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Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 - by:
Brian Herzog, Head of Reference
 The Chelmsford 2008 Town Election is this coming Tuesday, April 1st. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Town’s Voter Information webpage has the list of precincts by street [pdf], and the polling location list [pdf]. You can uses these two documents to find out where you can vote.
The Town’s website also lists the candidates and issues that will be on the April 1st ballot.
For more information on the candidates and issues, search the Chelmsford Independent’s news archive for interviews and opinion articles.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 - by:
Brian Herzog, Head of Reference
 The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs is promoting the Massachusetts Do Not Call Registry.
This registry allows Massachusetts residents to list their home or cell phone number as one that does not want to receive calls from telemarketers. Listing here will not eliminate all telemarketer calls, but should reduce them.
To add your number to the list, please visit http://www.mass.gov/donotcall.
In addition to the Massachusetts Do Not Call List, there is also a National Do Not Call Registry. Usually, adding your number to one list is good enough, but adding your number to both doesn’t hurt.
To add your phone number to the National Do Not Call Registry, visit http://www.donotcall.gov.
Also, more information is available on the MA Do Not Call List and the National Do Not Call Registry, including how to verify your number’s status and instructions on filing a complaint against a telemarketer.
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 - by:
Vickie Turcotte, Head of Technical Services
 The science fiction world is in mourning this week with the death of Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008.) He wrote over 100 books, and not all were fiction (although there was plenty of that.) He also wrote nonfiction works on space and underwater exploration, and came up with the idea of communications satellites years before such a thing existed. (Such satellites move through space in “Clarke” orbits in acknowledgment of his contribution.)
He’s probably best known for his sci-fi series that began with 2001 : A Space Odyssey. The novel evolved alongside the movie of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick, and Clarke went on to write three more related books (see below.) Other popular novels include Childhood’s End, Rendezvous with Rama and The Hammer of God.
Clarke has been honored with nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize (1994), his name has been given to a diverse group of objects including: a dinosaur (Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei), an asteroid (4923 Clarke), a space orbiter (2001 Mars Odyssey) and the Arthur C Clarke Learning Resource Centre at Richard Huish College, Somerset, UK (Clarke was a student at their grammar school.) He was invested as a British Knight Bachelor in 2000. He’ll also be remembered for inspiring many scientists and astronauts: “All of us around the table said we read Arthur C. Clarke…That was the thing that got us there.” - planetary scientist Torrence Johnson.
For more information:
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 - by:
Brian Herzog, Head of Reference
 Last night was the first in a series of workshops designed to help people do more with their digital cameras.
Last night’s session with Loreen Liberty, of TLM Studios, focused on the technical aspects of a digital camera: how to set resolution, compression, what memory card and batteries, to use, etc. Next week, on March 19th, Loreen will switch from the technical to the creative aspects of photographs - choosing subjects, balancing foreground and background, paying attention to color and lighting, and much more.
The third and final workshop, on April 2nd, will give one example of what can be done with the pictures you take with your digital camera. Brian Herzog of the Chelmsford Library will demonstrate how the photo sharing website flickr can be used to store, organize and share photographs.
For more information on this series, visit the website.
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