Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Jacob Lawrence


Today we visited a number of 9th graders at Thurgood Marshall Academy. It was great! Props to Marilyn who "book-talked" Snitch and Fight. She is awesome at leaving the folks wanting more. I promise next time to have something for the dudes. I was focussed on showing off our online stuff and...KAPOW!...the wi-fi at TMA was being worked on that day.

The point is that during my end-of-schpiel quiz-time I talked about Jacob Lawrence and some people didn't know who he was or that he is one of the most important African-American Painters to have ever lived. I promised the students to post a link about him. There.

The Phillips Collection has the Migration Series up right now.

S.O.S MySpace



Also the "Pimp Our Myspace" (can I say that?) contest has begun. Our myspace page needs a little help and I think that some web-savy Anacostia teen can help us out. It's simple! Just design your personal page as you would like to see the library's page look. "Friend" us and post a link to your page in our comment section! There will be a Grand Prize. Deadline is July 30th!

Posting Your Book Reviews

The Metamorphosis summer reading campaign has begun as you all are probably aware. In light of that we have invited our Teen participants to post their book reviews in the "Friend's Comment" section of our myspace page. Remember you have to friend us to post anything.

Friday, May 23, 2008

LIBRARY DEMOLITION? COOL!

LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO THE LIBRARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just kidding...this is what they did!
Thursday at about 1:30pm the process of demolishing the old Anacostia Library began. Ketchum students (pictured in yellow hard hats) were there to witness the mayhem. The machines are rattling away even as I write this.

The old Anacostia Neighborhood Library was erected in the 1950's and served the community until 2003. Can you imagine the changes in technology that have taken place since then? The library was built during a time when calculators were the size of our current interim library! 4000 square feet!

If you have question or comments please send them to AnacostiaCommunityFeedback@dc.gov.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Mike Rose visited us today! He performed various feats of magic with spiders, worms, and insects. Pictures will be posted soon.
Stay tuned for more event news. Especially since our "Catch the Reading Bug" (for kids), and "Metamorphosis" (for teens) programs have begun. There are going to be a number of special guests and events for kids, teens, and adults!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Anacostia Book Club Meeting


There will be an information session for the Anacostia Book Club on Saturday, May 31 at 2pm.
THERE WILL BE SNACKS! (light snacks)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Up and Running




Here is a very brief introduction to The Anacostia Interim Library. If you are reading this then you probably know us already.

Tonight is movie night! It's a double feature starting with Lilo and Stitch at 5pm. Then the lost empire of Atlantis.

Since you are curious, here are the designs for what will become the new Anacostia Neighborhood library. There are minutes and summations of community meetings that preceded it too.

You can count on finding out about programs and events and general goings on at the library here and here. The choice is yours.

Here are some other Ana-centric blogs:
http://anacostianow.blogspot.com/ - more links to more Anacostia blogs!
http://anacostiadiaries.blogspot.com/