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On this month's episode of Random Lines, join BCPL staff as they discuss their comfort media - the things they read, watch, listen to, etc., over and over again. 

Random Lines Season 3 finale! Join us as the director of the Bartholomew County Public Library, Jason Hatton, summarizes some of our library's highlights of this year.  

This week's episode of Random Lines joins Bartholomew County Public Library employee Dave as he answers community questions about the Hope branch of BCPL.

Wrapped in shiny wrapping paper or careworn with notes scrawled in the margins-- books are gifts that give again and again. They offer a window into the heart of the author and can open our minds to a different view of the world.  Conni Strittmatter is the Youth & Family Engagement Manager for Baltimore County Public Library. Here are her book picks for kids: "Farmhouse," by Sophie Blackall"The Three Billy Goats Gruff," by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen"Good Night, Little Bookstore," by Amy Cherrix"Ty's Travels," series by Kelly Starling Lyons"The Secret Explorers," series by SJ King"Aven Green," series by Dusti Bowling"Cookie Chronicles," series by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr"Red, White, and Whole," by Rajani LaRocca     **Rajani LaRocca will be visiting several BCPL branches on March 11th. "Black Brother, Black Brother," by Jewell Parker Rhodes     **Jewell Parker Rhodes will join BCPL on January 24th at 7 p.m. for a Zoom event. "Whiteout," by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon"Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist," for Justice by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes"How To Excavate a Heart," by Jake Maia Arlow Find BCPL events here. Authors visits are listed here. Carla Du Pree is executive director of CityLit Project. Here is her list of recommendations for adult readers: "Braiding Sweetgrass," by Robin Kemmerer "Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden," by Camille Dungy"If I Survive You," by Jeffrey Escoffery"When We Were Sisters," by Fatimah Ashgar"Bigger Than Bravery," edited by Valerie Boyd"Floaters," by Martin Espada"Don't Count Me Out," by Rafael Alvarez"Pomegranate," by Helen Elaine Lee"Rest is Resistance," by Tricia Hersey"How We Heal," by Alex Elle Check out the NPR "Books We Love" list.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's episode of Random Lines joins Bartholomew County Public Library employee Tessa as she shares her thoughts on a genre that took her out of her comfort zone, with help from BCPL's Book Bundle service.

This week's episode of Random Lines joins Bartholomew County Public Library employee Dakota as they discuss commonly overlooked role-playing games and books associated with them. RPGs and RPG supplement books can be checked out at BCPL.

This week's episode of Random Lines joins Bartholomew County Public Library employees Stefanie and Tessa as they answer community questions about the department formerly known as The Digital Underground, now called BCPL Create. They discuss how they produce the library's podcast, 3D printing, digitizing old home movies, and more. 

Lea and Savannah take an adventure away from the Whiteboard to the Land of Facebook to talk about some of Blount County's cat's names (they also talk a lot about their own cats, and no: they are not apologizing for it).  Lea sits down with reference Librarian Sheila Pennycuff, creator of the Seed Library at BCPL, to talk about fall seed saving. 0:26: What's on Facebook? (Drop Your Cat Names/Photos) 6:19: Interview with Sheila Pennycuff about Seed Saving Theme song "Organic to Synthetic" by PunchDeck PunchDeck on SoundCloud Blount County Friends of the Library

C is easily one of the most influential programming languages in the world, and it's also one of the most popular languages in the world. Even after close to 50 years it remains in widespread and sustained use. In this series we are going to look at how C was developed, how it spread, and why it remains so relevant. To do that we need to start with background, and look at what exactly influenced C. This episode we are diving into some more ALGOL, CPL, BCPL, and eventually B. Like the show? Then why not head over and support me on Patreon. Perks include early access to future episodes, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/adventofcomputing

