On January 10, 2017, the American Library Association (ALA) and Google, Inc., announced a call for Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty to participate in Phase Two of the Libraries Ready to Code project.  This work will culminate in graduate level course models that equip MLIS students to deliver coding programs through public and school libraries and foster computational thinking skills among the nation’s youth.  “Phase One of Ready to Code explored what libraries already do to expose youth to opportunities through computer science (CS) learning and promote the newest essential literacy--computational thinking (CT),” said ALA President Julie Todaro.  “Without the ability to analyze and formulate problems and express solutions through CT, young people are severely limited in their college and career options, which hinders our global competitiveness.  “More and more librarians are offering coding activities that cultivate computational thinking skills,” she continued, “and we have a critical need for more graduate-level curriculum dedicated to teaching LIS students how to design and implement these innovative programs.  Ready to Code 2 will address this deficiency and build capacity of pre-service and in-service librarians to move CT activities forward.”  http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/01/equipping-librarians-code-ala-google-launch-ready-code-university-pilot

‎Hiram Gilmore "Harry" Bates III (1900–1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer.   Using the pseudonyms Anthony Gilmore and H.G. Winter, Bates and his assistant editor Desmond Winter Hall collaborated on the "Hawk Carse" series and other stories.  In 1952, the Hawk Carse stories were collected in Space Hawk: The Greatest of Interplanetary Adventurers.  Bates's most famous story is "Farewell to the Master" (Astounding, October 1940), which was the basis for the well-known science fiction movie of 1951, The Day the Earth Stood Still, as well as the 2008 remake and the 1973 Marvel Comics Worlds Unknown series adaptation.  Find bibliography at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bates_(author)

12 East Coast Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings You Need to See  Beyond the Guggenheim:  Where to get your dose of FLW on the Eastern seaboard by Carrie Hojnicki  See pictures and read article at http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-best-buildings-east-coast

Construction paper (sugar paper) is a tough, coarse, coloured paper.  The texture is slightly rough, and the surface is unfinished.  Due to the source material, mainly wood pulp, small particles are visible on the paper’s surface.  The origin of the term "sugar paper" lies in its use for making bags to contain sugar.  It is related to the "blue paper" used by confectionery bakers from the 17th century England onwards; for example, in the baking of Regencyratafia cakes (or macaroons).   The animated cartoons Blue's Clues and South Park (initially) were made using construction paper and stop motion.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_paper

The Oxford Dictionaries’ 2016 “word of the year” shortlist was heavy on neologisms that one wishes didn’t have to exist:  “alt-right,” “Brexiteer,” and this year’s winning term, “post-truth.”  Among the finalists, though, there was one bit of solace:  “hygge,” a Danish term defined as “a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.”  Pronounced “hoo-guh,” the word is said to have no direct translation in English, though “cozy” comes close.  It derives from a sixteenth-century Norwegian term, hugga, meaning “to comfort” or “to console,” which is related to the English word “hug.”  Associated with relaxation, indulgence, and gratitude, hygge has long been considered a part of the Danish national character.  In a 1957 “Letter from Copenhagen” in The New Yorker, the writer Robert Shaplen reported that hygge was “ubiquitous” in the city: “The sidewalks are filled with smiling, hyggelige people, who keep lifting their hats to each other and who look at a stranger with an expression that indicates they wish they knew him well enough to lift their hats to him, too.”  In the past year, this concept of Scandinavian coziness has made inroads with an international audience.  At least six books about hygge were published in the United States in 2016, with more to come in 2017.  Anna Altman  Read more at http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-year-of-hygge-the-danish-obsession-with-getting-cozy

This Is How February Became Black History Month by Julia Zorthian   It was in 1964 when the author James Baldwin reflected on the shortcomings of his education.  "When I was going to school," he said, "I began to be bugged by the teaching of American history because it seemed that that history had been taught without cognizance of my presence."  Baldwin’s thoughts echoed those of many before and after him.  Half a century earlier, when Carter G. Woodson had the same frustration, he set the foundation for what would become today's national Black History Month, observed each February.  In the early 20th century, while he earned a Masters degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Harvard, both in history, Woodson witnessed how black people were underrepresented in the books and conversations that shaped the study of American history.  So in 1915, he and Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, or the ASALH).  In 1926, Woodson and the ASALH launched a "Negro History Week" to bring attention to his mission and help school systems coordinate their focus on the topic.  Woodson chose the second week in February, as it encompassed both Frederick Douglass' birthday on February 14 and Abraham Lincoln's birthday on February 12.  http://time.com/4197928/history-black-history-month/

LOOSE SENTENCE  Most sentences exhibit what is called loose structure, as does this sentence from an essay by Virginia Woolf:  "thus the desire grows upon us to have done with half-statements and approximations:  to cease from searching out the minute shades of human character, to enjoy the greater abstractness, the purer truth of fiction."  This sentence can be terminated at several points before the end and still make complete sense. 

CUMULATIVE SENTENCE  A cumulative sentence is an extended variety of the loose sentence.  Often used in description, the cumulative sentence begins with a general statement that it then expands in a series of particulars.  "He rode where he would always choose to ride, out where the western fork of the old Comanche road coming out of the Kiowa country to the north passed through the westernmost section of the ranch and you could see the faint trace of it bearing south over the low prairie that lay between the north and middle forks of the Concho River." (Cormac McCarthy)

PERIODIC SENTENCE  A sentence that delays the expression of a complete thought until the end, or until near the end, is called periodic.  The following is an example form an essay by Virginia Woolf:  "If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people reading for the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might not this improve the quality of his work?"  One must read this entire sentence before a complete thought emerges.  See other kinds of sentences, for instance--inverted and interrupted--at http://www.hudson.edu/custom_users/kellerd/AP/Sentence%20Types/Sentence%20Tyinverted and pes.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1686  February 1, 2017  On this date in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  On this date in 1884, the first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.  On this date in 1893, Thomas A. Edison finished construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.  Thought for Today  I tire so of hearing people say, / Let things take their course. / Tomorrow is another day. / I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. / I cannot live on tomorrow's bread from the poem Democracy by Langston Hughes (1 Feb 1902-1967)