Library Juice 2:45 - Library Juice is now a book and a blog

Library Juice 2:45 - November 24, 1999 Contents: 1. Article asks, Do facts belong to everyone? 2. BookSense.com 3. SRRT's web pages have a new location. 4. Queer librarians: lists and directories 5. Karnak 6. Holt Labor Library 7. _Print Culture in a Diverse America_ Wins 1999 Carey McWilliams Award 8. Ann Symons wins Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award 9. Social and Economic Implications of Information Technologies 10. PLG members to rally in Seattle 11. AlterNet up-to-the-minute WTO coverage 12. Daily satellite down-link from Seattle 13. Corning Area Public Library, NY, to close 14. Independent Press Allies in Libraries 15. Hungersite 16. RAL - Discussion list for Russian speaking librarians 17. Five for Thanksgiving 18. Vegetarian Kitchen 19. American Indians and the Natural World 20. "Human Interest" in the Public Library Quote for the week: "To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and duty calling us devoutely to express our grateful acknowledgements to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us. The General directs that the army remain in it's present quarters, and that the Chaplains perform divine service with their several Corps and brigades. And earnestly exhorts, all officers and soldiers, whose absence is not indispensibly necessary, to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day." -General George Washington, letter to his regimental commanders, December 17, 1777 (Quoted in _Respectfully Quoted_) Home page of the week: Gary Klein http://www.willamette.edu/~gklein/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 1. Article asks, Do facts belong to everyone? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:39:52 +1300 From: "Alistair Kwun" <a.kwun[at]auckland.ac.nz> To: "New Librarians" <newlib-l[at]usc.edu> Subject: [online article] do 'facts' belong to everyone? Perhaps we might like to start a discussion about this?? -- Alistair http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/frazier.html ____________________________________________________________________________top 2. BookSense.com Notice from Cody's Books, a favorite independent bookseller: Please note that a new web site, www.BookSense.com, is working toward an on-line store for people who want to purchase books from independents rather than chains. The latter (and such enterprises as Amazon) pose a serious threat to our independent booksellers. I hope all of you who buy on line will check in at BookSense.com from time to time, and use their new service when it's up and running. ____________________________________________________________________________top 3. SRRT's web pages have a new location. Jessamyn West is passing the torch of SRRT's web publication to Rory Litwin, who will host the pages on libr.org. The new location of SRRT's web pages is http://libr.org/SRRT Note that it's SRRT in capital letters, which is a change from the old URL, in order to be consistent with the other (some SRRT-related) pages on libr.org. Please update your links and bookmarks. Rory Litwin libr.org ____________________________________________________________________________top 4. Queer librarians: lists and directories http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/library/libq/people.html Lists of Notable Queer People, Queer Library Workers on the Web http://home.att.net/~le.chat/glibs.htm Directory of GLB Librarians and Library Workers on the Internet http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jveldof/lezbrian/lezout.html Who's Who on LEZBRIAN?: A List of Out Lesbian and Bisexual Library Workers ____________________________________________________________________________top 5. Karnak http://www.karnak.com/ This site constitutes a new and rather unique online research service, allowing users to construct their own personal library, stored on the Karnak server, which will be constantly added to while they are offline. According to the site, Karnak compiles information from multiple sources, sifting through dead and questionable links and irrelevant information, and then provides a concise, summarized report, as well as weekly email updates notifying users of new additions. After free registration, users can conduct multiple searches, but only one will be saved and automatically updated. Users may also select from three subscription levels, each offering more saved research topics and additional features. Users begin searches by entering a keyword and selecting from six topics (General, Current Events, Legal, Medical, News groups, and Reference). Karnak can also suggest improvements to help narrow the search. The search results indicate how many resources are new or changed, and offer brief synopses as well as links. Sample searches on "Northern Ireland" in the current events category produced thirteen hits from major news organizations, while the same search under Reference produced ten hits, all from the same site. These results are rather meagre, but the real strength of the service is supposed to be the automatic updates, so ultimate judgment will have to wait for a few weeks. In the meantime, users are encouraged to experiment with the free service. