With new website, devices, MFA seeks visitors’ touch - The Boston Globe

A visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with its new Arts of the Americas wing opening on November 20, may inspire exploration of the art books in the 700's. Generally, in the Newton Free Library you may find books about art in the 700's:  Art museums at 704; Art history at 709; Painters at 750.9, Sculptors at 730.92. The Boston Globe/Boston.com article by Geoff Edgers, "MFA technology widens the dialogue" explores the new touch technology installed to help you enjoy your visit. With new website, devices, MFA seeks visitors’ touch - The Boston Globe.  View the Opening Events here http://www.mfa.org/americas-wing/news_opening.html.  The Friends of the Newton Free Library offer Newton residents a selection of museum passes, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with the following features: Admits 2. Free for children under 7. $7 per person collected at museum. Reserve a pass here:  http://newtonfreelibrary.net/sec=services&doc=museumpasses.  Follow-up your museum visit with a visit to the library!

Browsing for Books

You find yourself out for a drive exploring bookstores along with the deep russet foliage.   You struggle to control the feverish urge to purchase a dozen fabulous books, knowing your wonderful library system will provide you with everyone of these titles.  Make a request in the library network's online catalog for books, e-books, audio or e-audio copies http://library.minlib.net/search...or contact your local public library, by phone, e-mail, and soon, text messaging. Chat with your librarian about reserving outstanding reads!

A Law Library Near You!

If you are in need of legal information, begin with your public library and find out more about the public law libraries in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts associated with the Massachusetts Trial Court System. There are 17 Trial Court Law Libraries across the state. The closest one to Newton is located in Dedham in the Registry of Deeds building across from the Norfolk County Courthouse. Click on this link for more information and to begin your research http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/. The Norfolk Law Library re-opened its doors yesterday, September 27, 2010 in Dedham, having moved from their location in Norwood.

How To Open a New Book | LISNews:

How To Open a New Book | LISNews:

Are schools still starting the school year teaching students how to open a new book? My school teachers in the early years used to show us the proper way to open our new text books. Now we would probably add a lesson on how to operate your new e-reader!

Getting Legal Help in Massachusetts

Thanks to a mini-grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, information about getting Legal Help in Massachusetts is now available on one convenient bookmark. Available now in template form, download from a choice of reproducing the bookmark in color or black & white, in our original generic design, or customized with your library's name and contact information. One link is through MassLegalHelp.org http://www.masslegalhelp.org/help2. Scroll down to the category Human Services Workers. There is great looking poster to download, too.

New Book by Supreme Court Justice

Heard this morning (9/13/10) on WGBH radio an interview with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, discussing his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. He speaks about applying the concepts of 18th century thinking to our current issues. Add your name to the wait list: Request Save to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Limit/Sort Search
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Title
Making our democracy work : a judge's view / by Stephen Breyer.
Author
Breyer, Stephen G., 1938-
Publication Info.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
Description
p. cm.
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4 holds on first copy returned of 1 copy

Borrowing Legal Reference Books

Did you know that the Massachusetts Trial Court System includes 17 law libraries in various locations across the state? They also offer borrowing privileges and will even send a reference title if they have an extra copy. Just apply for a Trial Court Law Library library card in person. Plan ahead before you need one as you can expect about a two-week waiting period before approval. In the meantime, they can copy pages through their document delivery service. Just fill out an online form or call 1-800-445-8989 (from inside Mass. only). You can also chat with a librarian online.
http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/index.html

This Way to Pod-Way

Podcasts could work bibliographically with our subject-oriented resources. We should begin to add them to our Databases and Websites topics, and use a symbol for podcast alongside the link.

iCue

iCue looks like a great site which we should learn and teach how to use to a variety of groups: YA, especially; Susan Becam's discussion groups; make our own version of iCue for teaching library concepts.

Vanishing Act?

Same old frustrations,using instructor's links, exploring, losing previous link, reverting to e-mail to get back to instructor weekly outline. Where does everything go?

Minutes of Meetings

Using Openmeeting.com was a great way to meet as a group simultaneously to review and amend an application, combined with a conference call to exchange ideas. It seems as if a wiki could be used similarly, with each person summarizing their own content so that compiling rephrased minutes doesn't have to be the task of one person.

Dating Family Photos

The tortoise shell eyeglass frames, the bow tie, your uncle's haircut, the drapes, the chair, the floor lamp all suggest this black & white photo was snapped sometime in the 1950s. He's reading a large magazine and you can just make out that the title Life and surmise the grainy black and grey shapes on the cover look religious. The way his fingers hold the edges, the top of a page turn reveals a black handle.

Can you date the magazine? Yes! Start with online postings of Life covers by the decade, then confirm by pulling the original from the long run of Life Magazine (since 1937, some gaps) on the shelves of the Newton Free Library's Periodicals Room. The cover is "Four Great Protestant and Catholic Churches" and between pages 12 and 17 there is an unnumbered page advertisement showing a black-handled pitcher pouring milk onto Jello brand chocolate pudding. Your uncle is probably reading the latest Life while on vacation. Now you can e-mail your relatives that you have a approximately dated the photo!

Concert Tips

Enjoy a concert even more by checking out a music CD or DVD, reading a biography of the composer or performer, searching our databases for articles in music journals, listening to podcasts found through Internet access. Let a librarian show you how!

Spring Fling 2010

Spring Fling 2010

Spring Fling

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