Watervliet is hosting a viewing party, with live streaming (we hope!), activities and make-and-takes. We started out with 1,000 glasses -- which seemed an impossibly large amount, gave away a couple of hundred to other libraries and have saved 100 for our party. All others were free to anyone walking in the door, while supplies lasted (i.e, they've long since disappeared!) I confess I've been amazed at the interest we've had; didn't think we'd ever dispense 500 let alone 1,000. Silly me! -Sharon On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Kathleen Dimond < kdimond@manchesterlibrary.info> wrote:
Manchester District Library is giving one pair to each card holder... ( we have precious few), we are also streaming the eclipse here at the library all of Monday.
Kathy
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Alger Newberry <anewberry@thegdl.org> wrote:
Our library is lucky enough to have a community room that can accommodate 70 people so we decided to host a viewing party and project the NASA live-stream of the eclipse inside on a big screen. We advertised it on our Facebook and also put up instructions on how to make pinhole cameras and box eclipse viewers. It's not necessarily the same thing, but it will work. We also are going to encourage those that come to the library with the glasses to perhaps share with those that do not. The eclipse isn't going to be super fast, so sharing wouldn't hurt anyone . . . ;)
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Madison Heights falls into the first category. We began distribution on Monday to library card holders with a limit of two per family, and as of this morning, we were out.
Even with notification via social media, I anticipate the calls to continue from people looking for them, even if offset somewhat by the notification.
Roslyn Yerman Director Madison Heights Public Library 240 W. 13 Mile Road Madison Heights, MI 48071
tel: (248) 837-2852 fax: (248) 588-2470 www.madison-heights.org/library
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We have 200 pairs we are giving away on Monday. We have probably had 200 phone calls just in the last couple of days from people looking for them. Asking for 20 or 50. No matter how many NASA glasses anyone has it is very clear to me that there will never be enough. My impression is that most libraries have already given theirs out or are holding them for Monday. We were excited about this but are rapidly becoming frustrated. I am curious what other libraries are doing and how it has gone. Connie
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