The Library Militant: Caledon Library News

The Nightingale? The Lark?

2008-07-15T07:18:26Z

Sun, July 20 - Sat, July 26
Shakespeare Summer: Romeo and Juliet Explored In Music
Radio Riel: http://music.radioriel.org

July is the second month of Shakespeare Summer, on which the Caledon Library is proud to be collaborating with Radio Riel. This month, our play is Romeo & Juliet

For the week of July 20th-26th, Radio Riel’s “From The Library” programming will feature music from, inspired by, based upon, thematically connected to, or providing commentary and sidelights on, The Bard’s eternally popular play of the impetuosities and tragedies of youthful love.

In-world, visit any Caledon Library location to listen. Out here in the depths of the Aether, tune your Aetheric Musical Gizmo (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc) to Radio Riel at http://music.radioriel.org

Visit Radio Riel at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for details of the programming

Programming & events this week lead up the the Romeo & Juliet Ball on July 26th, to be heralded further in these pages. For those who are already working on their Costumes, and RolePlay for the Ball, this resource may prove of use.

Gentlebeings, your servant

JJD

Story Hour at the Caledon Library, with Rachel Pevensy

2008-07-05T05:42:14Z

Story Hour at the Caledon Library, with Rachel Pevensy
American Tales
July 5th 12-1pm slt
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/30/180/23

Come join us as Rachel tells stories, and sings songs, on an American theme with a focus on Westward movement, to celebrate the American Independance Day holiday.

Rachel Pevensy is a RL storyteller with a keen appreciation for all the ins and outs, challenges and rewards of her craft. Her blog may be found at http://www.storytellingadventures.blogspot.com

Story Hour will be broadcast live on Radio Riel. Join us at the Whitehorn, and turn on your music stream, or listen Aetherically at http://music.radioriel.org

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon Victoria City... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.

Toussaint L'Ouverture Library of New Toulouse - Grand Opening June 26th

2008-06-23T23:41:24Z

Grande Opening of the Toussaint L'Ouverture Library of New Toulouse
and
St. John the Baptist Feast Day Celebration
Thursday, June 26th
6-8 pm SLT
Toussaint L'Ouverture Library building, New Toulouse
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/64/108/23

Join the citizens of New Toulouse to christen their new library on (belated) St. John's Eve, the holiest day of the Voodoo calendar. A celebration of growth and moving forward, we'll baptize the newest addition to the New Toulouse neighborhood in gin and gumbo. After a brief ceremony, music and dancing will be provided in New Toulouse style!

"Lord Rosse's Monster Telescopes" Opening Lecture June 29th

2008-06-23T20:43:04Z

I am in reciept of the following, which will, I believe, be of interest to the Savants, SteamPunks, Techno-Enthusiasts, and Right Good Technical Whizz Bangs of Caledon & Related Realms

Mr. Troy McLuhan of Caledon Moors invites you to the Grand Opening of "Lord Rosse's Monster Telescopes" --- his most ambitious science exhibition in SL so far: An animated, audio-narrated, musical flying carpet tour of Lord Rosse's Monster Telescopes, including The Leviathan of Parsonstown --- the largest telescope of the 19th century.

Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008
Time: 12:00 noon PDT (SL Time)
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Space%20Island/154/25/33

The opening may involve cutting giant ribbons, exploding cakes, an attack by alien monsters or the like. Mr. McLuhan might even be prevailed upon say a few words, as might builders who helped him!

More information on the whole of the undertaking and its impetus may be had at...http://www.troymcconaghy.com/monster-telescopes/

Gentlebeings, your servant

JJ Drinkwater

Fairies, Skip hence!

2008-06-06T07:16:21Z

Caledon Library Book Discussion
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Sunday, June 15th , 2 - 4pm slt
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/30/180/23

Considered the most varied and original of The Bard's early comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is discovered anew by each generation, as its multiplicity of interpretations and productions shows. The play's fantastical wordplay and imagery is a gorgeous wrapper for a layered tale of the changeable nature of attachment & desire "momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream," which ends, as all good Elizabethan comedies must, with a wedding…but this one is a triple wedding, accompanied by the comic "Play within a play" of Pyramus & Thisbe.

