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Basic Facts:
| Name of Library | Sessions |
|---|---|
| Sitka Public Library | 11,742 |
| Kenai Community Library | 3,845 |
| Unalaska Public Library | 1,823 |
| Delta Community Library | 1,116 |
| Seward Community Library and Museum | 1,065 |
Aside from telling you the total number of wireless sessions per month, WhoFi can also document how often your wifi is used for every hour your wifi is on, whether inside the library or out in the parking lot. Learn more at our Getting Wifi Statistics page from our wireless networking guide. If you'd like to sign up your library to WhoFi at no cost to you, please check with your IT people - if you have them - then contact Daniel Cornwall.
In March 2021, the OWL Videoconference Network hosted 202 videoconferences with a total of 1868 participants. Representative videoconferences included:
Remember, if your patrons have home or mobile internet access, you can use your library's instance of Zoom as your virtual meeting room. Your library's account holder would start the meeting. The account holder could either stay and monitor the meeting, or could make one the participants a host and leave the meeting. Ask Daniel, Jack or Kyle to show you how.
If you already have an OWL Zoom account, we ask to give descriptive names to your meetings so we can better document the types of things through OWL. So instead of "LibrarNameHere's Zoom Meeting" or "LibraryNameHere's Personal Meeting Room" something like "LibraryNameHere: Cooking with canned Salmon." THANKS!
If your public or school/public library does not yet have an OWL issued Zoom account to schedule your own videoconferences OR If you are a non-profit, local, state or federal government agency interested in doing outreach/training through library partners, please contact OWL Program Manager Daniel Cornwall.
From our friends at the Alutiiq Museum:
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With the help of local artists and culture bearers, the Alutiiq Museum is creating Unigkuat—Kodiak Alutiiq Legends, a book featuring about forty traditional tales from the Kodiak Archipelago. The publication will compile legends from multiple sources—recordings of Alutiiq Elders, historic sources, and old academic journal articles. The compendium will include everything from creation and origin stories to heroes tales and myths about magical beings. It will also include an introduction on Alutiiq storytelling by Dr. Alisha Drabek, a scholar of Alutiiq literature.
Illustrations for the publication will be created by community members. Publication of the book is expected in November of 2021. Copies will be distributed to local classrooms, libraries, and tribes and available in the museum store. The museum also plans to share the book as an electronic publication, available for download from its website.
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Last month, the Peninsula Clarion ran a story about the Soldotna Public Library installing a StoryWalk at Soldotna Creek Park this summer. A StoryWalk consists of a trail with signs holding pages from a picture book. You start with the first page, then walk to the second page and so on. Because of copyright law, story walks usually use dismembered book pages. While photocopying book pages and posting the copies on poles would violate copyright, taking the book apart and posting one page per post/sign is a use of the First Sale Doctrine which states that once you buy a book, what you do with it afterwards is nobody's business but your own. First Sale Doctrine also enables used book stores and libraries to exist.
For more about Soldotna's planned Story Walk, see:
PC Magazine recently reported that some kindle owners will be able to use the cover of the current book they are reading as their Kindle lock screen. This sounds like it could be fun, depending on what you're reading. For details on which Kindles have this feature and how to activate it, see:
Kindle Owners Can Now Use Book Covers as Lock Screen Wallpapers - Not all Kindle models are supported, and ads need to be turned off, which can cost $20. By Matthew Humphries. PC Magazine, 4/16/2021.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a new science brief on the possibility of COVID-19 infections from contaminated surfaces:
Science Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Surface (Fomite) Transmission for Indoor Community Environments. Updated Apr. 5, 2021
The brief concludes that the risk of catching COVID-19 from a surface (books, tables, furniture) is extremely low. From the brief:
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Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) studies have been conducted to understand and characterize the relative risk of SARS-CoV-2 fomite transmission and evaluate the need for and effectiveness of prevention measures to reduce risk. Findings of these studies suggest that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection via the fomite transmission route is low, and generally less than 1 in 10,000, which means that each contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection.
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