The purpose of The Amphibian Ark Global Campaign: “2008 Year of the Frog” is to disseminate information about the amphibian extinction crisis. To learn more about this important issue visit http://www.amphibianark.org/yearofthefrog.htm . Amphibian Ark’s stated purpose “is to generate public awareness and understanding of the amphibian extinction crisis which represents the greatest species conservation challenge in the history [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 25, 2008
Library Thing
Love Books and Libraries? If you do, you will enjoy a visit (or two, or more) to Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com). Library Thing is an ingenious website that lets you catalog your own books on the Internet. You can also label them with “tags” that are representative of some aspect of the book, and/or meaningful to [...]
February 15, 2008
A Needle in a Haystack
Earlier this week , Library Director Catherine Creedon presented “Needle in a Haystack,” an hour-long class on finding what you’re looking for on the Internet (which can be a daunting prospect even for experienced web surfers). This well attended class was a big hit and will be repeated in March. (Check the Library’s online calendar, [...]
February 8, 2008
Six-Word Memoirs
Recently on National Public Radio I heard part of a story about a book called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Famous and Obscure Writers by the editors of the on-line magazine, Smith. To introduce the topic, Smith’s editors quoted a possibly apocryphal story about Ernest Hemingway, who, when asked to write a story [...]