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 6. Holt Labor Library Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:48:49 +0800 Subject: Library resource From: "Shannon Sheppard" <holtlabor[at]holtlaborlibrary.org> To: plgnet-l[at]listproc.sjsu.edu Dear PLGers, I want to make you aware of the Holt Labor Library, a (non profit) labor and radical history library located in San Francisco. The library was established in 1992 to serve as a resource for community and labor activists, union members, students, scholars, and anyone else interested in our collection. It is open to the public, although the materials are non circulating. To learn more about the library and connect to our webpac, please visit our web site at http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org In solidarity, Shannon Sheppard, MLIS Director Holt Labor Library 50 Fell St. San Francisco, CA 94102 phone: (415) 241-1370 email: holtlabor[at]holtlaborlibrary.org web: http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org ____________________________________________________________________________top 7. _Print Culture in a Diverse America_ Wins 1999 Carey McWilliams Award _Print Culture in a Diverse America_ (University of Illinois Press, 1998), edited by James P. Danky (Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian, State Historical Society of Wisconsin) and Wayne A. Wiegand (Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison) won the 1999 Carey McWilliams Award "for an outstanding scholarly or literary work ... on an aspect of the U.S. experience of cultural diversity." The Award is given annually by Greenwood Press's _Multicultural Review_. Danky and Wiegand are also Co-Directors of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint program of the State Historical Society and the University. ____________________________________________________________________________top 8. Ann Symons wins Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Notice from Don Wood: The faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign voted to award the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award to Ann K. Symons, immediate past president of the American Library Association. Given annually, the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas. Granted to those who have resisted censorship or efforts to abridge the freedom of individuals to read or view materials of their choice, the award may be in recognition of a particular action or long-term interest in, and dedication to, the cause of intellectual freedom. Past recipients include Mainstream Loudoun, Bruce Ennis, Eleanor and Elliot Goldstein, Nat Hentoff, C. James Schmidt, Gene Lanier, Dorothy Broderick, Judith F. Krug, Eli Oboler, Alex Allain, and LeRoy Charles Merritt. The award was established in 1969 by the GSLIS faculty to honor Robert Downs, a champion of intellectual freedom, on his 25th anniversary as director of the School. The Downs Award Reception will be held on Saturday, January 15, 2000, in San Antonio, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 :00 p.m. The award ceremony is between 6:00 and 6:15 p.m. ____________________________________________________________________________top 9. Social and Economic Implications of Information Technologies: A Bibliographic Database Pilot Project http://srsweb.nsf.gov/it_site/index.htm This pilot site from SRI International's Science and Technology Policy Program with support from the National Science Foundation Division of Science Resources Studies contains over 4,000 citations of "data sets, research papers, books, and web sites about the social and economic implications of information, communications, and computational technologies (IT)." These citations are organized in searchable listings called Road Maps, with categories such as Education, Government, Science, Globalization, and Employment and work, among others. Approximately one-third of the citations in the database have abstracts, and the majority appear to offer a link to the site or document. Also, citations on IT in the home have been specially annotated and collected on the IT in the Home project page. Directions for using the Road Maps Database is available from the main page as well as at the start page of each of the individual Road Maps. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 10. PLG members to rally in Seattle From: Jeffery Purdue <Jeffery.Purdue[at]wwu.edu> To: "'PLG'" <PLGNet-L[at]listproc.sjsu.edu> Subject: March against the WTO Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:59:18 -0800 Several weeks ago, I posted an invitation to all librarians and friends of libraries on this list to meet in Seattle on November 30th to protest the WTO. We are going to have a lively library contingent there, so here are the details of where and when to meet if you would like to join us. We are going to participate in the AFL-CIO march, which starts at 12:30 from Memorial Stadium. Memorial Stadium is part of Seattle Center, the old World's Fair site. The most visible landmark in Seattle Center is the Space Needle. Memorial Stadium is northwest of the Space Needle. We will congregate on the west side of International Fountain, which is itself directly west of Memorial Stadium. Here is a URL for a good map of Seattle Center: http://www.seattlecenter.com/map/default.htm We will be there from 10:00 to 12:00 and after that, we will join up with the marchers. We will have a six-foot banner, white with blue letters, which reads: "Progressive Librarians Guild." Come join your Canadian and American (and world) comrades