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Written on: April 28th, 2010 in Blog Posts, News
As part of the Division of Libraries’ work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, all of Delaware’s public libraries participated last year in a survey which measured the impact of access to public computing services in public libraries. From March to June 2009 400 public libraries across the United States participated in a web […]
Written on: April 26th, 2010 in Blog Posts
I noticed this morning that today is the birthday of James Audubon, America’s most famous ornithologist and naturalist. He was born 225 years ago in Haiti, and fled to the United States 18 years later. In his most famous work, he illustrated more than 1,000 American birds in a series of 435 engravings- releasing them […]
Written on: April 26th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Two highly recommended books in this Sunday’s New York Times come from the one particular side of the political aisle. No Apology, by Mitt Romney and Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence “offer far deeper insights than have ever been available before” into the the men themselves and to some extent the future and the past […]
Written on: April 23rd, 2010 in Blog Posts, Q & A's
Q: I live in Maryland and purchased a sofa from a furniture store in Delaware. Since I had the sofa delivered they charged me both sales tax and a delivery fee. But, they said if I picked it up I wouldn’t be charged tax. How can they tax us when the item is purchased in […]
Written on: April 22nd, 2010 in Blog Posts, Informal learning, Learning, Learning Journeys, Reading
While searching for a local connection to Earth Day this morning, I visited the This Day in Delaware History spot on the Delaware Public Archives site. No Earth Day reference but I noticed that This Day is compiled by Roger Martin, historian. The librarian in me kicked in and a quick Google search revealed that […]
Written on: April 20th, 2010 in Blog Posts, News
In my initial early-adopter enthusiasm about Apple’s new iPad, I may have said some intemperate things about the future of the comic-book industry because of new distribution and readership opportunities presented by this type of emerging digital platform. My co-worker Beth-Ann suggested that since we’re both comic book readers, we should take the opportunity to […]
Written on: April 19th, 2010 in Blog Posts
In this week’s New York Times Sunday reviews, there are a host of reviews of new works by all manner of the most eminent authors in English and American letters- Ian McEwan, Anna Quindlen, and Ann Lammott, amongst others. In this week’s summary of the reviews, I’ve broken out a few reviews of some of […]
Written on: April 18th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Apparently George Washington may have actually crossed the Delaware to escape from librarians rather than Hessians. Full story here. John Jay and Alexander Hamilton may have been lesser luminaries of the founding of our nation, but were much better at following the library rules, according to the records of the New York Society Library.
Written on: April 18th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Via facebook, this recent photo of my awesome friend Lauren, doing something that probably couldn’t be done via iPad or Kindle! She’s reading My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler, at a dig site near Phonsavanh in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Lauren- I’m pretty sure that this title is not featured on any of the […]
Written on: April 14th, 2010 in Blog Posts
I was very fortunate to be able to spend a lot of my vacation last week “road-testing” a new iPad, and I’m happy to report my findings! First, let’s say that while the iPad is very cool indeed, there are some significant limitations overall- as an e-reader device, however, I don’t think that there’s an […]
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