Container Gardens

Tuesday, February 20, at 7 p.m. Kristen McDermott of Good Earth Gardening will present Container Gardens, the second in the library's series of programs on gardening.

Another floral arrangement donated by Ruthie's will be raffled off.

No registration necessary and the program is free and open to the public.

There are many container gardening resources on the web. A couple I found interesting are Container Gardening A Guide to Selected Resources from the Library of Congress Science Reference Services with print and Internet sources on the topic, and a series of Container Gardening articles from CSU/Denver County Cooperative Extension Master Gardener.

Presidents' Day

The library will be closed Monday February 19 for Presidents' Day.

Try this link to the Internet Public Library's Presidents of the US. In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.

Or this for the history of Presidents' Day

Here is an article on the debate over the uniform Monday holiday.

Amber White Photo Exhibit

This is just one of the macro-photographs by Amber White on display in the Ham Community Room during the month of February.

Expanding Services with New Technologies!

Librarians from Bartlett, Center Sandwich, Chocorua, Conway, Conway School District, Effingham, Tamworth and Wolfeboro today had a chance to try out online programs and visit web sites that can be used to expand public library collections and services.

They used Web 2.0 sites to write and save documents, spreadsheets, and bookmarks. They used online photo editing and learned about online storage, web based chat you can add to you web site or blog, and voice over Internet services.

This useful workshop was presented by Bobbi Slossar, technical resource librarian, New Hampshire State Library.

Here are a couple of links to lists of Web 2.0 sites
http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/
http://www.time.com/time/2006/50coolest/