By Tom Skove, Friends of the New Smyrna Beach Library Board
In 2011, the Friends of the New Smyrna Beach Library continued their decades-long mission of raising money that enables our library to move ahead from good to great.
This year the money we provided to the library allowed the Children and Teen’s Department to [...]
By Joyce Howie, New Smyrna Beach FL
I love a good mystery. An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. So when a friend recommended Rhys Bowen’s “Molly Murphy Mysteries” I was skeptical. My requirements are that the book be set in the Victorian era and have as its background authentic historical facts. Rhys Bowen is a [...]
Last week, Caroline Kennedy was the keynote speaker at the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award Ceremony in New York City. The program is administered by the American Library Association’s Campaign for America’s Libraries. The event honored ten librarians who were recognized for service to their communities, schools and [...]
I bumped into Pat Mitchell, a retired law librarian from Annapolis, Maryland, as we stood in line to see enCORE, Ohio State University’s innovative entry into the 2011 Solar Decathlon of green homes. This, the fifth US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, was recently staged at West Potomac Park in Washington DC. A team of [...]
Exhibit on display at the National Museum of the American Indian through Jan. 2.
On Manus Island, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the indigenous community has lived off the sea for generations. But in recent years, unpredictable winds and sudden storms have confounded traditional methods of navigation and threatened their [...]
Posted on District Dispatch, November 22, 2011 —
Penguin Group’s decision announced yesterday — to deny libraries the ability to buy new releases in the e-book format — is an insult to libraries when we have been publishers’ most valuable customer for years. The simple fact [...]
Visit from Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus on December 21st. Two holiday musical programs with Cathy Imbert on December 10th and 16th. Visit from local childrens’s author Gwendolin reader, December 10th and 16th. She reads and signs her book ‘The Life Cycle of a Snowman‘. Performances of A Pirate [...]
