http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ The Takoma Park Maryland Library staff web log. en-us karen.macpherson@gmail.com 2009-07-01T16:43:10-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001837.html Monday, July 6 __ 7 p.m. – Bedtime Stories (for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their grown-ups) Tuesday, July 7 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, July 8 __ 11 a.m. – Wonderful One (program is full) Thursday, July 9 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time 1837@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-07-01T16:43:10-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001830.html Monday, June 29 __ 7 p.m. – Shadow Puppets (Note: Program is full) Tuesday, June 30 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, July 1 __ 11 a.m. – Wonderful Ones (Note: program is full) Thursday, July 2 __ 10 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time 1830@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-06-24T16:16:12-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001817.html Monday, June 22 __ 7:30 p.m. – Banned Book Club. Our book is “Harriet the Spy.” Pre-registration is required. Tuesday, June 23 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, June 24 __ 11 a.m. – Lapsit (Note: Program is full) Thursday, June 25 __ 10 a.m. (NEW TIME) Spanish Circle Time Friday, June 26 __ 11 a.m. – TPCDC – Storytime for five-year-olds Saturday, June 27 __ 10:30 a.m. – French Circle Time 1817@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-06-18T14:39:38-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001808.html Monday, June 15 __ 7:30 – Summer Quest kick-off. Registration encouraged. Tuesday, June 16 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, June 17 __ Lapsit program (Note: program is ful) Thursday, June 18 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time 1808@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-06-09T14:31:10-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001805.html Monday, June 8 __ 1:40 – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – presentation on audio books and Summer Quest __ 6:30 p.m. – Make a gift for your dad and teacher (Pre-registration required). Tuesday, June 9 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, June 10 __ 11 a.m. – Lapsit (Pre-registration required) __1:40 – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – presentation on audio books and Summer Quest Thursday, June 11 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time 1805@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-06-08T13:34:15-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001801.html You can sitor stand. Find a quiet corner in the Senior Roomor in Computer Room A. Share a table in the library.Actually wireless just means a wireless internet connection. Most people here are still plugging into the wall for electricity. 1801@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-06-05T20:02:25-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001787.html Monday, June 1 __ 7 p.m. – Bedtime Stories Tuesday, June 2 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, June 3 __ 11 a.m. – Lapsit (Pre-registration required) __ 1:40 p.m. – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – presentation on audio books and Summer Quest Thursday, June 4 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time 1787@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-05-29T16:52:33-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001782.html Tuesday, May 26 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, May 27 __ 11 a.m. – Twosies (Note: program is full) __ 1:40 – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – Summer reading presentation __ 7:30 p.m. – Shakespeare Circus program (great for kids ages 5 and up) Thursday, May 28 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time Friday, May 29 __ 11 a.m. – program for Takoma Park Child Development Center 5-year-old class Saturday, May 28 __ 10:30 a.m. -- French Circle Time 1782@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-05-21T16:52:29-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001777.html Visit the Takoma Mosaic Project. Lend a hand. Other mosaics? Even been to Ostea Antica ? It serves as setting for some interesting novels, such as Lindsey Davis' Scandal Takes A Holiday and Caroline Lawrence's Thieves of Ostea. We own both. Also in the library: 738.5 KELLY The complete mosaic handbook : projects, techniques, designs 738.5 GOODWIN Decorative mosaics O 709 U58 Greece : Byzantine mosaics O 709 U58 Israel: ancient mosaics 738.5 DIERKS Making mosaics : designs, techniques & projects 738.5 H498 Mosaic patterns 738.5 CHEEK Mosaics : design sourcebook O means that the book is huge and shelved among the oversized books. 1777@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-05-15T14:40:10-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001774.html Monday, May 18 __ 1:40 – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – presentation on poetry __ 7 p.m. – Bedtime Stories Tuesday, May 19 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time __ Noon-3 p.m. – (At Rolling Terrace Elementary School) – presentation on librarian’s many “hats” Wednesday, May 20 __ 11 a.m. – Twosies (Note: program is full) __ 7 p.m. –Tween Writing Club (Note: program is full) Thursday, May 21 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time Saturday, May 23 __ 10:30 a.m. – Madama Butterfly program with Washington National Opera for ages 4-10 with their families. Pre-registration required. 