I was desperate for an adult fiction book to get me in a good reading frame of mind, something different from the plethora of titles I was reading for a reading challenge a month before. No matter how hard I browsed, I was striking out left and right. But then it occurred to me to try one of our great book-finding resources, Novelist Plus. What a brilliant idea!
So, I was doing some spring cleaning this past weekend like finding old clothing to donate, vacuuming, battling dust bunny territory in cupboards, and reorganizing things in the kitchen. I’d forgotten how much stuff we had. And little did I remember, we used to have cassette tapes. We still had a couple hiding in the back of the drawer behind the white pages—one was the Jurassic Park soundtrack and has my favorite song to play on the violin.
The winds of change are stirring the air again. We’ve been hearing the whispers of the new Common Core curriculum, which focuses students by setting "consistent learning goals" as well as keeping student education relevant to the real world while preparing them for post-secondary education and career success. We’re used to the curriculum changing.
March 14, 2013 marks what would be Einstein's 134th birthday, if he was still alive today. We all know him as the scientific genius that created the hallmark of 19th century physics (E=mc2). However, I think it's important to look at the connection between his brilliance and his personality and to look at the man himself.
Not long ago, the Library was closed for two weekdays. The next week there was another storm and the Library was closed yet again. I got cabin fever. I was tired of being stuck inside. The books I had checked out from the Library no longer interested me. Then I thought of a solution. I used my Android tablet to open the free OverDrive Media Console app. From there, I went to OverDrive—where a vast selection of choices was waiting to be downloaded.
You may be scratching your head like I did when I first heard the term pop-up library. It's one more way we're bringing the library to you. It's your local MCPL branch popping up in your community! And, we're popping up in all sorts of nifty places.
The snow has been sitting out there on your lawn and in parking lots everywhere for a couple of weeks now. Many people are ready to see it gone with the warmer days to come this next week, and I know I'm one of them. If you can't sled on it or build a snowman, then there should be no snow. However, when it is a good snow, who doesn't love a snow day? Okay, maybe not the people that have to drive in it or shovel it.
Some days I can't get enough game time in to level up my character, Meowkins the 3rd, in Skyrim. My goal is to get to level 50 this month. I know; it's taken me forever to progress this far, over one year after the game's release. But when your Xbox goes all red-ring-of-death on you, what can one do but stare at the screen stunned at the experience of losing 60+ hours of thorough quest-completing game time. It's like severing a limb. Okay. Maybe not that bad, but still, I was rather sad to lose my progress.
It seems that every couple of years now, we get a blast of snow from a huge storm system. I remember two years ago, while still in college, thinking how crazy it was that my university classes were cancelling, but here we are again; k-12 and colleges all around the metro area cancelled classes three times in the span of a few days.
As the winds of March begin to blow, I want to open my doors and windows and allow it to sweep away all the clutter my house collects. If only it were that easy. The Library carries books to help me reduce the "stuff" and become organized. This year, I am perusing several choices:
