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August is here, bringing with it Family Fun Month, National Back-to-School Month, National Catfish Month, and National Inventors’ Month.
This week you can also celebrate International Clown Week and Simplify Your Life Week, which encourages us to reduce the clutter in our lives.
Today is the anniversary of the First US Census, which was taken in 1790. The first Census counted 3,939,326 people living in the 16 states and the Ohio Territory. The 2000 Census expects to count over 275 million people! Today is also Rounds Resounding Day, with the motto: "As rounds re-sound and resound, all the world’s joined in a circle of harmony.
And today is the 10th anniversary of the World Wide Web, which was first suggested in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Switzerland. By October, they had designed a prototype Web browser.
Wednesday is Friendship Day, a day to heed the advice of 18th-century English philosopher Samuel Johnson: "A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." Saturday is National Mustard Day, and Sunday is Sister’s Day.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Teens are invited to attend a Teen Summer Reading Party today at Cahoon Park Swimming Pool, held exclusively for members of the Teen Summer Reading Program. The party goes from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., with drawings, give-aways, refreshments, and fun! Sign up now to be eligible to attend!
At Wednesday morning’s 10:00 story time, participants will join experts from Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge for a fascinating program about dragonflies and take home a dragonfly craft.
Wednesday’s 3:30 p.m. story time features the magic of Nathan Hadsall. Participants will learn how to perform feats of magic and take home a wire magic trick.
Participants at Saturday morning’s 10:00 story time will hear seashell stories, start a collection, and make seashell crafts.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Barbara Harris provides this week’s book information. Has the recent graduate at your house spent more than enough time hanging out at the pool? If so, send him or her to the library to get started on a search for the job that will free up another room in your house! The library has books, videos, and audiocassettes about looking for openings, writing resumes and cover letters, and surviving job interviews. Many business magazines also have ideas about how to be competitive in the job market. Directories of corporations, the yellow pages of phone books, and the classified ads in newspapers will help identify companies and jobs of interest. The library’s public computers can be used to prepare resumes and letters or to search the Internet for job listings and information about companies and communities. In particular, the NM Department of Labor has an excellent website that lists jobs and also describes the services of their offices. There is no charge to use these computers and only a small fee for printing the information you find or the documents you create. You can also download to a disk.
For the person who is just beginning to think about a career or the person who wants to choose a new one, your Roswell Public Library has all the resources you need to help you through the process, from examining your interests and abilities to selecting a career, to choosing a college or vocational school.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to "Bear’s Guide to Earning Degrees Nontraditionally," people who are looking to earn a degree by mail or over the Internet should beware: scam schools are on the increase. Stick with schools accredited by groups listed on the Council on Higher Education Accreditation Website, www.chea.org. Ask licensing boards and professional groups if a program gives acceptable training, and ask universities which credits are accepted on campus.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
"Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film." (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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