Waste and recycling service provider, Veolia, is backing Library of Things which is helping to boost skills in London with repair workshops to cut waste electronics and textiles.

Why buy when you can fix? Thats the message from Veolia and Library of Things which have teamed up to boost Londons skill-sharing economy and combat its unsustainable throwaway culture.

Crystal Palace Library of Things is a place where you can borrow useful things like drills, gazebos and carpet cleaners at affordable prices and learn how to use them. Supported by Veolias Recycling Fund for Communities, Library of Things in Crystal Palace will now also deliver six repair workshops and 10 mending meet-ups during 2020.

The sessions will equip residents with the skills to fix broken electronics and mend textiles, so they can carry on using them, rather than throwing them away.

Accessible to residents from all over London, the scheme is expected to upskill over 350 residents throughout the year and reduce 300kg of waste from being produced.

The workshops will connect residents with skilled volunteers who will work with residents to repair electronic and textile items. Veolias recycling experts will also attend events to share advice and tips on being sustainable.

Rachel Jay, Regional Communications Manager for Veolia London said: Were passionate about supporting projects that protect our resources and our planet by reducing, reusing and recycling.

"By supporting Library of things skill sharing events, were helping to give residents the tools to adopt sustainable waste behaviours, and deliver lasting benefits to the environment.

Rebecca Trevalyan, Co-Director of Crystal Palace Library of Things added: Were delighted Veolia is helping us to develop the repair events weve started with the Crystal Palace community. To date, Library of Things has prevented over 15,900 kilograms of waste through such events, and through our item lending service.

"Participants tell us they use Library of Things because it helps them save money, but increasingly because they want to live in a more environmentally-friendly way too.

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On Feb. 1, just an ordinary Friday, Jim Stewart checked a box of fresh donations.

Only it wasnt an ordinary Friday, because four of the books left by an anonymous donor outside the Riford Librarys Friends of La Jolla Library (FOLL) Bookstore were signed by their author.

That would be Samuel Clemens, more popularly known as Mark Twain.

Something like that will happen once a year or so, said Stewart, the former assistant head master at Gillispie School who, for the past three years, has volunteered as FOLLs manager.

Established at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library many years before the Riford opened in 1989 as the main La Jolla branch FOLL has grown into a full-service bookstore with thousands of constantly cycling books, DVDs and magazine titles.

As customers take from the shelves, the empty spaces are filled by new product stocked in a back office thats always either manned or locked. Here, hundreds of new weekly donations are sorted, cleaned and priced by 21 volunteers, each of whom has a knowledge specialty.

Mine is hardcover fiction, humor, foreign language, short story, poetry and drama, said La Jolla resident Karla Farley, who has volunteered here for two years. I love it because its the bookstore I always wanted to have. I love books, so thats the first thing. But I also like the idea of someone saying, Do you have any books by so-and-so? and being able to find them.

As Farley finished her thought, Casa de Manana resident Pat Canan, an occasional customer, walked in as a donor instead. He dropped off a book about number theory.

It was an old textbook from a long time ago, he explained. I kept it all these years because I thought Id want to refresh. But not anymore.

Volunteer Jim Stewart holds open one book in a 15-volume Mark Twain set recently donated to the library by an anonymous donor.

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Youre not likely to find a treasure on these shelves that will change your tax bracket. Those are separated from the herd before the books see the publicly displayed shelves. (Stewart immediately sent the four signed Clemens books to PBA Galleries, a Berkeley-based rare-book appraiser and auctioneer, for their opinion.)

If theres a chance that its a book of significant value, well do research, Farley said. Well check on eBay and some of the auction sites, and if thats the case, Jim will try to sell it online.

However, FOLLs prices are garage-sale good. (Three random books selected by the Light sold for $1 each the most common pricetag while selling on Amazon for an average of $8 each.)

Later, Susan McLeod (another Casa de Manana resident) entered the FOLL office with four purchases: The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers by Lisa Campbell Ernst (for her granddaughter), Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations by Judith Viorst (for her daughter), Carnegies Maid by Marie Benedict (for her book club), and A Man of Parts: A Novel by David Lodge (just for her).

Her grand total: $3.50.

Even at these low prices, FOLL was able to raise $45,852 last year for the Riford and 32 other San Diego Library branches. (About half of that is matched by the City of San Diego, Stewart said, sometimes doubling the total.) All proceeds raised by all friends of bookstores are distributed equally to all branches.

