Brian Sonia-Wallace is the winner of the mall's 25th anniversary special contest by Richard Horgan  May 18, 2017   The Mall of America didn’t realize this at first when they considered Brian Sonia-Wallace for the sprawling complex’s 25th anniversary writer-in-residence contest.  But the Los Angeles-based poet is most uniquely qualified for this sort of work.  Sonia-Wallace is a 2016-17 Amtrak writer-in-residence and has also done residencies with the City of Los Angeles, the U.S. National Parks system, Dollar Shave Club and L.A.’s ArtsWork Theater.  Wallace will serve as MOA writer-in-residence June 14-18, 2017 which overlaps with his June 17 birthday.  He plans to write 125 poems, another twist that was not originally envisioned by MOA but gladly accommodated once they chose him as the winner.  “I want to bring poetry back into people’s everyday lives,” Sonia-Wallace says.  “We think of poems as this elite art form, but their roots go back to the dawn of self-expression and communication.  The typewriter is my hook--it gets people engaged.  From there, conversations can flow that awaken the inner storyteller in everyone."  Sonia-Wallace’s Twitter handle, @rentpoet, and personal-website URL, are a nod to his performance art persona.  He committed himself to working as a poet-for-hire in 2014 and published a book about the experience two years later titled I Sold These Poems, Now I Want Them Back.  http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/mall-of-america-writer-residence-brian-sonia-wallace/

CALDER:  HYPERMOBILITY  JUN 9–OCT 23, 2017  Whitney Museum of American Art  99 Gansevoort Street  New York, NY 10014  (212) 570-3600  info@whitney.org  In the early 1930s, Calder invented an entirely new mode of art, the mobile—a kinetic form of sculpture in which carefully balanced components manifest their own unique systems of movement.  These works operate in highly sophisticated ways, ranging from gentle rotations to uncanny gestures, and at times, trigger unpredictable percussive sounds.  Calder:  Hypermobility encompasses major examples of Calder’s work including early motor-driven abstractions, sound-generating Gongs, and standing and hanging mobiles.  http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CalderHypermobility

In 1965 J.C.R. Licklider, Director of Project MAC (Machine-Aided Cognition and Multiple-Access Computers) at MIT and Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, published Libraries of the Future, a study of what libraries might be at the end of the twentieth century.  Licklider's book reviewed systems for information storage, organization, and retrieval, use of computers in libraries, and library question-answering systems.  In his discussion he was probably the first to raise general questions concerning the transition of the book from exclusively printing on paper to electronic form.

The U.S. Constitution contains no express right to privacy.  The Bill of Rights, however, reflects the concern of James Madison and other framers for protecting specific acts of privacy, such as the privacy of beliefs (1st Amendment), privacy of the home against demands that it be used to house soldiers (3d Amendment), privacy of the person and possessions as against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment), and the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information.  In addition, the Ninth Amendment states that the "enumeration of certain rights" in the Bill of Rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people."  The meaning of the Ninth Amendment is elusive, but some persons (including Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence) have interpreted the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.  Read much more, see a list of cases, and find Bill of Rights (and 14th Amendment) Provisions Relating to the Right of Privacy at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html

The Skagen Painters were a group of Scandinavian artists who gathered in the village of Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, from the late 1870s until the turn of the century.  Skagen was a summer destination whose scenery and quality of light attracted northern artists to paint en plein air, emulating the French Impressionists—though members of the Skagen colony were also influenced by Realist movements such as the Barbizon school.  They broke away from the rather rigid traditions of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, espousing the latest trends that they had learned in Paris.  Among the group were Anna and Michael Ancher, Peder Severin Krøyer, Karl Madsen, Laurits Tuxen, Marie Krøyer, Carl Locher, Viggo Johansen and Thorvald Niss from Denmark, Oscar Björck and Johan Krouthén from Sweden, and Christian Krohg and Eilif Peterssen from Norway.  Read much more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagen_Painters