Today we're going to cover a computer programming language many might not have heard of, ALGOL.  ALGOL was written in 1958. It wasn't like many of the other languages in that it was built by committee. The Association for Computing Machinery and the German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics were floating around ideas for a universal computer programming language.  Members from the ACM were a who's who of people influential in the transition from custom computers that were the size of small homes to mainframes. John Backus of IBM had written a programming language called Speedcoding and then Fortran. Joseph Wegstein had been involved in the development of COBOL. Alan Perlis had been involved in Whirlwind and was with the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Charles Katz had worked with Grace Hopper on UNIVAC and FLOW-MATIC.  The Germans were equally as influential. Frederich Bauer had brought us the stack method while at the Technical University of Munich. Hermann Bottenbruch from The Institute for Applied Mathematics had written a paper on constructing languages. Klaus Samelson had worked on a computer called PERM that was similar to the MIT Whirlwind project. He'd come into computing while studying Eigenvalues.  Heinz Ritishauser had written a number of papers on programming techniques and had codeveloped the language Superplan while at the The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This is where the meeting would be hosted. They went from May 27th to June 2nd in 1958 and initially called the language they would develop as IAL, or the International Algebraic Language. But would expand the name to ALGOL, short for Algorithmic Language. They brought us code blocks, the concept that you have a pair of words or symbols that would begin and end a stanza of code, like begin and end. They introduced nested scoped functions. They wrote the whole language right there. You would name a variable by simply saying integer or setting the variable as a := 1. You would substantiate a for and define the steps to perform until - the root of what we would now call a for loop. You could read a variable in from a punch card. It had built-in SIN and COSIN. It was line based and fairly simple functional programming by today's standards. They defined how to handle special characters, built boolean operators, floating point notation. It even had portable types.  And by the end had a compiler that would run on the Z22 computer from Konrad Zuse. While some of Backus' best work it effectively competed with FORTRAN and never really gained traction at IBM. But it influenced almost everything that happened afterwards.  Languages were popping up all over the place and in order to bring in more programmers, they wanted a formalized way to allow languages to flourish, but with a standardized notation system so algorithms could be published and shared and developers could follow along with logic. One outcome of the ALGOL project was the Backus–Naur form, which was the first such standardization. That would be expanded by Danish Peter Naur for ALGOL 60, thus the name. In ALGOL 60 they would meet in Paris, also adding Father John McCarthy, Julien Green, Bernard Vauquois, Adriaan van Wijngaarden, and Michael Woodger. It got refined, yet a bit more complicated. FORTRAN and COBOL use continued to rage on, but academics loved ALGOL. And the original implementation now referred to as the ZMMD implementation, gave way to X1 ALGOL, Case ALGOL, ZAM in Poland, GOGOL, VALGOL, RegneCentralen ALGOL, Whetstone ALGOL for physics, Chinese ALGOL, ALGAMS, NU ALGOL out of Norway, ALGEK out of Russia,  Dartmouth ALGOL, DG/L, USS 90 Algol, Elliot ALGOL, the ALGOL Translator, Kidsgrove Algol, JOVIAL, Burroughs ALGOL, Niklaus Firths ALGOL W, which led to Pascal, MALGOL, and the last would be S-algol in 1979.  But it got overly complicated and overly formal. Individual developers wanted more flexibility here and there. Some wanted simpler languages. Some needed more complicated languages. ALGOL didn't disappear as much as it evolved into other languages. Those were coming out fast and with a committee to approve changes to ALGOL, they were much slower to iterate.  You see, ALGOL profoundly shaped how we think of programming languages. That formalization was critical to paving the way for generations of developers who brought us future languages. ALGOL would end up being the parent of CPL and through CPL, BCPL, C, C++, and through that Objective-C. From ALGOL also sprang Simula and through Simula, Smalltalk. And Pascal and from there, Modula and Delphi. It was only used for a few years but it spawned so much of what developers use to build software today.  In fact, other languages evolved as anti-ALGOL-derivitives, looking at how you did something and deciding to do it totally differently.  And so we owe this crew our thanks. They helped to legitimize a new doctrine, a new career, computer programmer. They inspired. They coded. And in so doing, they helped bring us into the world of functional programming and set structures that allowed the the next generation of great thinkers to go even further, directly influencing people like Adele Goldberg and Alan Kay.  And it's okay that the name of this massive contribution is mostly lost to the annals of history. Because ultimately, the impact is not. So think about this - what can we do to help shape the world we live in? Whether it be through raw creation, iteration, standardization, or formalization - we all have a role to play in this world. I look forward to hearing more about yours as it evolves!

Let’s dream about that spring garden - we visit today with 2 farmers and seed savers from East, Tennessee who help to preserve and share heirloom seed of our region, Michael Washburn, and John Coykendall. These 2 will be presenting a program January 7th at the BCPL in Maryville, TN - and that is the feature of this episode of the Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast. John Coykendall has a brand new book called “Preserving Our Roots”, my journey to save seeds and stories” - and he will be conducting a book sale and signing from 5:30-7 as part 1 of this upcoming event at the BCPL. During the second part of this event - Michael Washburn will give a presentation “Planting for seed saving success” - Fred Sauceman features B.J. Abraham on his "Pot Luck Radio" segment.