Peopled by such memorable characters as Bottom the Weaver, Titania the proud and impulsive queen of the fairies, and Puck (or Robin Goodfellow), the play transports us to a realm at once as strange and as familiar as a dream.

All lovers of Shakespeare and of fairy lore are invited to join us, as are all Amazon Queens, Sportive Dukes, Star-Crossed Lovers, Sprites, Merry Wanderers of the Night, Talking Walls and Diffident Lions, whether they have read the play or not

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon Victoria City... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.

Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.

This Discussion is part of the "Shakespeare Summer", produced by Radio Riel, with the kind assistance of the Foundation for Rich Content. The Dream will continue on June 21st, with a Gala Midsummer Night's Dream Ball, in the Enchanted sim of Hoy, 6-8pm slt. See the Radio Riel blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for more information.

Book Discussion - The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare

2008-05-29T14:53:49Z

Caledon Library Book Discussion
The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare
Led by Miss Serafina Puchkina of Caledon

Sat, May 31, 2 - 4pm slt
Saturday, May 31st, 2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/52/203/23

Well known and regarded in its own day, de la Mare's fantastic tale of journey through a delicately exotic landscape has fallen into some obscurity. This is a shame, as there is an intrinsic pleasure of the author's dreamlike prose, written with a poet's sensibility, as well as in Dorothy Lathrop's vivid and sensuous illustrations.

The work is also of interest as one of the principal influences on J.R.R. Tolkien's "Middle Earth" books. We will be discussing the work as a Hero's Journey of the type explored by Joseph Campbell et al.

All lovers of Quests, fans of tales involving the Innocent and Magical Third Son, Persons Partial to the Poetical, and readers of Fantastic and Fanciful Fiction are invited to join us, whether they have read the work or not.

Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity,
or found online at
http://www.archive.org/stream/threemullamulgar00dela

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.

Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library, or Miss Serafina Puchkina.

All In A Garden Green

2008-05-16T20:49:23Z

Introducing the Caledon Library's Gardening Collection!
Sunday, May 18, 1 - 3 p.m. SLT
Robbiani Gardens, Caledon Morgaine
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Morgaine/207/107/22

Miss Kaye Robbiani and Mr. JJ Drinkwater invite you to a Garden Party, to view the newly created Gertrude Jekyll Gardening Collection for the Caledon Library.

Come explore the controversies and conventions of 19th century gardens and gardening, and enjoy the Gardens, both formal and natural, of the Robbiani-Lyle Estate in Caledon Morgaine.

At 2 p.m. Miss Robbiani will give a short garden tour and presentation on Fashions in 19th Century English Gardening, with some remarks on "The Great Garden Debate", the tensions between Landscape Designers, advocating a style in harmony with nature, and Architects, who, seeing the garden as an extension of the house, argued for a more formal, traditional design, with both sides claiming to represent the true English Garden.

We will also offer refreshments, good music and dancing, and good company!

Dress: Semi-formal, with Big Hats

gentlebeings, your servant

JJD

Story Session at the Falling Anvil: Bringing in the May

2008-05-07T03:04:40Z

Story Session at the Falling Anvil: Bringing in the May
Mon, May 12, 5 - 8p:
The Falling Anvil Public House, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/

The Lusty Month of May brings with it Maypole Dances, frolicks in the greenwood amongst the springtime flowers, and suchlike fertile and fecund shenanigans. Tammuz returns from the underworld to dance in the fields with Inanna, Persephone is freed from the grip of Hades and reunited with her mother, Demeter, and Jack-in-the-Green bids wood and meadow put forth leaf and blossom...and we all take Mom out for a nice Sunday Brunch. Come and share your stories of springtime rituals, and all that increases and multiplies.

Sponsored by the Caledon Library, the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, and the Storytelling Guild. Hosted by Mr. Aldo Stern

The Caledon Library wishes to express its unstinting approbation to the gentlebeings of the Encyclopedia Britannica for their WebShare program, which provided the Aetheric Linkages in this announcement

Story Hour at the Whitehorn, May 4th....Pele & Hi'iaka

2008-04-29T18:20:54Z

Story Hour at the Caledon Library, with Lehua Lamington
Hawaii's Epic Legends: Pele and Hi'iaka, Goddesses of Volcanoes and Healing
Sunday May 4th
12pm-1pm SLT
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/30/180/23

Lehua Lamington is a storyteller with deep roots in the culture of the Hawaiian Islands, and an equally deep love of the art of Telling. She will regale us with tales of Pele (the volatile and magnificent goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence) and Hi'iaka, the goddess of healing, Pele's beloved sister and, at times, rival.