Dear Quote Investigator:  Mother Teresa is credited with a very popular collection of wise rules.  Here are the first two:  People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.  Usually there are between eight and ten statements, and each one ends with the word “anyway”.  Did Mother Teresa create this valuable set of principles?  Quote Investigator:  No.  The original collection of sayings were created by a college student named Kent M. Keith and published in 1968 in a pamphlet titled “The Silent Revolution:  Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council”.  Find the original expressions that Kent M. Keith calls the “Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership” at http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/mother-teresa/

Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman  February 21, 2017   A literary treasure buried for more than a century has been unearthed by Zachary Turpin, a grad student at the University of Houston.  It's a work of short fiction:  a 36,000-word novella published anonymously, in six parts, in a New York newspaper in 1852.  The discursive nature of the manuscript's full title—Life and Adventures of Jack Engle:  An Auto-Biography; In Which The Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters—places it squarely in its literary era, as does its subtitle, A Story of New York at the Present Time.  The find was announced on February 20, 2017 as the full book was published online in the literary journal Walt Whitman Quarterly Review; the University of Iowa Press is releasing it in book form.  What's notable about the novella is its author—the beloved American poet Walt Whitman—and its place in Whitman's literary career.  Just three years after Jack Engle saw print, Whitman would publish the work that would enshrine him in the American canon:  Leaves of Grass.  In 1842, Whitman had published another work of fiction, a harrowing "temperance novel" about a stouthearted young man whose life is nearly destroyed by alcohol.  Whitman distanced himself from that early work and never publicly acknowledged authorship of Jack Engle.   http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/21/516442353/grad-student-discovers-a-lost-novel-written-by-walt-whitman  Listen to Jon Hamm read lost Walt Whitman novel at http://ew.com/books/2017/05/26/jon-hamm-lost-walt-whitman-novel/

THE CURIOUS LIBRARIAN INVESTIGATES after hearing the word intel spoken twice in a movie with a story taking place during World War I (1914-1918).  She didn't think the word was used in the first part of the 20th century, and found that intel, an abbreviation of intelligence, originated in the 1960s.

This evening (June 9, 2017) brings us the June full moon.  And because strawberries are the first fruit after rhubarb to ripen in late spring and early summer—and the peak season picking strawberries is June—the traditional moniker for the June moon is Strawberry Moon.  There is another name that we could assign to tonight's full moon: "minimoon."  That’s because this month's full moon will be the smallest in 2017.   We're all, of course, familiar with the branding of supermoon, when the full moon coincides (or very nearly so) with perigee—that point in the moon's orbit when it is closest to Earth.  On such occasions, the moon appears somewhat larger than normal because of its closeness to Earth.  Well, tonight's (June 9) moon is the opposite of that circumstance; a full moon that nearly coincides with apogee, the moon's farthest point from Earth.  [The Moon: 10 Surprising Lunar Facts]  https://www.space.com/37147-strawberry-minimoon-2017-smallest-full-moon-tonight.html

The Belmont Stakes, first run in 1867, is the oldest of the Triple Crown events.  It predates the Preakness Stakes (first run in 1873) by six years and the Kentucky Derby (first run in 1875) by eight.  The 149th Belmont Stakes will go to post at about 6:47 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 10, 2017.  See post positions at http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2714193-belmont-stakes-2017-post-positions-complete-listing-for-every-horse  Watch live on NBC.

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1721  June 9, 2017  On this date in 1865, Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor, was born.  On this date in 1903, Marcia Davenport, American author and critic, was born.  Word of the Day  prodnose:  to pry, a prying person  After Prodnose, a pedantic and nosy character, who appeared in the columns of J B Morton in the Daily Express.  Thought for the Day  Live and let live, be and let be, / Hear and let hear, see and let see, / Sing and let sing, dance and let dance.  . . .  Live and let live and remember this line: / "Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine." - Cole Porter, composer and songwriter (9 Jun 1893-1964)