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Written on: April 9th, 2009 by: in Reviews
Having a number of day-trips planned for next week’s Spring Break, I was interested to come across this exhibit info from the Natural History Museum in D.C.
My daughter is a long time afficionada of the ghoulish and macabre, always up for a trip to see the mummies at the U. of Penn. Anthropology Museum or the skulls at Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum, so this the Written in Bone exhibit promises to be entertaining AND educational! The planned trip to Pottsville to see the Yeungling Brewery is more for Mom and Dad…
There’s a great book that accompanies the Written in Bone exhibit, and there have been any number of books written about Otzi the iceman, if you are planning an Italian vacation.
Written on: April 8th, 2009 by: in Reviews
Seder is celebrated tonight around this nation and the world. Even the President will be hosting one at the White House, for the first time in that building’s history.
Here’s a selection of titles relating to Jewish culture and history, all available from the Delaware Library Catalog:
(thanks to Harper Collins’ Library Love Fest blog for some of these titles)
Written on: April 8th, 2009 by: in Learning Journeys
Honoré here: I've been sort of "in between," with not much going on…perhaps I've hit a dry spell; don't know but it seems that I'm at loose ends. As with a labyrinth, I've hit a "no exit" wall many times over the past few weeks. I'm fresh out of new reading matter – though I've tons of samples on my Kindle and my forays to libraries and bookstores seemed also to be unproductive. Even my attempt to participate in the aggregator Kathy alluded to in her last post has failed to inspire me – and for some inexplicable reason I didn't get my weekly update last Thursday. Curious…
Perhaps it's the weather or that I'm still feeling the effects of DST (daylight savings time). This morning I recalled that Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write was highly praised in Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen (well, I've not completely not had any reading matter) and I just happened to have the book; have had it for several years and hadn't gotten around to reading it. So, I scoured my bookshelves, found and started the book.
If You Want to Write is a "book about Art, Independence and Spirit." The first
edition was published in 1938 and it's still viable today, nearly 75 years later—and I say that after having read only the first two chapters. I feel stirrings of returning to being inspired, of inspiring myself, of getting my "creativity groove" back. Time will tell…and in the meantime, I think I'll also try to figure out why my aggregator isn't delivering.
To be continued…
Cheers~
Written on: April 7th, 2009 by: in Reviews
In another blow to buns and shushing, the “due date” stamp falls prey to technology in the D.C. metro area:
Written on: April 3rd, 2009 by: in News
This slideshow, from the online bookmark reference and collection site miragebookmark.ch, features some of the most spectacular and beautiful libraries and reading rooms in the world. You’ll feel more well-informed just looking at the pictures.
Written on: April 2nd, 2009 by: in News
We’ve been seeing a lot of mentions about this service recently- you can have a local library location sent to your phone by text message, anywhere in the country. All you need to do is text the word library along with the local ZIP code to 41411, and you will get a text in response with the address and phone number of the nearest public library.
Written on: April 1st, 2009 by: in Reviews
James Patterson and Stephenie Meyer still rule the fiction world- although the edge goes to Meyer, who has less than half a dozen books to Patterson’s seeingly hundreds of titles.
You have to respect the James Patterson writing machine, however- and it is a machine, as this article from a 2002 Publishers Weekly shows. Even though a new Patterson could come out with every Sunday paper, they are tightly plotted, well written, and consumed hungrily by his fans young and old.
Written on: April 1st, 2009 by: in News
The preceding visualization was for everything entered as a search term in the Delaware Library Catalog- this one specifies subject term searches only.
Written on: April 1st, 2009 by: in News
This is a neat visual representation (using Wordle.net) of all of the search terms entered into the Delaware Library Catalog during the month of March.
Written on: April 1st, 2009 by: gicblogs in News
This is an interesting data snapshot from the Delaware Library Catalog’s administrators’ blog:
Some selected 3rd Quarter Statistics
Libraries all across the country are doing more with less- against considerable odds, in some cases.
Hopefully as more and more people remember the services available at their libraries, and think about the money that they can save by getting entertainment and education for free, we’ll continue to see these numbers climb!
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