Technology User Group Meeting: Google & Alexa

 

Technology User Group Meeting: 

Google & Alexa

Contributed by Jerry Price, Assistive Technology Training Coordinator 

On Saturday, November 5 th , the Technology User Group is pleased to present our 13 th annual look at assistive technology gifts for the holidays! Gadgets, gizmos and exciting products for the home, office and play. Most items profiled will cost less than $100. Many vendors will also be

profiling their wares in this special two-hour event.

Please note that in November, the Technology User Group will meet on the first Saturday of the month. The presentation will be virtual and may be joined by calling 319-527-4994. You do not have to RSVP for this event. The presentation will begin at 10 AM and last about 2 hours.

We look forward to meeting with you virtually on Saturday, November 5th, and hope that you will join us for other exciting events we have planned for 2022 and beyond.

If you would like to listen to previous TUG recordings, please

click here:

https://www.marylandlibraries.org/Pages/Technology%20User%2

0Group.aspx

Upcoming TUG Programs:

• December 10: 10 AM, Top Websites to Bookmark for 2023 and the Best New Apps of 2022
• January 7: 10 AM, The Maryland Technology Assistance Program, “Bringing Assistive Technology to Marylanders”

For more information about the Technology User Group, please contact Jerry Price at (410) 230-2446 or via email at assistive.technology@maryland.gov.

Collection Highlights: Marylandia Update

 

 Collection Highlight: Marylandia Update

Contributed by Jordan Wohlfort, Collection Development Librarian

October 2022

U.S. History

DBC 12466  – Hell Comes to Southern Maryland: The Story of the Point Lookout Prison and Hammond General Hospital, by Bradley M. Gottfried, narrated by Sabrina Dames

Called the “Andersonville of the North,” the Point Lookout Civil War Prisoner of War Camp for

Confederates was the largest facility in the North. This book takes a fresh look at all aspects of the prison, from its formation to its closing and lasting legacy. Loaded with first-person accounts of both Confederate prisoners and Union personnel, the book helps readers get a vivid picture of what it was like to be incarcerated in the camp.

 Collection Highlight: October 2022

Contributed by Jordan Wohlfort, Collection Development Librarian

October 2022

National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15th-October 15th. Check out this sampling of works from Hispanic authors.

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

DB 78528

History professor examines the Hispanic past of the United States, from Spain's colonization of Puerto Rico in 1505 to the twenty-first-century debate over immigration reform. Encourages the embrace of Hispanic culture and posits that doing so would be to the nation's advantage and enrichment.

Dominicana, by Angie Cruz

DB 96435 ; Spanish language DB 103848

1965. Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción has never dreamed of moving to America from the Dominican Republic, but marries Juan Ruiz to give her family the opportunity to do so. Stifled in New York City, she runs away. Juan's brother, César, persuades her to return and provides opportunities for her.

Violeta, by Isabel Allende,

DB 106459 ; Spanish language DB 107625

Violeta is born to a well-off family in 1920, and lives through the tumult of the twentieth century. She tells her story in letters to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy.

Everyone Knows You Go Home, by Natalia Sylvester

DB 91600 ; Spanish language DB 107109

Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, for the first time at her wedding--but he's a ghost. Her husband Martin confesses he didn't know Omar had died since they were estranged. Isabel tries to help Omar achieve redemption, but her husband and mother-in-law are reluctant.

Harsh Times, by Mario Vargas Llosa

DB 106145 ; Spanish language DB 100253

Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas.