Paraphrase from The Fire, a novel by Katherine Neville  A well-planned meal is the greatest lubricant to successful diplomacy.

Lye Bagels by Stefania  http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/10877/lye-bagels

Homemade bagels are a breeze! by Michael Ruhlman  http://ruhlman.com/2011/01/bagel-recipe/

A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

ragout  (ra-GOO)  noun  1.  A highly seasoned stew of meat, vegetables, etc.  2.  A mixture of disparate elements.  From French ragoût, from ragouter (to revive the taste), from re- (again) + a-/ad (to) + gout (taste), from Latin gustus (taste).  Ultimately from the Indo-European root geus- (to taste or choose), which also gave us choice, choose, gusto, disgust, degust, and pregustator.  Earliest documented use:  1652.

Presidential libraries can create excitement, or controversy for campuses by Jarrett Carter  http://www.educationdive.com/news/presidential-libraries-can-create-excitement-or-controversy-for-campuses/423649/

The most beautiful library in each US state by Chris Weller  http://www.techinsider.io/most-beautiful-library-in-all-50-states-2016-7

Karo Pecan Pie recipe from Kelley Wilson  http://www.missinformationblog.com/karo-pecan-pie/

Suffix:  ium   (1)  (chemistry) Used to form the names of metal elements, after the style of early-named elements, as well as the isotopes of hydrogen.  (2)  (chemistry) Used to form the temporary systematic element name of a metallic or nonmetallic element which is postulated to exist, or which has been newly synthesized and has not yet been assigned a permanent name.  (3)  (by extension, humorous) Appended to common words to create scientific-sounding or humorous-sounding fictional substance names.  (4)  Used to form the name of an aggregation or mass of something, such as biological tissue:  for example, epithelium, pollinium.  (5)  Used to indicate the setting where a given activity is carried out:  for example, auditorium, colloquium, gymnasium, natatorium, planetarium, podium, sanatorium, stadium.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ium

The Great Dissent:  How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--And Changed the History of Free Speech in America, by Thomas Healy  Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 65/2016  

Jamie Cameron  York University - Osgoode Hall Law School  August 10, 2016  Abstract:  Thomas Healy’s The Great Dissent re-treads the familiar story of US Supreme Court Justice Holmes’s First Amendment conversion between March and November 1919, when he launched his marketplace of ideas theory and strong-form version of the clear and present danger doctrine.  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2821109

Library anxiety is real.  The phenomenon, which involves feeling intimidated, embarrassed, and overwhelmed by libraries and librarians, was first identified by Constance A. Mellon in 1986.  Her paper, "Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and Its Development," https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/40906/crl_47_02_160_opt.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y  reported that college students in particular are prone to library anxiety because they believe their research skills are inadequate, which makes them feel ashamed and unwilling to talk to the very librarians who might be able to ease their worries.  A major contributor to students' anxiety is in the design and architecture of the buildings.  "It’s such a change from most high schools,” she says.  “Columbia has 20 libraries, and they’re divided up by subject.  That’s not obvious—you wouldn’t know that when you walk in, there’s no sign to tell you that.”  When there are signs, they can be misleading.  For example, the stately building with "The Library of Columbia University" carved on its facade is not, in fact, the library of Columbia University.  Well, not anymore—the Low Memorial Library, as it was dubbed when built in the 1860s, quickly proved too small to house the required information resources, and has been used as an administration building ever since.  Even when students end up at the right place—for most, Butler Library, Columbia's main source of research resources—it's a "fairly intimidating."  Butler's grand facade, built in the 1930s, is inscribed with the names of ancient Greek writers and philosophers (Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle) above the formidable columns that flank that main entrance.  “You walk in and you’re in a large domed lobby, not a book in sight," says Mills. "There’s no people, there’s no one to ask, there’s no signage.  You have to figure it out on your own—where are the books?”  Though Butler Library underwent extensive renovations in the early 2000s, it remained confusing.  “The architect who designed the renovation did not want to put signage up in the lobby that said ‘This is where you go for this,’" says Mills.  "He thought that would be too much like an airport.”  Ella Morton  http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-affliction-of-library-anxiety-and-what-librarians-do-to-help

HOMOPHONES:  peak, peek, and pique.  Peak is a topmost point, such as a mountain peak, or to reach that point.  A peek is a glance or a quick look. It can also mean to glance or to peer at.  Finally, pique is to upset or excite someone.  Memory tips:  You have to reach to gain the peak.  If you peer at something, you are peeking.  And if you're piqued about something, there's usually a question in your mind about it.  https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/peak-peek-pique/

HOMOPHONES:  reek and wreak.  Reek means to give off.  Wreak means to cause.  http://www.homophone.com/h/reek-wreak

NEARLY HOMOPHONES:   wreak and wreck.  English speakers often confuse ‘wreak havoc’ with ‘wreck havoc’.  The confusion is more than understandable:  both words are nearly homophones (they sound alike) and also are spelled with only a letter of difference.  Wreak means to cause.  Wreck, means to ‘destroy or severely damage'.  Another confusing aspect of the word wreak deals with how to conjugate its past tense.  The common phrase ‘wrought havoc’ sometimes leads people to assume that wrought is the past tense of wreak, but that is not the case:  it is simply wreaked.  http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/01/wreak-havoc-wreck-havoc/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1524  September 9, 2016  On this date in 1839, John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.  On this date in 1886, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works was finalized.  On this date in 1972, in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovered a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.