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Monday, August 11, 2025

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Discusses Her Career & Firing

 She giggled through her brief explanation drawn from To Freedom Condemned: A Guide to His Philosophy (trans. Justus Streller, 1960):

 

“The hole is something which longs to be filled. The small child is drawn as if by magic to holes. He can not restrain himself from putting in his finger or his whole arm. He makes a symbolic sacrifice of his body to cause the void to disappear and a plenitude of being to exist. The fundamental tendency of human beings to stop up holes persists throughout life, symbolically and in reality,” and so forth in unapologetically Gallic silliness.


Molly White: Curate your own newspaper with RSS. “What if you could take all your favorite newsletters, ditch the data collection, and curate your own newspaper?”


Covering Forty Countries’ Worth Of Arts And Culture Is No Easy Task

One of the Times’ Culture Desk writers in Europe checks 36 news outlets from various countries twice a day, adding in more, from the smaller European countries, twice a week. He asks, "What’s going on in these countries that will really take off” in the US? - The New York Times

OUCH:  An Ohio woman responded to her car being taken back by the dealership by registering the dealership’s name under her own and claiming possession of it


Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Discusses Her Career & Firing

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Discusses Her Career & Firing (CSPAN) Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discussed her career, her firing by President Trump in May 2025, and the future of American libraries.



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