Milpitas Library News

When I first saw this video, I could hardly believe what I was seeing and hearing! Alice Herz-Sommer is the oldest known Holocaust survivor. At 109 years old, she lives in London and still plays the piano daily. She is a trained classical pianist and had begun giving concerts in her hometown of Prague, when the Germans took over the city and she was taken, . . . more »

Ni No Kuni: The Wrath of the White Witch (screenshot above) is one of many new video games coming to your local SCCLD library. The SCCLD system currently supports the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo wii, PS3 and XBOX 360 console game systems. Here is a sampling of some of the games you can request now! Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends Of The Titan For Nintendo 3DS. For . . . more »

Roger Ebert passed away on Thursday, April 4th, 2013. Arguably, he was the most prominent and well known film critic in America. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize (in 1975) while he was writing for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. 1975 was also the year he began filming the PBS movie review show Sneak Previews with rival Chicago film critic Gene . . . more »

The de Young Museum in San Francisco is the first North American venue to present the art exhibit Girl with a Pearl Earring Dutch : Paintings from the Mauritshuis . Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring painting has intrigued art lovers for centuries partially because so little is known about the artist himself. The film, Girl with A Pearl Earring, based on Tracy Chevalier's novel, . . . more »

The beauty of springtime, delicate blossoms, green hills covered in mustard flowers, colored eggs hidden in the garden... a chicken riding a bike... ...with a wagon full of Easter Eggs... ahhh, the good old days -- they are a part of forever spring.... ...so hitch up your chick (or bunny) to your egg wagon... or set sail in your egg boat upon a pea-green sea... . . . more »

O Brother Chicken! Sister Chick!  O gracious me! O my! This broken Eggshell was my home! I see it with my eye! However did I get inside? Or how did I get out? And must my life be evermore, an atmosphere of doubt? Can no one tell? Can no one solve, this mystery of Eggs? Or why we chirp and flap our wings,—or why we've . . . more »

April is National Poetry Month and the Milpitas Library is celebrating on Wednesday nights. We start our celebration with a Poetry Slam on April 3rd starting at 6:00 pm. Our emcee will be renowned Poetry Slammer David Perez. April 10th at 6:00 pm we will host an Open Mic. All interested poets and musicians are encouraged to share your art! Refreshments will be served. April . . . more »