Haiti - Education : Reopening of the library of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The library of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, destroyed in the earthquake of January 2010, has just reopened with the participation of BSF.
"Bibliothèque Sans Frontières has provided some of the furniture and the majority of the collections by donating over 4,000 books specializing in law and international relations. In addition to the 3,000 books rescued from the rubble, BSF has bought one thousand of books of Haitian and regional authors for this library" Patrick Weil, director of BSF.
He recalled that in addition, BSF was working to the construction of a large central library for the State University. Recalling that his organization had permitted the creation of the first digital library for the State University of Haiti in cooperation with the University of West Indies and French Guiana.
Marie-Hermine de Montagon, Chief of Mission of BSF said that "This digital library, which will be inaugurated in March, to the Faculty of Sciences of the University, will be equipped of 70 computers with access to international databases and scientific journals"
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Now That I Have YouDVD - 2004
Betsy looks for fellow commuter Michael every day at the train station and fantasizes that he is the perfect man. When they finally meet she discovers that he is the exact opposite of her ideal, but she falls in love with him anyway. Events drive them apart, but both come to realize that the essence of love is accepting each other, imperfections and all.
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Through this research and through extended investigation into the history of the society, its members, predecessors, and descendants, a rich portrait of the life of French-speakers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Orleans emerged. Today, we share the history of that society and its many milestones, members, and tombs.
The First French Benevolent Society in New Orleans
On March 14, 1843, after four years of preliminary incorporation, the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans (French Benevolent and Mutual Aid Society of New Orleans) was formally established with twenty-seven members. In its own words, the society formed as a result of increasing Americanization of the French colonial city after the Louisiana Purchase and into the Antebellum Era. The Sociètè Française was the first of many organizations in New Orleans with the aim of preserving French language and identity among its members.
The Sociètè in New Orleans crafted their organization in the image of fraternal and masonic organizations in France, exemplified by the Grand Orient de France. Similar values were emphasized: brotherhood, charity, social solidarity, and citizenship. The French model of freemasonry also emphasized laicity, or secularism.
Among the founding members of the Sociètè in 1843 was a man who himself embodied the political nature of French freemasonry. Pierre Soulé (1801 – 1870) a French native and revolutionary who settled in New Orleans in the 1830s, shaped the early goals and tone of the Sociètè. However, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1847 and thus truncated his involvement. In this year, the Sociètè merged with the French Consulate.
Minute books and histories of the Sociètè suggest that after Soulé’s departure, the political aims of the organization were abbreviated in favor of a charitable and social mission. The Sociètè would come to be known for many things – its Bastille Day celebrations, its protection of the French language, its role as the French consulate for some time – but it was likely best known for its Hospital, which was an institution for over a century.
In the same year as the Sociètè’s founding, a French visitor to New Orleans donated thirty thousand bricks for the construction of a place in which the members could gather. The material was used to build the first French Hospital on Bayou Road near North Robertson Street, described by historians as “a center-hall, gable-sided, double galleried residence.” The hospital, or Asile de la Société Française, cared for Sociètè members and their families. From 1847 to the early 1860s, the organization weathered multiple yellow fever epidemics in which as much as half of the membership was hospitalized.
In the early 1860s, the Hospital moved to St. Ann Street, a property donated by then-President Olivier Blineau. Blineau died shortly thereafter and was given the posthumous title of “Father of the French Society.”
Originally meant only for society members, French Hospital was opened to all sailors of the French fleet in November 1862, in the event that an illness may require a stay on land. With few exceptions, the Hospital was expressly for the use of members, their families, and those sponsored by members until 1913.
In 1913, French Hospital expanded under the decision that “it was finally decided to build a clinic to treat strangers.” Over the next thirty years, the Hospital would include a maternity ward, modern X-ray machines, and operation rooms. The original 1913 building became a well-known edifice on Orleans Street near Claiborne Avenue.
Throughout New Orleans history, it was common for societies to form around commonalities of nationality, profession, or background. Most societies would provide benefits similar to those provided by fraternal orders or by modern-day insurance companies. Among these benefits was frequently the option of burial in a society tomb, as well as funereal benefits for survivors.
The Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans spared little time in establishing a society tomb for itself. On March 14, 1850, the Sociètè acquired a large lot in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 on Basin Street with the financial aid of the French Consul, M’r Roger. By August of the next year, the first stone of the tomb was laid at a formal ceremony. Beneath this stone, Sociètè officers laid a lead box, in which a copy of the organization’s Constitution, and parchment containing “the names of the President, members of the Consulate, and all members of the society” were placed.
The Classically-inspired tomb with an intricate sarcophagus at its apex was completed in the following years. In the early 1850s, the size of the tomb would have overwhelmed the landscape of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. The similarly-imposing Italian Benevolent Society tomb would not be built until 1857. The cross-gable roof of the tomb supported four cast-iron lamps (now missing), in addition to its large sarcophagus, giving it the appearance of a temple. Each corner of the tomb featured an upright torch fashioned of cast plaster. In historic photographs of the tomb, these torches were painted black.
Possibly as a result of a yellow fever epidemic in that year, rumors flew in 1867 that St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 would be permanently closed. In response, the directors of the Sociètè organized a picnic fundraiser to construct a new tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3. The nearly $1,000 raised was utilized for the purchase of a lot, which was donated to the Sociètè.
Mentions in Sociètè records as well as newspaper resources suggest that a society tomb was in fact built in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 for the use of the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans. However, no tomb today bears the society name.
Funeral expenses were also part of member benefits. In an 1897 annual report, the Sociètè outlined these benefits specifically, including:
- For adult burials: Imitation walnut or rosewood coffin, a hearse, and two first-class carriages.
- For teenagers: A white coffin, a white hearse, and one carriage.
- Obituary listings in the newspaper for members and widows of members.
A Sister Society in Jefferson
As the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans flourished through the 1850s and 1860s, an additional population of French-speaking people in what was then the City of Jefferson organized their own benevolent society.
In the 1850s, the City of New Orleans was much smaller, and bounded on its upriver side by the Faubourg St. Mary and, farther upriver, the City of Lafayette. Over the course of the nineteenth century, New Orleans successively incorporated these municipalities into itself, creating the modern landscape of the city.
The French speakers who lived Jefferson Parish and formed the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Jefferson were in many ways similar to their counterparts in New Orleans proper. In fact, in many cases they were related. Members of the Tujague and Carerre families joined and served as officers in both societies. Members of each group were often natives of the same departments in France, primarily the Pyrenees and Gers. Many had family in St. Bernard Parish as well as Orleans and Jefferson.
The Jefferson Sociètè was comprised of men who lived with their families “near the slaughterhouses,” or who lived on Tchoupitoulas, or near the St. Mary’s Market. They collaborated with and shared members with the Sociètè de Bienfaisance des Bouchers (the Butcher’s Society) who in 1873 brought the famous Slaughterhouse Case to the Supreme Court. A number of Jefferson Sociètè members were buried in the Butcher’s tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 2.
The tombs gable-roof side projections hold most of its burial vaults, each enclosed in marble tablets and divided by slate slabs. All tablets of this tomb are uninscribed, leaving the names of those buried within to mystery until the recent transcription of burial books – which revealed the names of at least 150 people buried in this tomb between 1872 and 1900.
The Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Jefferson participated in the celebrations of a number of French societies in the city. In addition to the New Orleans Sociètè, the Jefferson Sociètè was frequently documented in relationship with the Fourteenth of July Society and the Children of France.
1900: Merging of the Societies
By 1896, at its twenty-seventh anniversary, the Jefferson Sociètè had “fifty or sixty” members – a roster that the Daily Picayune regarded as “not quite so large a membership now as at other times in its history.” Officers from the Butcher’s Society and the New Orleans Sociètè, the French Orpheon, and the Fourteenth of July Society raised glasses of wine to the Jefferson officers B. Tujague, O.M. Redon, F. Desschautreaux, T. Abadie, and M. Despaux – most of whom would eventually be buried in the Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 society tomb.
It was only four years later that the dwindling numbers of the Jefferson Sociètè merged with their older counterparts at the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans. The merger was completed on January 3, 1901, which records report “brought 41 new members to the society. It also brought to the Society a tomb of forty vaults, nearly new, located in Lafayette Cemetery No. 2.”
The New Orleans Sociètè had merged with other organizations before, beginning with the French Consulate in 1847. In 1895, they also absorbed the Philanthropic Culinary Society of New Orleans, who brought with them an additional burial place: a five-vault tomb located in St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery on Louisa Street.
