I'm thinking that our homeschoolers who do it for religious reasons would have trouble with the cosmological time frame. They are the ones who want the creationism books. We have them, but they're in the 200s (Religion). However, the smaller pedagogical group -- the people who have an interest in small class size and student-directed learning -- will eat this up.

Also, there is an astronomy elective in the public high school. I will be interested to see what the teacher says. It's a heck of an extra-credit project. And you never know if adults would be interested, seniors included. We have a media cart that will project computer output on a large screen, and it has very good speakers: just right for small group meetings for this kind of stuff. And since it's archived, you can pause it for discussion.

I also brought it up at the monthly meeting that the System youth people have, and our youth services coordinator got rather excited. It's hard to tell with her sometimes because she appears excited a lot of the time just because. Reason: she's been in discussion, she told us today, with a local science museum who wants to put together a travelling trunk, or program kit with equipment and activities, to loan to all our libraries. Theme: astronomy. What a tie-in! Sometimes doors just open right up.