We want to make sure that money is going to other libraries, too, Stewart explained, because San Ysidro might not have the resources that La Jolla does.

Any books that cant be sold either due to their condition when they first arrive or to being on FOLLs shelves too long are donated to the VA hospital, where they are given out free to patients.

As this interview drew to a close, Stewart expressed second thoughts about having revealed his bookstores Mark Twain jackpot.

Now the donors are going to see your article and go, Oh my God, look at what we gave them, he said.

Except that the Light noticed the date printed on the remaining unsigned books from the same published Samuel Clemens collection: 1917. Unless the author famous for writing reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated was able to sign his name seven years after he died, the donor neednt feel that bad.

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CARMEL On Monday Ashlee Wright had to detour around a series of plywood walls in Carmels Harrison Memorial Library to get to a temporary check-out counter. And she couldnt be happier.

Wright, the library director, is overseeing a $372,000 upgrade that when completed will provide the community with a long-sought-after community meeting room.

Construction began last week on the most extensive renovation the library has seen in decades. The project is being funded entirely through donations, Wright said. The only involvement the city of Carmel has is in providing project management.

Carmel is a community that likes to read, Wright said, herself having been introduced to the love of reading by her mother in the same library.

The numbers bear out the support the library receives and the services it provides. The library is home to 60,000 books and roughly 104,000 items, mostly books and DVDs, are checked out annually. Add to that some 37,000 uses of digital resources such as eBooks and research links and the library quickly becomes an important part of the Carmel community, as well as a regional source of local history.

The new room will be reconfigured as an enclosed space that will serve as a community meeting place. It will be home to several library programs and serve as an after-school study area.

There have been attempts in the past to create a gathering place but they were never accomplished, Wright said. There have been a lot of requests by the public for such a meeting place, including a number of book clubs that have been asking.

The Carmel Public Library Foundation has been key to the success of the library, Wright said. While the city pays for eight full-time staff members and maintenance, 100% of the books, materials, programs, equipment and services are provided by the foundation through donations.

Wright pointed to Lacy Williams Buck as a key financial supporter of the library community. Buck, a Carmel native, had a childhood experience similar to Wrights.

As a child, she would study in the library, Wright said. She funded our history room and was excited about helping to fund the new gathering place. Lacy is one of the kindest people.

Few communities of some 4,000 residents can boast they have two library branches. In addition to the Harrison Memorial Library, the Carmel Public Library also includes the Park Branch Library, which contains the local history archives, childrens books and resources and the librarys administrative offices.

Original construction on the Harrison Memorial Library was completed in 1928, but library services date back even farther.

Library resources in Carmel date back to 1906, the date of the great San Francisco earthquake, when the Carmel Free Library Association began lending books from a little redwood building in the village. For a fee of $1 per year, people could borrow any one of 500 books from the Associations Reading Room heated by a wood-burning stove. A fireplace is still a part of the librarys interior.

The library was named after Ralph Harrison, a California Supreme Court justice who, in 1896, was named president of the San Francisco Public Library.

Jumping ahead a century, Wright recalls visiting her grandparents in Carmel when she was a teen and always making the library a destination. Even when she was finishing up her graduate degree in library sciences, Wright said she knew she would be back to the library in Carmel.

It embodies the essence of a library, she said. It retains its feeling as a library. You can feel it when you walk in, like the building had bones.

Now, some of those bones are getting a well-deserved upgrade.

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Indigenous and Hispanic Programs Featured Among Content from Five Contributing Organizations

Two-Year Digitization Project funded with $485,000 grant from The Council on Library and Information Resources

BOSTON (February 11, 2020) New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) and The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) announced today a collaborative effort to digitize, preserve and make accessible historic television and radio programs produced by New Mexico public media organizations. The resulting online collection, which dates back 50 years, will be rescued from deteriorating and obsolete formats. The programs will showcase the richness and complexity of New Mexicos social, political, cultural and artistic landscape, with content by and about underrepresented topics and communities, including New Mexicos indigenous and Hispanic populations. The two-year New Mexico Public Media (NMPM) Digitization Project is made possible by a $485,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Were delighted to be able to make this treasure trove of New Mexico history and culture, produced by public media organizations from all corners of the state, available to all, said NMPBS General Manager and CEO Franz Joachim. We are confident scholars, journalists, educators, and anyone with an interest in New Mexicos rich and multicultural society will find inspiration in this newly accessible and searchable online resource.

