We have a great variety of titles on Women in our library: not only history, but also health, sports, mythology, fiction, spirituality, adventure, etc,etc….
Click here for an overview.
Online Links to women’s history:
Women’s History Project
Women’s History sourcebook
Videos from www.history.com
Women’s History from the Library of Congress
Downloadable audios are now available to all Cook Memorial Library patrons as of Monday, 2/12/07. There are 1357 titles for patrons of all ages.
To browse, select and download your audios. Click here and follow the instructions.
As stated on the Overdrive site, you will need Overdrive Media Console software to download audios, and a security update to Windows Media Player.
If you wish to transfer your audio to an MP3 player, please look at the approved list to check that yours is compatible. Some titles (not all) can burn to a CD.
You need a 4-digit prefix and your patron id number to access this service so call us 323-8510 and we’ll tell you your access number. If you need help, come in to the library.
Driving around and listening to National Public Radio today Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac came on and he spoke of The Poetry Foundation. A great site for poetry lovers. Check it out. While roaming around the fabulous annals of NPR, I stumbled across this post about an unknown Robert Frost poem discovered by a young graduate student at the University of Virginia. Wow!
Last week Chris and I drove to Boston to spend the afternoon at the Museum of Science. We wanted to see Bodyworlds 2 before it closed on Sunday, January 7th. I had heard others describe it as: gross, disturbing, sacred, grotesque, spiritual, inspiring - I had to go see for myself. To my mind, it is a stunning achievement. To be able to see into the body like that… the words that came to MY mind were as follows: mystery, symmetry, exquisitely complex machinery, vulnerability, and beautiful. I bought the catalogue and will add it to the collection on Tuesday, so please come and see for yourself.
The special collection on Sustainability has been a great success. It’s the first time the library has cobbled together a temporary collection which includeds loans from members of the community as well as titles from the library’s collection on a specific subject. According to our automation stats, each month this fall 40-50 titles from the sustainability collection, augmented by books on the subject in the library’s collection, have been checked out. To my mind, collaboration is always a win-win effort, gernerating the circulation of social capital as well as information. One of the outcomes of this sharing of local talent and intention to focus interest on Sustainabilty has been the formation of an action group. Instead of linking to the Tamworth Exchange, which is members only, I copied their information about an upcoming public meeting here. Toward a Sustainable Tamworth: How Can We Grow and Eat More Local Food? The Community School has kindly loaned its entire building for this event, and will be providing lunch, so we can try out the eat more part of the equation right away!
This is an outgrowth of a series of meetings this fall, initiated by Karl Behr and friends, with numbers of participants steadily growing. It reflects the feeling of many that tomorrow’s world will need strong local economies and less dependence on nationwide and global trade. Duane Dale has helped design a fun, highly participatory format for the Jan. 13 meeting. He and Lianne Prentice will facilitate the event, but it will be largely run and shaped by the participants. Those interested are invited to think (ahead of time, or that morning) of aspects of the topic around which they would be interested in leading or co-leading a small group discussion. (Doesn’t mean you need to know the answers - Just have some starting questions/visions in mind and be willing to help your small group stay on topic, choose a note-taker etc!)
Everyone is welcome, whether as a leader, a maybe leader, a participant or even listener.
For more info, call 323-7762 after Jan. 2, or talk with Karl, Duane or Lianne.
Comet McNaught is plunging toward the sun and brightening dramatically. It is now visible to the unaided eye both at sunset and at dawn. Amateur photographers have found that they can take pictures of the comet using off-the-shelf digital cameras with exposure times less than a second. Estimated visual magnitude: between 0 and -1.
To see Comet McNaught, a clear view of the horizon is essential. In the morning, go outside and face east. The comet emerges just ahead of the rising sun. In the evening, face the other way–west. The comet pops out of the western twilight as soon as the sun sets. Binoculars reveal a pretty, gaseous tail. Northern observers are favored. The long, dark mornings and evenings of Canada, Scandinavia and Alaska are ideal for viewing this comet so close to the Sun. But the comet has been sighted in other places too, as far south as Kansas in the United States and Italy in Europe.
Please visit the Spaceweather website for photos, finder charts, and more information. Another website to visit mentioned by Mark
Marc Stowbridge on the Tamworth Exchange
At the very bottom of each page on this website is a black bar with links on it, that are grayed and indistinct.
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These links will take you to the developers of the open source (free) software that created this page. It is customary when utilizing open source tools to give credit where credit is due in this manner.The photographs on the website are actually published on Flickr, another bit of social software that stores photos for free.
Libraries are in the business finding and organizing information for their patrons. There are many terrific resources on library websites to be found on the Internet; these resources are constantly changing and evolving. We’d like to build up a list of on-line library links that will be searchable on this site. To take a look at New Hampshire libraries with interesting websites or links, explore the following list:
Lamson Library, especially take a look at the first WPopac ever, created by Casey Bisson
Nashua Library empowers its teens with “Teens Review it @ your library.”using Blogspot
Cutler Library in Litchfield has created a library webpage from a Blogger blogroll.
Mary Cronin, Library Director of Madison Library receives my award for Best Carroll County Library Website of 2006.
Please note our Internet Use Disclaimer.
Flickr, a terrific photo-sharing website that has become a major photographic force on line, is one of my favorite examples of social software.
Recently Nicholas Carlson of xSP news reported
“By August, (2006) Yahoo’s photo-sharing/social-network hybrid, Flickr, had over 4 million users and 200 million uploaded photos. And in September of 2006, one in 20 U.S. Internet visits went to social-networking sites, or double the number from the year-ago period, according to HitWise.”
An account with Flickr is free, at least for the first 90 photos posted. Unlimited photos can be posted for a nominal $25 per year. When asked what is the essential power that it offers its users , Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, said in a recent National Geographic Traveler Magazine interview with Editor Keith Bellows, that by providing an opportunity for people to share their photos with friends, family, or the world, Flickr engenders a “culture of generosity”. To my mind, this phrase, “culture of generosity” is what Web 2.0 is all about: building a sense of global community by sharing and collaborating, trading resources, jokes, art, photos, information, all for free, no price attached.
It’s the local library’s job to link up with other community organizations in Tamworth, on line as well on foot. We hope that people will add to this list of links to local websites in their comments. Here are the first few: Arts Council of Tamworth, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Barnstormers Theatre, Wonalancet Outdoor Club, and the new Town of Tamworth site.
Further afield but still local are the following: Mt Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Upper Saco Valley Land Trust, Appalachian Mountain Club, and Green Mountain Conservation Group. The Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine is a wonderful new live music venue