Hello, Adult Services folks!

ICfL staff members have had their eyes out for relevant stories, tools, and tricks so you don’t have to. We hope you find these resources useful and inspiring. Enjoy!

Events:

 

Programming Ideas

  • Historic Artist Homes Virtual Road Trip– Join a virtual road trip across the United States to explore unique and wholly original historic artist homes and studios. Traveling from Idaho to New York, you’ll discover the environments, architecture, and private landscapes of six different artists, as well as the spaces that supported their art-making practices.
  • Citizen Science Month in April – Citizen Science Month offers thousands of opportunities for you to turn your curiosity into impact. There’s something for everyone, everywhere! Join a project or event from wherever you are to help scientists answer questions they cannot answer without you.
  • Ethical Issues in Citizen Science Research – In this presentation, Lisa Rasmussen will describe a series of ethical issues arising in citizen science, how they are situated with respect to contemporary research infrastructure, what the field of citizen science is doing to address ethical challenges, and future steps for ensuring that citizen science research is conducted ethically March 24 at 11:00 a.m. PT | 12:00 p.m. MT.
  • Let’s Dismantle Ageism – This workshop documentation and related TED Talk will help your staff and community raise awareness of what ageism is, how it appears in our lives, and what each of us can do to dismantle it.
  • Free Offer for Idaho Libraries from the Boise Philharmonic– The Boise Phil would like to give your library a free subscription to our Digital Stage streamable concerts. Boise Phil’s Digital Stage features a library of 27 filmed concerts. We are offering subscriptions free-of-charge to nonprofits and libraries across Idaho* through our Phil The Hall community engagement program, made possible by a grant from the League of American Orchestras.

    Your library can apply for a free subscription to the Digital Stage! Here are some suggestions for how you could use your free subscription:
    – Host a watch-party via Zoom, Google Meeting or some other digital meeting platform. Pick a concert and date and then offer up to 25 guests to watch along with you. Just “share” your screen so you can all watch together.
    – Let your library patrons watch a concert when they want to by giving them a code to a specific concert that they can access on their personal device (laptop, tablet, phone or smart TV) at their leisure.
    – If your library is open to the public, you could put a link to the Digital Stage on your public computers for your patrons to peruse and watch concerts when they visit you.

    If you’re interested in this offer, please fill out a short online form to start the process going. Once processed, you will receive a welcome email with further instructions. Please contact Gillian Donahey, with any questions.

    * NOTE: The scope of the Boise Phil’s geographic reach is defined by the Phil’s musician’s union agreement. Therefore, this offer is only open to libraries in the following counties: Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clarke, Custer, Elmore, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, and Washington.

 

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Cooking

The Mediterranean Diet is a diet inspired by the eating habits of Spain, Italy, Greece, and Morocco in the 1960s. The principal aspects of this diet include proportionally high consumption of olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables, moderate to high consumption of fish, moderate consumption of dairy products, moderate wine consumption, and low consumption of meat from mammals.

Some cookbooks to get you started on the Mediterranean Diet:

  • America’s Test Kitchen.  Mediterranean Instant Pot: Easy, Inspired Meals for Eating Well.
  • Hazan, Marcella. Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking.
  • Kochilas, Diane. Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity from the Greek Island Where People Forget to Die: A Cookbook.
  • Ortega, Simone, Inés Ortega, and Javier Mariscal. 1080 Recipes.
  • Saint Paul’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral The Complete Book of Greek Cooking.
  • Scaravelli, Paola, and Jon S. Cohen: A Mediterranean Harvest.