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As "The Great Paulissimo", Mr. Glickman will perform his enchanting magic show on Monday, April 24th at 7 PM. Then on Wednesday, also at 7PM, is the Annual Pajama Party and Story Time. Mr Glickman will read children's favorite bedtime storybooks. Pillows and refreshments will be provided. :-)
Of course it's free. La Farge is at 1730 Llano Street. For more information call 955-4863.
Program information and other library news is always available on the news page.
Main Library's hours are 10AM-9PM, Monday through Thursday; 10AM-6PM, Friday and Saturday; 1PM-5PM Sundays; their phone is 955-6781. La Farge's hours are 10 AM-9PM Monday to Wednesday; 10AM-6PM, Thursday to Saturday. Their phone number is 955-4862.
Please note: After May 7th, all holds and Interlibrary Loan material that had originally been scheduled to be delivered to the Library Bookstop will be send to the La Farge Branch. If you would prefer to have your items held for you at the Main Library, please let us know so that we can change the pickup location. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The architect's Work in Progress" notes for this week say, "Decking is being placed. HVAC and roof hatch penetration openings are being installed. Bar joist and canopy for the Children’s Area are being installed this week. The Children’s Area concrete masonry and South Patio grade beam will be installed this week. Irrigation sleeving will be installed this week."Also there are a lot of "Arts related issues:" in the field report: " We reviewed a sketch of the ceramic tile arrangement for the Children’s Courtyard... We discussed the installation of the steel guard railing on the Children’s Patio by the cisterns which will be part of the art installation. Final selection of the artist will occur on May 28. Glass etching will be considered for the Teen and Clerestory windows. The hanging of the fabric art form in the Children’s Performance area is being checked out for weight and installation needs... "
The projected opening date has slid forward into January, alas. Construction photos are always available on the Progress page.
We just spent a half-hour or so paging through a new picture book about Santa Fe, Jerilou Hammett's The essence of Santa Fe : from a way of life to a style . What a knockout. You'll be seeing it on lots of coffee tables.
Some examples of titles which caught our eye in a quick browse (you might make a different selection, but you'll surely find plenty):
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
Come on In! New Poems, yet more unpublished work by the late Charles Bukowski
A sheltered life : the unexpected history of the giant tortoise by Paul Chambers
The silk ribbon embroidery bible by Joan Gordon
Oceans : a visual guide by Stephen Hutchinson & Lawrence E. Hawkins
Special Events will include dinosaurs, music, puppets, magic, storytellers. There will be dinosaur prizes. :-)
Programs will include the kick-off celebration, Little Readers Day with Paul Glickman; Ande Marimba Band; Jamie O’Hara - the Magic Guy; Carolyn Newell and the Exotics of the Rainforest; Terry Alvarez - the Story Dancer; and Joy Ginther and the Pink Elephant Theatre.
It's all free. For information call Main Library 955-6837; La Farge Branch Library 955-4863.
Detailed program schedule and other information will be posted next week. Stay tuned.
These lists are always available from the catalog's opening page, and are updated about once a month.
The library's annual holiday schedule is always available on our web pages.
This is depressingly early. Look for the National Forests to close themselves to visitors well before Memorial Day.
National Geographic has a thorough website about the recently published Gospel of Judas. The site offers the complete Coptic text, an English translation, and a 14-minute webcast of a press announcement about the discovery, conservation, and context of the manuscript (including a very brief contribution from Gnostic scholar Elaine Pagels). There's plenty to be found on the web about the Gospel itself (1)(2)(3), gnosticism, etc.The library will set about ordering both Geographic's primary scholarly publication, and some books about the gospel and its historical context. We do have a number of older books about the Gnostics, but for the current topic you are better off using the web until some current books are available.
You probably saw some news stories. The latest revision of Janson's History of Art was published last month. It was extensively revised, with some artists and images dropped, others added. The New York Times article (call the library for login and password) quotes the principal editor as saying that a quarter of the content had been changed. For 40 years this title in one of its incarnations has been the standard text for art history; teachers and students alike may find the new edition a bit surprising (and a bit refreshed). We're ordering a copy of the new edition, and meanwhile have various older editions available in case you feel like a trip down memory lane. We'll let you know when the new edition arrives.
