NUMANA Update

Nashville's Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots are coming to Wichita, KS on Friday night September 13th to play a charity show benefiting Numana's "30 Abes" campaign! The event is hosted by Midwest KIA at Kellogg & Tyler. Also performing is Big Machine's recording artist and Anger Management star, Laura Bell Bundy! Tickets are on-sale TODAY, September 6th at 5pm thru all Select-A-Seat outlets, including INTRUST Bank Arena and www.selectaseat.com and by phone to 755-SEAT.


For more information regarding the show, go to www.1021thebull.com!

To learn more about the 30 Abes campaign, visit www.30abes.com!

We hope to see you there!



For all other Numana event information, please visit www.numanainc.com

Internet Trends

Gary Pattillo, reference librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill notes some Internet trends I found remarkable in his June 2013 Fast FActs from C&RL News.

2.4 billion Internet users, average 8% annual growth rate

Global digital info created/share grew 9 times in five years to nearly 2 zettabytes (2 trillioin gigabytes) as of 2011.

500 million plus phots are uploaded and shared every day.

100 hours of video are uploaded per minute to YouTube.

...For more see 2013 Internet Trends by Meeker and Wu on Kliner Perkins Caufield & Byers website.

Why Teach and Study English? --the Gropnik argument

...To have turned the habits of reading and obsessing over books from a practice mostly for those rich enough to have the time to do it into one that welcomes, for a time anyway, anyone who can is momentous. English departments democratize the practice of reading. When they do, they make the books of the past available to all. It’s a simple but potent act.

...No civilization we think worth studying, or whose relics we think worth visiting, existed without what amounts to an English department—texts that mattered, people who argued about them as if they mattered, and a sense of shame among the wealthy if they couldn’t talk about them, at least a little, too. It’s what we call civilization.

The New Yorker
August 27, 2013
Why Teach English?
Posted by Adam Gopnik

Two new online resources from Kansas Legal Services

Moving people out of poverty often requires dealing with work barriers. Transportation and issues of getting to and from work are barriers addressed in new online resources on the Kansas Legal Services website.

Since July 1, 2013, persons with a Suspended Driver's License can apply to convert to a Restricted License for one year. Information on eligibility and access to the required application form are on the KLS website at: http://www.kansaslegalservices.org/node/1648 Over 30,000 people each year receive a suspended license for failure to pay a traffic ticket or to appear in court. Those with the financial means pay up and keep their license. Those without financial resources need an opportunity to work, raise the money and pay off those fines. This program gives them that opportunity.

When you buy a car, motorcycle or mobile home in a private transaction, there are sometimes questions about the transfer of the title. The option often given for dealing with a title transfer when the "owner" is not available to sign is a Quiet Title Action. An instruction packet and required forms are available on the KLS website at: http://www.kansaslegalservices.org/node/303

Thank you for helping make these resources known to library users.
Marilyn Harp
Executive Director
Kansas Legal Services, Inc.
Visit our website at: http://www.kansaslegalservices.org

Celebrating Equality Day Today

Where Credit Is Due

Remember the days when a woman couldn’t get a credit card without the permission of her husband, her father or some male relative?

Gail Collins notes the anniversary of 1920's Women’s Equality Day, the celebration of the 19th Amendment and women’s right to vote.

And for me - it was years before I held a card in my hand with MY name on it...

Week One is Done

Congratulations to all our students and faculty who have completed the first week of the semester. I hope it was a great start for everyone.

...yet if it was a little overwhelming, consider that you have friends and family who want to encourage you to keep going. And pets, too! And since some of you will be missing your pets until you travel home, here's a reminder of what living with them is all about:

Cat friends and dog friends!

Need Health Insurance?

Need affordable health insurance?
Get answers!

Join us for this exciting event
to learn more about the Health
Insurance Marketplace.

The Health Insurance Marketplace
is a new way to find coverage that
fits your budget and meets your
needs. Whether you’re uninsured,
or just want to explore your
choices, the Marketplace will help
find coverage that’s right for you.

Dates/Topics:
Time: 7:00 pm
Location:
August 22 – Overview of the Affordable Care Act
September 12 – HealthCare.gov Marketplace
September 26 – Demonstration of website

This online presentation will be held as a
Watch Party and will allow time for questions
and answers.