News from KNOWhere 2/29/08

Jump for joy, it's Leap Year Day! Want to know why we have leap years and leap days? Check out this cool site!

Teens, are you tuned in? Do you love anime, prefer listening to your books rather than reading them, and seek to master the art of Google-fu? Then come to the library for a celebration of Teen Tech Week, March 3 through 8. We have a MASSIVE release of brand new DVDs like Evangelion, Macross, and Chrono Crusade, our new Playaway MP3 audiobooks, and on Thursday, March 6 at 4 pm we will have a workshop on Google-fu: the art of tracking down the best web resources for all your information and entertainment needs!

Don’t forget, if you’re looking to get your driver’s license and you need to take classes to pass Joshua’s Law requirements, we can help you do that thanks to a grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety!

News from Screven

If you’re a writer or artist and you’d like to publish your own magazine or comic book, come join us for the Zine Scene, our great series of workshops that will teach you how to publish your very own works for everyone to read! The next workshop is at 4 pm on Thursday, March 13.



News from Jenkins

As if Teen Tech Week wasn’t cool enough, we have a whole lot of children’s books coming in over the next few weeks, courtesy of a grant from The Libri Foundation, a group dedicated to making sure that children in even the smallest and most rural of towns have access to quality children’s books at their local library. Come into the library and check out some of these great kids books!

If you’re a writer or artist and you’d like to publish your own magazine or comic book, come join us for the Zine Scene, our great series of workshops that will teach you how to publish your very own works for everyone to read! The next workshop is at 4 pm on Thursday, March 13.



Now, on to the books - and while you're here, why not put one on hold?

SIZZLE AND BURN by Jayne Ann Krentz. The Arcane Society returns – but Raine Tallentyre isn’t too happy to hear that. Not because she’s afraid of their powers, since she has her own, but because the Society betrayed her family long ago. There’s just one thing that’s keeping her from writing the Society off completely: handsome investigator Zack Jones, who wants to join forces with her to track down the criminal who left a young woman bound and gagged in the basement of Raine’s family home.

SUMMER by Karen Kingsbury. Second in the Sunrise Series, which focuses on the Baxter family, this book follows actor Dayne Matthew and his new bride Katy Hart. Dayne has discovered the best way to stay faithful and still continue his areer despite the occasional love scene: he’ll just make sure that his on-screen love interest is Katy!

UNDER THE LIBERTY OAK by Paige M. Cummings. In the summer of ’64, two little girls would sneak out of the church’s children’s choir. But on the eve of Hurricane Dora, only one of those girls came home. One day, though, only one of them made it home…

GALAPAGOS: A NATURAL HISTORY by John Kricher. The birthplace of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is still wild, untamed, and mostly uninhabited, with only a few allowed to visit its delicate ecology. Here you can learn about the islands’ ecology and its history from a man who is both an ecotour guide and a Darwin scholar.

OUT OF SYNC by Lance Bass. Lance Bass was only 16 when he got the call that would change his life forever. Soon, he’d be part of one of the best-selling bands in pop history, *NSYNC, and rising to the very top of the musical world before his band dissolved, leaving him flying solo. Here, he talks about his career, his adventures, his Christian faith, and the reasons that he chose to go public as a gay man.

HARDSCAPING: HOW TO USE STRUCTURES, PATHWAYS, PATIOS & ORNAMENTS IN YOUR GARDEN by Keith Davitt. One of the most gorgeous gardening and landscaping books to cross the library’s circulation desks in a while, this book is chock-full of explanations of how to best combine plantings with hardscaping elements to make the most of your outdoor space, whether it’s a tiny terrace or a grand garden.

Click to check out these cool links!

Election 2008: Vote by Issue Quiz
This quiz helps you "[l]earn about the [2008 presidential] candidates through their platforms, not their personalities. [It] features some of the issues that have gained traction this campaign season." Also includes an "Election Issues" section (top menu, once you enter the quiz) with candidates' statements about health care, immigration, energy, Iraq, abortion, and other issues. From WBUR and the Online NewsHour.

Friends of the High Line: Planting Design by Piet Oudolf
This website shows landscapes designed by Piet Oudolf. "Based in the Netherlands, Oudolf was one of the first planting designers to introduce large-scale perennial plantings into public landscapes" and is known for his "New Wave Planting." Features numerous images of Oudolf's house and nursery in the Netherlands, sources of inspiration, and examples of his work from around the world. From a New York project that is designed by Oudolf.

The Making of a Homemaker

Presentation about comprehensive domestic guidebooks from the 19th century. "These books were primarily aimed at the middle and upper class female, who saw keeping a healthy and happy home her role in life. Not only did they detail the day-to-day activities of a homemaker, but also prescribed the appropriate moral and religious outlooks." Explore book contents on topics such as care of the sick, decorating, etiquette, fashion, and raising children. From the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: Transcendental Meditation
Video and transcript of a 2005 public television news story about how "Transcendental Meditation -- TM -- [which] was widely popular 40 years ago" is flourishing in Fairfield, Iowa, the location of the Maharishi University of Management. Includes a discussion of whether TM ("a technique for relaxation and awareness using certain sounds and ways of breathing, 20 minutes, twice a day") "is it just a meditation practice or is it also a religion?"

Well, that’s it for now – see you at the library!