11 posts tagged “dayton metro library”

Ever one to try to bring culture to the masses (snicker on many levels) my latest blog for the DML website is about all the nifty foreign movies Trent and I have seen recently which are now out or are coming out soon on DVD. You can follow this link to read the whole post:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/03/movies-worth-reading.html

OR you can just get out and try to see Tell No One, Waltz With Bashir, I've Loved you So Long, and Let the Right One In. There's something there for everyone! Thriller, taught family drama, animated masterpiece/war movie, ingenious horror flick.

Have fun!

Striving to pass on the trivia in my noggin, I wrote another blog for Dayton Metro...books by people famous for other things...you probably know about some of these:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/who-wrote-book-about-what.html

Gotta love Jaime Lee Curtis's children's books...but must laugh at Judge Judy writing a book (on many levels, her titles are worth a giggle in and of themselves).

I have two blog entries over at Dayton Metro Library. The first on a nifty quick and dirty readers' advisory tool I found online (that does movies too) from Germany noless...and the second is all about the Buddhist idea of Mindfulness going secular. Check them out:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/every-book-its-reader.html

Just type in your favorite author and get some suggestions in a spiffy cloud. You can also participate in this projuct by answering quick questions about what you like to read or watch.

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/pervasive-mindfulness.html

Mindfulness has been working its way into every day Western life...here are some good books (relatively new) on the topic...I have more on order about gardening and child rearing...seems second only to "Green" as the topic to talk about.

I have been a weeding (of books) fool at work. TRYING to make it through the shelves and shelves in storage of 100's...philosophy, psychology, parapsychology, and self-help...I make sure the books are in the right place, that we don't have too many copies of titles...and that we don't have outdated or dangerous info. I also mend books as I go.

I noticed on this most recent pass through of the self-helpish area that we had a lot of former best sellers down there. So I thought I would bring them back to the attention of our patrons with a blog entry:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/formerly-bestselling-now-awaiting-your.html

Now I can see if they circulate more :-)

Yes, I AM a Librarian to the core...

Oops, I missed this blog entry that I wrote when it came up on DML's website. It highlights a fun (and instructional) website...from which you can print off a beautiful and funny (and instructional) calendar. I've done so for the past three years. now you can too!

Just visit: http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/wild-weeds-at-our-national-parks.html and follow the link to the National Parks Service website. Learn about invasive alien plants (doesn't that sound funny enough?) and  print the calendar.

This year's theme is fake magazine covers (last year was movie posters...but that's all in the blog at DML...)

Be a better writer by reading something BAD.

One of my professors in college (Steve Bauer, Constance Pierce, Kay Sloan, Daniel Keyes, or Chris Tilghman) said something to the effect that you can learn much more from a poorly written novel than you can from the masters. I guess the upshot is you can SEE what they've done wrong & how to fix it...and avoid it yourself.

As a book reviewer, I have to say that suffering through some of the things I have had to read should have made me a bestselling author by now! You've heard me talk about the "eye bleeders" here before...anyhoo, I wrote a blog entry for DML about it & you can find it here:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/learn-from-less-than-perfect.html

I have only been hunted down by two authors I have said negative things about (one in a review and one on Goodreads) But I have been quoted on tons of book covers (as I've said in my posts on blurbing) & been thanked for saying nice things by many more...a few authors have even read my reviews and SENT me their books to review. THAT'S neat.

Like I haven't babbled enough about her here...now I have a new outlet! The Dayton Metro Library Blog!

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2008/12/mare-winningham.html

What will I find to babble about nest?

Only time will tell!

Another Blog by Moi at Dayton Metro's "Best B.E.T.s" Blog.

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2008/12/spice-up-your-search.html

The two websites profiled are a hoot! Try searching your name on the Ms.Dewey website. If she says the same thing to you she said to me, you'll laugh so hard, you'll cry.

:-)

Everyone has one, mine is the first CD we pop in every year...at least for the past 8! I was listening to it and singing along on the way into work the other day & I thought...hmm this could make a good Dayton Metro Blog entry! So I do-ed it:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2008/12/tis-season.html

Come on, it's a new Blog & my bosses are counting the clicks...if I can up the visits by making YOU click on it :-) I will!

Dwa-ha-ha!

One of my earlier contributions to the ADS Blog was on the site last month!

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2008/11/phone-numbers.html

I am just so dang helpful!