in Seattle. If you have any questions, please let me know. Also, I will post my account of the march on this list. I would love to see other accounts of other actions. Jeff Purdue ____________________________________________________________________________top 11. AlterNet up-to-the-minute WTO coverage Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:13:19 -0500 To: nyfreemedia[at]tao.ca, media-l[at]tao.ca, nyccc[at]lists.tao.ca From: Greg Ruggiero <gregruggiero[at]earthlink.net> Subject: WTO Info/ Shutting Down Seattle WTO Info/ Shutting Down Seattle AlterNet is showcasing "up to the minute" independent journalism about the WTO, free trade, economic activism, and the coming shut-down of Seattle. See: http://www.alternet.org/wto.html See you in Seattle, Greg ------------------------------------------------- Greg Ruggiero | Open Media Pamphlet Series 212. 942. 8899 gregruggiero[at]earthlink.net ------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________________________top 12. Daily satellite down-link from Seattle ======== Question ======== Will Corporate Media Cover Anti-Corporate-Globalization Protests In Seattle? ====== Answer ====== http://www.indymedia.org Beginning November 29th, daily reports from the streets, from an activists' point of view, and how you can down-link daily satellite TV feeds in your home town. * * * Deep Dish Satellite Television Network 339 Lafayette Street New York, NY, 10012 ph: 212 473-8933 fax: 212 420-8223 PRESS RELEASE Please print, post or distribute CONTACT: Carlos Pareja (212) 420-9045, carlos[at]papertiger.org Jessie Epstein (212) 473-8933 Programming Alert! ============================ Showdown in Seattle: Five Days That Shook the WTO ============================ In a Challenge to Multinational Corporate Power, Independent Media Producers Rally To Make People s Voices Heard. As the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial approaches, independent video mak-ers,radio producers, journalists and activists are rallying under the common goal of social and economic justice to challenge the WTO pro-corporate policies. In an effort to reclaim media democracy, this unprecedented media collaboration will make public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who will gather in Seattle from November 29 to December 3. Simultaneously, it will offer independent, non-commercial analytical and investigative coverage of the issues and implications surrounding multilat-eral organizations such as the WTO. Deep Dish Satellite TV in association with The Independent Media Center in Seattle and Free Speech TV will broadcast directly from Seattle as activists representing labor, the environment, civil society, international law, and Indigenous Nations will converge on this city to hold counter events and stage demonstrations. Big Noise Films, Changing America, Citizen Vagrom, Paper Tiger TV, Speakeasy, Whispered Media and others (over a dozen video crews in all) will participate in this alternative pool coverage along with contributors from around the world. The televised coverage will be provided on a next day basis via satellitecast (transponder and times TBA) as a 60 minute feed during five consecutive days. The series will consist of five 30-minute programs covering each day's events. A diversity of cogent voices will articulate their concerns with the WTO and contribute to an educated and meaningful understanding of the issues. A second 30 minute satellite feed will consist of pre-produced programming focusing on specific global issues as they relate to the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank (program titles TBA). Because these important voices, opinions and points of view are likely to never be seen or heard in commercial mainstream media, Public Access Cable TV Centers are invited to encourage local producers to sponsor and schedule this five day, five hour series on their local access channels. Local PBS affiliates are also requested to run the series in its entire-ty. The series is provided free of charge to non-commercial programmers and channel provider and may be rebroadcast multiple times. The series will also provide information on how viewers can receive additional information via the Seattle Independent Media Center's internet sites which will provide print, audio and video content on a daily basis (www.rewire.org). If you are interested in receiving additional information concerning how you can receive and program this television series, contact: Carlos Pareja, phone: (212) 420-9045 or email: carlos[at]papertiger.org. Satellitecasts will run from November 30th through December 4th, transponder location, specific times and other pre-event updates will be posted to http://papertiger.org/wto and http://www.indymedia.org/. ____________________________________________________________________________top 13. Corning Area Public Library, NY, to close "The Tail has Wagged the Dog to Pieces." (a more or less personal view from the Library Director, Toni R. Rorapaugh) By a vote of 395 to 233 in the Town of Caton, and by a vote of 217 to 159 in eastern Campbell Town (both in Steuben County, NY), residents defeated the referendum to form a Special Library Tax District, which would have kept the Corning Area Public Library operational this year and supported it for at least three years more. The revote in these two areas took place because the measure had been