The Glines Canyon Dam progress since September 5th in 90 seconds. This very cool time lapse is built from the Dam Webcam archive. Whee.
6889 Items (!!!)
Here are some of the new books we have received recently. Some were purchased, but most donated. Thanks to everyone, community members, other libraries, and our budget, we keep growing. The collection will soon reach 7000 items. It's always worth dropping by to see what we have.
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Reminder: The online catalog, which comes through LibraryThing, is always available. You can sort materials out into 'collections' to zero in on what you are most interested in. You can now look separately at
All Adult Books
Adult Culture Books
All Children's Books
Children's Culture Books
DVD/VHS/Audio
Anytime you go to the catalog, you can pull out one of these five separate views by clicking on the pulldown that says "All Collections" or "Your Library"
and choosing the one you want.
Purely for the pleasure of admiring them en masse, any time you have one of these lists of titles, try clicking on the "Covers" button. You end up with something wonderful, like this:
The Strong People
Here is a trailer for a video project, The Strong People: The Return of a River, The Rebirth of a People, by Matt Lowe and Heather Hoglund. They are raising money for the film through Kickstarter. Hope they are successful: it looks like it is going to be good. :-)
Wow-Beautiful New Library at Jamestown
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| New Library in the Oldest Community Building on the Tribal Campus |
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| Admiring the New Space, and the Beautiful New Cabinets |
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| New Librarian |
Their hours are Monday to Friday 9AM to 5PM, and Saturdays 10-3. Their catalog is online, and their webpage serves as the gateway to their digital tribal museum project, House of Seven Generations.
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Film-maker John Gussman has posted another video clip, this one about the now-nearly-empty Lake Aldwell behind Elwha Dam; and sent a link to some photos of the Lake Mills delta behind Glines Canyon Dam.
Barnard Construction continues to lower the dam at Glines Canyon, and draw down the lake. For ongoing entertainment, keep your eye on the Dam Cams.
Donation by Missouri Libraries
We have recently received some books from the University of Central Missouri and the Missouri State Library. These books are ones that have been taken off the shelves at these libraries. When this is done the Libraries offer these books to other libraries, and this time we recieved 5 books which are all about Native Americans.
A Friend of Our Library
In the year we had the IMLS grant, we added a lot of books. But not all of them were purchased with grant funds. Very early in that process, a couple of retired librarians in Santa Fe who knew about our library shopped for children's picture books and sent them to us. In the spring of 2008, along came a box of about 50 beautiful books, almost all culture- and native-related titles. And they kept us in mind for the next couple of years. Now and again, another box would come in the mail. Everywhere they traveled they kept their eye out for books for us. Altogether they gave us 107 shiny new children's books.
At the time, they wanted the donation to be anonymous. But one of them has recently passed away. She never met us or saw our library, but she was our good friend, and we are grateful to her memory. Thank you, Mary Grathwol.
Here are the covers of the 107 books Mary and her sister donated to Lower Elwha. Click for larger image, and ask Jim if there are any of these books you would like to see. Or just come take a look at the children's culture books shelves:
Prize-Winning Children's Books
A small donation check has arrived, marked "for children's books." We try to get some of the American Indian Library Association's awards titles every year, so we ordered two from AILA's 2012 list, the picture book winner :
and the young adult winner:
Finding the River
There's a new book about the Elwha River: Finding the River
An Environmental History of the Elwha, by Jeff Crane. We'll order a copy. Except there's not exactly money for materials right now. We'll work on it, this is a book we want to have available.
[Later: yaay. The publisher sent us a copy. Jim is processing it. You can check it out in a day or two.]
Don't forget to keep your eye on the dam removal cameras at Elwha Dam and Glines Canyon Dam. Great (slow) online entertainment.
The Hits Keep on Coming
As the DVD watchers who haunt the library know very well, the collection continues to grow. Keep those donations coming, your fellow community members are grateful.
New culture titles:
New Videos:
Elwha Science Education
There's a really nice article about how the dam removals have inspired the Geoscience Education Program at Elwha.
Traditional Foods and Other Topics
We have received a number of cookbooks using traditional foods from different parts of Indian Country.
There are also a number of interesting new culture books.
You can make the catalog show you all our traditional foods books by searching the catalog for them specifically. Or take a look at all the adult culture books. Try these special searches:
traditional foods
adult culture books
Some examples of the new ones (click for larger image):
Land of Painted Caves
When we put in our book orders, we ordered the things people had asked us for, everything we mention along the way as going "on the wish list". The new Jean Auel book, the new Brad Meltzer. Nine titles in that fantasy series about warrior cats in the forest. Cookbooks, a whole lot of delicious cookbooks, including Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything.
We're now pretty well settled into the new shelves. A lot of the books moved around. Won't have new signs and new labels yet, but we can help you find things. Please come and borrow some of these new titles!!!
P.S., the new DVDs are coming ever closer, but mostly not here yet. Maybe this week, maybe.
Still Braggin' On the New Books
Here are the covers of the new kids' books. There are so many of them we had to capture the display in three pieces. Click for larger images.
Come and Play
The new kids' books are ready to be checked out. Thanks to all the community members who contributed to the matching funds for this grant.
The New Kids' Books Are Here
The books from the Libri Foundation grant, supported in part by your matching donations, have arrived. What could be better than 87 new children's books??
Jim is working on processing them. We'll let you know when they're ready to be handled, admired, and checked out. Maybe we should have an ice-cream social for them.
