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Library Summer Reading Program

Thanks to Mike Schelle and Amy Banister both of the Marketing & Programming Department for Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. They gave us an engrossing and educational look around the Main Library. Lots of interesting facts, like the downtown library has 97 miles of shelves. They would stretch from downtown to Columbus set end to end.

The library sorts 37,000 items per week with a sorting system utilizing a computerized conveyor. Then trucks transport the books stopping at every branch twice a day on weekdays. When they say books are in circulation, they mean it.
The entire Hamilton county Library system circulated 18 million items in 2011!


Their Outreach Services collection, a library within a library, is bigger than any other Hamilton county branch library and serves special needs kids, senior centers, home bound people and correctional facilities. It also has teachers' collections that are loaned out. Last year they distributed 700,000 books making it the second largest library in the county.

The reason for the tour was to help draw attention to the Libraries Summer Reading Program, from the Library's release, "Summer Reading had about 40,000 participants last year. You can register online and track your reading, with prize levels for the number of hours or books read. There are prizes for all ages, kids through adults. It’s a great program for kids, obviously, because it encourages reading and imagination, but it’s also the perfect way for adults to fall back in love with reading and the Library (perhaps after drifting away after their teen years). A library card is free, registration is free, and the prizes are free (including free books, Gold Star, raffle entries for Reds and CSO tix, etc.)."

I was also excited to see the Fontayne-Porter Daguerreotypes that I had written about two years ago. They're on display which I never realized so next time you're in the library make your way to the Cincinnati room.


One other item of interest I got to see, this streetcar ticket was discovered in a book where it had hidden for 75 years. A poem was copied on the back of the ticket, then lost to that person forever.


So sign up for the Summer Reading Program today, start reading and start winning. And have fun.
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Cincinnati Profile Bourbon & Cigar Event

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Mercer Commons ground breaking

Yesterday the ground breaking was held for the first of the three phase project with a garage opening in march 2013. The rest of the project includes the restoration of 4 historic buildings into 11 for-sale units, and the construction of 5 new townhomes, 1 new 340-space parking garage, and 1 new mixed-use building to include 12 for-sale units and 3,900 SF of commercial space.

Mayor Mark Mallory: 3CDC is doing some great things transforming OTR and bringing OTR back to the diverse energetic neighborhood it once was.

City Manager Milton Dohoney: This is an illustration of the power of partnerships, in order to transform a neighborhood you must have an iron will, the city, 3CDC and the people of Cincinnati have this will.

Peg Moertl of PNC Bank: Why we do this, invest in a neighborhood? A business can't be successful if the city isn't successful, thats why we do this.
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Walking Dead, Cincinnati style

A hot sun filled afternoon, not a cloud in the sky. A dry wind rattles the leaves and blows around a tinfoil baking pan giving a backdrop to a scene in which if a zombie had stepped out we might not have been all that surprised.
It seemed like everyone had ate breakfast, washed the dishes and then....what? disappeared?
I'm sure the reality isn't that dramatic, I imagine the 28th of whatever month someone went around and told everyone that on the 30th the electricity and water would be turned off and the gates locked. A made rush ensues with anything not of great importance left behind. Then the scavengers and vultures descended stripping what was left.











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no need to get away when you have it all right here

I have a few days off and no real plans so I decided I was going to vacation like I meant it right here at home. These days it doesn't take a wild stretch of imagination to feel like you're on a continental holiday.
Paris?

Brussels?



Rome?


Ah, familiar America again


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Jay Bruce* is livin large at Great American and Jimmy G's downtown

Jay Bruce is still leading the Reds with 16 home runs and 46 ribbies.



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Urban Basin Bicycle Club old school bike ride

Not old school like old skool, but old schools, some really old. Amazing how many schools were packed into OTR, Pendleton and the West End at one time. Touring around to see them made for another relaxing ride around town. Last Tuesday was hot, like 90 something hot but there was still a large turnout, we rode past a couple kids counting and I was around the middle of the pack when they called out 29.
Shifting gears, Urbancincy has a nice writeup of the rising popularity of social bike rides focusing on UBBC leaving from the urban core instead of ending up there.
The ride meets every Tuesdayat Fountain Square at 6:30pm, and leaves sometime after that.
Visit the UBBC facebook page for more info.





I might have been creeped out as a kid to travel over the bodies of Bill and Abigail every day going to school.



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Findlay Market floaking

"whats that?" asked the girl
espresso
expensive?
nope, the price of a cup of coffee
where'd you get it?
dojogelato
I'm getting one right now she said.
when I returned my cup, there she was in line.

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