defeated in September; the City of Corning and the Towns of Erwin and Corning (the largest municipalities served by the Library's charter) had returned a 62% positive result at the same time, but, due to the design of the vote, the measure was defeated. Two towns which are part of the Library's current charter area, Hornby and Lindley, opted not to participate at all. The Corning Area Public Library is now closed permanently. Staff are preparing collections for an orderly transition to a fate as yet unknown, while Board members nail down plans for dissolution of the charter and distribution of assets. The CAPL's current charter served 7 municipalities, a population of some 34,000 citizens. It had been hoped by some that a "white knight," perhaps in the form of a "bailout" from Corning, Inc., the area's largest employer, would save the public's investment in its over-100-year- old library. But Corning, Inc. had already convened the "L-21 (Library for the Twenty-First Century)" committee, along with NYS Sen. John "Randy" Kuhl, and even the aid of high-priced consultants from Libraries for the Future and other experts made no dent in the Campbell and Caton voters' opinions. The fact that enabling legislation permitted a second vote Tuesday where it had failed in September seemed only to aggravate those voters. The Library referendum would have cost taxpayers (who were already supporting the Library to a smaller degree indirectly, through their municipal budgets) between 43 and 58 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation, to build a budget of $585,000. One- third of this amount was to have come from business tax revenues. Anyone wishing to contact the Library after November 2 may do so by FAX to: (607) 936-3715, or you may e-mail me at: trorapau[at]lakenet.org. Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement over the past very difficult year. And, considering how our public library waters are floating with 90.3, filtering, and the business model, let me quote a character from an old TV show: "Be careful out there!" Toni R. Rorapaugh Corning Area Public Library 300 Civic Center Plaza Corning, NY 14830 --"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." [Carl Sagan] ____________________________________________________________________________top 14. Independent Press Allies in Libraries This is an article I wrote for the Independent Press Association's _Ink Reader_, which is sent to publishers and editors of independent, social-change oriented periodicals. -Rory Litwin -- "Your allies in libraries" Librarians are an interesting breed. While mostly socially liberal and non-commercial minded, many are attracted to the profession's ethic of (supposed) neutrality, which provides an excuse to remain disengaged from important social issues. Librarians on the left see this neutrality as a myth that renders invisible institutional support for the status quo. In the 60's (when the phrase "alternative literature" was just coming into use) opposition to the "neutral" stance of the American Library Association (ALA) first became strong. In 1968 a group of librarians formed a group within the ALA to lobby for change, igniting a debate over neutrality and social resonsibility. Out of that group was born what is now the ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT). SRRT is today one of the larger and more active of ALA's membership groups. (It has about 1,500 members out of ALA's 57,000 member total, though this is a relatively active group.) Despite the continued influence and activity of this group and other like minded people, the ethic of professional neutrality has maintained a stable dominance over the profession, providing an excuse to shy away from involvement. There is one aspect of this idea of neutrality, however, which actively supports our activism. ALA's "Library Bill of Rights" clearly states the importance of including the full range of opinion on any given issue. To librarians who aren't aware of the alternative press it seems like they are doing a fine job of satisfying this need. To those who _are_ familiar with the alternative press and know how poorly it is represented in libraries, reality is screaming for us to do something about it. Thus librarian activists have a ready-made task and a ready-made tool within the profession's very ethic of neutrality. We need to advocate for the acquisition and bibliographic control (findability) of alternative press titles in order to build balanced collections. So if the heart of library philosophy calls for including the alternative press, why is it so absent from libraries? Because to conservative librarians it can look more "political" than "neutral," because standard library practices make it less convenient to learn about and acquire, because librarians who care about the alternative press are in the minority, and because librarians who do care have limited power in their organizations, which operate to a degree as instruments of hegemony in the first place. But this doesn't mean the situation is entirely hopeless. Librarians often do have oportunities to acquire of promote given publications and causes within their organizations and within the library world at large. Finding your allies in the library world can be significantly rewarding. The logical place to start is the ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table, and its seven component