As someone who still loves to read the older children's books, this came as good news. I'll be collecting a few for the library's children's collection.
We still have a couple of holes in our Newbery/Caldecott reference collection that will be filled in as we can find copies.
So what was your favorite book as a child? The one you can't wait to read to your own kids, be they close kin or school kids? Mine was "Half Magic" by Edward Eager, published the year I was born.
'Lassie' and other old favorite children's books come home again to a new generation
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909-1917
The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.
Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909�1917
Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909�1917
Monday, November 01, 2004
Vote. Please.
My sister, Janet Coryell, is a professor of history at Western Michigan University, focusing on women's history. Here's the conversation and response:
Micaela Ayers wrote:
Janet,
Ok, sis, you're my source. Is this a fair representation of what
happened to these women?
I'm shocked, I think.
Micaela
--------------
Pretty much.
J
--------------
Subject: voting
From: Johanna Wilkinson
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:39:28 -0800 (PST)
To: Micaela Ayers,
Ladies:
I checked out this at www.snopes.com (the urban legends/hoax site I use) and didn't find it listed so perhaps it's true. I admit to wondering this year when I'm going to squeeze voting in, but I always do and I will again. This article certainly will remind me of the gift it is to vote, regardless of the outcome.
Jo
-------------------------------
A Little History on Women Voting
The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night,
they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their
warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly
convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head
and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an
iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought
Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at
the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson
to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow
Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they
tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid
into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks u ntil
word was smuggled out to the press.
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why,
exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote
doesn't matter? It's raining?
Everyone should watch HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a
graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that we could
pull the curtain at the polling booth and have our say. I think some of
us needed the reminder.
"What would those women think of the way we use--or don't use--our right
to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but
those of us who did seek to learn. The right to vote, should become
valuable to us "all over again."
HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and
DVD.
We are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and maybe a little
shock therapy is in order.
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a
psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be
permanently institutionalized.
And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong,
he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor
admonished the men:
"Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."
Please pass this on to all the women you know (ACTUALLY TO EVERYONE YOU
KNOW). We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so
hard for by these very courageous women.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Micaela Ayers wrote:
Janet,
Ok, sis, you're my source. Is this a fair representation of what
happened to these women?
I'm shocked, I think.
Micaela
--------------
Pretty much.
J
--------------
Subject: voting
From: Johanna Wilkinson
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:39:28 -0800 (PST)
To: Micaela Ayers
Ladies:
I checked out this at www.snopes.com (the urban legends/hoax site I use) and didn't find it listed so perhaps it's true. I admit to wondering this year when I'm going to squeeze voting in, but I always do and I will again. This article certainly will remind me of the gift it is to vote, regardless of the outcome.
Jo
-------------------------------
A Little History on Women Voting
The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night,
they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their
warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly
convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."
They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head
and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an
iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought
Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at
the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson
to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow
Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they
tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid
into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks u ntil
word was smuggled out to the press.
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why,
exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote
doesn't matter? It's raining?
Everyone should watch HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a
graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that we could
pull the curtain at the polling booth and have our say. I think some of
us needed the reminder.
"What would those women think of the way we use--or don't use--our right
to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but
those of us who did seek to learn. The right to vote, should become
valuable to us "all over again."
HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and
DVD.
We are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and maybe a little
shock therapy is in order.
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a
psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be
permanently institutionalized.
And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong,
he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor
admonished the men:
"Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."
Please pass this on to all the women you know (ACTUALLY TO EVERYONE YOU
KNOW). We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so
hard for by these very courageous women.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friday, October 29, 2004
Donkey book
From a friend of my daughter:
Foreign titles can be tricky...
Yesterday a patron asked me about a book for her daughter, she said she believed it was a Spanish book, but she didn't know the author. She had the title written down on a piece of paper. What was written was this:
Donkey hota de la Mancha
Now, I took French, not Spanish or I might have gotten it. I also didn't read it aloud, or I might have gotten it. I search Donkey and Donkey hota and no luck. I do a search on de la Mancha, and pull up the correct title:
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Time spent figuring out the title: 45 seconds
Amount of time it amused my coworker and I: at least half an hour
It was just that kind of night, as anyone who has worked a reference desk can attest.
Foreign titles can be tricky...
Yesterday a patron asked me about a book for her daughter, she said she believed it was a Spanish book, but she didn't know the author. She had the title written down on a piece of paper. What was written was this:
Donkey hota de la Mancha
Now, I took French, not Spanish or I might have gotten it. I also didn't read it aloud, or I might have gotten it. I search Donkey and Donkey hota and no luck. I do a search on de la Mancha, and pull up the correct title:
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Time spent figuring out the title: 45 seconds
Amount of time it amused my coworker and I: at least half an hour
It was just that kind of night, as anyone who has worked a reference desk can attest.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
“The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs”
Powerful exposé of the pharmaceutical industry available online through Butler Community College L.W. Nixon Library
The L.W. Nixon Library, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS, in partnership with netLibrary and The University of California Press, is pleased to offer online access to the full text of “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs.” In this gripping exposé of the drug industry, the author argues that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying astronomically high prices for prescription drugs.