The New Mexico public media collection provides an in-depth record of New Mexicos diverse political, social, cultural and artistic life in program series, documentaries and special event programs. The collection consists of programs produced between 1970 and 2018 by five New Mexico radio and television broadcasters: NMPBS; KRWG (PBS) in southwestern New Mexico; KENW (PBS) in eastern New Mexico; KUNM (FM) at the University of New Mexico; and KANW (FM) in Albuquerque, in collaboration with David G. Griffin, Griffin and Associates. Largely unseen and unheard since they were first broadcast, the programs currently risk deterioration on obsolete formats such as fragile 1, beta, and cassette audio tape.

These programs will be the first contributed from New Mexico to the AAPB, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and Boston public media producer WGBH. Over the course of the digitization project, NMPBS, KUNM, KENW, KRWG, and KANW in collaboration with David G. Griffin, Griffin and Associates will provide digitized copies of nearly 9,000 programs to be preserved in the Library of Congress. Many of these will be made accessible online by WGBH on the AAPB website at americanarchive.org. All will be available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress and WGBH.

Were excited to welcome a fantastic collection to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and to serve as its digital home, said Karen Cariani, the David O. Ives Executive Director of WGBH Media Library and Archives. From a Peabody award-winning documentary about the Pueblo peoples, to the history of nuclear weapons development, to Spanish-language radio, the New Mexico Public Media Digitization Project offers a unique cross section of New Mexicos growth, diversity, science and culture for all to explore.

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About the American Archive of Public Broadcasting The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 100,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 100 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 51,000 files are available online at americanarchive.org.

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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OPEN HOUSE: An information session will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at the North Branch Library, 232 Northern Ave. E. from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Canadian Red Cross Algoma Public Health, Vulnerable Persons Registry, Sault Fire Services and the City of Sault Ste. Marie will present information on what it takes to be prepared for 72 hours without power. Prizes and light refreshments will be provided.

RETRO VIDEO GAMES: Retro Video Gaming Night is back at the James L. McIntyre Centennial Library, 50 East St. Get your game on with: Atari, Intellivision, ColecoVision, TurboGrafx-l6, Sega, PlayStation and Xbox. Register now for the remaining Retro Video Gaming Nights: Thursday, Feb. 27 Disney Night 2; Thursday, March 26, TBD; Thursday, April 30 TBD. Gaming nights will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. All ages are welcome. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Register by phone or in person at the Reference and Information desk. Space is limited. Call 705-759-5236 to register.

BOOK CLUB: North Branch Public Library, 232C Northern Ave. E., invites participants to a single event book Club on Tuesday, March 3, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Registration begins in person on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. This event is free, but space is limited. For all inquiries call the North Branch at 705-759-5248.

RADON GAS: Ontario Lung Association and Sault Ste. Marie Public Library have teamed up to help residents screen for radon gas, believed to cause cancer. Test kits will be available at James L. McIntyre Centennial Library, 50 East St. and at North Branch, 232C Northern Ave. E., for a six-week loan period. Learn more about radon and other lung health issues at lungontario.ca/radon or the Lung Health Line, 1-888-344-5864 (LUNG). For more information about the program call Helena Huopalainen, manager of community engagement, 705-759-5243.

POETRY: Poetry Circle North has resumed at James L. McIntyre Centennial Library, 50 East St. Meetings will continue on the first Wednesday of every month, with the final session on June 3. Meetings take place in the Computer Commons Room from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Register at 705-759-5236. Everyone is welcome to bring poetry to share.

KNITTERS CIRCLE: Join fellow knitters at the James L. McIntyre Centennial Library, on Wednesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Knitters Circle is a drop-in group for adults to share stories, share knitting tips, and meet new friends. Bring your own projects. This program is not designed to teach knitting but intended to be a self-sustaining group where members will learn from each other.

CHESS ANYONE? Do you like to play chess or have you always wanted to learn? Beginners and enthusiasts are invited to join the Adult Chess Club at the James L McIntyre Centennial Public Library. This free event will take place every Tuesday evening from 6 to 8:30 p.m., until the end of May. The Adult Chess Club is for ages 13 and up. Meet in the adult reading area to challenge yourself and other players. This is a Drop-In Evening Event and registration is not required. For more information, call the Reference and Information Desk, 705-759-5236.

