Hope everyone is easing back into the school year. If you have some free time in the upcoming month, here are some bookish events happening around the city. Feel free to post additional ones that you know of in the comments. Enjoy!
Nerd Jeopardy
@ BookCourt
Tuesday, September 17
Everyone's favorite literary trivia night returns as a special Brooklyn
Book Festival Bookend event. Modeled off of a certain popular game show,
three teams of three contestants will test their knowledge of
literature and pop culture for modest prizes and immodest glory.
Book Launch: Art Spiegelman presents Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps
@ Greenlight Bookstore
Wednesday, September 18
Greenlight is exceedingly proud to host Art Spiegelman, the only
cartoonist to win a Pulitzer for his work, for the bookstore launch of
his new book Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps.
Spiegelman has been a leader of, and an inspiration for, alternative
comics artists throughout the past three decades, long before Raw magazine and Maus.
Brooklyn Book Festival
@ Brooklyn Borough Hall
Sunday, September 22
The largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages to enjoy authors and the festival’s lively literary marketplace.
Books and Boards: Greenpoint Game Night
@ WORD
Friday, September 27
Who doesn’t love games? Join us for a community mixer, open to all.
Declare your favorite (or least favorite) book, play a few rounds of
Bananagrams, Menu Mash-Up, and Battleship (to name a few), and get to
know your literary neighbors!
Pop-Up Paper Engineering Basics and Beyond Workshop
@ Center for Book Arts
Saturday & Sunday, September 28 & 29
The magic of pop-up is discovered in a two-day workshop taking
participants from beginner's lessons through more advanced mechanisms.
This is a hands-on tour that will explain the V-fold, Step, Spinner, and
beyond!
The Moth Storytelling
@ The Bitter End
Monday, September 30
Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they
showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore
it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice
authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a
unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience.
Getting Published: Non Fiction Book Proposals
@ Brooklyn Brainery
Tuesday, October 1
So, you’ve found a killer true story and you want to write a book about it. How do you start? This class is an introduction to putting together a non-fiction book proposal.
NYPL Children's Literary Salon
@ Stephen A Schwartzman Building
Saturday, October 12
Join Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature, Interim
Director Jenny Brown as she interviews historian and critic Leonard S.
Marcus and his assistant Patrick Kiley about their current NYPL exhibit
and the importance of children’s literature as a whole.
The Hudson Valley Library Association brings together librarians primarily from independent K-12 schools in the New York City, Long Island, Westchester and nearby New Jersey and Connecticut communities.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
HVLA FALL MEETING
REQUEST
THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT THE HVLA FALL MEETING
DATE:
OCTOBER 23RD
VENUE: THE BREARLEY
SCHOOL
610 E 83RD ST
NEW YORK, NY 10028
Thursday, August 22, 2013
September Book Club
Date/Time:
Thursday September 19, 5:30
Location:
Elizabeth Irwin High School - meet in the library
40 Charlton Street
(between 6th Ave and Varick)
What We're Reading:
17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
After Iris by Natasha Farrant
Thursday September 19, 5:30
Location:
Elizabeth Irwin High School - meet in the library
40 Charlton Street
(between 6th Ave and Varick)
What We're Reading:
17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
After Iris by Natasha Farrant
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
August Book Club
Date/Time:
Thursday, August 1, 1:00
Location:
TBD
What We're Reading:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
Thursday, August 1, 1:00
Location:
TBD
What We're Reading:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
Thursday, June 13, 2013
How To Make a Librarian Smile
It's the end of the school year. Overdues, inventories, reports, or worse yet a library move--it's enough to make a librarian crazy. If you need a break from the frenzy try one of these:
Just don't ask me who's going to shelve all those books!
Google got it right with their fun doodle celebrating the life and work of Maurice Sendak. And you can't go wrong with a library montage.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
June Book Club
Date/Time:
Thursday, June 20, 1:30
Location:
Elizabeth Irwin High School - meet in the library
40 Charlton Street
(between 6th Ave and Varick)
What We're Reading:
Black Helicopters by Blythe Woodson
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Thursday, June 20, 1:30
Location:
Elizabeth Irwin High School - meet in the library
40 Charlton Street
(between 6th Ave and Varick)
What We're Reading:
Black Helicopters by Blythe Woodson
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
ADVENTURES IN 3D PRINTING @ FRIENDS ACADEMY
It’s been impossible to escape all the talk and excitement
about 3D printing lately and, like many people, I was becoming quite curious to
get a look at this new technology. Ken
Ambach, the Friends Academy tech director, had been sending emails with links
to articles and videos for a few months when I heard that a Makerbot Replicator
2 was purchased and had arrived on campus. Currently, the Makerbot lives in the
tech office of the upper school classroom building where Adam Weber, a member
of the tech dept. who also teaches AP Computer Science, is learning to use it
and making some interesting objects.
I spent some time with Ken to hear his plans for the 3D
printer and to get a sneak peak. Ken
explained that students in our engineering course will be able to use it to
test their designs, Vex Robotics students may find it useful for making parts
for their robots, and two new upper school electives in engineering and 3D
design may be using it next fall as well.
I asked Ken to describe what working with a 3D printer was like. “It’s a bit finicky in the way a kiln can
be,” he said, “and management of the printer needs to be done by an adult or a
highly trained student. There are a lot of settings that need to be adjusted,
and it is quite difficult to get high quality prints.”
The Makerbot Replicator 2, six spools of plastic and a
service contract cost under $3,000. We
use Makerware software to send a 3D design to our MakerBot, which then turns
the design into a 3D object out of PLA
(Polylactic Acid) plastic. This plastic
doesn’t give off fumes like some other plastics, is really shiny and is
biodegradable. It does take a long time
to make even a simple object. Some of
the objects pictured below took five hours to print. We also use Blender, a free, open-source 3D computer graphics program used for 3D printing as well as special
effects for films. One of the jobs of the software is to make decisions about
the structural elements of the object to be printed. While you don’t need to know programming to
use the software, there is definitely a technical learning curve.
It seems
you may not know what the 3D printer can do for you until a need comes up. Rob Grella, also a member of our tech
department, had a flat tire on his car not long ago. When he took the car to the shop to get the
tire repaired the mechanic noticed that an important ring was missing from the
wheel assembly, but unfortunately, the shop did not have the exact size ring to
fit his wheel, which is 67.8 millimeters on the outside and 57.1 millimeters on
the inside. After spending a lot of time
searching for the ring online he was still unable to locate it. And, he
discovered that his car needed four rings, not just one! Rob then asked Adam if our Makerbot could
make the four rings for his car. Adam
went to work and successfully printed four rings by adapting 3D modeling plans
found on Thingiverse, a website where people share digital designs. The ring, pictured below, fit perfectly!
The F.A.
Makerbot is still pretty new, but lots of students and teachers have been
checking it out and interest is growing.
If you want to see a working Makerbot printer you can watch the
Makerbot Replicator 2 in action and take classes and workshops in their store
in Brooklyn.
Link & Photos:
For a 13-minute, fascinating look at the future of 3D
printing, check out the link below.
This green ring was made for Rob’s car wheel on the FA
MakerBot 3D printer
Made on the Friends Academy MakerBot 3D printer
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