10 Smallest Rabbit Breeds in the World (With Pictures) by Nicole Cosgrove  https://petkeen.com/smallest-rabbit-breeds/   

Greenland is the largest island in the world.  Canada has the longest coastline in the world, bordering three oceans with its thousands of islands.  See rankings including:  #1, Sweden (267,570) and #5, United States (18,617) at https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-countries-have-the-most-islands.html   

Palmer Hayden (born Peyton Cole Hedgeman 1890, Widewater, Virginia; died 1973, New York City)  After moving to DC at age sixteen to live with an aunt, he took a job as a general laborer for the circus.  In 1912 he enlisted in the military, but due to a mistaken reference letter, he was registered as Palmer Cole Hayden, a name he adopted as his own.  By 1920 he had left the military, and he began to study painting—in New York City with Cooper Union art instructor Victor Perard and later in Boothbay Harbor, Maine at the Commonwealth Art Colony.  When Hayden traveled to Paris in 1927, his painting focus changed from seascapes to genre scenes of the thriving African diaspora in the French metropolis.  Returning to New York in 1932, Hayden continued to paint in this flat, faux-naïf style.  Hayden ironically revisited his military enlistment around this time.  With war imminent in 1939 and African Americans still struggling for equal rights, Hayden appears to parody any enthusiasm for voluntary enlistment.  https://www.nga.gov/features/exhibitions/outliers-and-american-vanguard-artist-biographies/palmer-hayden.html    

Dec. 30, 2022  Last month, Sara Day, a teen services librarian, and her colleague, Sara Vickers, a children’s librarian, led dozens of their colleagues in a short choreography set to Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” as part of a session called “TikTok O’ Clock!” at the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2022 symposium in Baltimore.  Library TikTok is related to, but distinct from, BookTok, a corner of the platform where readers post about their favorite books and which has become a force in book sales.  On library TikTok, there is chatter about books, but librarians also post about resources and events, showcasing libraries as welcoming places for diverse communities.  Making the effort to show up on TikTok tells young people that “we’re here, we hear you, we feel you,” said Celia Greer, 30, a teen coordinator at the Kankakee Public Library in Kankakee, Ill.  The library posted a video that went viral on TikTok earlier this year, earning over one million views—and scoring a comment from Kevin Bacon.  The library then posted a second video celebrating Bacon’s comment, which got more than 30,000 views.  Now, the account is a local phenomenon, she said. 
Lora Kelley  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/books/librarians-tiktok.html   

Looking to book a big trip this year but can't decide where to go?  Well, this is worth a gander:  the experts over at the New York Times have released their annual 52 Places to Go list for 2023.  Grace Beard  https://www.timeout.com/news/this-is-where-to-travel-in-2023-according-to-the-new-york-times-011223

To move freely you must be deeply rooted. - Bella Lewitzky, dancer (13 Jan 1916-2004)

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2620  January 13, 2023