The time is 1920. A new state highway connecting Taos and Santa Fe has just been built with federal aid. Residents of the (then) northwest area of Santa Fe petitioned the Santa Fe County Commission for a new bridge over Arroyo Mascaras (on upper Grant at Rosario). The concrete 'El Puente de los Hidalgos' and the concrete Cross of the Martyrs were built in the same year by the Midland Bridge Company, and dedicated as part of the Fiesta celebration that fall. The bridge was of the design patented by James Marsh in 1912, known as a Marsh arch or "rainbow arch." At one time there were hundreds of Marsh arch bridges in the country. There may be only a few dozen remaining. The bridge over Arroyo Mascaras is the only rainbow arch bridge left in New Mexico. A procession across El Puente and up to the Cross remained a feature of the Fiesta celebration for several decades; but as the neighborhood filled in densely on the formerly empty hill, a new Cross of the Martyrs was erected by the Fiesta Council near the ruins of Fort Marcy. That's the Cross that present-day residents think of as the Cross of the Martyrs. The Near Northside Neighborhood Association bought 
Some longtime residents are familiar with the Old Cross of the Martyrs, some people are familiar with the Bridge of the Hidalgos, some people who don't spend time on the Near Northside may never have noticed either structure. Most of this information comes from a paper written by Corinne Sze of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation in 1991, at the time that the bridge was listed as a historic site. We have a copy in our vertical file. Ask for "Santa Fe--Historic Landmarks--Buildings and Districts II". Thank you to HSSF and to Corrinne Sze for sharing the paper.
Monday, April 24, 7:00 p.m.: "The Great Paulissimo" will present a magic show.
Wednesday, April 26, 7:00 p.m. : The Annual Pajama Party and Storytime at La Farge. Children are encouraged to come dressed in their pajamas and to bring their favorite bedtime storybooks. Paul will read as many of those as time allows. Pillows, popcorn, and lemonade come standard with the program.
P.S. Information about Summer Reading will be coming soon.
Home access requires that you go to the link provided there on the periodicals/database page to sign yourself up with Grolier. They will email you a username and password. After that, if your browser sets cookies, you will keep being able to get in without logging in again.
The Gateway to Other Library Catalogs page within the catalog is once again working from the in-house catalog stations. If you are looking for other libraries while online from home, we have a much larger selection on the Internet Starting Points, and a detailed description of Santa Fe Library Resources in particular.
Donald Levering Reads - Thursday, April 6 at 7 pm. Join us for a reading by poet Donald Levering. Levering has published two full-length volumes of poetry including Outcroppings From Navajoland and Horsetail as well as four chapbooks, The Jack of Spring, Carpool, Mister Ubiquity, and The Fast of Thoth. Another chapbook, The Kingdom of Ignorance, is forthcoming this spring from Finishing Line Books. Levering was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in poetry.
Open Reading to Honor Earth Day - Thursday, April 20, 7 pm. Bring yours or others' "earthy" poems and prose and celebrate Earth Day out loud. Readings up to five minutes (please respect your audience and time yourself). First 15 to sign up will read.
Both events take place upstairs in the Writers Room of the Southwest Literary Center at 826 Camino de Monte Rey, and are free and open to the public. For more information call 577-1125, email litcenter@recursos.org
Also, the City's GIS (Geographic Information Systems) department has some terrific maps on their web site. These are large PDF files, so you'd need a good printer to get a paper product. (It might be easier to go buy one from the department.) But they sure are fun to look at, and in many cases looking is all you need to do to answer your question--finally, a good zip code map, a mountainous terrain map, residential subdivisions, and on and on. The thumbnail image is from Future Land Use.
A lot of other useful information can be found on the City's official web site: the Code, the Weekly Water Reports, bus schedules, and more.
Meanwhile, the 2005 cohort of juveniles for the eastern whooping crane flock, who were led by ultralight on their first southbound migration last fall, have started back north on their own. Follow the news of their progress at Journey North. Pick up a glimpse of National Geographic's Crane Cam on the North Platte River while you're thinking birds. (They get a LOT more sandhill cranes than we do in the winters at Bosque del Apache, though it's the end of their season and the crances there, too, have mostly moved north.)
A friend has pointed out that there is a Google Mars. We knew about Google Moon; Mars was a surprise. The Cassini-Huygens probe team has images of small moonlets embedded in Saturn's rings (summary and article citations at Nature, but not full text), and is gearing up for a fly-by of Titan at the end of April.
We found a new drought graphic, a River Basin Snow Water Content map covering the whole west; earlier in the month there were news stories from the earliest universe (data courtesy of NASA's WMAP probe); and for a small silly treat, listen to a bullfrog at FrogWatch.com
