March 25, 2008 | Library/Museum Art museum turns sunny side up; Strickland visits to examine installation of solar panels The Toledo Museum of Art, which already gets solar power the old-fashioned way through windows in its roof, will soon get some of its power in a technologically advanced way - from solar panels on its roof. Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday stood on the roof of the art museum on Monroe Street to observe the installation of the electricity-generating modules.
March 12, 2008 | Library/Museum MUSEUM’S ‘MADNESS’ MARCHES TO A DIFFERENT DRUM Nora Light, 7, decorates a drum — an oatmeal container she has covered with pieces of cloth from a swatch book of upholstery fabrics — with some help from her mother, Sara, at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Family Center. The activity was part of ‘March Music Madness,’ in which children make musical instruments from recyclable materials.
February 6, 2008 | Library/Museum Libraries offer most federal, state tax forms Most basic federal and Ohio income tax forms are now available at Toledo-Lucas County Public libraries.
January 7, 2008 | Library/Museum HANDS-ON ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS Mae Kayle Starks, 10, and Julie Eagle, 8, left, both of Toledo, and Thomas Pelton, 3, aided by his dad, Tymm, of Fostoria, use a variety of materials to build either a castle or a cathedral during a Toledo Museum of Art 'hands-on' program yesterday.
December 31, 2007 | Library/Museum Adults 18-30 surpass elders in library use NEW YORK - Young adults are the heaviest users of public libraries despite the ease with which they can access a wealth of information over the Internet from the comforts of their homes, according to a new study.