From the Read in Ned columns published in The Mountain-Ear and the Gilpin Weekly Register-Call newspapers
HOW DO YOU LIBRARY? Celebrate National Library Week with Us! ...by Tom Lambrecht
BIRTHDAYS, SEEDS, COFFINS, EXPERIENCES, NEW TRUSTEES Look what's happening in March at your library! ...by Elektra Greer
INTRODUCING THE PLAYAWAY LAUNCHPAD These little tablets offer pre-loaded, educational activities to our young friends who are learning their letters, numbers, working on their engineering skills, or just want to work on some puzzles. ...by Michael Sivcovich
CALL FOR ARTISTS AT THE LIBRARY This is an Open Call for artists to display their works at the Nederland Community Library...and a look at upcoming events ...by Marni Siegal
Happy New Year! Have you heard????….robots are coming; augmented reality has arrived and Alexia can read your child a bedtime story. So who needs a library anyway? Turns out, we all do! Self-driving, voice-activated, bitcoin-funded cars may be the exciting…
TALES FOR A WINTER NIGHT There is no better time to share stories aloud than this solstice season. Don't be shy, the night wind needs a good story...by Elektra Greer
DIGITAL HOUSECLEANING If your desktop, like ours, is littered with defunct program icons, ancient files and other flotsam, it’s an indication of even more digital garbage tucked away in your file system. This clutter can slow your computer down and the disorder makes it maddening to find the document, file or image you’re looking for ...by Tom Lambrecht
The season for Whodunnits, our own Pumpkin Bake-off, new books and Holiday festivities by Elektra Greer As Autumn’s woodfire smoke and shimmering leaves embrace us in their evanescent glory, it’s near-impossible to resist waxing poetic on the metaphors of the…
GREAT TRAVEL RESOURCES AT NCL In my last coIumn I thought it appropriate to encourage everyone to take advantage of the great travel resources available through NCL’s print collection and our e-resources in Overdrive and 3M. ...by Roberta Brown-Jones
SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND National Science Foundation grant-funded “Science Cafe” book club: Yuval Noah Harari's weighty tome was first published in Israel in Hebrew in 2011 and was so popular that it was published in English and numerous other languages in 2014. He takes an astounding amount of information and distills it into a book that is both informative and very readable for lay people ...by Roberta Brown-Jones