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Here are a few suggestions for library lovers:

• Donate a book in someone's name.  Staff members are available to suggest titles, and a bookplate will be placed in the book.  Cost: approximately $20-30, depending on the title.
• Give the gift of a lifetime membership in the Friends of the Ripon Public Library.  Benefits include a newsletter mailed at least twice a year and free entry to the preview night of the book sale.  Cost: $50/individual, $100/family.  Yearly memberships are available for $5/individual and $10/family.
• Purchase a Friends of the Library book bag.  Cost: $8.
• Select books from the book sale shelf.  Cost: $1 per hardcover book or per 2 paperbacks.

Ripon Public Library is pleased to announce the reinstatement of its one-on-one computer instruction sessions.  Individuals of all skill levels are welcome!  Classes are to include:

The “Basics” for Beginners:

• Computer Basics
• Email Basics
• Internet Basics
• Online Catalog Basics

Intermediate Internet skills :

• BadgerLink : Online resources for Wisconsin Residents
• Social Networking Websites, to include: Facebook, Twitter, GoodReads, and LibraryThing.
• Blogging Basics: Getting Started

 Intermediate training on a specific application:

• Microsoft Word 2007
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

Stop by the Ripon Public Library and fill out your registration form today!  Computer instruction classes at the Ripon Public Library are free and open to the public.  If you have any questions, please contact the library at (920) 748-6160 or Mandy Canovan at canovan(at)riponlibrary.org.

The library has two DVD copies of the July 28th, 2011 14th Senate District Candidate Forum available for checkout.  The DVDs will check out for 14 days and may be picked up at the desk.  The DVDs are available on a first come, first served basis.

City of Ripon Common Council meetings are also available on DVD.  The library currently has one DVD with meetings from 3/8/11 to 6/14/11 available.  The call number is 320.854 Common and it is shelved in the nonfiction videos.  It checks out for a week and may be placed on hold; to find it in the catalog (http://webcat.winnefox.org) search "City of Ripon Common Council" as the title or keywords.  DVDS of meetings will be added every three months or so and the library will keep them for approximately one year.