A Shakespeare
garden is a themed garden that
cultivates some or all of the 175 plants mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.
In English-speaking countries,
particularly the United States, these are often public gardens associated with
parks, universities, and Shakespeare festivals. Shakespeare gardens are sites of cultural,
educational, and romantic interest and can be locations for outdoor weddings. Signs near the plants usually provide
relevant quotations. A Shakespeare
garden usually includes several dozen species, either in herbaceous profusion
or in a geometric layout with boxwood dividers. Typical amenities are walkways and benches and
a weather-resistant bust of Shakespeare. Shakespeare gardens may accompany reproductions of
Elizabethan architecture. Some
Shakespeare gardens also grow species typical of the Elizabethan period but not
mentioned in Shakespeare's plays or poetry.
Find a list of Shakespeare gardens at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_garden
See also The Shakespeare
Garden by Sadie Stein at https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/05/17/the-shakespeare-garden/
and Plants For A Shakespeare Garden: How To Create A Shakespeare Garden by Mary H, Dyer at https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/special/spaces/creating-a-shakespeare-garden.htm
The John Newbery
Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association
for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American
Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most
distinguished contribution to American literature for children". The
Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are
considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the
United States. Books selected are widely carried by bookstores
and libraries, the authors are interviewed on television, and master's and
doctoral theses are written on them. Named for John Newbery, an 18th-century English
publisher of juvenile books, the winner of the Newbery is selected at the ALA's
Midwinter Conference by a fifteen-person committee. The Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in
1921, making it the first children's book award in the world. Besides the Newbery Medal, the committee
awards a variable number of citations to leading contenders, called Newbery
Honors or Newbery Honor Books; until 1971, these books were called runners-up. To be eligible, a book must be written by a
United States citizen or resident and must be published first or simultaneously
in the United States in English during the preceding year. Six
authors have won two Newbery Medals each, several have won both a Medal and
Honor, while a larger number of authors have won multiple Honors, with Laura Ingalls Wilder having
won five Honors without ever winning the Medal.
The Newbery Medal was established on June
22, 1921, at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA).
Proposed by Publishers Weekly editor Frederick
Melcher, the proposal was well received by the children's librarians present
and then approved by the ALA Executive Board. The award was
administered by the ALA from the start, but Melcher provided funds that paid
for the design and production of the medal.
The Newbery Medal was inaugurated in 1922, considering books published
in 1921. Find list of winners through
2109 and list of multiple award winners at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal
Patricia Battin
was a librarian who well knew the clutter and chaos of big institutional
libraries that never threw anything away.
As she rose in her profession in the 1970s and ′80s, she became a
champion of reformatting books and old newspapers, using microfilm, computers
and the emerging internet to preserve material and make it accessible while
creating more shelf space for new items.
In the 1980s, she led a national campaign to save millions of
disintegrating books that were published between 1850 and 1950, persuading
Congress to increase its funding for microfilming these so-called brittle
books. To many librarians, Ms. Battin,
who died on April 22, 2019 at 89, was a pioneer and a visionary. Horrified that the printed word seemed to be
crumbling to dust before her eyes, she helped lead the profession out of the
dark ages and embraced the digital revolution.
To others, however, this revolution was misguided. It was, they said, stoked by hyperbole and had
devastating consequences: the
destruction of irreplaceable original documents. Leading the charge was the
acclaimed writer Nicholson Baker, who
argued that printed works were not crumbling and that librarians were
exaggerating the problem to feed the new technologies. His polemical book “Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on
Paper”(2001) amounted to a declaration of war on reformatting, which
at one time required the guillotining of book bindings to flatten the pages for
the microfilm camera. He aimed his
arrows at all manner of respected institutions and individuals, including the
librarians of Congress, the New York Public Library and, singling her out by
name, Ms. Battin. From 1987 to 1994, she was president of the Commission on
Preservation and Access (now the Council on Library and Information Resources), a
private nonprofit group dedicated to preserving published materials and
archives in all formats. Hired in 1974
by Columbia University as its director of library services, she created one of
the first electronic card catalogs. In
1978, she was promoted to vice president for information services. She was the
first woman to head an Ivy League library and one of the first university
librarians to oversee both library services and information technology. This included responsibility for Columbia’s computing center,
which put her at the nexus of all scholarly information in the campus’s 26
libraries, regardless of how it was stored or disseminated. With the rise of computers, her profession was
upended. She moved to Washington to head
the newly formed Commission on Preservation and Access in 1987. She warned at the time that perhaps a quarter
of the world’s great collections were brittle, with some volumes already
turning to dust. The commission
encouraged publishers to print books on longer-lasting alkaline
paper and developed a national strategy for research libraries
to work together to save their collections from the “slow fires” of acidic
paper. For her work, she won the
Librarian of the Year award in 1990 from the Association of College and
Research Libraries. She retired from the
commission in 1994 and went on to lead a three-year “virtual library project” at
Emory University. In 1999 President Bill
Clinton awarded her the National Humanities Medal. Katherine Q. Seelye
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/obituaries/patricia-battin-dead.html Thank you, Muse reader!
Antonym:
irenology
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polemology#English June 6, 2019
is the 75th anniversary of D-Day on 6 June
1944, the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II that laid the foundations
for the Allied victory on the Western
Front.
James Holzhauer Prompted a Fundamental Question About Jeopardy
by Joe Pinsker https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/james-holzhauer-jeopardy-legacy/591022/
'Jeopardy!' Star James Holzhauer on His Children’s
Book Strategy by Karen Springen
You
told the New York Times that reading kids’
books is part of your Jeopardy! strategy, and said the library’s children’s section is the
place to go for books “tailored to make things interesting for uninterested
readers.” Which books and series did you find the most helpful? I particularly enjoyed Zachary
Hamby’s books on mythology, and the Classics Illustrated series of literary
adaptations. I’ve lived in four
different cities since I started my Jeopardy!journey [in 2012]: Seattle; San Diego; Naperville, Ill.; and
Las Vegas. All had excellent library
resources. Facts learned from
children's books: One of my episodes had
clues on the minutemen and Paul Revere—I had just read a book on the American
Revolution—as well as one about Maurice Sendak. Read interview at https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/79918-jeopardy-star-james-holzhauer-on-his-children-s-book-strategy.html
Your library: a
place for all reasons
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2106
June 6, 2019
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