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  • No Buy? No Problem! Russell Library and the No Buy Movement

    $27.40 cents a day doesn’t seem like a lot, does it? Yet by spending that amount each day, you will wind up spending $10,000 per year. It’s scary how fast money can slip away, almost unnoticed. Hence the No Buy 2025 movement. No Buy January, a trend that challenged folks to spend money only on…

    Mary

    September 1, 2025
    Libraries, Library Services, Trending
    BingeBoxes, BookMatch, CalendarOfEvents, DownloadableResources, Downloadables, MuseumPasses, NoBuyMovement
  • HallucinAItion

    Can artificial intelligence be trusted? I could hardly believe my eyes. Could it be…? I’d heard about them, of course, but never experienced one before. It seemed so real until the illusion fragmented, degrading from factual to questionable to undeniably fictional. ChatGPT had not only fibbed, but admitted as much when I confronted the liar.…

    brandiedoyle

    August 25, 2025
    AI, Library Services, Recommendations, Technology, Trending
    AI, HarrietZiefert, ReneGoscinny, Sources, TheBestAmericanMysteryStories2025, TheInnovators, WalterIsaacson
  • Ebenezer Scrooge at Russell Library

    Marley was dead: to begin with. from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens You have to give Charles Dickens credit. He knew how to craft a creepy opening to a story. He then goes on to tell the reader, “This must be distinctly understood. or nothing wonderful can come of the story…” That famous line…

    Mary

    August 18, 2025
    Events, History of Russell Library, Inside Stories, Libraries, Middletown, CT, Secrets of Russell Library
    AChristmasCarol, CharlesDickens, EasternConnecticutParanormalSociety, EastHaddamStageCompany, EbenezerScrooge, ECPS, FrancesRussell, Fundraiser, ghosts, JacobMarley, KandieCarle, MiddletownCT, OldEpiscopalChurch, ReadingRoom, SecretsOfRussellLibrary, Tickets
  • Staying Human in a Digital Age

    Have you been to a doctor’s office recently? Once upon a time, it was commonplace to have a conversation with a fellow patient in the waiting room. You might chat about the weather or discuss the latest news, anything to get your mind off the upcoming appointment. There was an understanding that while no one…

    Cate T.

    August 11, 2025
    Technology, Trending
  • DOOMSDAI

    A “SUMMERWEEN” GHOST STORY ABOUT AI Until recently I only caught glimpses of it. An otherworldly force lurking just beyond the bounds of my perception. Something vaguely human but decidedly not alive. It would flicker before my eyes then disappear in a blink, only to reappear at ever-shortening intervals over time. An apparition that materialized…

    brandiedoyle

    August 4, 2025
    Technology, Uncategorized
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