American Law as Portrayed in American Films

On March 6 crime drama Donnie Brasco (1997) was shown and discussed. John C. Engstrom, Resident Legal Advisor ( U.S. Embassy - Kyiv) told the audience  that Donnie Brasco is based on true story of Joseph Pistone whose testimony resulted in hundreds of arrests within the New York Mafia in the late 1970s.Undercover FBI agent is taken under the wing of low level mobster and soon finds that the lines between his work and his personal life start to blur.

After film discussion lasted more than an hour. 14 American Library patrons watched the film and took part in discussion. One of the patrons admitted that

Pacino's fine work is the key to the film succeeding but it might be best remembered as Johnny Depp's coming-out party. A star -- check that, an actor -- is born. The audience liked this tense, sharp and compelling character study. Everyone agreed that Newell's film is a worthy addition to the Mob-movie canon. 

Book display in honor of American writers born in March.
 Library users are often overwhelmed trying to choose from the huge selection of books filling the shelves. Libraries that feature books in displays help overcome that problem. The potential reader has a manageable selection to browse through. We are trying to help our readers to make right choise and stay with books as long as it possible.

March is Nationa Nutrition Month in US. Come and borrow a book which will help you to stay younger and healthy!
March is National Nutrition Month. According to the American Dietetic Association, National Nutrition Month was introduced in 1973 as National Nutrition Week and was expanded to a full month in 1980. Nutrition is important to good health, and good health is linked to academic success.

With March comes some wonderful Celebrations that we are honoring with our Book Displays. Two of our book displays will be in honor of Women's History Month which is March.
This time American Library staff prepared two book displays - Celebrating Women's achievements and Woman in Fiction. Come anf feel free to pick up serious or non serious book!

Since July 2011 American Library at NaUKMA launched a new program – Game Afternoon. This program aims to build and foster English language skills in a fun and competitive way. It was planned to hold meetings once a week on Tuesdays at 4p.m . But our patrons made their correction to the schedule. They are plaing wherever they got time for it. It’s nice to bring friends, family and spend an afternoon of fun in Media Room of American Library exploring our board game collection.

The American Library at NaUKMA has a collection of 15 board games. Recently we get 4 new games: Apples to Apples, Letter Roll, American Trivia Game and Qiddler.

These games were generously donated by the U. S. Embassy Kyiv.

After 18 months we like to share some statistics.

Some games have been borrowed only few times – Boggle, Quirkle, Jumbalaya, In Other Words, Great States. Another games were more popular: Thunder Stone, Word Racer, Word Shark, Amuze Amaze. They were borrowed up to 20 times.

Another grop showed better results:

Forbidden Island 20 times

Sort it Out 22 times

Scrabble 25 times

Clue 27 times

And the champion of the circulation is Monopoly. It was borrowed 120 times and we have students of economics ordering it online. May be should purchase another set of this wonderful game?

American Library Board Games Collection - New Acquisitions

American Trivia Game

The game features over 2,000 fun-filled, all-American questions in four categories-Geography, History, Arts, and General.

It's the perfect way to brush up on all the fascinating facts and figures about the United States. You'll discover: Who signed the Declaration of Independence first? Who wrote the poem "America the Beautiful"? Which team won back-to-back Super Bowls during the 1990s?

This games gives students another tool to use to learn about historical events and people. Family time or class time well spent learning about history.

2-8 players

Ages: 12 to Adult

Time: 20-30 minutes per game.

Contents: Full-color game board, , 540 playing cards, 8 playing pieces, and 30 "Uncle Sam" cards, instruction sheet.

Apples to Apples

Every player has seven red cards in their hand. They have nouns on them. Each round has a judge. The judge turns over the top green card, which contains an adjective. Each player picks the card from their hand they feel best matches the green card and plays it face down. The judge picks the red card he feels best matches the green card. There are no wrong answers! The winner becomes the judge of the next round.

4 - 10 players

Ages 12 to Adult

Time: 30 minutes per game

Contents: 756 Red Apple Cards, 252 Green Apple Cards, card tray, quick play rules.

Letter Roll

Letter Roll is a fun new twist on word games. Almost anyone can play and the only limiting factor is one’s vocabulary.

Roll the special dice and flip the timer. Players race to list words containing the three letters shown on the dice. Only words listed by a single player score points so players are rewarded for their speed and creative thinking!

2-8 players

Ages 8 to Adult

Time: 30 minutes.

Contents: Seven letter roll dice, 1 orange minute timer, 1 blue two-minute time, 4 paper pads, 4 pencils and rules.

Quiddler

Quiddler consists of 118 cards. Each card has one letter of the alphabet on it, with the exception of 10 double letter cards that feature CL, TH, IN, QU and ER. The dealer shuffles the cards and deals three to each player. In each subsequent round he deals out one more card to each person. At the beginning of the eighth and final round each person will be dealt 10 cards. Every player tries to combine all cards into words to achieve the high score.

1-8 players.

Ages :8 to Adult

Time: 40 minutes.

Contents: 118 cards and rules.

The group of students of National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts visited American Library at Kyiv Mohyla academy. Oksana Sharyi, Reference librarian gave them the library tour and the presentation of Online Resource of eLibraryUSA available at the library.