is he, you know….(mimes killing hector and dragging him around the walls of troy) bi
anyway i had too much fun coming up with euphemisms for gay classicists so here y’all go, have some more
- she rides with the amazon warriors
- he plows his fields in a bucolic landscape
- she studies under sappho
- he prefers greece to rome
- violets are her favorite flower
- he’s built a few walls in britain
- to be locked in a library
- to be served snacks while reading
- cover changes mid series to be illegal
“No freedoms are more vital, and important to librarians, than those of inquiry and speech. Without real privacy, Americans effectively have neither. Current law that allows our government to get and view the full content of our most private electronic communications without a search warrant isn’t just outdated, it’s dangerous in a democracy. ALA strongly supports the bipartisan Lee/Leahy “ECPA Modernization Act” to finally and fully bring the Electronic Communications Privacy Act – and with it our fundamental rights to privacy, inquiry and speech – into the modern era.” - ALA President Jim Neal
Come cozy up next to our book fireplace as the weather gets colder! #douglaslibraryofhebron #bookdisplay #bookart #booksculpture #aniceandsafefireplaceforthelibrary
This is so neat!
Literary Merit of Comics and Graphic Novels for Kids
- Often times, graphic novels contain higher level vocabulary words than print-only books for readers in the same age range, and are great for introducing children to new words.
- Graphic novels are great for visual learners. They force readers to actively engage with the text to decipher the interplay between text and images and to decode the differences in text format that signal it as narration or dialogue. Readers must interpret facial expression of characters and body language instead of reading descriptions in the text that explain their moods and tone.
- Graphic novels offer the opportunity to learn important reading skills, like inference. “Reading between the lines” of a text is often a tricky task, but readers who have experience with interpreting a story based on texts and images are actively developing this important skill.
In spite of Trump’s ban of transgender people from serving in the military, they are not going to go back into the closet. Here are their stories.
Sad to hear the news that Libraries NI is axing its heritage services which included talks, family history fairs, family history workshops and book launches, due to cuts of nearly £5.5m and is planning on reducing staff who work in these areas.
I reblog this every time I see it. I just cant
THIS IS WHERE THE MEME CAME FROM
Seriously, though, the French LOVED Edgar Allan Poe,
thanks in particular to Jules Verne.He even wrote a sequel to Poe’s only novel,
and numerous essays about how great an author Poe was.By all accounts, Poe (who lived a penniless life in the US)
really *was* baffled by all of this.Reblogging because I never saw that part before!
With this spellbinding project, insanely talented artist @littlechmura wanted to create a self-contained moment for each of these beloved Harry Potter characters—a single scene that gives a glimpse into their own magical worlds. She’s calling the series “One Breath Each”, and we’re calling it GORGEOUS AF.
If you think there’s a lot of unrealistic aspects to the story of Tarzan, you’d be right.
However, a human baby being successfully raised by an ape is not one of them (in the book he’s raised by a fictional species called the Mangani, in the movies it’s often gorillas).
Children raised by wild or semi-wild animals are actually surprisingly common (or at least far more common than you’d expect).
They’re usually referred to as “feral children”.
There have been confirmed recorded cases of human children being raised by gazelles, ostriches, bears, sheep, cattle, monkeys, pumas, wolves, dogs, and chimpanzees.
In the case of the chimpanzees the boy was raised from 6 months old to age 2 (when he was discovered by humans), so an infant Tarzan being successfully raised by another great ape would by no means be unprecedented.
Side note: it would seem that in a lot of cases with feral children, they tend to be children who were abandoned by their human parents due to having extreme mental/physical disabilities, and were subsequently found and cared for by their non-human parents.
In a number of recorded cases of children raised by wolves, they were children orphaned during World War II.
sometimes ………….. books that are considered classics…………. are worse
Books, like people, have their own personality. Much like the four parts that make up a human personality, books have their own:
Setting
Character
Plot
Language
Depending on your tastes, the language has to be a certain way, the plot has to be fast/slow paced, etc. And just like how there’s a certain trait you value in your book above the others (in my case it varies between plot and setting), you also have your turn-offs too.