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There are plenty of Game Pass deals going around at the moment, and we've found one to suit any situation. That means we've found cheap Game Pass Ultimate prices for those with a new Xbox Live account, even cheaper memberships for those who are new to the service, and astonishingly low prices on three month Game Pass subscriptions. You can grab three months of Xbox Game Pass (without online play) for just $9.99 / 7.41. That's an astonishingly cheap price if you're just after access to Microsoft's 100+ game library. But we've also been spying some excellent Game Pass Ultimate deals that package the Game Pass library with Live Gold online play that may swerve your decision.

The latest deals from CDKeys offer some of the lowest prices we've seen on six-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions so far. Before you dive straight in, however, you might also want to look at those 12-month Live Gold deals because Microsoft has a little trick up its sleeve that can save you a wad of cash on your 2020 gaming.

You can pick up a six-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate deal for just $30.79 / 22.99 at CDKeys right now. Note that these codes will only work with new Xbox Live accounts, so if you've already got an existing account you might want to check out our best Xbox Game Pass prices.

If you are a new player, that's a fantastic price and one that beats a similar deal from Amazon UK last week. Nevertheless, there are more savings to be had for the savvy shopper. That's because Microsoft is still running its own Xbox Game Pass Ultimate deals, which offer the first month of the service for just $1 / 1. Similarly, you have to be new to the Game Pass Ultimate service, but if so there's a kicker in this deal that makes this all-in-one subscription particularly cheap at the moment.

Microsoft states that when you redeem your first month for $1 / 1, all your existing Live Gold or Game Pass months will be upgraded to Game Pass Ultimate, up to 36 months. That means a stacked Xbox Live Gold subscription, a substantially cheaper service, can be converted into a premium Game Pass Ultimate membership.

Six months of Xbox Live Gold can be found for the same price as this particular Game Pass Ultimate deal right now, but picking up 12 months for $52.19 / 38.99 gives you far more value for money and sets you up with free games for the whole year once you convert your months. Just make sure you redeem your Live Gold membership before signing up to Game Pass Ultimate.

Xbox Game Pass | 3 months | $32.09 $9.99 at CDKeysA three month Game Pass membership is under $10 at CDKeys right now. That's a fantastic price for access to over 100 games in the Game Pass library, and certainly one to snap up before it disappears. View Deal

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate | 6 months | $30.79 at CDKeysThis deal is for new Xbox Live accounts only, but if that's you this $33 six-month membership is an excellent Game Pass Ultimate deal. You're saving roughly $56 on a subscription to the massive Game Pass library of free titles, online play, and extra discounts across the Microsoft Store. View Deal

Xbox Live Gold | 12 months | $52.19 at CDKeysIf you've never used Xbox Game Pass Ultimate before, you'll be able to take advantage of the fantastic $1 trial deal. That means you'll be able to redeem these 12 months of Live Gold and then convert them to the more expensive Game Pass Ultimate subscription when you sign up. View Deal

Xbox Game Pass | 3 months | 23.99 7.49 at CDKeysThree months of Game Pass for just 7.49? You'd be mad not to take CDKeys up on this fantastic deal. You're getting a membership that grants you access to the massive Game Pass library for less than 8 right now. View Deal

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate | 6 months | 22.99 at CDKeysThis code is 62% off at CDKeys right now, meaning new Xbox Live accounts can take advantage of this fantastic Game Pass Ultimate deal for less. We were previously seeing this subscription go for over 30 on sale at Amazon, so you're saving plenty today. View Deal

Xbox Live Gold | 12 months | 38.99 at CDKeysPicking up this 12 month Live Gold deal means new Game Pass Ultimate players can get a fantastic price on a whole year of free gaming. Simply redeem your Live Gold code on your Microsoft account before signing up to the 1 trial of Game Pass Ultimate. Once you do so, your remaining Live Gold months will be converted to the more expensive membership. View Deal

Looking for more great Xbox Game Pass prices? We've got them all right here on TechRadar. We're also tracking all the latest Live Gold membership prices to keep you ahead of the game. While you're shopping, it might also be time to refresh your equipment - check out all the best Xbox controller deals around right now.

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The blue-throated barbet, illustrated here in 1871, is native to southern Asia.

Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world. Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely available for download via the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open-access digital archive that preserves images and documents related to botany, wildlife and biodiversity.

Captured in watercolor paintings, lithograph prints and black-ink linework, the collected illustrations demonstrate the diversity of Earths wildlife as observed over hundreds of years. The BHLs earliest texts date to the mid-1400s; its digital collection includes illustrations as recently created as the early 1900s.

