Here’s your daily dose of library-oriented speed-reads to start your day!

SAVE THE DATE…

Please join us next Friday, March 20 at 2:00 p.m. for a lecture featuring Amy Hillier, PhD, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hillier’s talk is titled “The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois’ 7th Ward.” The Ward is a 10-year-old teaching, public history, and outreach project based on Du Bois’ 1899 book, The Philadelphia Negro.

Did you know there was a Twitter feed for “Things not a word” https://twitter.com/nixicon. In case your OED isn’t handy. It’s totally intrical! (Which totally should be a word, btw.)

HELLO, DAVE. YOU’RE LOOKING WELL TODAY.
Watch Google’s Smart AI learn to absolutely obliterate a game of Breakout in just a few hundred games. I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords. (Just kidding! Run for your lives.)

via Polygon.com

SHAMELESS SOCIAL MEDIA PLUG ☺

Follow Falvey Library on Instagram for a fun assortment of people photos, quotes and whiteboard art!

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” – Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

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