So, this is an episode of STAB! And, well, that’s pretty much it. You can listen to it, there’s no video, so listening to it is pretty much it. You can laugh at all the jokes and then, laugh some more I guess, that’s pretty much it. In this episode of STAB!, Jesse Jones pretty … Continue reading »

:00: Intro :01: Interview: Sarah Smith about August's "Hot Summer Nights" live music lineup at BCPL :08: What's on the Whiteboard? "Write a happy story." :11: Mystery Sound? Teaser:12: Wiki-Obscura: Pink Lady :22: Friends of the Library Book Sale Promo  :23: Mystery Sound? Reveal :24: The Brennan List :26: Interview: XDJCK1: Creator & Co-Host of the 80 of the 80s Music Podcast  :38: Book Review: Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins :45: Book Review: Autobiography by Morrissey Featured Links BCPL Friends of the Library Intro and Outro Music by Punch Deck Additional Music by Damokles  

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is about the Xerox Alto. Close your eyes and… Wait, don't close your eyes if you're driving. Or on a bike. Or boating. Or… Nevermind, don't close your eyes But do use your imagination, and think of what it would be like if you opened your phone… Also don't open your phone while driving. But imagine opening your phone and ordering a pizza using a black screen with green text and no pictures. If that were the case, you probably wouldn't use an app to order a pizza. Without a graphical interface, or GUI, games wouldn't have such wide appeal. Without a GUI you wouldn't probably use a computer nearly as much. You might be happier, but we'll leave that topic to another podcast. Let's jump in our time machine and head back to 1973. The Allman Brothers stopped drinking mushroom tea long enough to release Ramblin' Man, Elton John put out Crocodile Rock, both Carpenters were still alive, and Free Bird was released by Lynard Skynyrd. Nixon was the president of the United States, and suspends offensive actions in North Vietnam, 5 days before being sworn into his second term as president. He wouldn't make it all four years of course because not long after, Watergate broke, and by the end of the year Nixon claimed “I'm not a crook”. The first handheld cell call is made by Martin Cooper, the World Trade Center opens, Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, Skylab 3 is launched, OJ was a running back instead of running from the police, being gay was removed from the DSM, and the Endangered Species Act was passed in the US. But many a researcher at the Palo Alto Research Center, known as Xerox Parc, probably didn't notice much of this as they were hard at work at doing something many people in Palo Alto talk about these days but rarely do: changing the world. In 1973, Xerox released the Alto, which had the first computer operating system designed from the ground up to support a GUI. It was inspired by the oN-Line System (or NLS for short), which had been designed by Douglas Engelbert of the Stanford Research Institute in the 60s on a DARPA grant. They'd spent a year developing it and that was the day to shine for Doublers Steward, John Ellenby, Bob Nishimura, and Abbey Silverstone. The Alto ran the Alto Executive operating system, had a 2.5 megabyte hard drive, ran with four 74181 MSI chips that ran at a 5.88 MHz clock speed and came with between 96 and 512 kiloBytes of memory. It came with a mouse, which had been designed by Engelbert for NLS. The Alto I ran a pilot of 30 and then an additional 90 were produced and sold before the Alto II was released. Over the course of 10 years, Xerox would sell 2000 more. Some of the programming concepts were borrowed from the Data General Nova, designed by Edson de Castro, a former DEC product manager responsible for the PDP-8. The Alto could run 16 cooperative, prioritized tasks. It was about the size of a mini refrigerator and had a CRTO on a swivel. It also came with an Ethernet connection, a keyboard, a three-button mouse a disk drive, and first a wheel mouse, later followed up with a ball mouse. That monitor was in portrait rather than the common landscape of later computers. You wrote software in BCPL and Mesa. It used raster graphics, came with a document editor, the Laurel email app, and gave us an actual multi-player video game. Oh, and a early graphics editor. And the first versions of Smalltalk - a language we'll do an upcoming episode on, ran on the Alto. 50 of these were donated to universities around the world in 1978, including Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon, inspiring a whole generation of computer scientists. One ended up in the White House. But perhaps the most important of the people that were inspired, was Steve Jobs, when he saw one at Xerox Parc, the inspiration for the first Mac. The sales numbers weren't off the charts though. Byte magazine said: It is unlikely that a person outside of the computer-science research community will ever be able to buy an Alto. They are not intended for commercial sale, but rather as development tools for Xerox, and so will not be mass-produced. What makes them worthy of mention is the fact that a large number of the personal computers of tomorrow will be designed with knowledge gained from the development of the Alto. The Alto was sold for $32,000 in 1979 money, or well over $100,000 today. So they were correct. $220,000,000 over 10 years is nothing. The Alto then begat the Xerox Star, which in 1981 killed the Alto and sold at half the price. But Xerox was once-bitten, twice shy. They'd introduced a machine to rival the DEC PDP-10 and didn't want to jump into this weird new PC business too far. If they had wanted to they might have released something somewhere between the Star and the Commodore VIC-20, which ran for about $300. Even after the success of the Apple II, which still paled in comparison to the business Xerox is most famous for: copiers. Imagine what they thought of the IBM PCs and Apple II, when they were a decade ahead of that? I've heard may say that with all of this technology being invented at Xerox, that they could have owned the IT industry. Sure, Apple went from $774,000 in 1977 to $118 million in 1980 but then CEO Peter McColough was more concerned about the loss of market share for copiers, which dipped from 65 to 46 percent at the time. Xerox revenues had gone from $1.6 billion dollars to $8 billion in the 70s. And there were 100,000 people working in that group! And in the 90s Xerox stock would later skyrocket up to $250/share! They invented Laser Printing, WYSIWYGs, the GUI, Ethernet, Object Oriented Programming, Ubiquitous computing with the PARCtab, networking over optical cables, data storage, and so so so much more. The interconnected world of today likely wouldn't be what it is without other people iterating on their contributions, but more specifically likely wouldn't be what it is if they had hoarded them. They made a modicum of money off most of these - and that money helped to fund further research, like hosting the first live streamed concert. Xerox still rakes in over $10 billion in a year in revenue and unlike many companies that went all-in on PCs or other innovations during the incredible 112 year run of Xerox, they're still doing pretty well. Commodore went bankrupt in 1994, 10 years after Dell was founded. Computing was changing so fast, who can blame Xerox? IBM was reinvented in the 80s because of the PC boom - but it also almost put them out of business. We'll certainly cover that in a future episode. I'm glad Xerox is still in business, still making solid products, and still researching all the things! So thank you to everyone at every level of Xerox, for all your organization has contributed over the years, including the Alto, which shaped how computers are used today. And thank YOU patient listeners, for tuning in to this episode of the History Of Computing Podcast. We hope you have a great day!

