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 [...]
A short trailer for Kyo Maclear’s new children’s book, “Spork”, published by Kids Can Press. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault.
by Cat Johnson, Shareable, October 17, 2011 —
Do more with less. It’s a popular refrain these days, and one that libraries are all too familiar with. Re-tooling the ways that they share information and resources while simultaneously juggling financial issues, the challenges before libraries are significant. But with the support of their communities, [...]
Review by Harold Garde, February 2011 —
By Per Petterson | It may well be an antidote for the gloating we in Florida do during the winter months that drives me to read novels by Scandinavian authors.
I have neglected much to read on, maybe just a little bit longer while my [...]
Book Review by Susan Smartt Cook, YES! Magazine, Oct 19, 2011 — —
Ina May Gaskin, the mother of modern midwifery, calls for a return to woman-centered birth culture in her new book.
Ina May Gaskin, the mother of modern-day midwifery in the United States, began her training over three decades [...]
