Tag: Seldovia Public Library
Fiddle or Violin?
by Rosanna McInnes
Join us on Friday, June 21st, at 2 p.m. for a live video teleconference from The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee!
We’ll have a family friendly lesson on the differences between a fiddle and violin. See and hear a country music artist and a musician from the Nashville Symphony explain the differences through playing & discussion. Plenty of time for questions and answers afterwards.
We worked with the Seldovia Arts Council on this one. Come help us kick off their Summer Solstice Festival!
Seldovia Public Library’s Search Catalog Goes Online
by Tracie Merrill
Wow folks – this is big! Tired of having to ask one of our librarians if we have a particular book or movie in our collection? Want to know before you walk into the library? Well, now you can – anytime and anywhere. You can now search our catalog from any computer – that’s right. You can now search our collection online on any of the computers inside the library or from your own home computer.
The Seldovia Public Library Board is so excited to now offer this service to library patrons. Just go to our library website and click the link labeled “Seldovia Public Library search” on the left-hand side. The link is just below “SEARCH THE LIBRARY’S CATALOG ONLINE.” We hope all of you enjoy this new service and the convenience it provides. Try it out!
Pearl Harbor: Inside the Vault
by Rosanna McInnes – Seldovia Public Library
Join us on Tuesday Evening at 6:45 p.m. on June 4th at the Seldovia Public Library for a Live Video Teleconference from Honolulu Hawaii! Inside the Vault: The Curators Series is a program that allows students to view artifacts that are currently not on display. Fuchida’s bible, silverware off the USS ARIZONA, the Jitterbug trophy awarded at the “Battle of Bands” December 6, 1941, Admiral Kidd’s cup holder. These are a few of the incredible artifacts preserved from the event.
Also on display are rare images from the 14th Naval District Historic Photo Collection. These photos illustrate the development of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack and the massive salvage operation that followed. A video showing the Arizona Memorial Museum Association’s Tom Freeman paintings which are currently not on display, is shown with a voice over interpretive lesson by the museum curator.
Spring is in the Air, and Flowers aren’t the only things Growing!
by Tracie Merrill
The Seldovia Public Library board is very pleased to announce that the library is expanding into the courtroom space downstairs in the library/multipurpose building.
The downstairs space will house our Alaska collection of adult books, a new computer (or two) received from an Online With Libraries (OWL) grant, as well as our video-teleconference equipment.
Within the coming year, we hope to renovate and furnish this room with new flooring, window treatments, paint, furniture, and improvements to the bookcases. In the meantime, please pardon this room’s appearance as we undergo our “growing pains.”
This Saturday (the 13th), library staff will be moving our Alaska collection downstairs. If you would like to help, please come to the library at 4:00 pm. The public’s help is always welcomed. Library staff will be showing up a little earlier than this, and board members even earlier, to undergo some training that day.
After an hour of hard work, come sit back, relax, and join us for movie night at 6:15 pm as we watch Rise of the Guardians. Hope to see you there!
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