Word of the Day and Historical Fact of the Day

Daily, the staff at J.S. Flipper Library works to bring patrons a Word of the Day, Thought of the Day and/or Historical Fact of the Day

Today's Word of the Day comes from Library Director, Mrs. Howard:

fun·gi·ble:

 adjective 

(especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.

The Historical Fact of the Day comes from Acquisitions Librarian, Ms. Diaz.

8/30/1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

For more information on Thurgood Marshall head over to http://www.biography.com/  and check out his biography!

New Book- Bottlemania

Stop by J.S.Flipper to check out our featured new book!

                                       Bottlemania

In the follow-up to Garbage Land, her influential investigation into our modern trash crisis, Elizabeth Royte ventures to Fryeburg, Maine, to look deep into the source—of Poland Spring water. In this tiny town, and in others like it across the country, she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that have made bottled water a $60-billion-a-year phenomenon even as it threatens local control of a natural resource and litters the landscape with plastic waste.

Moving beyond the environmental consequences of making, filling, transporting and land filling those billions of bottles, Royte examines the state of tap water today (you may be surprised), and the social impact of water-hungry multinationals sinking ever more pumps into tiny rural towns. Ultimately, Bottlemania makes a case for protecting public water supplies, for improving our water infrastructure and—in a world of increasing drought and pollution—better allocating the precious drinkable water that remains.

www.bottlemania.net

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