Library Buzzz

Do you like to make sure you read all the books in a series (better yet, in the right order)?  There is a great online tool posted by the Kent (Michigan) District Library.  It is called the What’s Next database  http://www2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNextNEW.asp.  By entering a title, author, or series you can see all the books in a series in the order they were written.   While the Sac State Library may not have all the books in your favorite series, the Sacramento Public Library might.

Have fun!

Yes, it’s here already! This Sunday (March 8th) is the start of Daylight Saving Time. Once again it’ll be time to move all those pesky old-fashioned clocks ahead one hour (I love how cellphones and computers automatically change).

Next week you may want to wary of believing strange clocks. For example, the majority of clocks in the Sac State Library do automatically change themselves every time Daylight Saving Time rolls around. However, there are stragglers which require manual resetting (which won’t be done by Monday) and we don’t want anybody to be late for class or other appointments.

Each spring, when I’m forced to give up an hour of sleep for Daylight Saving, I wonder who came up with the idea for this system. Well, we have the perfect book - Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time by Michael Downing - to answer my question. The book is almost 200 pages long, so it’s not exactly a short, straightforward tale. The one big spoiler I’ll give you from the book is that DST was not created at the behest of farmers. So let’s layoff blaming them this time around.