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Awesome Things You Should Know About: The Ann Arbor District Library has theremins, guitar pedals, synthesizers, solar chargers, telescopes and all kinds of other cools things available for checkout

By Mark | October 19, 2014

A few days ago I found myself wandering around the main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL). As I’m on the Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads 2015 selection committee, I’d been asked to come in and pick up copies of the two books we’d be choisng between, and, as I hadn’t been in the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized | Also tagged 3D printers, All Hands Active, Ann Arbor District Library. AADL, Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads, art, art prints, awesome things you should know about, cake pan libraries, comparing Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Finch Robots, GoPro, guitar pedals, Jody Harnish, librarians, library collections, local bands, Maker Works, music, music tools, PAs, public libraries, realia, robots, Sabertooth Cat skull, synthesizers, telescope, thermal imaging cameras, U-M 3D Lab, University Lowbrow Astronomers, Unusual Stuff to Borrow | 20 Comments

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