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Sam Hazo Author Visit 8/7
Sam Hazo Author Visit 8/7
Former Pennsylvania poet laureate Sam Hazo will be coming to the library to kick off our visiting authors series on Thursday, August 7 at 6pm. He’s spoken at the United Nations, the Marine Corps Officers Reunion and in Shakespeare’s hometown – now he’ll be at the Carnegie Library of Homestead!
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Library, Athletic Club Closed for Fourth of July
Library, Athletic Club Closed for Fourth of July
The Carnegie Library of Homestead will be closed on Friday, July 4 to celebrate the Independence Day holiday. Services will resume as normal on Saturday, July 5.
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Summer Reading Program
Summer is almost here, which means that the Carnegie Library of Homestead’s Summer Reading Program is about to kick off. This year’s theme is Fizz Boom Read!, and we’ll be featuring science and reading-based fun for all ages.
Pick up your reading log and information pack at the library starting June 9th. There is a program for everyone: pre-readers, K-5th Grade, 6th Grade-12th Grade, and adults.…
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Take the Next Step
Take the Next Step
The University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research and Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence will be sponsoring “The Second Step: Developing a Business Plan” workshop.
This workshop is designed to help you learn how to draft a business plan, which is invaluable in garnering the support critical to the growth of your business.
Light refreshments will be offered. There…
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Pirate Tales Kickoff
Fans of summer, baseball, and reading unite! Pirate Tales is having its kickoff tomorrow, Thursday May 29th at the Carnegie Library of Homestead. Come meet a Pirates player and of course the Pirate Parrot!
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Memorial Day Closure
The Athletic Club and the library will both be closed on Monday, May 26th in honor of Memorial Day. We will reopen as usual on Tuesday, May 27th.
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Like the heat? Try Pyrotopia!
Like the heat? Try Pyrotopia!
We’ve finally gotten a bit of warm weather here in the Steel Valley! There’s a lot more heat coming this Saturday, May 10th in Munhall’s Westfield Park – Pyrotopia, a festival of the fire arts!
The Volcano Village will be open from 12-4, and the library will be there to help celebrate! We’ll have some experiments and crafts to make things light up and glow – come check us out!
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Library Closed May 16th for a PC Upgrade
Library Closed May 16th for a PC Upgrade
The Carnegie Library of Homestead will be closed on Saturday, May 16 to allow for a new computer rollout. Only the library will be closed; the Athletic Club @ The Carnegie of Homestead will be open normal hours.
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The Nuts and Bolts of Selling and Buying Real Estate
The Nuts and Bolts of Selling and Buying Real Estate
Join real estate agent Rose Soclieri as she explains the ins and outs of home buying at the Carnegie Library of Homestead on Wednesday May 14th from 6:30-7:30. The buying portion of the session will include financing , inspections, negotiations and learning how to buy the right home for your needs. The selling portion of this session will include how to market your home to attract the ready and…
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One Book, One Community 2014
One Book, One Community 2014
Have you ever read a really good book and wanted to share it with everyone you know? Thought about joining a book club, but thought you didn’t have time? Want to be part of a county-wide conversation? Join us with this year’s One Book, One Community program!
One Book, One Community is like a community-wide book club. This year’s book is TransAtlanticby Colum McCann. Read the book, then watch for…
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Have you seen what's happening at your library?
Have you seen what’s happening at your library?
Robots, storytime, volcanoes… kids and teens are doing all sorts of projects at the library. If you haven’t seen what’s happening lately, you should check out the gallery for youth programming here.
Then come explore something yourself!
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Get up to speed with net neutrality with this explainer.
So, net neutrality isn’t about tennis?
No.
All right. What is net neutrality, really?
It’s mainly an idea about fairness. It says that no Internet service provider (ISP) should be allowed to speed up, slow down or block Web traffic from getting to where you, the customer, want it to go.
Let’s say you’re trying to watch Netflix. In the next room, your spouse is checking e-mail. A believer in net neutrality would say that your ISP should provide both of you with the same quality of service. Just because you’re streaming a big video file and your partner is sending tiny packets of text doesn’t give your ISP the right to modify your Internet experience.
Been hearing about net neutrality in the news? Or, on the other hand, never heard of it? It's worth checking out, no matter whether you're an email checker, an Netflix streamer, or a tumblr addict.
Crafting Cartonería
I get it, teachers are short on time. So I’m working on resources that cut to the chase. I whipped up this gif on how to make sculptures with a shoestring budget, inspired by the Mexican handcraft Cartonería.
How? It’s all there in the gif, but if you’re the type that likes the details, you can see more here.
Why? Papier-mâché projects often get a bad rap for being the stuff of kindergarten craft time, but the process of paper-crafting is rich with history. Cartonería, as papier-mâché is called in Mexico, has long been a traditional handcraft. The Mexican papermaking process dates back to the Mesoamerican period, was temporarily banned by the Spanish, and paper sculptures are still made to this day to tell the story of yearly celebrations.
What else? Making Cartonería has the obvious connection to history and social studies. Cartonería also serves as an excellent project to talk about life sciences and geometry. More on curriculum connectors here.
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.
Billet-doux - a love letter.
Redamancy - act of loving in return.
Logophilia - a love of words
Abibliophobia - fear of running out of things to read
UI journalism student Talya Miller made a short video animation of one of our fore-edge paintings last month.
I made it into a gif. You can still click to see it with sound.
The text is the Old Testament and the painting is identified as the Church of St. Olave, Old Jewry, London. See it in the Catalog at the University of Iowa Special Collections & Archives.
Book art! Sometimes books have secrets that are just too cool to keep hidden.
Squishy circuits are a great way to explore electricity without any complicated tools are hard-to-learn kits. Basically, it's playdough you can make at home that can help you make circuits.
Check out the examples above of some internet creativity, and then check out the library's Homeschool Science program tomorrow at 1pm to build your own squishy circuits!
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