Task Forces, which are how it pursues its goals. SRRT's Task Forces are the Alternatives In Print Task Force, the Task Force on the Environment, the Feminist Task Force, the Hunger, Homelessness and Poverty Task Force, the Coretta Scott King Task Force (which gives a major book award for African American Literature), and the International Responsibilities Task Force. Recently the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Task Force became the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table, which raises their profile within the ALA and gives them some much needed organizational independence. Another group to go from SRRT Task Force to ALA Round Table status is the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). These groups are the core of a national and international network of left librarians identifying with particular causes which may line up with your own. The Alternatives In Print Task Force (AIP) deserves some special discussion, since it exists in order to promote the alternative press in libraries. AIP is a small but effective group. With about 20 active members it is engaged in a number of ongoing projects. Its review journal, Counterpoise, which is preparing to become an independent task force or SRRT publication, is sent to subscribers at library acquisitions departments four times a year, providing recommendations of alternative press. AIP also has many activities related to book publishing, and is working on a core list of alternative publications for medium sized libraries, as well as putting on programs at conferences related on related subjects. AIP members, as well as the editorial board of Counterpoise, are possibly your most natural allies within the library world, and worth seeking out. In addition to SRRT, two other groups are worth mentioning. The Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG) was founded in New York in 1990 as an international, independent group concerned with the corporate direction in which librarianship was and is still drifting. PLG is a more intellectual body, since it is not directly tied to librarians immediate professional activities, the way ALA tries to be. With its own journal of librarianship, _Progressive Librarian_, PLG is an important group to be acquainted with for those concerned with the state of the library world. There is another international group that needs to be mentioned, this one based in England, called Information for Social Change (ISC). ISC also publishes a journal, called _Information for Social Change_, and is concerned with information provision in a corporatized environment. Those wanting international librarian contacts may find them helpful, in addition to SRRT's International Responsibilities Task Force. Contact list: ALA- Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) http://libr.org/SRRT Contact: Fred Stoss State University of New York (SUNY) Science & Engineering Library, 223 Capen Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 email: fstoss[at]acsu.buffalo.edu SRRT- Alternatives In Print Task Force http://libr.org/AIP Contact: Rory Litwin PO Box 720511 San Jose, CA 95172 email: rlitwin[at]libr.org SRRT- Coretta Scott King Task Force http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking Contact: Barbara Jones Clark 26251 Cornwall Ct. Southfield, MI 48076 email: BC01bps[at]birmingham.k12.mi.us SRRT- Task Force on the Environment http://www.ala.org/alaorg/rtables/srrt/tfoe/ Contact: Maria Anna Jankowska University of Idaho Library Rayburn St. Moscow, ID 83844-2350 email: mjanko[at]uidaho.edu SRRT- Feminist Task Force http://www.lib.wayne.edu/ftf/ Contact: Rosemary McAndrew Paul Robeson Library Rutger's University PO Box 93990 Camden, NJ 08101-3990 email: mcandrew[at]crab.rutgers.edu SRRT- Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force http://libr.org/HHP Contact: Karen Venturella 409 Adams St. #2 Hoboken, NJ 07030-2686 email: venturellak[at]mail.montclair.edu SRRT- International Responsibilities Task Force (no website) Contact: Al Kagan 310 W. Hill St. #1E Champaign, IL 61820-3545 email: akagan[at]uiuc.edu ALA- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Task Force (GLBTTF) http://calvin.usc.edu/~trimmer/ala_hp.html Contact: Kenneth Bicknell 171 Liberty St. #303 San Francisco, CA 94110 email: bicknell[at]pls.lib.ca.us ALA- Ethnnic Materials Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) http://lonestar.utsa.edu/jbarnett/emie.html Contact: Clara Chu 210 GSE&IS Bldg. Box 951520 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 email: cchu[at]ucla.edu Progressive Librarians Guild http://libr.org/PLG Contact: Elaine Harger W. Haywood Burns School, PS/IS 176 49 Osborne Terrace Newark, NJ 07108 email: eharger[at]tao.agoron.com Information for Social Change http://libr.org/ISC Contact: John Pateman 32 Petten Grove Orpington Kent, BR5 4PU ENGLAND ____________________________________________________________________________top 15. Hungersite From a friend: I received this as a Forward & have pasted it here for you. *I resist forwarding, but this is an exception*. I went to the UN site & it is easy & inspiring. Maybe many of you know about this. I did not. I hope I remember to visit the site every day. . . . http://www.thehungersite.com > > Quite clever of the United Nations to do this. > > > > Go to the Hunger Site at the UN. All you do is click a button > > and somewhere in the world some