Mine is language. I find it really hard to get into stuff written in an 1800s style (Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, etc) or in Shakespearean English. I can watch them as shows without a problem, but read them? Hell to the no.
I’d rather read Kit Marlowe (Shakespeare’s rival) over Shakespeare any day. And I’m an English major with a Master’s in Library Science.
Give me Gordon Korman, Kenneth Oppel, or Eoin Colfer over Dickens and Austen.
It doesn’t mean I don’t like any classics.
L.M. Montgomery? Her I’m strangely okay with. Original versions of fairy tales? Love ‘em. Myths and legends in old-timey language? I’m also fine with.
Journaling, coffee and a book = perfect night
Some of you may remember a post I wrote a while back lauding seasoned librarians who take us newbies under their wing and mentor us (bless y’all to the moon and back). Well, my mentor is Claudio Bringas, a community librarian at Edmonton Public Library’s Enterprise Square branch, in downtown.
But what does a community librarian do? Aren’t all public librarians community librarians? I asked Claudio if he’d be willing to answer a few questions, and he very graciously agreed.
What does an average day look like for you?
It depends. Some days are mainly about contacting people, emailing, making phone calls. Sometimes you could spend the day writing reports, and other days you would be delivering programs outside of the library. It’s difficult to describe an average day—it varies day to day.
Sometimes we have internal team meetings, and also meetings with different community members. For example, this afternoon I have to meet somebody from a community league and also the Community Recreation Coordinator for the City of Edmonton. They’re planning on setting up an English language training program (something like a conversation circle) at the community league, and are interested in knowing what the library can do to help. That’s an example of what a community librarian meeting outside of the library would be about.
In some branches, community librarians have to do more desk hours than others. When I was at the Stanley A. Milner branch, I only had to do one day every so often. Here at Enterprise Square, it’s whenever I’m needed, so I’ve been doing much more desk hours than I used to.
You became a Community Librarian back in 2008, when the EPL first started hiring for such a position. How would you say community librarianship has changed since then?
Well, one thing is the perception of the people outside of the library. The different community groups are more aware of community librarians and have a better understanding of what we do, whereas at the beginning it was very strange. People didn’t know why we wanted to attend certain community meetings, go to interagency meetings, or participate in this or that event. Now they’re always inviting us to go. I think that’s because they’re more aware of what we do, and aware of the library services as well.
Before, people would think, “The library’s there, they have their books and collections, and that’s about it, right?” Now the public is starting to become aware of the changes. I think it’s because the community librarians are engaged with different groups, and we’ve been doing a wide variety of activities that people wouldn’t see as traditional library programs.
Internally, for us, I would say that in the beginning we had much greater freedom to do different things, explore different programs, whereas everything is now more regulated and has to be justified. For example, as far as programs: if you want to create a program, it must be approved and follow the appropriate channels. Your proposal has to go to the teams that oversee certain types of programs. In the beginning, it was like, “Well, this is something new, and we’ll just try it out.”
A cast-out-a-net-and-see-what-comes-back kind of thing. See what sticks.
Yeah. And that’s pretty much what I did when I moved to the Stanley A. Milner library from the Londonderry branch. My manager said, “Basically, there’s this area that the Downtown library serves. We’ve been focused on one specific area (which was the inner city, the East side of downtown), but there’s also this whole other side where we have lots of organizations and different places. You go and explore to see what’s there. Go and.… do whatever.”
If you had to give one advice to hopeful community-librarians-to-be, what would you say?
That they would need to have a lot of experience in different community initiatives. Just a library degree by itself isn’t enough.
So the message is, “get involved”—right?
