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Horse Around With Seabiscuit
Universal Studios is releasing, and heavily promoting, a major motion picture based on Linda Hillenbrand's excellent, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Random House, 2001). Expect this film to be fodder for a huge increase in interest in horse racing including the Great Depression, sports, folk heroes, the rise of radio and creation of a national media audience, American success stories, regional rivalries, the rise of the automobile and decline of the horse, and the legalization of gambling.
So don't stall — assemble a display of horse racing books and references materials that will be ready to break from the gate when the movie is released — then watch your patrons jockey for position to check out those books. To give you a leg-up we have prepared a nifty LM&PR bookmark (seabis_bkmk1.pdf — 93KB) with a horse race theme. Check back in a few days when our iron-on T-shirt design takes the lead in the stretch.
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New!
Seabiscuit T-Shirt Artwork
 If you should loose your shirt at the races here's how to get another one! Download the full-color Seabiscuit T-shirt artwork with a full field of twelve Seabiscuit "@ your library(tm)" designs in Acrobat format. Each design features a unique accent color and slogan — everyone on your staff can bet on his or her favorite.
To "Print, Place, and Show" some cool shirts use a color printer to print the designs on to letter-size iron-on transfers and then iron the design on to a t-shirt — front or back or both. Because the designs must be reversed on the iron-on transfers we have prepared the artwork as a mirror image. Use the reverse artwork (seabis_tee1r.pdf - 467KB) for t-shirts.
You can also download the same designs in right-reading (not mirror image) for printing on paper for flyers or other use (seabis_tee1.pdf - 467KB).
These designs are provided as a courtesy, free of charge to site visitors. Under no circumstances are these designs to be changed in any way nor may they be sold.
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For more ideas put your money on the nose of the following:
Carolyn L. Garner, Library Services Manager at Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia California wrote LM&PR....
"We're working on a great Seasbiscuit exhibit, set to open at the end of July at our Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum (run by the Library) and I'd love to have something to giveaway!"
Arcadia Public Library: The Library's Arcadia History Collection supports the Library's mission to collect and preserve materials relating to the cultural and intellectual heritage of the City of Arcadia. Included is memorabilia of Santa Anita Racetrack the official home of Seabiscuit. Many of the city's locals were extras in the movie much of which was filmed at the local Santa Anita Racetrack. Make Chicago Public Library Breeders' Cup Children's Web page one of your first stops for programing ideas. Includes a reading list. San Francisco Chronicle Article: Seabiscuit's Comeback
"Will the marketing, the book, movie and everything else make people run out to their local racetrack?"......."I'm not sure that 'Seabiscuit' will be to racing what 'Love Boat' was to the cruise industry," said Mark Simon, vice president and editor of the Thoroughbred Times magazine in Lexington, Ky. "But industry insiders are extremely hopeful." PBS's Seabiscuit American Experience Documentery
Seabiscuit will be rebroadcast on PBS Monday, July 28, 2003 (check local listings). Teacher's Guide: Suggestions for Active Learning
Seabiscuit offers insights into American history topics. You can use part or all of the film, or delve into the rich resources available on this Web site to learn more, either in a classroom or on your own. Your Guide to Horse Racing: Links to booklists, videos, glossery of terms, history, data and lots more. Activities for kids from about.com includes coloring pages. Trusty Steeds Puppets Horse Cake Norfolk Public Library: A page from their past... Mount Prospect Public Library, IL featured author Laura Hillenbrand. Horse Tales Booklist. Paris-Bourbon County Public Library: "Horses, History, and Hospitality" Kentucky State University Frankfort, Kentucky: The Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans hosted Edward Hotaling, author of "The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America's First Sport". These books are fascinating all the way to the finish line. Sandy Schultheis is a librarian with the Evansville-Vanderburgh Library. The Guilderland Public Library, NY. One special exhibition was brought to the Library in August 2002, The Story of Horse Racing by Currier & Ives. On loan from The Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame (Goshen, NY), the exhibit consisted of 32 original lithographs. Geac Library Division: Best Bets for Summer Reading. Libraries In Littlehampton: Censorship! It is interesting to note that whilst newspapers in 1932 were available for the public to read in the library all Horse Racing Betting news was cut out of the papers by the librarian before they were made available to the reader.
Your patrons will find even if they can't make book at least they can read book — and that's not a stretch for a library.
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