words morphs--from two
words to initials for the two words to spelled-out initials: disk jockey, DJ, deejay; master of ceremonies, MC, emcee
modern portmanteau words
framily, frenemy, motel, smog
Interview with Oscar winner Jeff Bridges
in American
Libraries magazine, June 2014
You’ve been working on adapting The Giver into a movie
for almost two decades. Why do you think
this book has such potential as a film? Well,
I was looking for a project to do with my father, Lloyd Bridges, and I wanted
to make a children’s movie. So I started
to look through some children’s books in a catalog and I saw the picture of
this old grizzled guy on the cover and thought, “My dad could play that part. And it’s got the Newbery Award stamp on it, so
I should check that out.” I got the
book, expecting to read a children’s story, and it certainly was that, but so
much more. I enjoyed it on an adult
level and found it so poetic. What
other books have affected you in
the same way as The Giver? Oh
man, I remember as a kid getting into all the Hermann Hesse books like Siddhartha.
Loved those books. Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Last
Temptation of Christ is one of my favorites. “Man’s search for meaning”: I’m kind of into those types of books. Do you have any other book-to-film adaptations in the works or that you would
like to do? Yeah. I mentioned
Larry McMurtry. We did The Last
Picture Show, which is based on his book. We madeTexasville 20 years after
that, and he has three more books in that series based on those same folks. Duane’s Depressed is one. Rhino
Ranch is another. Dystopian young adult fiction is hot right
now. Why do you think that it is
resonating so much? I think its time has come. I think it is a … what’s the word I’m looking for?
A cautionary tale. Like we were saying about libraries, with this
addiction to comfort and getting rid of struggle and pain and what those things
can give us as a society. Pain has a lot
to do with compassion. When you
experience your pain, it’s easier for you to feel another’s pain. Phil Morehart
If the word metagrabolise puzzles you, your response is appropriate. That’s what the word means — to puzzle,
mystify, baffle or confound. Peter
Motteux introduced the English to the word metagrobolise in 1693 when he published his revised
version of Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of the works of Rabelais: “I have been these eighteen days in
metagrabolising this brave speech”. A
footnote says that it was “a word forged at pleasure, which signifies the
studying and writing of vain things”. However, one French edition suggested it was a
burlesque word meaning “to give a lot of trouble for nothing, to bore and annoy
others”. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-met3.htm
A puzzle is
a game or problem which tests the ingenuity of a would-be solver. In a puzzle, one is required to put pieces
together, in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct solution of the
puzzle. There are different types of
puzzles for different ages. Puzzles are
often devised as a form of entertainment but they can also arise from serious mathematical or logistical problems. In such
cases, their solution may be a significant contribution to mathematical
research. The 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary dates the word puzzle (as a verb) to the end of the
16th century. Its first documented use
(to describe a new type of game) was in a book titled The Voyage of Robert Dudley...to the West Indies,
1594–95, narrated by Capt. Wyatt, by himself, and by Abram Kendall, master (published circa 1595). The word later came to be used a noun. The word puzzle comes from pusle "bewilder, confound" which
is a frequentive of the obsolete verb pose (from Medieval French aposer) in sense of
"perplex". The meaning of the
word as "a toy contrived to test one's ingenuity" is relatively
recent (within mid-19th century). The
first jigsaw
puzzle was created around
1760, when John Spilsbury,
a British engraver and cartographer, mounted a map on a sheet of wood, which he
then sawed around the outline of each individual country on the map. He then used the resulting pieces as an aid
to the teaching of geography. After
becoming popular among the public, this kind of teaching aid remained the
primary use of jigsaw puzzles until about 1820.
By the early 20th century, magazines and newspapers had found that they
could increase their readership by publishing puzzle contests.
Find type of puzzles and link to a list of impossible
puzzles at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle
Laurence Copel,
youth outreach librarian and founder of the Lower Ninth Ward Street Library in
New Orleans, is the inaugural recipient of the Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble
Librarians Faced with Adversity. On June 29, 2014, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony
Snicket) will present her with a $3,000 check, $1,000 travel expenses, a
certificate and "an odd object from Handler's private collection"
during the American Library Association's Conference & Exhibition in Las
Vegas. "Copel is recognized for her extraordinary
efforts to provide books to young readers of the Ninth Ward," said ALA
president Barbara Stripling, adding that she "is a brilliant example of
how librarians can serve as change agents. Her leadership and commitment show the vital
role that librarians and libraries play in energizing and engaging the
communities that they serve." Known
to the children in the Lower Ninth Ward as the Book Lady, Copel moved to New
Orleans from New York City in 2010 and opened a library in her home through
self-funding and small donations while living on $350 a week. She also converted her bicycle to a mobile
book carrier allowing her to reach children and families that could not travel
to her home. Despite many challenges,
she has provided more than 7,000 books to children in need, "demonstrated
remarkable dedication and perseverance to the cause of youth literacy and, in
the process, ingenuity and spunk. Though
overwhelmed and undermanned, she has refused to relent. Instead she has
demonstrated a remarkable resilience and commitment to her cause," the ALA
noted. http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2271#m24559
What was fake on the Internet this week: Ryan Gosling,
‘Ghostface Lieberman’, drinking age to rise to 25 and ‘I Am Sushi’. See 16th installment by Caitlin Dewey at http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/20/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-ryan-gosling-ghostface-lieberman-and-the-drinking-age/
The creation of a full-text searchable book database is a ‘‘quintessentially transformative use’’ of a
copyrighted work, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on June
10, 2014, and therefore it is lawful to copy and store the books
electronically without the permission of the authors and publishers. The American Council on Education (ACE) submitted a brief last
year in the case Authors
Guild v. HathiTrust Digital Library, in which the Authors Guild charged
that the HathiTrust digital repository was violating copyright by making some
of its members’ work freely available. HathiTrust is
a partnership of 80 major research institutions and libraries that have
collaborated to digitize their collections to build a comprehensive online
archive. See Authors Guild, Inc.
v. HathiTrust, 12‐4547‐cv, at http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/HathiTrust-Appeals-Court-Decision.pdf
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1165
June 23, 2014 On this date in 1611,
the mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage set Henry, his
son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they were never heard from again.
In 1683, William Penn signed
a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians
in Pennsylvania.
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