Saturday, December 20, 2008

Live from the North Pole!

The North Pole is the center of attention these days. From Santa to Global Warming. This is the link to NOAA's page of North Pole imagery. There is an index of web cam activity and related graphics. The next link is from National Geographic. These are great photos.

NOAA's link is located here: NOAA Link

National Georgraphic has some cool photos of expeditions to the North Pole, and those are located here: National Geographic North Pole photos .


Friday, December 12, 2008

C-SPAN Bus is Visiting on December 16 @ 1:30

The C-SPAN Campaign 2008 Bus is visiting the Headquarters Library on Tuesday, December 16. The bus will be in the Headquarters' parking lot from 1:30 to 3:30. (Click on photo for more information).

The C-SPAN Campaign 2008 Bus is a mobile TV studio and production vehicle that has been traveling the country since 1993. Since that time C-SPAN has been going to high schools, colleges, state capitals, campaign events, and many, many other locations to discuss the media, election, C-SPAN, TV production and public affairs with students, teachers and citizens.


For the past year and a half, they have been attending major campaign events in states across the country, in addition to continuing education and public outreach efforts at schools, colleges and other public forums. While the campaigns are now over, the bus is going to continue in its current capacity until inauguration day January 20th.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

TIME/LIFE Magazine Photo Archive

Whether you like it or not - Google is at it again. Google has archived Time and Life Magazines' images.

Broken down by decade you may search photos from the 1860's...Civil War or 1960's...Space Race. You are able to search by category as well...People, Places, Events, Sports, and Culture.

According to the site, there are millions of images in the Life photo archive. Click here: LIFE .

Friday, December 05, 2008

Library Trustee Publishes Book

Library Trustee, John T.E. Cribb, has published "The American Patriot's Almanac". This is co-published with William Bennett the former US Secretary of Education. The article is located here: LINK