October 2010

  • A book I’d overlooked

    Walking around the library I have to deliberately ignore the shelves sometimes, shutting out the siren song of all those stories crying out to be read. Some I’ve always meant to read, but many more are perfect strangers to me: little worlds languishing on the lower shelves, waiting to be opened. One especially beguiling title… Continue reading

  • Crowdsourcing or Cloudsourcing Politics – Seattle Style

    Tip O’Neil famously said “All politics is local.” Lately, however, it seems as if the political conversation happens without the local voices. In a project designed to find ways to reconnect voters with each other and with the political process, a team from the CityClub of Seattle; Reinspire Me, LLC; the Design, Use, Build Group… Continue reading

  • In the Stacks: Short & Sweet

    Recently at the Central Library we did a large display of staff picks with plastic-encased “Shelf Talker” sleeves. We thought we would share some of these with you: The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan Finished with boarding school, Bess Heath returns home to find her family’s prospects drastically changed. She also… Continue reading

  • Car Repair in a Digital World

    One of the benefits of driving a car built in 1984 is that when something goes wrong you can usually just take the car apart until you see what’s sticking or leaking or broken, then get a replacement piece and put it all back together again. All you need are some basic tools, a can… Continue reading