I will attend a conference in Minneapolis June 22 through June 26, and if not time to send news tomorrow before leaving, will continue the muse upon returning home.

The Cartwheelers are Memorial Hall Library librarians in Andover, Massachusetts who have formed a book cart drill team. They perform choreographed moves, as a color guard might — except with library book carts instead of flags. The drill team has been great PR for the library, say members. The book cart drill team was started six years ago when Assistant Head of Circulation Gerry Deyermond was handed a book by the assistant director and asked to create something for the Firefighters' Parade. The book was "The Library Book Cart Precision Drill Team Manual" by Linda McCrackin and Lynne Zeiner. Before that, the library's staff has simply marched in the November Firefighters' Parade like most everyone else. But once Deyermond read the manual, members of the staff started pushing the familiar metal book carts decorated with themes pertaining to the library.
http://www.andovertownsman.com/arts/local_story_163155135.html?keyword=secondarystory

In 1934, Paul Otlet of Mons, Belgium sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.” Historians typically trace the origins of the World Wide Web through a lineage of Anglo-American inventors like Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more than half a century before Tim Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Otlet (pronounced ot-LAY) described a networked world where “anyone in his armchair would be able to contemplate the whole of creation.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Volunteers and library staff move books and items from Special Collections to upper level floors of Main Library at University of Iowa.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uinews/page5/
See pictures at bottom of page. (When in library school, I worked in the Special Collections Department at UI. At the time it was on the top floor and they were building two additional stories above. Besides dirt sifting down on us, we occasionally saw sparks. Don’t worry—we had plastic over all the collection.)

humint
This inelegant abbreviation stands for 'human intelligence'. Originally a CIA term, it is now in common use. It has two connotations: (1) The use of secret agents to collect intelligence (sense 1) - human beings as collectors; and (2) the collection of such intelligence from human beings (e.g. refugees), as opposed, say, to collecting it from intercepted radio signals - human beings as sources.
http://www.grberridge.co.uk/dict_comp_k_o.htm

From: Rudy Rosenberg (rudyrr att.net)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--dornick
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/dornick.html
Doornik is hard to find on a map these days. The town is better known under its francophonic name of Tournai. Situated in the Walloon province of Hainaut, it has fallen on hard times thanks mostly to the Flemish government policy of Belgium. Tournai is definitively French speaking. Tournai, site of many battles in WWI has a wondrous cathedral well worth a visit.

Q, What poem do these lines come from?
The poetry of earth is never dead
The poetry of earth is ceasing never
A. “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”
http://www.bartleby.com/126/28.html
See entire poem at above link.

June 18 is the birthday of musician and songwriter Paul McCartney (1942), born in Liverpool, England, where he picked out chords on a family piano. He sang in the church choir at St. Barnabas, and he got good grades in grammar school at the Liverpool Institute. When he was 14, he learned to play a left-handed guitar and met a local art student named John Lennon. They formed a "skiffle" band called the Quarrymen. The band made its first appearance in 1957 and then spent several years based in a small Liverpool club called The Cavern. They also played several successful club dates in Hamburg, Germany, and when they returned, they met Brian Epstein, who became their manager. He suggested they replace their current drummer, Pete Best, with a young man named Ringo Starr. By 1963, the band, which had changed its name to the Beatles, was the most popular rock and roll group in England. The Guinness Book of World Records lists McCartney as the best-selling composer in popular music history. His song "Yesterday" is the most recorded ever, with more than 2,000 versions. McCartney, also a painter who has had several solo exhibits, has also authored a book of poetry, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999 (2001).

June 18 is the birthday of novelist Gail Godwin (1937), (books by this author) born in Birmingham, Alabama. She wrote her first story, about a henpecked husband, at the age of nine. After studying journalism at Chapel Hill, she took a job as a reporter for The Miami Herald, but lost it after a couple of years because she couldn't stop herself from adding dramatic highlights to her news stories. She moved to London and got a job with a travel service, and she wrote a novel in her spare time about a woman stuck at home on an island while her husband is working on the mainland. She couldn't get it published anywhere. Then, one day, Godwin wrote the first sentence of a story that began, "'Run away,' he muttered to himself, sitting up and biting his nails." She wasn't sure what it meant, but she said, "A first sentence [like that] sort of excludes a story about a woman in her late twenties, adrift among the options of wifehood, career, vocation, a story that I had begun too many times already — both in fiction and reality — and could not resolve." The result was her short story "An Intermediate Stop," about an English vicar who writes a book about seeing God and becomes famous, only to find that his fame makes him miserable. That story got Godwin accepted into the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied under Kurt Vonnegut and was a classmate of John Irving. Her Ph.D. thesis became her first novel, The Perfectionists (1970).
The Writer’s Almanac

On June 19, 1865, over two years after Abraham Lincoln had signed his Emancipation Proclamation, Union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX, to announce the end of slavery. The day, which came to be known as Juneteenth, is celebrated by African-Americans in commemoration of this event. Until that date, Texas had remained almost entirely under Confederate control, and the Emancipation Proclamation had not yet brought freedom to the slaves living there. In 1980, the government of Texas made the date an official state holiday.
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