USA- Canadian Border Library
Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the USA – Canadian border between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. This library was built in 1904 by the American Carlos Haskell...
Category: USA
Jun
07
2007
Google Street View
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Yesterday there was an article at SFGate about one of Google’s latest inventions, Google Street View. Just like it sounds, this new technology lets you travel through selected cities (San...
Tutankhamen Exhibit
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This weekend I was in Philly to see the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum. My mom saw this exhibit when it toured the USA back in the...
May
29
2007
Clever Designs
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC is currently housing the Design for the other 90% exhibit which displays clever designs that solve basic needs for the world’s poor. Today, entrepreneurs...
May
23
2007
Congressional Food Stamp Challenge
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Between May 15 and May 21 members of the USA congress were challenged to eat only what they could afford on about $3 a day which is the average food...
May
17
2007
Room to Read
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Room to Read is an amazing nonprofit organization founded by John Wood, a former executive at Microsoft who had his life flipped upside down after traveling to Nepal. On this...
May
13
2007
Mother’s Day Proclamation
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In 1870 Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” as a call to our senses of the absurdity of war. At the time she was reflecting on the brutality...
May
11
2007
Encyclopedia of Life
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Later this year the project to create an Encyclopedia of Life will pick up speed for this ambitious project. The encyclopedia was first proposed by scientist E.O. Wilson who wished...
May
09
2007
Creative Fundraising for the Library
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Usually library fundraisers might involved a party, reading event or book sale, but a few libraries have come up with creative alternatives all their own. The National Library of Peru...
May
04
2007
April 16 Archive
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Just a couple of weeks after the incidents at Virginia Tech, the university’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) with help from George Mason University’s Center for History of...