ORANGE BEACH, Ala .— The Orange Beach Public Library is pleased to announce the schedule of events for January.

January

8 – 1p.m.: Book talk featuring Suzanne Hudson (In a Temple of Trees) and Joe Formicella (Murder Creek and The Wreck of the Twilight Limited). This will be held in the Library Meeting Room. This is a Meyer Book Group.

6 p.m.: Getting the Job – Sue Butts, Director of Employee Relations, Organizational Development & Training at Columbia Southern University will talk about interviewing skills and resumes

12 — 10 a.m.: Computer Class- Free Software Basics-Downloading and installing of Open Office, Mozilla Firefox and other freeware

3 p.m.: Computer Class-Free Downloads! Learn about AVG, Abiword, Ad-aware, and Google Earth?

13 — 3:30 p.m.: B.A.G.-Books are Great Reading Group-The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

15 — 6 p.m.: Online News: Redefining Journalism a presentation by Banks Sewell of Lightfoot, Franklin and White, LLC in Birmingham, AL. Mr. Sewell appears courtesy of the First Amendment Speakers Bureau.

19 — Library closed for Martin Luther King’s Birthday

22 — 6 p.m.: Southern American English, a presentation by Catherine Evans Davies, Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Alabama. This program begins with the influence of immigration patterns on dialect development in Alabama and continues with a focus on the key dimensions of dialect. Attendees will learn more about the newest area of dialect research, discourse, and its evidence through norms of politeness, indirectness, rituals of conversation and traditional storytelling. Ms. Davies appears courtesy of the Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholars Program and is sponsored by the Friends of the Orange Beach Public Library

26 — 10 a.m.: Computer Class-Know Your Computer-Basic overview of the parts of a computer and common computing terms

3 p.m.: Computer Class- What is Social Networking? How can it benefit me and why is it so big with today’s youth.

29 — 6 p.m.: Writing Biography, Family History and Local History, a presentation by Robert S. Davis. “The basics of this talk include reasons for needing to record or recover the past, means of obtaining information and methods of saving or presenting the information (such as manuscript, tape, privately published books, articles, standard book publication, CD-ROM and Internet Web sites).” Mr. Davis appears courtesy of the Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholars Program.