LATI Showcase

My LATI project is finally complete and I am just finishing up the portfolio. What a journey!! I have learned so much and have improved my ability to research information in many areas.

Beautiful Birds

The Birds have Returned

The Bluebirds and Tree Swallows have returned to nest in our bird houses. They join all the Cardinals and many other smaller birds.

What I'm Reading This Week

Taxes for Dummies !
I don't usually like to pick up a Dummies book, but in the case of taxes that is my level of understanding.

Thoughtful and Difficult Reading

What I'm Reading Now

Farm Sanctuary by Gene Baur

It is a book about current practices in industrial farming. Reading about the methods of raising cattle, pigs and chickens for mass food production just takes your breath away in the scope of its cruelty and distain for the most basic needs of the animals as well as the workers. However, I most enjoyed the individual profiles of rescued animals. Gene Baur is an excellent writer, very sensitive to both the animals he is defending and the people who read about the appalling practices in our food production industry.

Majestic Eagle

This eagle just caught a large fish!

American Bald Eagle

My husband's class saw 21 Bald Eagles during a recent field trip to the Susquehanna River in Harford County, Maryland. Amazing !

I wasn't able to download photos from the field trip because they were too large for the blog. So I found this photo taken at Octoraro, Maryland. This and other local eagle photos can be found at farm1.static.flickr or just google images of eagles in Maryland.

Hubble Telescope Images

Today we went to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The museum had Hubble Telescope images from outer space and deep space. They were extraordinary. Simply beautiful!

The Walters is free. Check out the museum website.

www.THEWALTERS.org

Hugo Cabret Illustrations from Google Images

Click on Google. Then click on Images.

Type in The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

There are lots of illustrations from the books and some very informative websites and blogs to explore.

Beautiful Illustrations

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a wonderfully illustrated book. I felt like I was in Paris swept up in the story. Check out the amazing website for the award winning book. http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/

• This exciting book won the Caldecott medal for 2008!

• Finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature

• New York Times #1 Bestseller/ In the Ten Best Illustrated Books

• Quill Award for Children's Chapter Book

• And a movie is in the works!

What I'm Reading Now

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

LATI Begins Today

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
Carl T. Rowan
(1925-2000)

View from the Hill

It's Cold!

Return to Blogging

It has been a while since I last posted. With the New Year comes new learning experiences and exciting times. I will begin a comprehensive library training course in February. LATI, Library Associate Training Institute, will be 16 weeks of on-line and face-to-face training in the latest information and knowledge required for the 21st century. New skills and expanding lines of communication and creativity are the goals I hope to achieve. Stay tuned....