Yeah. The people they’ve been hiring lately are people that have all these great experiences and have done all these wonderful things, internships here, setting up libraries there… It makes it very difficult for other people to compete if they don’t have those experiences.
When I got this job, I was one of the first five, and I don’t think any of us had those types of experiences. We were just straight out of library school. I think if I were to apply now, I wouldn’t have a chance. So that’s what I would suggest: Get involved with community groups and initiatives, whether it’s a paid job or volunteering.
The other thing I would say is that if somebody likes a job where they’re always in control of everything, everything has to be a certain way, this job is not for them. [laughs]
About Claudio: Claudio Bringas is one of two community librarians at Edmonton’s central public library branch. An Aussie by birth, he mostly grew up in Chile before moving to Canada in 2001. He graduated from the University of Alberta’s MLIS program in 2007.
About the Edmonton Public Library: The EPL currently has 18 branches spread out across Edmonton, as well as a few lending machines in busy areas of town. It has a full-time Community Librarian per branch, except for its central branch (which has two) and Highlands branch, which has two part-time community librarians instead (co-community librarians, if you will).
Want to learn more about the not-so-secret life of librarians? Check out my first post on what librarians do and my posts on my volunteer job as a spider librarian (part 1, part 2, part 3)! :)
Like the extensive list of Hugo Award winners, the back catalog of Amazing Stories encompasses a host of geniuses: Le Guin, Asimov, H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, and many hundreds of lesser-known writers
San Diego Comic-con 2017 starts today! Check out our preview of the forthcoming GN publishing season. “This year, we see more genres blending and mutating into fresh forms of storytelling, emerging voices are finding their earliest expressions, and creative teams large and small (some comprised of only a single creator) are forging truly fantastic material for every occasion, every mood, and every reader.”
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After 11 years of wondering if Turkish Delight is good enough to sell out my family I finally made some
so..is it?
well if i was a 10 year old in 1940 during world war ii when there was sugar rationing and i had been sent away to some stranger’s house with my siblings who (particularly the elder 2) were being real jerks and i had no idea that the seemingly kind lady offering the turkish delight was the literal embodiment of evil™ who would kill my family and myself once she no longer had any use for us then yeah i would do it
Writing in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Ottoni and his colleagues report that five distinct clades of ancient wildcats rapidly spread outward from relatively small origin points. Over millennia, the clade from Egypt and Southwest Asia began to dominate the world. Mostly this was due to the spread of agriculture. Farming practices that began in the Levant and Western Asia took hold elsewhere, attracting rodents to grain stores. That, in turn, attracted wildcats, who eventually joined farming communities as companions—just as ancient dogs had joined hunting parties in the Paleolithic.
Then the researchers started to see weird data points, like an Egyptian cat at a Viking sea port during the Middle Ages, and Asian cats at a Roman Red Sea port during the height of the Roman Empire.
They realized that many of these cats were spreading along shipping routes. During classical antiquity, ships’ captains always kept a cat aboard to remove vermin. By the medieval period, it was unlawful in some places to sail without a ship’s cat. As time went on, these cats escaped in ports far from home. There, they would interbreed with local cats. Eventually, the genes of the Egyptian and southwest Asian clades began to win out over others.
Nobody is certain why Egyptian cats were especially popular, but it may have been because of their friendly dispositions. The researchers note that the ancient world’s obsession with Egyptian cats was so intense that it became a political issue, and a “local ban on cat trading [was] imposed in Egypt as early as 1700 BCE.” Still, Egyptian cats continued to “spread to most of the Old World.” Over time, Mediterranean house cats were all from the Egyptian clade.
As Janeites around the world pay tribute to Jane Austen on the 200th anniversary of her death, test your knowledge of Austen’s life (and afterlife) with this quiz.
In “Jane Austen at Home,” the BBC presenter Lucy Worsley traces the writer’s life through the places and possessions that mattered most to her.
Letter from Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs condemning Native dancing.
