April 2021 – Page 2 – Mentor Public Library

04 17, 2021

All Booked Up with Cailey & Meg: Read-Alikes for YA Bestsellers

By admin|2021-04-17T12:00:48-04:00April 17, 2021|

If you loved Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunters or One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus, then check out these read-alike recommendations from Cailey and Meg.

If you enjoy the Shadowhunter Chronicles, our librarians suggest The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix and the Effigies series from Sarah Raughley. Meanwhile, if McManus blew your mind, check out Nobody Knows But You by Anica Mrose Rissi and Sadie by Courtney Summers.

Most of the books they discuss can also be borrowed as ebooks using OverDrive or Libby. All you need is your Mentor Public Library card

04 13, 2021

Discover How to Make Found Poetry

By admin|2021-04-13T19:00:05-04:00April 13, 2021|

It’s National Poetry Month! And Amber Weinrich, one of our adult librarians, is providing an introduction to different kinds of Found Poetry.

And what is Found Poetry? It’s when you use something else – magazines, advertisements, dog-eared pages of favorite books – to construct your own poem. Find out how you can create blackout, collage, and cento poems with Amber.

Enter our poetry contest!

Found poems are created from another piece of writing like pages of a magazine, newspaper, or book. Examples of found poetry include:

Blackout poetry, where you make a poem by blacking out words on a page and what remains is your poem. Think of it as addiction by reduction!
Collage poetry. Just like the name suggests, you cut up words and put them together to make a collage poem.
Cento poetry. Cento (or patchwork) poems are when you use and combine lines from other poems to make a poem of your own. This tradition goes back to the third century when poets would remix lines from Horace and Virgil.

04 10, 2021

Learn about COVID-19 & Heart Health from Lake Health Cardiologist

By admin|2021-04-10T12:00:23-04:00April 10, 2021|

Have questions about how COVID-19 may affect your heart health? Dr. Paul Zellers – a cardiologist with Lake Health Physician Group Northeast Ohio Heart Associates – explains if heart disease makes someone more susceptible for serious symptoms, if they’re infected with COVID-19. He also discusses what affects COVID-19 may have on long-term heart health.

We’ve hosted several talks about health and wellness recently. You can watch many of them online in their entirety, including:

04 9, 2021

Free COVID test kits available at Lake County libraries

By admin|2021-12-23T15:16:07-05:00April 9, 2021|

You can pick up a free COVID test kit from Mentor Public Library, while supplies last.

12/23/21 UPDATE: Due to high demand, availability is limited. Please call the library for updated information. (440) 255-8811, ext. 8.

Anyone can now pick up a free COVID-19 test kit from most of the public libraries in Lake County – including Mentor Public Library – thanks to a partnership between Ohio public libraries and the Ohio Department of Health.

The patrons can take the test at home with medical supervision, as long as they have a smartphone or a webcam and an Internet connection. They’ll also need an email address.

Here’s the process:

First, call the library where you want to pick up the tests. Most libraries in the county have test kits stocked, but a few have not received theirs yet. You don’t have to explain why you need the test.
Pick up the test at the library and instructions either through the building’s drive-thru or curbside – whichever the library indicates when you call ahead. Once again, the tests are free.
You take the test at home. Log into the NAVICA app or go to ohio.emed.com to take the test with the help of someone trained to assist you. You’ll need to create a NAVICA profile to take the test. Once you take the test, you should have results in about 15 minutes.

While the libraries are happy to provide the test kits, library staff cannot give medical advice. When in doubt, contact a medical professional.

04 3, 2021