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The library is pleased to announce its new website: lbpd.maryland.gov! For a website tutorial, please visit: https://youtu.be/errZAf__fUU.
Please let us know how you think the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled is doing and how we can improve the library by completing our annual Customer Satisfaction Survey! Please submit only one survey per user. The survey is a Google Form and will be available through February 28, 2024.
Your feedback makes a difference and your ideas help us to be a creative and innovative library for our users. Your kind words mean as much to us as we hope our books mean to you. Thanks!
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, By Lawrence T. Brown
DB 114344
The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly --a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city like a butterfly's wings– Lawrence T. Brown offers a clear five-step plan for activists, nonprofits, and public officials to achieve racial equity. The Black Butterfly demonstrates that America cannot reflect that Black lives matter until we see how Black neighborhoods matter.
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore, by Lawrence Patrick Jackson
DB 114474
When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house. With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray. Shelter is an extraordinary biography of a city and a celebration of our capacity for domestic thriving. It establishes Lawrence Jackson as a maverick, essential writer.
Elizabeth's Field, by Barbara M. Lockhart, narrated by Sabrina Dames
DBC 12532
Elizabeth's Field is the story of the free black population living on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the mid-1800s. Elizabeth, a free woman of Indian and African-American descent, owns land in 1852 and loses it in 1857. Her struggle to hold onto the land and her connection with Sam Green, the local minister who is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for owning a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, attest to the turmoil existing within Maryland's borders. As Mattie, a present day farm worker, searches for answers to her genealogical history, she reveals the societal and agricultural changes that occurred on the same land that was once Elizabeth's field. Elizabeth's Field won a silver medal in the Indie Publishers Book Award for regional fiction in 2014.
Celebrate Louis Braille's Birthday
Sunday, January 7, 2:00-4:00
Rockville Memorial Library
The Sligo Creek Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind and the Montgomery County Public Library Accessibility Advisory Committee invite everyone to celebrate the birthday of Louis Braille, the inventor of the writing system still used by blind people all over the world.
2:00-2:30 Tour of the Rockville Library to discover services that are enjoyable without sight.
2:30-4:00 Learn about Louis Braille and his 6-dot writing system; play games; enjoy a birthday cake and other refreshments.
For more information, call Debbie Brown at 301-881-1892 or email deborahb14@verizon.net.
Tactile Art: Landscape Boxes
February 3, 2024; 10:00 AM
This activity was requested by patrons to be repeated due to a weather cancellation in September. The activity is similar to creating a museum diorama. Participants will decide what landscape (real or imagined) that they will build. They will use found materials to create the diorama including a shallow box, newspaper, popsicle sticks, tinfoil, cling wrap, masking tape, glue sticks, and scissors. This is open to all patrons. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Register by emailing reference.desk@maryland.gov or calling 410-230-2443.
Newsline Information Session
NFB-NEWSLINE® is a free audio news service for anyone who is blind, low-vision, deafblind, or otherwise print-disabled that offers access to more than 500 publications, emergency weather alerts, job listings, and more. Learn more at our upcoming information session:
February 23, 2024; 2:00 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://marylandlibraries.zoom.us/j/5770178916?omn=98747133201
Dial in: 1-301-715-8592; Meeting ID: 577 017 8916#
Use paper and scissors to create unique paper snowflakes.
- Create a square out of your paper. Simply fold the top shorter edge over to meet the longer perpendicular edge of the paper. If you have excess paper, cut it off.
- Fold the square in half diagonally.
- Fold the triangle in half diagonally again.
- Cut slits along the bottom folded edge of the triangle. The cuts should be parallel to the longest side of the triangle.
- The first slit should be the longest (an inch or so away from the edge). Make sure you do not cut all the way through.
- Keep an inch or so between the cuts, and make each subsequent cut around an inch smaller than the previous one. Repeat on all sides of the triangle.
- Unfold the paper so it is flat.
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Watch a video on how to make the snowflake here: https://youtu.be/h8gK3iRgXzY?si=I-AN-cjyztqSbIuF
This was adapted from Tactile Art Club.
A group of library patrons led by Dr. Cheryl Fogle-Hatch is organizing tactile art activities. Please complete this Google Form to tell us what activities you are interested in doing.
https://forms.gle/cjhMWVMjHrYSAj5C6
The next three Technology User Group meetings will be held on:
- Saturday, January 6 - Echo Tips with David Ward & BookSense Player with Christina Nixon
- Saturday, February 10 - Smart AI apps that can assist you now
- Saturday, March 9 - Libby eBooks and Kindle Unlimited
All meetings begin at 10:00 a.m., and can be accessed by either calling in via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://marylandlibraries.zoom.us/j/6562037293
Meeting ID: 656 203 7293
Dial in:
301-715-8592
Meeting ID: 6562037293#
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