hungry person gets a meal to eat >at no > > cost to you. The food is paid for by corporate sponsors. > > > > All you do is go to the site and click. But you're only allowed > > one click per day, so spread the word to others. > > > > Visit the site and pass the word. > > > > http://www.thehungersite.com <http://www.thehungersite.com> > > ____________________________________________________________________________top 16. RAL - Discussion list for Russian speaking librarians A first discussion LIST for Russian speaking librarians - RAL! Whether you work in US, Russia, or any other country, join for sharing, information, questions and answers, ideas. The language of the list is Russian. To subscribe, please send a message to: majordomo[at]incolsa.net Which states: subscribe ral (no names) end Questions, problems? Contact Nora Kondratiev at: nora[at]incolsa.net *************************************************************************** NORA KONDRATIEV Cooperative cataloger Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA) Indianapolis, IN Ph.317-298-6570 ext.132 E-mail: nora[at]incolsa.net *************************************************************************** ____________________________________________________________________________top 17. Five for Thanksgiving Food Network: Thanksgiving Therapy http://www.foodtv.com/fn/features/thanksgiving/index.htm A Vegetarian Thanksgiving http://www.vegkitchen.com/thanksgiving.html The Pie Page http://www.teleport.com/~psyched/pie/pie.html Thanksgiving Day Parade http://www.nyctourist.com/macys_menu.htm 4Thanksgiving.com http://www.4thanksgiving.com/ We hope these five sites will help users plan and enjoy a stress-free Thanksgiving holiday. The first site, from the Food Network, offers a number of recipes and tips, a shopping and cooking game plan, solutions to "Turkeytastrophies," and advice on what to do with all those leftovers. For vegetarians, who sometimes feel left out on "Turkey Day," In a Vegetarian Kitchen provides recipes for a complete meatless feast that makes full use of fall's bounty. What's Thanksgiving dinner without dessert? A good place to look for pie recipes and tips is the Pie Page, which contains recipes for over 100 pies, photos and instructions for a perfect crust, and some observations on making a fresh pumpkin pie. Users taking a trip to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade or maybe just planning to watch it from home may enjoy the parade site from NYCTourist. It features news on this year's parade, photos of balloons and the crowd from last year's parade, and a brief review of the parade's history with several historic photos. Finally, users who want more Thanksgiving resources can turn to the 4anything Web guide, which contains links to turkey recipe pages, the history of Thanksgiving, pie recipes, crafts and activities, virtual cards, clip art, and more. [MD] > From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 18. Vegetarian Kitchen - http://www.vegkitchen.com/ Vegetarian recipes (from everyday fare to seasonal, holiday, and special occasions), cookery tips ("Fighting Fear of Tofu"), and links to cooking sites. Check out A Vegetarian Thanksgiving, a complete menu with recipes for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner (the 'First Thanksgiving', in 1621, did not include turkey). From vegetarian cookbook author, Nava Atlas - de Subjects: vegetarian | recipes Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 19. American Indians and the Natural World http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/ An exploration of four tribes of Native Americans: the Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast, and the Lakota of the Plains, and how they viewed the natural world. It includes the "belief systems, philosophies, and practical knowledge that guide [these] peoples' interactions with the natural world." From the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. - dl Subjects: native americans Librarians' Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ ____________________________________________________________________________top 20. "Human Interest" in the Public Library By Marilla Waite Freeman, Librarian, Goodwyn Institute, Memphis, Tennessee. Library Journal, January, 1917 "Can you give me a good human interest story for the Commercial Appeal?" The new young reporter leaned hopefully over the information desk of Goodwyn Institute Library in Memphis, Tennessee. As he spoke, a handsome Hindu, with melancholy dark eyes and polished address, came up beside him, and asked the privilege of seeing the library's resources on river control. This interesting visitor identified himself as a student of engineering at the University of Illinois, an institution which attracts so many aspiring Orientals. In a year more he would return to Calcutta to teach American engineering methods to his countrymen. On his summer vacation travels, he had come to Memphis to learn something of river and drainage engineering in the lower Mississippi Valley, a region which has many natural problems in common with his own. "Have you also the works of my countyman, Rabindranath Tagore?" he inquired. As they were laid beside the engineering books on his table, he settled to a day of blissful research, mingled of drainage, poetry and philosophy. Two American lads, one short and stocky, the other slim and tall, were waiting a bit