John Baur and Mark Summers, who have come up with a concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can’t even begin to list them all.” — Dave Barry, Miami Herald, Sept. 8, 2002.
On May 1 & 2, 2007, librarians of all kinds are invited to Washington, DC, for an event like no other: National Library Legislative Day (NLLD).
NLLD is a two-day event in which people who care about libraries participate in advocacy and issue training sessions, interact with Capitol Hill insiders, and visit congressional member offices to ask Congress to pass legislation that supports libraries.
For more information about library legislative day and to register or make a contribution please click on the links below.
National Library Legislative Day is sponsored by the American Library Association, Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, District of Columbia Library Association, and Special Libraries Association.
And if you were curious how to celebrate on this Day of Pi (3.14), there’s a site to tell you all about it. My personal favorite:
Convert things into pi. This step is absolutely necessary for two reasons: To utterly confuse people who have no idea what you are talking about (thus opening the door for enlightenment) and to have fun seeing how many things can be referenced with pi. Consider two approaches:
Convert naturally circular things into radians like the hours on the clock. Instead of it being 3 o’clock, now it’s 2*pi o’clock. Or, instead of it being 3 o’clock, convert the inclination of the sun into radians and describe that as the time.
Simply use 3.14 as a unit of measure. Instead of being 31 years old, you are 9pi years old (approaching your 10th birthday). With this same approach, you can find out your next pi birthday (don’t forget to celebrate it when it comes!).
