Dean has one last joke in 2023 for all – “Where is New Year’s Eve so mathematical? Times Square!” 😉 As 2023 comes to a close, I am so very grateful for so many things! I really appreciate your support for my Erutuf National Park books and also appreciate you following this account. Thank you! ❤️ Happy New Year! 🎉 Cheers to finding your magic in 2024!
A couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail thanking me for my information about national parks virtual tours as it helped out Amanda and Grace for their “Exploring the World from Home” workshop at the Rutland County Library in Vermont. In their research, Amanda found a couple of great online resources that I wanted to share: Take a virtual trip and see some amazing architecture throughout the world through by clicking here. I really like how you can scroll to a particular place and click to check it out. Take a virtual reality trip by clicking here. On this page, you can time travel through virtual reality. For example, you can step onto the Titanic as it looked like when it left Great Britain. Thank you to Amanda and Grace for sharing these really interesting online resources! Good luck with your workshop! I also just received an e-mail from the Harrison Park Community and Recreation Center in Illinois. Brendan found another great website that I wanted to add here and share. Check out this website by clicking here. I appreciate all the environmental education and conversation links in it. For example, you can go to Paris and visit the gardens of Versailles! Thank you so much, Brendan! I’m going to take a virtual tour now to check out Claude Monet’s gardens! Happy online traveling!
1,100 public libraries in California now have state park passes to check out! California has over 200 state parks to visit and the state park passes usually cost around $195. Library cardholders can now check out these passes to get a free vehicle day-use pass. Each library has three passes and will decide how many days people can check out the pass. Visit your own public library for the details there. If you live in California and have a library card, check out the state park pass and go visit one of our great state parks here in California!
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Happy Library Shelfie Day! Yes, it’s a thing! The New York Public Library created Library Shelfie Day back in 2014 and it’s celebrated on the fourth Wednesday of January each day. On this day, go and enjoy many photos on social media and blogs of books on shelves. Look for the #LibraryShelfieDay. Escape the news and work deadlines and check out some fun book photos! And maybe you’ll even find a new book to check out and read! 🙂
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Happy Dewey Decimal System Day! Melvil Dewey was born on this day in 1851. In 1873, he invented the most widely used library classification system called the Dewey Decimal System. It was first published in the United States in 1876. It is used today in more than 140 countries and translated into more than 30 different languages. The system places the books on the shelf by subject using numbers from 000 to 999. It is called “Decimal” because it uses numbers to the right of the decimal point for more detail. Each subject has its own set of numbers. I looked up my thesis book at my university’s library and it’s number is 361.4 A756a1999. The 300’s contains the classification of social sciences. To celebrate this day, go to the library, look at the call number on your book, and know that this system was created back in 1873!
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Happy Dewey Decimal System Day! Melvil Dewey was born on this day in 1851. In 1873, he invented the most widely used library classification system called the Dewey Decimal System. It is used in more than 140 countries and translated into more than 30 different languages. The system places the books on the shelf by subject using numbers from 000 to 999. It is called “Decimal” because it uses numbers to the right of the decimal point for more detail. Each subject has its own set of numbers. For fun, I looked up my thesis book at my university’s library and it’s number is 361.4 A756a1999. 😉 Next time you’re at the library, check out the call number on your book and know that this system was created back in 1873!
