Posted in Teens on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Albany schools started back up this week and teens will soon be busier than ever with classes, extracurricular activities, and new friends. That’s why we want to remind you about all the resources the library offers that you can access from home whenever it’s convenient for you. Students in grades 4 through 12 or doing college [...]
Posted in Albany Book Reviews, Books, Reading on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Summer is almost over - one last long weekend to read something wonderful. I asked members of the Friends of the Albany Library, and some others to share their best book of the summer.
Friends’ president, Clara-Rae Genser said “the best book I have read this summer is David McCollough’s 1776. The Revolutionary War as we never [...]
Posted in Julie's Column on Monday, August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
This column ran in the Journal on August 24, 2007
“In August/it will be so hot/I will become/a cooking pot/cooking soup of course./Why not?/Cooking once/cooking twice/cooking chicken soup/with rice.” From Maurice Sendak’s “Chicken Soup with Rice”
As my third summer as a children’s librarian winds down, I have been thinking about summer reading games. We actually have [...]
Posted in Historical Photographs on Friday, August 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Karen Sorensen and the Albany Historical Society have assembled a new book on the history of Albany, published by Arcadia Press as part of its “Images of America” series and featuring over 200 photographs covering the history of Albany decade by decade. The book draws heavily on the Albany Library’s Historical Photograph collection, including early photos [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The following is a “guest” post from Albany City Administrator, Beth Pollard, who was invited to participate in a national dialogue on libraries and local government sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
from Beth:
Last week I attended the first meeting of the Local Government-Public Library Partnership Initiative, a one-year project to explore how city and [...]
Posted in Books, Reading, Teens on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
If you believe the USA Today bestseller list, more people bought Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer during the second week of August than bought the final Harry Potter book. This is the third in the Twilight series, a vampires-in-love saga for young adults. (You can reserve the first and second books in the series, Twilight and [...]
Posted in Julie's Column on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This column appeared in the Journal on August 17, 2007
“What are shortcut keys? You can quickly accomplish tasks you perform frequently by using shortcut keys — one or more keys you press on the keyboard to complete a task.” From the Microsoft Word Help menu
I recently found myself yet again demonstrating keyboard shortcuts for a [...]
Posted in Library Programs on Friday, August 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Every month the Albany Library presents a special evening dedicated to listening to poetry. Held on the first Thursday, this free event includes a featured poet followed by an open mic. For September 6, our featured poet is Brenda Hillman.
Brenda Hillman explores post-modern lyricism, plurality of voice, Romantic concepts of nature and spirit, and political [...]
Posted in Books, Reading, Teens on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | No Comments »
All those “Back to School” sales are making it hard to ignore the fact that summer’s coming to an end and school days are only a couple of weeks away. But it’s not too late to read a few more good books, whether to distract yourself from reality or to prepare for the new school [...]
Posted in Library Programs on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | No Comments »
For the final children’s program of the summer, Wildlife Associates brought four amazing animals to the library on August 14: Mocha, the sloth; Uncle Fester, a giant prehensile-tailed skink; Benny the binturong; and a turkey vulture named Lurch. It was an inspiring and educational conclusion to our summer offerings.
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