As the friendliest and considerate President in my time in NSW Parliament, Johno Johnson, noted: In 1991 Dr Russell Cope, the Parliamentary Librarian, concluded 40 years of meritorious service Dr Cope is one of those living treasures that few institutions have ... Happy Birthday, Dr Cope
The Wisdom of Dr Cope, June and my parents is reflected in the story about Robert Redford who turns 75 next month. They all had the wisdom and courage to handle the truth! He still directs, only occasionally performs and remains, as always, protective of his private persona. One of the slogans I remember when I was a kid was, 'It doesn't matter how you win or lose it's how you play the game'," he says. And I realised over time that that was a lie and that in this country everything was about winning. That's when I was able to make my own films and concentrate on the subject of winning and how that affected human beings." In Surratt's instance, the effect was a seemingly unjust death after a trial in which her guilt or innocence was not truly tested. Redford points to Stanton's contravention of the US Constitution as his win, achieving what he thought would save the union at a fragile moment in its formative years.
MOU on information-sharing relationship between LC and Peace Palace Library in The Hague
“July 19, 2018 – Two of the world’s most comprehensive international law libraries, the Law Library of Congress and the Peace Palace Library based in The Hague, Netherlands, have agreed to form an information-sharing relationship to exchange information and better serve library users. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed today in a ceremony at the Library of Congress by Law Librarian of Congress Jane Sánchez and Librarian of the Peace Palace Library Jeroen Vervliet. The agreement Provides Valuable Insight into Services, Collections and Cataloging at Two Leading Law Libraries…”
Is the Library Card Dying? - The Atlantic – Sara Polsky: “..Serious library-card collectors approach the pursuit more systematically than I do. A high-school freshman in California, for example, maintains a collection of more than 3,000 cards. A librarian in Nebraska scans valid library cards from all over the world and posts the images online. The retired librarian Larry Nix maintains a web page of older library cards, or “library tickets,” dating back to 1846, which demonstrate more variety in size, color, and wording than the library cards of today.
Via John B
The Open Library Blog: “Open Library now lets you search inside the text contents of over 4M books. Many book websites, like Amazon and Goodreads, give you the ability to search for books by title and author, but they don’t make it easy to find books based on their contents. This type of searching is called “Full-Text Search”…When you search across 40M documents, it can be a challenge to find the one you’re looking for
Alarmed by Texas politics’ lack of “evidence-based decisions,” STEM professionals in the state run for office
From Crocodile Dundee to a Vampire Weekend video, the most filmed alley in NYC is Cortlandt Alley.↩︎ Gothamist
Magnificent photos – 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year
From Crocodile Dundee to a Vampire Weekend video, the most filmed alley in NYC is Cortlandt Alley.↩︎ Gothamist
Magnificent photos – 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year