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.

Lehua will tell her stories using SL Voice. Here is a quick remineder on how to enable Voice in SL (with thanks to librarian Corwin Howlett)

Setting yourself up to hear voice chat is easy. First go to Edit menu, then choose Preferences, then the Voice Chat tab. Make sure the check mark is in the box marked Enable Voice Chat. (Sometimes it helps to "uncheck" it and "recheck" it.) Also choose "Hear Voice chat from camera position" although it usually works both ways. Click OK.

Now at the bottom right you will see a button that says Talk. Don't press this unless you really want everyone around to hear you. To the left of Talk is a button with chat bubbles and green lines. CLick on that.

A box labeled Active Speakers should show up. Everyone near you with voice enabled will display, and anyone actually speaking will be at the top. When they talk you should see a little green symbol by their name. From this screen, you can control the volume of individual speakers. If you are having trouble hearing a presenter, click on their name, then turn their volume up at the bottom. This will usually solve the problem.
If you are hearing a speaker you don't want to hear, then highlight their name on this list and turn them down or even click on the little speaker icon to mute them.

Gentlebeings, Your Servant

JJD

Wherein Transactions are Accounted for, from the 1st Quarter of 2008

2008-04-29T04:37:35Z

When the Caledon Library Benefactors group was started, YHN proposed that the following methods should be used to report donations and what became of them.

        * The accounts kept by Provost Weatherwax will be posted, quarterly, on this website.
        * By default, we will include donor names, as they appear on the accounting spreadsheets generated from the Second Life Bureau of Aetheric Accountancy (i.e. the "Transactions History" found in the general vicinity of secondlife.com/account/transactions )
        * Those who wish to donate anonymously are welcome to request of Provost Weatherwax that their name be removed from the Public Record of our Accounts.
              o HOWEVER, those who wish to donate anonymously are encouraged to contact myself, JJ Drinkwater, to arrange the private transfer of funds.
        * We discourage the donation of first-born children, unless they already know how to read

Herewith we indicate the Electronickal Ledger of Provost Weatherwax, shewing what monies have been received, and what disbursed, between the first of January and the last of March, in 2008

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pllkKvV1i6x33v06RKU-cew

To each and every donor, whether of Five lindens or Five and Twenty Thousand, we of the library express our most profound and heartfelt thanks. As your taste, discernment, enthusiasm, creativity, and literacy are our inspiration; so are your generosity, beneficence, liberality, and open-handed support our prop and mainstay.

Gentlebeings, your servant

JJ Drinkwater

A Weekend of Practical...and Impractical...Cats at the Caledon Library

2008-04-22T20:40:01Z

The Caledon Library invites you to join us in a weekend of events celebrating T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"

Saturday, April 26
The Jellicle Ball - Sponsored by the Caledon Library Benefactors
3-6pm SLT
Coughton Court in Caledon Carntaigh
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Carntaigh/85/156/26

"Jellicle Cats come out to-night
Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright -
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball."

Come dance as only a Jellicle cat can, to music played by DJ Gabrielle Riel, and celebrate all things feline ...and Eliot's beloved book of cat poems, the inspiration for the musical "Cats." All the Cultured cats will be there: Bustopher Jones, Grolwtiger, The Magical Mr. Mistoffelees, even bold Skimbleshanks, the railway cat.

Dress: Feline, Furry, Neko, or Formal Black & White

Caterwauling
The Good Folk of Radio Riel have recorded numerous Feline Inspired Poems, for this weekend, and will be playing them, along with accompanying music on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week. Tune in at http://music.radioriel.org and see their blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for more of de tails....

Sunday, April 27th
Book of the Month Discussion: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/52/203/23

Eliot's cat poems (originally composed to amuse his friends) amply demonstrate his genius with metrical forms. They also show us the author in a playful mood, instead of the high seriousness that characterizes the works with which he revolutionized poetry in the early 20th c. He was a close observer of cats and their ways, and captures feline types to perfection.

