Exploring the Innovative Community Libraries of Korea by R. David Lankes  The Gusan-dong Village Library was created by the social action of citizens. Community members (many of them single mothers) petitioned their local government to create this library.  The citizens of the area then created their own library school to plan the library through meetings, lectures from invited speakers, shared readings.  The library itself was constructed from existing buildings no taller and no grander than the apartments around them, with the footprints of the original homes preserved but now offering everything from self-published works to collective governance.  A large collection of comics, eschewed by many formal public libraries, is a central collection to the community’s children.  I was also taken with the tT (tween-Teen Island) Library.  As the name suggests, it is a library focused on teens and tweens funded by the private SeeArt Foundation.  The library, which grew from a program to build teen spaces in existing libraries, is a living laboratory for teens, where thousands of local children and teens have access to their own makerspaces—no adults allowed.  Here, young people can play instruments, create, build, use power tools, or record TikTok videos in a dance studio.  And at the center of the building:  a kitchen where families and friends can prepare and share meals.  There was the Neutinamu Library, a library handcrafted by the local citizens, funded not by taxes but by the direct contributions of its supporters.  As I walked into the library, four volunteer teens were going through newspapers, clipping articles into large binders on topics important to the community such as climate change and democracy—a clipping service owned and operated by the community, for the community.  All the bookshelves of the library’s first floor were on wheels to allow the space to open up for nightly lectures, performances, and community conversations.  In the basement, rows of images, flyers, newsletters, and other materials that tell the history of the Neutinamu community.  In the suburbs of Seoul, I visited the Mapo Library, a six-story structure where the top two floors are dedicated to arts education.  Every day, middle school children as part of their normal classes come to the library to learn music, pottery, illustration, dance, and more, all led by instructors provided by the library.  There is also a kitchen to host shared community meals.  The library was created from a powerful vision of libraries being an integral part of education in schools and beyond.  In none of my library work had I ever seen such a true and powerful integration of formal and informal learning.  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/91274-exploring-the-innovative-community-libraries-of-korea.html   

George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895–August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.  Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.  Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.  In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth   

Ides are only one of the ingredients of the Roman calendar.  The other two are calends (or kalends) and nones.  The calends are straightforward--they always fall on the first of every month.  Nones on the fifth or the seventh, and ides on the thirteenth or the fifteenth.  All dates are counted backwards from the nearest nones, calends, or ides.    

Here's a little rhyme to help you remember the dates:

March, July, October, and May
The nones are on the seventh day.
And ides fall eight days after the nones.

Interestingly, the word calendar derives from Latin calendarium (account book) since it was used to keep track of the date when debts were due.  https://wordsmith.org/words/ides.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2627  February 3, 2023