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ibiblio- April, such a
momentous month!
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In addition to the proverbial showers, April has been
the host to momentous events, including the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912.
Inspired (presumably) by the example of the great ship, the United States government
instituted the income tax in 1913.
Don't forget Earth Day (April 22), which also happens to
be National Jellybean Day. The accolades just pile up for April: Alcohol Awareness month;
International Guitar month; National Welding month; National Poetry month; STD Awareness
month; and most significantly, National Anxiety month. ibiblio's extensive resources are
food for what ails ya.
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The Leadership Information Archives
The Leadership Information Archives, a private/public consortium coordinated by the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, builds communities along America's information
highway by demonstrating the usefulness of "IDEA" networks (like their presidential
information archive, PRESIDENT), and creating useful information resources like CiNet, which
disseminates ideas about making governments more effective. They'll also tell you why
Ronald Reagan liked jellybeans so much.
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Newsgroups Info Center
The Newsgroups Info Center is your source for info on Usenet's Newsgroups, and contains
pointers to many useful Usenet FAQ's. It contains a heritage browsable list of the
newsgroups and a way to search for a group of interest. While you're there, sign up for
alt.history.ocean-liners.titanic.
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The Internet Poetry Archive
The Internet Poetry Archive makes available selected poems from a number of contemporary
poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences and to give
teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their
texts. The archive includes the work of living poets from around the world, including
Philip Levine and Nobel Prize winners Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz. The archive entry
for each poet comprises audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments
on the works, a photograph of the poet, a critical biography and a short bibliography.
Poems are presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation.
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Doc Watson
Guitar player extraordinaire Doc Watson is a legendary performer who blends his traditional Appalachian folk music roots
with blues, country, gospel, and bluegrass to create his unique style and expansive repertoire. Blind from infancy, Doc has
spent his lifetime making music and is considered by fans everywhere one of the world's most accomplished flat-pickers. Doc
was born Arthel L. Watson in Deep Gap , NC (Watauga County) on March 23 , 1923 into a family with a rich musical tradition.
Doc has recorded dozens of albums in his long career and, although he stopped performing briefly after his son Merle died
in a tractor accident in 1985, he does continue to tour in the winter and play festivals in the summertime. For the last
fifteen years, Doc has hosted the yearly Merle Watson Memorial Festival in Wilkesboro, NC on the last weekend of April,
this year from April 24-27.
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Henriette's Herbal
Homepage
Henriette's Herbal Homepage deals with all things herbal, including the medicinal and culinary uses for all those amazing
natural miracles. Henriette's been on the web since before you were born, and she's gathered an amazing series of
resources, including some of the positive (and a few of the negative) uses for the demon alcohol.
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The Teen AIDS hotline
ibiblio is proud to be the online partner of the TeenAIDS Hotline. The hotline is operated by 35 teen peer
educators and 5 adult
mentors who are available to help youth make decisions that will help them protect their health. All phone calls are
kept confidential, and it doesn't cost anything to call the number.
You can use the TeenAIDS hotline website to find out more information, to read or contribute to ongoing
discussions in
the Discussion Forum, or to ask a staff person a question using the Contact Form. The teenline is available on Friday and Saturday nights between 6 pm and Midnight. We have at least two teens there each
night plus one mentor who is over 19. All peer educators go through at least 20 hours of extensive training.
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