We also have some new (used) shelving on its way. And four of the six new computers are already installed. The keyboards work and everything. :-)
Peninsula Daily News
WooHoo!! We have subscribed to the Peninsula Daily News. It will be available on our newspaper shelves.
Salmon Links
- Billy Frank's new editoral, Northwest salmon, tribal cultures and treaty rights at risk from disappearing habitat
- Opinion piece in Crosscut by Will Atlas et al., about hatchery fish in the Elwha
- Story from the Seattle PI about Judge James Redden's rejection of the government's salmon recovery plan for the Columbia River. "Redden added that he doesn't think the government can meet the standards of the Endangered Species Act by habitat improvements alone, and it is time to consider new options, including removing some of the dams." Wow. (Another story about the decision.
- Editorial from Tom Bancroft of People for Puget Sound about the Redden decision.
- New York Times story about restoration on the Nisqually River.
- John Gussman's Farewell Lake Mills photographs.
Sherman Alexie News
The Richland (WA) School Board has un-banned Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This is really pretty funny: at the time they had voted to ban the book, no one on the School Board had read it, and only one person on the advisory committee who recommended against the book had read it.
This bit of news came to us via Alexie's twitter account, which in turn points to his blog. The blog is very lively, including information about his schedule, discussion of developments in publishing and the media market (ebooks; the demise of Borders; the changes in Netflix; etc.).
New Books on Native Topics
In an article in Indian Country Today, Native author and legal scholar Marc Trahant recommended three books for "summer reading":
- In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided by Walter Echo-Hawk;
- Roberta Ulrich’s American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006;
- and Alison Owings’ Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans.
The Echo-Hawk title was already on our shopping list. We've added the other two.
Canoe Journey Articles and Photos
It's awfully quiet around here. It's not true that 'everybody' on their way to Swinomish, but it sure feels like it...
- NWIFC's photos of the canoe journey landing at Port Gamble
- Article from Indian Country Today on the Paddle to Swinomish
- Article from the Kitsap Sun.
- Undated photo taken at La Conner, we think it's 2010, fascinating close-up viewing technology.
- A blog posting about the landing at Port Townsend
- There's a lot of really cool photographs on Facebook, but we can't get to them from here...
Alaska Language Map
There is an updated map of Alaska Native Languages. News story and link to the website with map, information about each culture, illustrations, etc. It's cool.
Native Daughters
Interesting website, a student project from the University of North Dakota: Past Present Future: Native Daughters, "stories, profiles and multimedia projects about a diverse group of Native American women."
Thank you to the mailinglist of the American Indian Library Association, and to the Santa Ysabel Virtual Tribal Library for pointing out this beautifully-made website.
A Canoe Story
A 500-year old canoe has been found on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Think about that while we wait for the 2011 Canoe Journey to arrive. Landing will be around 1 PM on Sunday, down at Hollywood Beach.
The Missing Shortcut
Every weekday the summer food program serves lunches in the Education Building at 11AM, and at the Upper at 12 noon. It really seems that there should be a tram, or a little bridge, or something, to get straight from A to B, and then back again. Or maybe we should be birds, carrying those lunch bags in our talons, straight across the river valley...
Lists, We Love Lists
There's a really interesting post on the PaperTigers blog about children's books written by or about contemporary Native Americans. The author, Nancy Bo Flood, teaches at Diné Navajo College in Tuba City, Arizona, and she has wonderful lists of titles she recommends.
We already have a lot of these books, and will put the rest on our ever-growing, never-executed shopping list.
Summer Food Program
Lunches for kids available in the Education Department from 11AM to 11:30 AM, and at the Gathering Place at the Upper Housing Area from 12noon to 12:30.
Absolutely True Diary...
The Literacy Council has given us a whole bunch of copies of Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and we are giving them away to middle-school, high-school and adult students. Come by the library and ask for one if you don't already have it.
... :-)
Canoe Route Map and Landing Schedule
The landing schedule map for the Paddle to Swinomish has been posted. It's really complicated this year.
Doing Research : Databases and Information Sources : Free ;-)
Doing research at home or in the computer lab is easy as 1-2-3:
1. The Washington State Library has paid for access to magazine and newspaper databases, which you can use either in the computer lab or on your home computer, logging in with Elwha's own login.
- ProQuest includes full text of national and northwest newpaper articles; general magazines; business news, Ethnic NewsWatch, and many other resources. To access Proquest go to http://proquest.umi.com/login Call the library for the login and password 452-8471x122, or stop by and pick up a handout. (We aren't supposed to just publish it on the web, so can't show it here.)
- Culturegrams gives information about 200 countries, the 50 states, and Canada’s provinces. To access Culturegrams go to http://online.culturegrams.com/ Call the library for the login and password, or stop by to pick up a handout.
2.The public library in town has an amazing array of databases: magazines and newspapers, auto and small engine repair, genealogy, business info, homework help, and more. Their Articles and Databases page gets you started. You will need a library card to access them at home (but it's easy to get one), or can get them at the library in town.
3. Peninsula College gives you access to an even vaster array of resources, including programs for learning languages, historical documents, electronic books, academic periodicals, etc etc. You can see the full list, but will then need a student ID to log in from home. They are available for free use to all community members from computers inside the Peninsula College Library; so if you find a resource on the list that you need, you can use it without being a student; just head for the college library.
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