All fans of Eliot's works, lovers of The Literature of The Feline , and literary schmoozers are welcome to join us, as are likewise all Bravo Cats, Gumbie Cats, and Rum Tum Tuggers whether they have read the work or not -- and everyone is invited to attend in their Furred, Tailed, and Whiskered Best

An exhibit treating of the work, and featuring some of the most notorious critters from Caledon, Winterfell, and New Toulouse as Eliot's Practical cats, will be on display at the Whitehorn Library, and the New Toulouse Library, for the entire month of April

Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity,
or found online at http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum/oldpossumlex/

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.

Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.

Storytelling Free-for-All, Falling Anvil Pub, Monday April 21, 5-8pm slt

2008-04-19T08:03:34Z

You are most cordially invited to a Story Session at the Falling Anvil

Monday, April the Twenty-First, Five until Eight in the evening, SLT
The Falling Anvil, Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/233/113/23/

Unlike most of our session, this evening has no particular theme or subject. All Storytellers, Bards, Griots, Tellers of Tall Tales, Yarn Spinners, and Creative Liars are welcome to join us with the stories of their chosing.

Sponsored by the Caledon Library, the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, and the Storytelling Guild . Hosted by Mr. Aldo Stern

Wherein our Exhibits May be Seen to Live & Breathe

2008-04-18T05:14:44Z

Caledon Library Exhibits Documented in the Zoopraxiscopic Parlour of YouTube

Caledon Library Curator Alice Burgess has, with camera in hand, documented the last several exhibits at the Whitehorn Library. She and Literature & Aetheric Phenomena Curator Kghia Gherardi have, between them, created an enduring Aetheric Theatre wherein her work...and, through it, the distinguished work of sundry curators...may be viewed. It is with the greatest of pleausre that I send you, dear readers, thither:

Caledon Libraries Channel

Gentlebeings, your servant

JJDrinkwater

The Bibbia di Borso: The Illuminated Bible of the First Duke of Ferara. Lecture April 18th

2008-04-15T00:40:36Z

Illuminated Manuscripts Lecture by Una Renard, at the Caledon Library
Fri, April 18, 6 - 8pm
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/59/196

Borso d'Este rode into Rome in April, 1471 for the specific purpose of receiving from Pope Paul II his investiture as the first duke of Ferrara. He carried with him on his journey a portable library which had been commissioned especially for this triumphant occasion. Among the manuscripts he brought were a breviary, a copy of the Legends of the Saints, a missal, and the crown jewel his traveling collection; the sumptuous two-volume bible, known as the Bibbia di Borso.

This Bible was one of the most lavishly embellished manuscripts ever produced and it had taken an entire workshop of illuminators six years to complete. The Bibbia measured 375 by 265 millimeters and contained 604 parchment folios. The manuscript was originally bound in gold brocade and adorned with gilded silver clasps, cornices and medallions. Such a collection of manuscripts would have amounted to a splendid display. The Marchese ordered them all recovered or rebound for the journey, which suggests that although they were primarily intended for Borso's personal use, they were also meant to be viewed by members of the Papal court.

While we normally think of books as being private objects, the lavishly illuminated Bibbia di Borso was intended as a very public expression of princely magnificence and piety intended to win favor with the Pope. This 15th-century Bible also served as a reflection of the magnificence of his court as a whole. We will explore the complex relationship between Borso as patron, this bible, and the courtly space of the library as they're elucidated by the illuminations within the Bibbia.

Please join us for this very special lecture!

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.

Jane Austen Discussed Completely -- 5:00 p.m April 13

2008-04-11T23:16:41Z

Jane Austen Discussed Completely
April 13, 2008
5:00 p.m.
Whitehorn Library, VictoriaCity - 3rd Floor
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/59/196/23

The Complete Jane concludes at the Caledon Library

Join us for our last discussion of Jane Austen's novels as presented in PBS in the "Complete Jane" series. We will talk about her works as a whole, make connections between novels, identify themes, and figure out what her parent issues really are.

Please note this event is on Sunday instead of our typical Monday evening, and it is an addition to our previously announced schedule.

If you would like to suggest similar discussions for the future or would like to provide feedback on the Complete Jane events, please contact JJ Drinkwater or Kghia Gherardi.