The practice of creating detailed illustrations of flora and fauna, whether to document an expedition or a medical practice, gained popularity well before photography was up to the task. Even today, an illustration can offer more clarity than a photograph.

An illustration can show various parts of a plant at the same time, something a photo really cant, Robin Jess, director of the New York Botanical Gardens Botanical Art and Illustration program, told the Associated Press Katherine Roth in 2019. It can show extra details of the fruit, for example, and what it looks like bisected.

Founded in 2006 by a consortium of natural history libraries, among them the Smithsonian Libraries, the BHL launched its online portal the following year. Then 300 titles strong, the database has since grown to more than 200,000 volumes, 150,000 illustrations and information on some 150 million species. Per Hyperallergic, selections range from animal sketches to historical diagrams and botanical studies.

Collected illustrations and digitized pages of preserved plants, called herbaria, provide insights for researchers studying the ways plants have adjusted to a changing climate. Other works, like the zoological sketches of Joseph Wolf, show how societal norms have shaped the ways people imagine animals.

Wolf illustrated two volumes of rare animals depicted in their natural environment rather than the London zoo where they actually lived. In one lithograph, a trio of African elephants stands by a river. As BHLs Elisa Herrmann points out in a blog entry, the illustration reflects the ideal of a Victorian family, with two parents and a child, but fails to capture actual wild elephant behavior. Unlike whats shown in the illustration, bull elephants are rogue, and adult female elephants have tusks.

The Flora Graeca, compiled by botanist John Sibthorp between 1806 and 1840, exemplifies the importance of illustrators field notes. Described by 20th-century botanist W.T. Stearn as the most costly and beautiful book devoted to any flora, the text features drawings printed with hand-colored engraved plates based on Austrian artist Ferdinand Lukas Bauers trove of 1,000-plus field sketches.

The BHL is currently cataloging thousands of field books in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the Smithsonian Libraries and the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History. Since the project began in 2010, the group has cataloged more than 9,500 field books and digitized some 4,000.

In its mission statement, the BHL cites swiftly changing ecosystems and extinctions as reasons for bringing together a body of knowledge about biodiversity that may help researchers track how the world is changing today. In the wake of Australias wildfires, for instance, scientists could make use of this 1907 catalog of Australias insects.

Today, writes Adrian Higgins for the Washington Post, botanical illustrators are rare and becoming as endangered as some of the plants they draw. The fruits of their labor, however, have and continue to be essential for botanists detailing new species or assembling lists of regions native plants.

Speaking with the Associated Press, Jess of the New York Botanical Garden explained, Contemporary botanical artists share a concern for the environment, particularly in light of climate change, as well as for drawing attention to plants.

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PORT JERVIS The Hub, (The public computer center at the Port Jervis Free Library) is pleased to host an internationally recognized mountaineer, Nimdoma Sherpa, who in 2008 became the youngest woman to climb Mount Everest. The program will be held on Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m.

Sherpa, will discuss the challenges of climbing the highest summits on each of the seven continents and why she does it. In May of 2008, she became the youngest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Today she serves as the flag bearer for the United Nations World Food Program whose goal is ZERO HUNGER worldwide.

Sherpa was born into a poor family in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal. At five years old, she began attending school through a school meals program run by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

After finishing high school, Sherpa joined the First Inclusive Women's Sagarmatha Expedition, an all-female mountaineering team supported by the WFP. In May, 2008, all ten team members successfully summited Mount Everest, making 17-year-old Sherpa the youngest woman to have reached the summit. Her success on Everest was recounted in a children's coloring book titled Snow Leopard, the Yeti and the Girl Who Climbed Mount Everest, published by the WFP to promote the use of school meals to reduce child hunger. Copies of the coloring book will be distributed to program attendees.

In 2009, Sherpa and six of her Nepalese Sagarmatha Expedition teammates formed the Seven Summits Women Team, an all-female team whose goal is to climb to the summit of the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. They completed the task upon reaching Mount Mt Vinson Massif on Antarctica in 2014. Less than 400 people in the world have climbed the 7 Summits. Less than 100 of them are women. Sherpa is one of them.

Pre registration is required for this program since seating is limited, so reserve your place by calling The Hub at 856-7313 ext. 5, email thehub@portjervislibrary.org, or register in person at Port Jervis Library at 138 Pike Street in Port Jervis.

