Guest post by Cap’n Cache. Updated 4/18/19 Ahoy me hearties! Did ye miss ol’ Cap’n Cache while I be gone sailin’ the seas? Well, I be back just in time to be tellin’ ye about library resources for Earth Week that be comin’ up this month. Yer 2017 Earth Week begins April 16 (that be …
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Updated 5/2019 with Captain Cache’s Curiosities Podcast episode about 3D printing at the Libraries. On the second floor of the Old Town Library, tucked over by the computers and printers, sits a large complex looking machine that steadily toils nearly every day printing wondrous, and sometimes strange objects. It’s a machine for the makers, the …
Avast, me hearties! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Aye, today be the one day o’ year me and me mates don’t sound out of the ordinary. E’eryone be talkin’ like me today. The art o’ pirate language began to be officially recognized in 1995 when John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers …
Ahoy, me hearties! ‘Tis I, Cap’n Cache, here to be teachin’ ye how to find yer next favorite book. Tired of waitin’ for yer book to be available for checkout ‘cause all those other scallywags have it? Or maybe ye just want to find another book similar to ye favorite? The online library catalog be …
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Ahoy! Cap’n Cache reporting for National Poetry Month (aka April). Bein’ a man o’ the high seas, I don’t dabble much in the world o’ poetry, but I figured for this special month I’d check it out. National Poetry Month was established in 1996 by the Academy o’ American Poets. Arr! It be the largest …