A visit with Sheila Pennycuff, the woman behind the Blount County Public Library “Seed Library”. Sheila shares how she started this Library, the importance of saving heirloom seed, her influences, her willingness to help other people start their own seed library in their county and news of upcoming events at the Blount County Public Library regarding Seed Saving. Mission Statement of the seed library: The Seed Library @BCPL exists to empower local home gardeners to grow and save seeds, learn about the history, culture, and growing of all kinds of plants with an emphasis on Southern Appalachian heritage varieties, and share a portion of the seeds of their harvest back to the community.  Also, we will hear from Fred Sauceman of Johnson City and his “Potluck Radio” series and visit with Ingrid Moore who arrives at 5:00 A.M. every morning to cook at the the German Restaurant “Edelweiss” in Staunton, VA.

Spring has sprung, and people are outside tending to their gardens and outdoor spaces—and the library is no different. Libraries across the country have repurposed spaces into gardens that are used to educate patrons about plant life and sustainability—and are helping to feed communities along the way. In Episode 38, Dewey Decibel examines how libraries are using outdoor spaces for gardening and food production. First, ALA Editions Acquisitions Editor Rachel Chance speaks with Kathy Lane, programming, events, and outreach coordinator at Boulder (Colo.) Public Library (BPL), and the BeeChicas of Boulder, beekeepers who advocate for sustainable pollination and beekeeping, about BPL’s rooftop beehives. Then, ALA Editions Acquisitions Editor Jamie Santoro discusses the Cellcom Children’s Edible Library at Brown County (Wisc.) Public Library (BCPL) in Green Bay, with Leah Liebergen, library services associate at BCPL.

Last month, state Treasurer Matt Adamczyk declared his candidacy for the state Assembly. We caught up with Adamczyk in his basement office in the state Capitol to discuss his effort to get the legislature to adopt a constitutional amendment to abolish Adamczyk's job. We also discuss the Secretary of State and his travel woes, how Adamczyk became state treasurer, and what is the BCPL?

