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The National Geographic Center Society
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Adult Summer Reading Begins Monday, June 2 It’s time to start reading through the OED in training for the upcoming Adult Summer Reading Program. Make sure your eyeglass or contact prescription is current, that your favorite reading seat cushions are capable and comfy, and that you’ve got a nice bright compact fluorescent bulb in your favorite reading lamp. (Using a CFL will let you be more efficient and save money during Summer Reading. ) This year’s Adult Summer Reading Program theme is Think Outside the Screen. This summer, get beyond virtual to actual. We’ll have lots of great programs and books to help you do that. There will be book baskets awarded every week, a grand prize at the end of the summer and you only need to sign up and read one book to win. Watch for full details in the June Buzz-Word.
Drop Spindle Weaving Class Thursday, May 8 Local fiber artist, Amanda Bridges, will present a drop spindle weaving workshop at the Library. Amanda also taught a Lap Loom Weaving class here in February. Spend a fun evening learning to spin yarn on a drop spindle. This is a beginning class so no prior experience is needed. A basic drop spindle and fiber will be provided for use in the class. Class size is limited to 6 people, so sign up today! Thursday, May 8, 6-8 pm. You must Register to attend.
Lunch Poems: Surrealist Writing Games How about a little poetry with lunch? Wednesday, May 14, from 12-1:30 pm, the Library begins a new series of lunchtime writing workshops at which patrons can get together to write, mange (Italian for “eat”), kibbutz and read for the fun. Bring your imagination and your lunch. We’ll provide sodas, iced tea and coffee. We’ll spend the first session playing two surrealist writing games: exquisite corpse, in which each participants will contribute a line to an unseen poem and cut and paste poetry, for which each participant will receive a random newspaper article and a pair of scissors in order to clip and assemble a poem. We’ll write, construct and read. If you have any questions, call the Library and ask for John. Please register to attend.
April Book Lunch with David King Rescheduled for May For all of you who were disappointed about missing David King in April, the good news is that he has kindly consented to reschedule his program for Book Lunch in May. So, David King will be at the Library, Thursday, May 29, from 12-1 pm for Book Lunch. That will be good news for patrons who were unable to make April’s program. As always, feel free to bring your lunch to eat while you listen. The Library will supply beverages and desert. Please register to attend.
Andy and Angela Unveil Treasures of the Local History Room Thursday, The Clark County Public Library’s Reference and Local History Department will host an encore presentation by Andy Gary and Angela Turner, of the program “Treasures of the Local History Room,” on May 22, 2008, in the library’s Community Room. The program begins at 7:00PM. Andy and Angela, Reference and Local History Department staff members, will entertain you with a discussion and display of some of the treasures that are to be found in the Clark County Public Library’s Archives. They will also bring you up to date on what the Local History Room has to offer in the way of resources for doing research on Genealogy and Local History, like new computer databases and newly processed additions to the collection available for use. This event is free and opened to the public, but seating is limited, so please call the library at 744-5661 to reserve your seat. Any questions may be directed to staff at the Reference Desk. Bicyclists Pedaling to the Geographic Centers of All 50 States Visit The Library Wednesday, April 16, we noticed a recumbent bicycle attached to the bike rack in the front of the Library. What was even more remarkable, it was a tandem recumbent bicycle. The couple who owned the bicycle, Laura and Aaron Beese, were using the internet. We got to meet them as they were leaving and found out that they are on a two year adventure to bicycle to the Geographic Center of all 50 states. They have a website http://fiftybybike.com, and there we read about the inspiration for their journey. “For centuries humanity explored…extremes and expanded the boundaries of the known world, until one day we found all the limits delimited and all the boundaries marked. So perhaps it was inevitable that the Second Great Age of Exploration should then turn back to the great interior and the marvels of the middle as its new frontier. This great rebirth of exploration retains its predecessor’s spirit of adventure and unwavering resolve to discover. Yet whereas the previous paradigm saw humanity pushing forever outwards, we now resolve instead to probe ever inward. Those who went before reveled in the extraordinary, while we now can extol the glory of the ordinary and the dignity of the commonplace. Moved by this zeitgeist, The National Geographic Center Society was founded in January 2007 with the following goals: 1. To discover and document the geographic center of every state, and 2. To promote the exploration and enjoyment of ordinary people and places everywhere.” Those are admirable and essential goals. You can read more about their adventure, see wonderful pictures of the friends and places they have seen along the way, and even sign up to support or keep up with their travels by visiting their website. There we read about an experience they had at a library in Florida where they couldn’t use the internet because access was reserved for residents only. Those Floridians missed some wonderful, inspiring people. When you think you can’t, take heart from Aaron and Laura who want to and go. Our web wizard, Alex Alexander got their picture with his iPhone. The last we saw of Aaron and Laura they were heading off to Mom’s on Main Street for lunch.
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