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COVID Action Map - Google My Maps

Mapping COVID action groups worldwide. Groups are not pinned to exact addresses. On Instagram and Twitter as @covidactionmap.

There's a Google Maps crowdsourcing mutual aid networks, mask blocs, air filtration donation organizations, air purifier lending libraries and other resource groups. There are over 250 groups and continuously being updated. Please contact them to submit a pin.

Here is the URL for ease of memory recalls: covidactionmap.org

For updates you can follow COVID Action Map here:

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Apologies for excessive tagging, but wanted to make sure the post is easily discoverable by anyone on Tumblr.

[charleymckelvy]

THREE OAKS LIBRARY

[bachiles]

It All Started With a Little Schoolhouse Themed Library - In Memory of Todd Bol

It All Started With a Little Schoolhouse Themed Library – In Memory of Todd Bol

The Little Free Librarycommunity suffered a huge loss on October 18, 2018 when founder Todd Bol passed away from pancreatic cancer.  The stewards group that I am a part of on Facebook had been the place where I had found out the news just days earlier that he was under hospice care.  Since his death there have been so many posts and articles worldwide sharing Todd Bol’s contribution to the world .

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[disastrid]

A Louisiana library says a book borrowed 84 years ago has been returned by the son of the woman who checked it out as an 11-year-old girl. A librarian's note on the Shreve Memorial Library's Facebook page says the son found the "Spoon River Anthology" while cleaning house. A...

A Louisiana library says a book borrowed 84 years ago has been returned by the son of the woman who checked it out as an 11-year-old girl.

A librarian's note on the Shreve Memorial Library's Facebook page says the son found the "Spoon River Anthology" while cleaning house.

A library official says it's in "pretty rough shape," so probably not worth much. "Spoon River Anthology" is a book of free verse by Edgar Lee Masters, each poem written from the viewpoint of a dead person in the imaginary town.

In a reply to a patron, the Shreveport-based library posted, "We thought that the title was appropriately spooky to turn up again after all this time right around Halloween."

The library said its maximum fine is $3, and that was waived.

I kinda want to read that book. What a great premise.  

[bachiles]

For the Love of Little Free Libraries

For the Love of Little Free Libraries

Are you tired of me raving about Little Free Libraries yet?  If so you may want to skip over today’s post and go find something else to read.

I have been very successful in spying Little Free Libraries lately without even looking them up on the map.  Of course they are everywhere and the latest figures indicate that there are well over 70.000 registered Little Free Libraries.  That does not…

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[bachiles]

Musings from Marco Island, Florida

Our extended time in Florida has come at a good time with all of the cold weather that seems to be invading all areas of the United States.  It is plenty cold here, though, and our beach time has been limited a little bit but still enjoyable. More of a walking the beach trip this week than lounging on the beach type of trip.

While I have been here there have been a few interesting things and…

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[lindahall]

Charles Mudie – Scientist of the Day

Charles Edward Mudie, a British publisher, was born Oct. 18, 1818.

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[fransiweinstein]

Blown away ...

Blown away …

I haven’t been to a library in years.  Yes, I know.  Shame on me.  I used to go and then I stopped.  Why, exactly, I do not know.  Crazy when you consider how much I love to read; and the cost of books.  Anyway.

A friend of mine is an absolute devotee.  She is always either coming from or going to the library.  And recently she told me that now, at least here in Toronto, you can downloadbooks.…

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