This week we were joined by the incredible IC reverse engineer, Ken Shirriff. You may know him from his Hack A Day Super Conference talk in 2016 or his blog’s many posts (Counterfeit chips, ARM 1 chip, and Sinclair Calculator). We covered quite a number of restorations (Visual6502 project, 8008 microprocessor - Ken’s restoration details) He is currently working the Xerox Alto Restoration and we talked not only about the hardware but the microcode and software restoration. Software languages we touched on were the C predecessor, BCPL  and object oriented language Smalltalk. There are number of resources out there restoring and archiving computing history: Computer History Museum  has some of the mylar chip mask from the old process we discussed. Living Computer Museum in Seattle has also  collaborated and done some impressive work. Siliconpr0n is John McMaster’s site for IC reverse engineering and more. http://www.bitsavers.org - Living archive for schematics, software, etc… on any number of electronics items. Resources for getting started with analog circuits at transistor level: “Microelectronics Circuits” Sedra and Smith (covers all your favorite circuits like current mirroring) Start with die photos… analyzing is much smaller and easier When finally working hands on cheap acids for consumer hobbyists (aka glass etchers)  also work on ICs to remove layers LTSpice (circuit simulator and product that gives Jen college-aged anxiety) HackaDay Superconference coming up. Everyone on the show (here and here)  have spoke at this conference. Ken and Alvaro will be there! Have comments or suggested names for the show? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or hit us up at on the comment form. If you still cannot find us, goto http://unnamedre.com

Baltimore County Public Libraries invited our hosts Donte' Cotton and Ronald James to host one of their Inspire Nights to talk about BRNDD, how they started the podcast, what's it like being a creative and what challenges they faced, and what makes them successful.    Highlights:  2:22 - What is Podcasting? 5:06 - Inspiration 7:00 - Trials and Tribulations 10:12 - Success Stories 14:20 - What is Debonair Material? 18:47 - What Inspired the Podcast? 24:22 - Streetwear: Mastered 27:01 - Production Challenges 32:01 - Scheduling Issues 34:18 - The Art of Following Up 35:25 - How to Create and Maintain a Strong Circle 37:13 - Fight through the Challenges 43:24 - Use Your Resources 47:04 - Baltimore Comedy Festival 50:40 - Pensole Academy 53:31 - Q & A Segment   BRNDD 10 Playlist:     BRNDD Podcast: Website: debonairmaterial.com E-Mail: brndd@debonairmaterial.com Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/brnddpodcast Twitter/Instagram: @BRNDDPodcast facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brnddpodcast/     Ronald James Twitter and Instagram: @whoisronjames  

Episode 11 TLA part 4 LIT Happy Book Day Ya’ll!! While at the 2017 Texas Library Association Conference our intrepid librarian and podcast producer Megan hunted down some of our favorite reps and convinced them to be part of the Bee Cave Book Haul! Check out this and other special videos from her adventures on the TLA floor. In this episode Megan spent time with two of our favorite people, Dee and Michael, from Library Interiors of Texas ( http://libraryinteriorsoftexas.com ) and talked books. Thanks to a Grant from the Tocker Foundation, Library Interiors will be working with BCPL on a refresh of the interior of the library sometime in the future. We can’t wait! Books etc. discussed in this episode of the Bee Cave Book Haul Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA Paperback by Caron Butler Bronzeville http://bronzevilleseries.com Beauty and the Beast (2017) Authors: Dan Brown, Christopher Paul Curtis The Martian by Andy Weir The Gruffalo written by Julia Donaldson, Illustrated by Axel Scheffler Room on the Broom written by Julia Donaldson, Illustrated by Axel Scheffler Intro and Outtro Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/ Learn more about Library Interiors at http://libraryinteriorsoftexas.com For more about the Tocker Foundation at http://www.tocker.org For more about the Texas Library Association check out TXLA.org

Happy Book Day Ya’ll! It’s out 5th episode! For Episode 005 Cate interviews Ms.Meliss’, whom some of you may know from Storytime and Baby Bumblebees (and a whole bunch of other fun events). They talk all about some of the newest picture books here at BCPL. What will your new favorite be? Storytime is every Thursday and Friday, 10:30 and 11:15 Baby Bumblebees meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at 10:30 and 11:15 for babies 0-18 months. Books in todays Bee Cave Book Haul A Greyhound A Groundhog by Emily Jenkins, Illustrated by Chris Appelhans Round by Joyce Sidman, Illustrated by Taeeun Yoo Big Cat Little Cat by Elisha Cooper Deep in the Woods by Christopher Corr Intro and Outtro Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/

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