The text in the image reads: Maxwell is not reopening with the city libraries. We will post our first curbside date ASAP. Your books are still extended to July 1 and your holds are safe.
Hoopla Extends Bonus Borrows Through May 31
From Hoopla’s May 8 blog post: Due to the overwhelmingly positive response and the continued need of our library partners and their communities, we have extended the availability of the hoopla Bonus Borrows collection through May 31! We have changed…
Governor Cuomo’s Daily Briefing
Governor Cuomo has a daily briefing on the current state of his office’s response to the pandemic at https://www.governor.ny.gov/news
Update on Reopening
Alyssa posted the following on our Facebook page: Dear Maxwell Memorial Patrons, The staff at Maxwell misses you all and wanted to provide you with an update regarding reopening. Many of you have probably heard that the Central and city…
Dewey Decimal and Covid-19
Like most public libraries in the US, Maxwell arranges its nonfiction using Dewey Decimal Classification (001–099 for General Reference, Information & Computers, 100–199 for Philosophy & Psychology, and so on). Though its general outline is much the same as it…
Absentee Voting for All
With absentee voting for all being offered, Rena reached out to the Board of Elections to find out whether requesting an absentee ballot committed you to voting absentee. Allison M. Wright sent us the following reply: You are not committed.…
Math/Statistics/Epidemiology Lesson
From FiveThirtyEight, A Comic Strip Tour of the Wild World of Pandemic Modeling by Zach Weinersmith, Maggie Koerth, Laura Bronner, and Jasmine Mithani It’s a long read, but it explains why some of the numbers we’re hearing for COVID-19 seem…
Information Overload?
The American Association for the Advancement of Science reminds us that having a certain critical control over our information sources (as opposed to those 2 opposite extremes of opting in to every push-source or opting out of everything) is essential…
From the Internet Archive:
Announcing the National Emergency Library, a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.
General links
The Thrall Public Library in Middletown, N.Y. is maintaining a page with links relevant to COVID-19 at https://www.thrall.org/corona/