Tahdra for more information: TahdraT@mortonlibrary.org
2015 book groups meeting at the Normal Public Library, 206 West College Avenue, Normal
Contact Pixie for more information: pfreymann at normalpl.org
2016
January: The Husband's Secret
February: The Tiger's Wife
March: I Am the Cheese
Meet at the Pleasant Plains location on the 4th Thursday of each month @ 7 PM
Third Thursday Bookclub -- Meet at Eli's coffee shop in Tremont at 12:30PM on the third Thursday of each month.
Meet at Speer Bank Community Center 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month
Questions about this wiki?
Contact Beth Duttlinger
bethd@lmelibrary.org
Lillie M. Evans Library District
207 N Walnut, PO Box 349
Princeville, IL 61559
lmelibrary.org
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