Do You Love Your Librarian?

Of course you do! Who doesn't love their librarian?!

So, you should nominate your favorite for the 2015 I Love My Librarian Award!

You can nominate your favorite school librarian, public librarian, or academic librarian. Make sure you check out the details!

Hurrah!

Links!

10 Years After Katrina: Commemorating Libraries and Librarians Today's post features Jefferson Parish libraries! Millions in Damage at Jefferson Parish Library
Undercover Republican Goes Hillary-Hunting in Clinton Library This probably sounds nuts to most of you - but this sounds like the kind of job I'd love to do. Other than working for the Republicans, of course.
Boy trips, punches hole in $1.5 million painting ...Ouch...
The surprising benefits of reading before bed
Five Books That Dump You into a Pit of Despair
Science-Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Chinese Writer for First Time Sounds amazing...now I just have to get my hands on a copy...
Do America's Military Bases Abroad Help Or Hinder Global Security? "David Vine, an associate professor of anthropology at American University, argues that we've become too dependent on such overseas bases — and that many of them cause serious opposition abroad. He lays out his thinking in his new book, Base Nation: How the U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World."
August 25, 1835: The Great Moon Hoax "On this day in 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper."
August 25, 1984: In Cold Blood author, Truman Capote, dies

The surveillance-industrial complex is a monopolists dream come true "CISA would give companies legal immunity [from] virtually all laws, including antitrust and FOIA, as long as they hand data over to the government. There are business reasons for companies to oppose such a system — for example, to protect their reputation (they don’t want their customers to see them as surveillance portals) or for basic rent-seeking reasons (they want to stop their competitors from getting the advantage of legal immunity). But these don’t apply to monopolies, which effectively have no competition and whose customers have little or no choice but to do business with them."

Keeping an eye on Erika: Tropical Storm Erika Prompts Watches For Leeward Islands; Potential Threat to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hispanola, Bahamas
The FDA Says That Hampton Creek Can't Call Its Product "Mayonnaise" So - "Just Mayo" isn't actually mayo - it doesn't contain eggs, which is sort of important for mayonnaise, and it does contain some other stuff not typically found in mayo. "The FDA also said Hampton Creek can’t claim its Just Mayo is cholesterol-free and make statements that imply the product is heart-healthy because there is too much fat in it to make health claims."
Universal flu vaccine comes closer, scientists say
Sierra Leone Releases Last Ebola Patient
Hawking: Black Holes May Lead To Other Universes

Beyond Borders: My Name Is Valentina Emilia Garcia Gonzalez
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Consumer Alert on Student Loan Debt Consolidation Scams
Can This Man Save the Public University? "In other areas of federal policy, such as transportation and health care, federal dollars come with strings attached—states have to pitch in a set amount of money too. That’s not the case for higher education, where money follows the student to private and public colleges alike, and states have no requirements to fund public universities at a certain (or indeed any) level. The result is that when states are under budget pressure, as they have been in the years since the financial crisis, they slash spending on higher ed. The burden of those cuts then gets shifted to students, in the form of higher tuition, and to the federal government, in greater spending on grants, tax credits, and subsidized student loans. On the current course, King continues, within twenty years at least eight states—including Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and South Carolina—will spend no public money on their state universities, and in the rest of the country public higher education will be a shell of its former self."
Square Root of Kids’ Math Anxiety: Their Parents’ Help

Heinz tomato ketchup faces labelling change in Israel "Rival ketchup maker Osem, the top selling brand in Israel, had said the Heinz product did not have sufficient tomato content to be called ketchup. In January Osem said it had Heinz ketchup tested and found it contained 21% tomato concentrate. Israel requires ketchup to have 41% tomato concentrate."

Jeb Bush: ‘Anchor babies’ isn’t about Latinos — it’s ‘more related to Asian people’ Oh, well, then, that's...still not okay.
Donald Trump's new Twitter tirade against Megyn Kelly "As Fox News host Megyn Kelly returned from vacation, the Republican presidential candidate used Twitter late Monday night to slam her return during the airing of her show, saying that host 'must have had a terrible vacation, she is really off her game.'" Why? Why is he attacking Kelly here? It has absolutely nothing to do with him. Also - why is he still a "serious" candidate for the presidency? He would be an absolute disaster in office! Can you imagine him as the face of the U.S. in international relations?
Cornel West Endorses “Brother” Bernie Sanders

People Love Your Sarcasm, Really Well, I certainly hope so, because I'm approximately 84% snark.
August 25, 325: Council of Nicaea concludes "The Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical debate held by the early Christian church, concludes with the establishment of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity."

Steampunk Gypsy