MAKIKI COMMUNITY LIBRARY NEWSLETTER PAGE 2
Spring 2004
Serving Makiki's neighborhood since 1977

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An Overview of Makiki Library

 have arranged regular purchases of Newberry and Caldecott medal books. Awarded annually the Newberry Medal and the Caldecott Medal are the most prestigious awards in children's literature - honoring outstanding writing and illustration of children's books published in the United States.

It was through one of these volunteers, a retired children's librarian, that the library gained its part-time librarian Nancy Nott in early 2000. Nancy is a retired librarian with 30 years experience.

Also adding color and playfulness is a wall mural painted by Punahou High School students in 2002. Exercising their creative talents these students created a Peter-Pan inspired cartoon vignette that looks protectively over the carpeted reading area.

Says Nancy, "I really feel good about Makiki Community Library and its value to the local community. With Makiki's diverse range of retired, immigrant and working families, this neighborhood needs a library like ours." Fortunately for the library, Nancy - originally from Ontario, Canada - was heading to New Zealand, got siedtracked in Hawaii and never left.

Did you Know that the library has critically acclaimed movies often not found in most video rental shops? And you can borrow them for only $1.00 for an entire week?

 The growing collection contains over a hundred well known movies, many regarded as classics. Some of the foreign selections include:
  • The Hairdresser's Wife, a sensual French film about a middle-aged man marrying his romantic fantasy, then finding it cannot last forever. Made in 1992 [Tape #54].
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour, the 1959 classic French film on the brief affair between a French woman and a Japanese man and their differing memories of WWII. [Tape #270].

    Mainstream hits include Titanic, Forrest Gump, Dances With Wolves, Bridges of Madison County, The English Patient, Platoon , Bonnie and Clyde, and Jaws.

    Several movies - such as ET, The Muppet's Christmas Carol and the island comedy classic, All in the Ohana - can be appreciated by the whole family.

    One noteworthy film is Fly Away Home,a well-crafted fantasy about a 14-year old girl flying a flock of geese to their migratory home. Said one reviewer, "this movie provides near perfect family entertainment with cute baby geese to keep the little ones interested and beautiful flight sequences that will convince many adults that flying an ultra-light aircraft is kid's stuff..." [Tape #16].