3-D PRINTING

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 6 PM, Macedon Public Library's Community Room. That's the time that Jeff Davignon, Director of Walworth-Seely Public Library, will demonstrate the 3-D printer that is now in residence at the Walworth library. Jeff's presentation has made a big hit at other area libraries, and we're anticipating an enthusiastic turnout that night.

(As we look around the Bullis Room, we wonder how much different this new technology is from the technology that produced the books that fill this room. Perhaps like the difference between Star Trek stories and those written by Charles Dickens, perhaps?)

In other presentations, Davignon's special printer has produced whimsical things like an owl, Spongebob Squarepants, and other small figurines. The printer has also churned out usable sockets for a wrench set, brackets for library shelving, a glow-in-the-dark cellphone case, and a life-size medical model of an inner ear, based on an MRI scan.

What would Nettie and Charlie Bullis have thought of such a machine? We think that  Nettie may have been impressed with its efficiency and Charlie, with the novelty of the thing.  Charlie may have even decided to try to build his own version of the machine.

Please plan to come and see this fun demo. And if you'd like to visit the Bullis Room after the 3-D presentation, we'll be glad to give you a quick tour. (But we have to be out before 8 PM! Or else we may turn into a plastic Spongebob Squarepants.)

THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY

This week, volunteers put together a new display in the case outside the Bullis Room., display celebrating diversity and suggesting that viewers resolve to read a variety of new topics and discover new authors in the coming new year. Some of our suggestions are:

Rupert, by the Grace of God

the Story of an Unrecorded plot set forth by Will Fortesque

Edited and revised by Dora Greenwell McChesney, published in 1899

Two Little Savages

Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Written by Ernest Thompson Seton, published in 1917.

Thomas Hart Benton--American Statesman

Written by Theodore Roosevelt, published in 1886.

Hugh Wynne--Free Quaker

Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington

Written by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.L.L.D.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Written by Charles Dickens

Birds Every Child Should Know

Written by Hamilton Wright Mabie, published in 1917

Over the Teacups

Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, published in 1891

Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians

Edited by M. G. Humphreys, published 1913

The Religions of the Ancient World

Written by George Rawlinson, M.A., published 1883