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Ozark Regional Library recently became the recipient of 61 new childrens and young adult books with a value of $1,031 from the Pilcrow Foundation.

The Pilcrow Foundation and Deborah Barker of Missouri matched funds donated from local businesses Brad Wooten Auto Body and Ozarks Federal Savings and Loan. Barker made the donation in memory of Agatha Daley and Melissa Pendarvis.

An additional $400 worth of math and science books were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Hal Berenson and Laura Ackerman of Colorado.

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JPL Offers Digital Expo at West Bank Regional Library to Explain the Librarys Vast Digital Collection

The Jefferson Parish Library presents its first Digital Expo at 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey.

The Digital Expo is designed to explain how to enjoy the librarys free digital content. Digital content is a growing, internet-based multimedia collection of items that complement the librarys physical collection. Content includes eBooks, audiobooks, music, movies, magazines and comics delivered directly to a patrons device smartphones, laptops, smart TVs, tablets, etc. With free apps, patrons can take the library with them wherever they go.

JPL library staff members, experts from the library IT department and representatives from digital content companies will be on site to teach patrons about the digital collection and help solve any technical issues. Patrons are encouraged to bring their mobile devices. All of the following resources are free to library card holders.

The digital collection includes:

eBooks:Cloud Library, Hoopla, and Libby by Overdrive. Patrons can choose from thousands of eBooks, including popular and best-selling titles for all ages.

Audiobooks: Hoopla, Libby by Overdrive, and RB Digital Books. With a variety of mobile apps, patrons can download an audiobook to a favorite device.

Magazines, comics and graphic novels: Flipster, Hoopla and RB Digital Magazines. Content is available for instant viewing on a digital device and items will return automatically.

Music: Freegal Music and Hoopla. Patrons can borrow and enjoy music immediately. Freegal allows access to more than 15 million songs, including Sony Musics catalog of legendary artists; Alexander Street has the most diverse catalog of music content in the world for students, scholars and patrons of the arts.

Movies and television: Hoopla and Kanopy. Hoopla offers classics, childrens films, Acorn TV, independent cinema, and more. Kanopy offers popular indie flicks, documentaries, foreign films and the critically acclaimed Criterion Collection.

Research and reference: Ancestry.com, AutoMate Car Repair, Consumer Health Complete, ConsumerReports.org, National Geographic Online, World Book Online Encyclopedia, and many others.

Adult learning: JobNow, VetNow, Lynda.com, Mango Languages, ReferenceUSA, and many more.

Resources for kids and teens: Homework LA from Tutor.com, Scholastic Go!, National Geographic Kids, Learning Express, and many more.

The librarys 3D printer also will be on display.

WRITING FOR CHILDREN: Author and educator Carol Allen will lead a seminar for writers about creating childrens books at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie.

Allen says that writing for children is serious business. Anybody who thinks writing a picture book is to just scribble down some lines and draw great illustrations is making a serious mistake, she says. There are rules for picture books, and there are serious points to address in your writing: point of view, voice, character, conflict.

JAZZ AND POP HARP: Erin Hill, a harpist and singer based in New York City and Louisville, Kentucky, is the featured performer at the sixth annual New Orleans Jazz and Pop Harp Weekend, performing concerts at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, and 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 West Napoleon Ave., Metairie.

The New Orleans Jazz and Pop Harp Weekend is a two-day retreat featuring free courses to members of the New Orleans Chapter of the American Harp Society, or to harp students and professionals who want to know more about playing jazz and pop music. A schedule of events can be found at the organizations website.

OLD METAIRIE WRITERS' GROUP:A fairly new edition to the library calendar,the Old Metairie Writers Group, meets at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, at the Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. The purpose of the group is to allow authors to have their work peer reviewed. All genres are welcome, including fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, screenplays, etc. It is open to all levels of writing.

HAIKU WORKSHOP: This monthly workshop gives a background and history of haiku, the Japanese form of poetry. It will include readings of some of the most famous examples, and participants read their own poems. It takes placeat 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie.

FOCUSING ON SUCCESS: Dr. Rick Landry speaks on Reprogramming Your Mind for Success, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. All too often, we wonder why no matter how hard we try, cannot experience our desired outcomes, he says. Well uncover why we have delays experiencing what we want in life.

COMING UP ROSES: The New Orleans Old Garden Rose Society meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to preserving and fostering Old Garden Roses.

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