Thursday, January 22, 2009

CLUI & MJT

As I head out to Los Angeles tomorrow, I will make a plug for two of my favorite places, both located in Culver City:

9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA  90232
310.839.5722 tele/310.839.6678 fax

CLUI is  a research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues (http://clui.org/)

New titles coming to the TSA LIBRARY Related to CLui programs:

Up River:  Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy, edited by Sarah Simons.  2008.

Birdfoot:  Where America's River Dissolves into the Sea.  2007.

9341 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA  90232
310.836.6131 tele

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the lower Jurassic (http://www.mjt.org/main2.html). Want to read more about the museum?  Pick up a copy of Lawrence Weschler's Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. 1996.  Available from amazon and Powells, to name a couple of sources.

TITLES in tulane university LIBRARies RELATED TO the museum:

Inhaling the Spore: A Journey through the Museum of Jurassic Technology.  DVD, 2004. Music Library.