A project of the Pew Research Center has released survey findings which show that 75% of American adults are active in a voluntary group or organization, and that Internet users are more likely than others to be involved in such activities. Pew’s Internet & American Life Project reports that 80% of Internet users participate in [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009
Our new book display next to the circulation desk at Peninsula Center features energy and the environment. At a time of apparent climate change and dwindling natural resources, we’ve all become sensitized to issues of conservation and the size of carbon footprints. Check out the display and find materials addressing such individual decisions as getting rid [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Interest in mortuary science as a career has spiked historically when the unemployment rate reaches 8%. The current recession has seen an increase in enrollment in such programs of 20% over last year. Cypress College in Orange County provides the only mortuary science program locally. Those in the undertaking business stress that interest in the [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Take a look at our new custom-made book display cart near the circulation desk at Peninsula Center. This beautiful object was built by Sid Wielin, one of our volunteers. We now have an elegant space for short-term topical collections, with room for many more books shelved cover-forward. Thanks for your labor of love, Sid! The current display [...]
Friday, June 19, 2009
The number of people who smoke cigarettes infrequently, so-called social smokers, is on the rise, according to a recently published study. The authors of the study claim that tobacco companies targeted occasional smokers in their advertising, attempting to convey smoking as an aid to social interaction. Such individuals often do not consider themselves smokers: they aren’t [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Forty years ago this week, at a conference hall in San Francisco, a Stanford computer researcher demonstrated the first personal computer. The device had a mouse and monitor, and featured rudimentary tools which enabled moving among documents, as well as text and graphics editing ability. The scientist who headed the development team envisioned a computer [...]
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Celebrate your freedom to read by selecting a title from this list of banned books (PDF file).
Monday, October 6, 2008
Dr. Edward Klima, professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California San Diego, died last month at age 77. Klima’s research on American Sign Language helped establish ASL as “real” communication, equal in status to other world languages. With his wife Ursula Bellugi, Klima wrote The Signs of Language, a seminal work on how [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
In his book Bad Money, published five months ago, Kevin Phillips warned about the financial crisis hitting Wall Street in recent weeks. He is a former political strategist for Richard Nixon and architect of the Republican “Southern strategy,” who predicted the red state/blue state divide in U.S. politics. Phillips blames the current crisis on the use of [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
2009 will mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. As part of that commemoration, the city of Louisville is about to have a bronze statue of the Kentucky-born president cast for its 72-acre Waterfront Park on the Ohio River. The memorial will also include a four part bas relief flanking a path leading to the [...]
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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