Written by Merrill Goozner, the former Chief Economics Correspondent at the Chicago Tribune, “The $800 Million Pill” offers a chilling glimpse into the Byzantine world of drug discovery and demonstrates that almost all the important new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and at the National Institutes of Health. Goozner reports that once the innovative work is over, the pharmaceutical industry often steps in to reap the profit.
Goozner goes on to show how drug innovation is driven by dedicated scientists intent on finding cures for diseases, not by pharmaceutical firms whose bottom line often takes precedence over the advance of medicine. A university biochemist who spent twenty years searching for a single blood protein that later became the best-selling biotech drug in the world, a government employee who discovered the causes for dozens of crippling genetic disorders, and the Department of Energy-funded research that made the Human Genome Project possible--these engrossing accounts illustrate how medical breakthroughs actually take place.
“The $800 Million Pill” suggests ways that the government's role in testing new medicines could be expanded to eliminate the private sector waste driving up the cost of existing drugs. Pharmaceutical firms should be compelled to refocus their human and financial resources on true medical innovation, Goozner insists. This book is essential reading for everyone concerned about the politically charged topics of drug pricing, Medicare coverage, national health care, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in developing countries.
“The $800 Million Pill” will be available to L.W. Nixon Library patrons November 1-30. If you have already established a netLibrary account through L.W. Nixon Library, visit www.netLibrary.com and log in. If you do not have a netLibrary account, you can access “The $800 Million Pill” and create a netLibrary account from any L.W. Nixon library computer or through your Pipeline account. For more information about netLibrary or other services available through L.W. Nixon Library, please contact your librarian, Micaela Ayers, through this blog, at our website, or in our library facility.
The L.W. Nixon Library, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS, in partnership with netLibrary and The University of California Press, is pleased to offer online access to the full text of “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs.” In this gripping exposé of the drug industry, the author argues that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying astronomically high prices for prescription drugs.
Written by Merrill Goozner, the former Chief Economics Correspondent at the Chicago Tribune, “The $800 Million Pill” offers a chilling glimpse into the Byzantine world of drug discovery and demonstrates that almost all the important new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities and at the National Institutes of Health. Goozner reports that once the innovative work is over, the pharmaceutical industry often steps in to reap the profit.
Goozner goes on to show how drug innovation is driven by dedicated scientists intent on finding cures for diseases, not by pharmaceutical firms whose bottom line often takes precedence over the advance of medicine. A university biochemist who spent twenty years searching for a single blood protein that later became the best-selling biotech drug in the world, a government employee who discovered the causes for dozens of crippling genetic disorders, and the Department of Energy-funded research that made the Human Genome Project possible--these engrossing accounts illustrate how medical breakthroughs actually take place.
“The $800 Million Pill” suggests ways that the government's role in testing new medicines could be expanded to eliminate the private sector waste driving up the cost of existing drugs. Pharmaceutical firms should be compelled to refocus their human and financial resources on true medical innovation, Goozner insists. This book is essential reading for everyone concerned about the politically charged topics of drug pricing, Medicare coverage, national health care, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in developing countries.
“The $800 Million Pill” will be available to L.W. Nixon Library patrons November 1-30. If you have already established a netLibrary account through L.W. Nixon Library, visit www.netLibrary.com and log in. If you do not have a netLibrary account, you can access “The $800 Million Pill” and create a netLibrary account from any L.W. Nixon library computer or through your Pipeline account. For more information about netLibrary or other services available through L.W. Nixon Library, please contact your librarian, Micaela Ayers, through this blog, at our website, or in our library facility.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
More celebrating
Well, it was a big week of celebrating my 50th birthday. Now I'm to celebrate my appointment to the Kansas Library Network Board, the group that selects databases for the state, and administeres the "Interlibrary Loan Development Project" grants, including buying e-books. The Board of Trustees here at Butler Community College has asked me to come for a recognition moment (along with two dozen other high achievers here on campus).
Hey, I hope this doesn't mean I can't apply for grants! I received two this year:
$908.00 to buy Food and Hospitality Industry Books and CDs
$1,360.00 to purchase Early World Cinema titles, mostly in DVD
The Hospitality books have been ordered already; the cinema titles will have to wait till I get back from vacation in a couple of weeks.
To Boston...
To the Museum of Science exhibit...
To that headliner exhibit..."The U.S. Premiere of The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy — The Exhibition is now at The Museum of Science."
Yay!
Hey, I hope this doesn't mean I can't apply for grants! I received two this year:
$908.00 to buy Food and Hospitality Industry Books and CDs
$1,360.00 to purchase Early World Cinema titles, mostly in DVD
The Hospitality books have been ordered already; the cinema titles will have to wait till I get back from vacation in a couple of weeks.
To Boston...
To the Museum of Science exhibit...
To that headliner exhibit..."The U.S. Premiere of The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy — The Exhibition is now at The Museum of Science."
Yay!
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