1774@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-05-14T11:06:07-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001763.html Note: It’s Children’s Book Week and we will be celebrating all week by having kids make their own bookmarks and by asking kids and grown-ups to fill out a brief form telling us what are their favorite children’s books and why they are such favorites. Monday, May 11 __ 1:40 – Piney Branch Elementary Branch School 4th graders – presentation on mysteries __ 7:30 p.m. – Banned Books Club (Our books are “The Great Gilly Hopkins” and “Bridge To Terabithia”) Tuesday, May 12 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, May 13 __ 11 a.m. – “Twosies” (Note: program is full) __ 1:40 p.m. – Piney Branch 4th graders – presentation on poetry Thursday, May 14 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time Friday, May 15 __ 4 p.m. – Comics Jam (postponed from May 8) Saturday, May 16 __ 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. – Friends of the Library Book Sale __ 10:30 a.m. – Circle Time 1763@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-05-07T14:03:40-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001755.html Monday, May 4 __ 1:40 p.m. – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – presentation on poetry __ 6:30-8 p.m. – Mother’s Day Craft program –(Note: pre-registration required.) Tuesday, May 5 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time Wednesday, May 6 __ 11 a.m. – Twosies (Note: pre-registration required) __ 1:40 p.m. – Piney Branch Elementary School 4th graders – presentation on poetry Thursday, May 7 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time Friday, May 8 __ 4 p.m. – Comics Jam 1755@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-05-01T17:08:07-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001747.html Today the Capitol honors Sojourner Truth. Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ar'n't I a woman? Join us for our 11th Annual Favorite Poem Evening at the Library Thursday April 30, 2009 7:30-9:00 And please volunteer to read. Contact the library director, Ellen Robbins, at 301.891.7259. Today is the deadline. Senior Poetry Workshop sponsored by the Silver Foxes Seniors Club. Saturdays May 2, 9 and 16, 3-5 PM, in the Community Center. Free, but limited to twelve participants. Please call Paula Lisowski to register: 301.891.7280 1747@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-04-28T14:31:02-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001743.html At this writing, the temperature is 91F here at the library. Such heat in April is presumably just a statistical anomaly. But apart from these weather fluctuations, which are expected from time to time, has our climate changed? The traditional USDA zone map, last redrawn in 1990, was calculated using average annual minimum temperatures, based on the lowest temperatures recorded for each of the years 1974 to 1986. In 2003 the map went online with a bit of refinement, including the subdivision of many zones into two parts, one slightly colder and one slightly warmer. So zone 6, where we sat in 1990, was subsequently divided into 6a and 6b. If you go here and put in the zip 20912, you will be told that you live in zone 6b. If you put in 20012, which is only 4 blocks from the library, you will get 7a. Clearly, according to the USDA map in current use, we are right on the USDA 6/7 border which would mean the average annual low temperature should be almost exactly zero F. Confusing as that is, perhaps the map itself no longer describes our local climate. - Try 20912 at most garden company sites and you will get zone USDA 6. example They have good reason to be conservative as they don't want their plants to fail. - But here? 20912 gives zone 7. - 20912 input here will give you 7/8. Eight? Don't get excited - their map puts us in the northern part of 7. Why the variation? Because the Arbor Day Foundation proposes changes to the traditional map, arguing that some areas have warmed a whole zone. Look at their animation. First click play, then differences. Some web sites pull their data from the USDA zone map, others consider the Arbor Day calculations. Sometime this year the USDA is expected to finally release a new map based on 30 year averages. This is likely to show a northward drift of the zones in many locations, as the Arbor Day maps currently do. (Some background on the Arbor Day map.) Additional explanations here and here. And is average cold temperature, whatever it may be, even the most appropriate guide? You can also find your heat zone. And for 20912 it is .... 7. Now 93F. Feels like zone 10. 1743@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-04-26T15:57:58-05:00 http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001742.html Monday, April 27 __ 1:40 – Piney Branch 4th Graders – presentation on mysteries Tuesday, April 28 __ 10 a.m. – Circle Time __ 11 a.m. – Circle Time __ 1:40 – Piney Branch 5th Graders – presentation on researching topics Wednesday, April 29 __ 11 a.m. – Wonderful Ones __ 1:40 p.m. – Piney Branch 4th graders – presentation on poetry __ 7 p.m. – Spring Into Poetry program (please register) Thursday, April 30 __ 11 a.m. – Spanish Circle Time __ 7:30 p.m. – Favorite Poem Night 1742@http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/ 2009-04-24T10:22:00-05:00