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MARCH 12, 2008 In
the November 2007 issue of Mother Earth News Magazine, Craig Idlebrook
wrote a column called, "Living on Less and Loving It!" In Craig’s
column, he mentions many ways to live the good life without accruing
expensive credit card debt or spending cash that we should truly be
saving.
Craig lists seventy-five great ideas for staying fiscally sane. Some of
his ideas talk about cutting energy costs, minimizing grocery expenses,
lowering the price of home-improvement projects, saving on travel expenses
and finding cheap forms of family entertainment.
Although I will admit some of Craig’s ideas are well out of the norm
for most families, he does make a terrific point that the best and most
important way to partake in family entertainment is by visiting your local
public library.
Think about it for a minute. Allegany County has 18 free and open
public libraries. Within these libraries are more than 350,000 materials.
Library materials include: movie videos, musical compact discs, computer
software, books on CD, adult and children’s books, magazines and large
print materials.
Additionally, Allegany County libraries have personal computers, laptops,
high-speed Internet access, electronic databases and downloadable audio
books (coming the week of April 13, 2008).
All of these great library materials are available free of charge. The
only plastic card your family needs to access these great collections is a
library card. By the way, library cards have no interest rates and cannot
be used at ATM machines.
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This
"Spotlight on the Library" article was written by Brian
Hildreth,
the David A. Howe Public Library director. Articles are written and published
biweekly in the
Wellsville Daily Reporter.
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In addition to
educational and entertaining library materials, Allegany County public
libraries are always offering unique and interesting programs.
The size of the library does not matter. Whether you visit the Cuba
Circulating Library, Andover Free Library, Essential Club Free Library in
Canaseraga, the Whitesville Public Library or even the Wide Awake Club
Library in Fillmore, you will always find something going on.
Allegany County public libraries provided 2,086 programs in 2006 for
people of all ages. This means, on any given day throughout the year, your
local public libraries are offering an average of 5 programs per day. |
Join us at the David
A. Howe Public Library this Tuesday, March 18 at 7pm for the second
lecture of the library’s Winter Lecture Series. Dr. Jefferson Slagle from
the Department of English at St. Bonaventure University will visit the
library to discuss Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Traveling Show.
An American exhibition of its day, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Traveling Show
portrayed a popular version of frontier history for audiences across the
United States and Europe. The show was praised for its educational
function and authentic representation of the frontier. After the show’s
demise, many critics derided Cody as a charlatan and his show as a circus
act.
Dr. Slagle’s presentation will discuss what made Buffalo Bill’s Wild
West Show popular in its time, why turn-of-the-century audiences accepted
its claims of authenticity, and how the Wild West has influenced the
popular "westerns" in a century since its heyday.
Jefferson D. Slagle is Assistant Professor of English at St.
Bonaventure University, where he teaches courses in American literature,
film, and critical theory. He has published articles on western literature
and is currently finishing a book on Buffalo Bill’s Wild West for Boise
State University Press.
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In addition to
lectures, the library will continue to host public computer classes for
adults on Monday nights.
On Monday, March 24 at 7pm patrons can learn about using e-mail as a new
and simple form of communication. This class is geared towards individuals
who do not have an e-mail account and would like to begin using e-mail or
for those that have an e-mail account, but do not really know how to use
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Click here for information
about our most popular classes |
| Many programs and
community events are happening at the library throughout the remaining days
of winter and, as spring arrives, more programs will be added. For more
information, please visit our website at www.davidahowelibrary.org or give
us a call at 593-3410. We look forward to serving you. |
This page was last updated
August 12, 2008.
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