sheepishly for next chance at the information desk. "Can you tell me," - this from the stocky one - "how tall a man has to be to join the National Guards?" "And how much he has to weigh?" - from the slim one - "and for the regular Army too?" It took an Army Regulations hand-book, a recruiting circular, and finally a telephone call to the captain of the Chickasaw Guards, to solve this problem. Ultimately, the sons of two mothers who quite obviously had not raised their boys "to be a soldier," went off exultant in the conviction that neither height nor width nor lack thereof could debar them from their country's service. The desk telephone buzzed, and an anxious voice at the other end besought the name of the German consul-general at Chicago; and might so august a personage be addressed in plain Americanese as "My dear Sir?" Another buzz, and a lumber office spoke: "What is the comparative of sappy?" The librarian was dazed for a moment, but gathering herself, ventured on sappier, to rhyme with happier, and turned to meet the perturbed gaze of a young deaf-mute. On a tiny slip of paper his question was written and was now thrust forward with embarrassed eagerness. "Have you a book of love letters?" The librarian read, and down the long procession of epistolary lovers ran her mind, from Abelard and Heloise to Balzac and his Madame Hanska. She read again, and this time the authentic inspiration came. Forth from its sacred space she fetched "The new standard business and social letter-writer," and with sympathetic finger pointed to Section III, on "Love and marriage." Breathing a sigh of relief, the amorous youth withdrew to a corner, where he feverishly read, wrote and destroyed by turns, till a finaldraft permitted to survive, was folded safely into his breast pocket. Then he departed leaving in the library waste-basket and all about the chair where he had sat, mutilated fragments and scraps, beginnings and ends of "love letters" not lacking in the divine fire, but couched in the somewhat stilted terms of "The new business and social letter-writer." Again the telephone spoke. The Farm Develpment Bureau would like a list of the six best books on country life - including one on diversified farming - for the little library at Kerrville. An interested friend had promised to give them. Also, had the library copies of the new Rural Credits and Cotton Futures Bills? The librarian said "This afternoon" to the list, and "Yes" to the bills, inwardly thankful that she had written for the latter promptly. Thankful, also, when another buzz followed, that she had heeded the slogan of "Cotton mills for the cotton states," and was ready for the Memphis capitalist who wished to investigate mill costs and machinery. A committee of three determined looking ladies appeared at the desk. The city was in the throes of a summer struggle between the Board of Health, seeking to enforce pasteurization of the milk supply, and the Dairymen's Association, asserting that its product was already beyond fear and above reproach. The largest woman's club of the city was preparing to take a hand and its representatives had come for ammunition. Armed with latest reports of the American Medical Milk Commission, and the milk bulletins of Uncle Sam's never resting Department of Agriculture, they retired to a table. Meantime the librarian telephoned to a wise children's specialist who knows the milk supply as life or death to his charges. He summed the situation in a sentence: "Tell the ladies to tell the dairy-men if they will keep their milk down to 100,000 non-pathogenic bacteria bacteria per cubic centimeter in winter and 200,000 in summer, they will not need to pasteurize: certified milk is always under 10,000: I give all my babies certified milk." A fair-haired foreign youth was waiting, as the librarian hing up the receiver. He had just come down the river from St. Louis; said the big policeman on the corner of Main and Madison had told him to come to Goodwyn Institute and "the library lady" would tell him how to find a job. Said he was from Odessa, had been in this country two years, had good experience as a house-boy, but was willing to do anything. His frank and wistful countenance was most appealing. The library lady felt she must not fail. She looked about the room. At one of the tables a resourceful and sympathetic young rabbi was looking over the latest sociological books. It needed but a word to bring his resourcefulness into play. In a trice he had the head of the Jewish Charities on the 'phone and in possession of the story. "From Odessa, did you say? Why, that's the town where I was born. Send the boy along. Sure I'll get him a job." And once more the receiver clicked with the joy of achievement, as it hung up for a brief rest. The young reporter was still waiting, but watchful. His pencil scratched intermittently. "Strikes me you get lots of human interest up here," he volunteered. "Quite a good deal in the last twenty minutes. If you don't mind, guess I'll call my story 'Thirty minutes at the Library Human Interest Desk.'" The Library Journal January, 1917 ____________________________________________________________________________top L I B R A R Y J U I C E | http://libr.org/Juice/ | | Library Juice is supported by a voluntary subscription | fee of $10 per year, variable based on ability and | desire to pay. 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