E-rate Deadline for Discounts is March 27th, 2019. Contact Valerie Oliver for help. Her e-mail is valerie.oliver@alaska.gov and her phone number is 907-227-4051
On the State Library’s emerging Tech guide, we’ve updated 3D printing at https://lam.alaska.gov/emergingtech/3dprint
We fixed links, deleted old articles and added PC Magazine’s 2019 roundup of 3d printers, which includes a “what to look for in a 3D printer” section.
Feedback or questions about this guide may be sent to Daniel Cornwall at daniel.cornwall@alaska.gov.
Janey Thompson, Project Coordinator for the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project, continues to mine gems and nuggets of history from Alaska’s historic newspapers and present them to the rest of us. Items posted in March include:
Presenters have started to send the Alaska Library Association (AkLA) materials associated with their 2019 conference presentations. These materials are chiefly presentation slides and handouts. These materials are being linked from the 2019 Conference Schedule. As of 3/15/2019 materials were available for:
Sam Jordan presented “Bringing the World to Your Library via Virtual Fieldtrips” to the 2019 AkLA Conference. He shared his notes with AkLA. Sam highlighted a number of ways that libraries and schools can open students and lifelong learners to environments far from home. Some our favorites were:
From the Gustavus Public Library mailing list, a fun sounding program idea to read about the world:
Readers of all ages! Come pick up your Passport to the World at the library!
Earn stamps in your passport for reading any book/article about part of the world you have never been to.
Every stamp earns you an entry in our raffle, with prizes donated from Sentinel Coffee, Fireweed Gallery Coffee and Tea House, and Wren & Raven Botanicals.
Challenge ends 3/31, so get ready to read!
Have you had a good experience encouraging people to read in a given subject or geography? Let us know!
Some of Sutton Public Library’s events in March sounded like good programming ideas to share:
What sorts of things are you doing at your library or museum? What worked? What didn’t work? Drop us a line.
The March Newsletter of the Clausen Museum in Petersburg starts off with the headline “Spring is just around the corner and your Museum is waking up!”
The museum had been closed for January, but reopened for a self-described frenzy of activities including their first big event of 2019, “Frontier Folk: A Night at Hazel’s.” According to the newsletter:
“Our guests enjoyed a delicious meal, live music, square dancing and a beautifully curated exhibit of historic photos and objects from back in the day. Over 100 guests attended and for the first dance 24 couples took to the dance floor, dancing the Virginia Reel, what a hoot!”
The newsletter also thanked their volunteers and the “Free Radicals”, the musical guests for “Frontier Folk.”
To keep up with the latest happenings at the Clausen Museum, check out their Facebook page.
The Alaska Center for the Book recently passed along this challenge we hope that libraries, archives and museums alike will share with anyone with children from birth to age 8:
Read Aloud 15 MINUTES – a nonprofit organization that is working to make reading aloud every day for at least 15 minutes the new standard in child care, is sponsoring a March 2019 21-Day Challenge. During the Challenge, we ask parents, educators, librarians, and others to engage in the simple activity of reading aloud for at least 15 minutes every day for 21 consecutive days. All of the Challenge materials can be found in the Read Aloud Partner Toolkit. There are posters, tracking charts, certificates, a handout, bookmark, and more.
Guidelines for the 21-Day Read Aloud Challenge:
So please, take up the Challenge and spread the importance of reading aloud.
Medium has a nice collection by Mike Gardner on how writers paid the bills before they were successful as writers. Authors featured are:
There are many ways to feed yourself and be creative.
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