A Centennial Celebration and Gradual Decline
While the New Orleans Sociètè had gained the members of its Jefferson counterpart, its own members were dwindling. This was the case for many benevolent societies in New Orleans after the 1930s. As the need for private hospitals waned, so did French Hospital. In the case of other societies who supported other causes such as orphanages or schools, the need for their ministries decreased with the rise of social services. As insurance corporations developed, private societies no longer fulfilled a necessity. For the French society, decreased interest in the French language likely took a toll, as the New Orleans Sociètè operated exclusively in that language.
In 1943, the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans (and, by merger, de la Ville de Jefferson) celebrated its 100th Anniversary. A celebration was held at the French Hospital at 1821 Orleans Avenue, with a dance to follow at the American Legion. The festivities appeared to hold true to the organization’s civic dedication. French leader Andre Lefargue addressed the crowd with patriotic notions of the French and Americans once again fighting in a war together. Appeals were made to the crowd to donate to the Red Cross for the war effort. Nine French cadets training at the New Orleans Naval Air Station were special guests of honor.
Said society president Henry Bernissan at the centennial celebration, “the first 100 years of the society is merely the initial performance. We expect to improve our methods with every passing day.”
Yet the Centennial pamphlet published by the society seemed to suggest a different prescience:
The current charter does not expire until the year 1972. Therefore, the Society has 29 years to run.
It is hoped that the majority of the current members celebrating our centennial will prosper alongside the society until the end of its charter.
On October 31, 1949, only six years after its centennial, the closure of French Hospital on Orleans Avenue was announced. The building was sold to the Knights of Peter Claver, an African-American Catholic Society, who utilized the building until the 1970s, when an adjacent structure was built. The French Hospital/Peter Claverie Building was demolished in 1986. The Knights of Peter Claver buiding remains on this site.
The exact year in which the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans formally disbanded is unclear. Unlike their various balls, benefits, picnics and celebrations, this milestone in the organization’s history was not published in newspapers. However, it does not appear as if the Sociètè survived to the end of its charter in 1972. In a 1972 newspaper article, a passing reference was made to the Sociètè, “which for many years maintained the old French hospital on Orleans Street. The French Society folded a number of years ago.”
Physical evidence of the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle is scant in the landscape of modern New Orleans – except for in the cemetery. Each day, hundreds of visitors pass the Sociètè Française tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Without its cast-iron lamps and jet-black torches, it fades into the cemetery scene a little more than it once did, but it remains.
For the more than 150 people buried in the Sociètè Française de Jefferson tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 2, that memory is much more tenuous. A number of trees that began growing in the tomb roof in the 1940s were cut down only this year, leaving a structure in significant need of repair. The brilliant colors of the blue tomb niches, the contrast of its white walls against black slate, its green copper drain pipes, have all faded to flat greys and exposed brick. Without names on the tomb tablets, it has been difficult for families to realize their ancestors are buried within. Yet with this project it is our hope that new resources will supply stakeholders with important information with which to regrow a connection to this remarkable structure, which represents more than a century of French fellowship in New Orleans.
In our next blog post, we will share the lives of the people buried in this tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 2.
The full burial rolls of interments into this tomb from 1872 to 1900 (up to the society’s merger with Sociètè Française d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans) have been uploaded to FindaGrave, in hopes their descendants may find them. The burial books are also available as an Excel Spreadsheet , MS Access Database, or PDF Document. Click here for burials listed by vault number.
 Founded in the 18th Century, the Grand Orient de France permitted female membership by 1773. Documents of the Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Nouvelle Orléans and of Jefferson suggest that neither society permitted female membership at any time.
 Centenaire: Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 1843-1943, published 1943 by the Sociètè, 9. Louisiana State University Special Collections, MSS 318, 1012.
 Roulhac Toledano, Mary Louise Christovich, and Robin Derbes, New Orleans Architecture: Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road (Gretna: Friends of the Cabildo, 2003), 82.
 Centenaire: Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 1843-1943, 19-21.
 Ibid., 21.
 Ibid., 39.
 “New French Hospital Dedicated Yesterday,” Times-Picayune, February 24, 1913, 13.
 Ibid., 15.
 Leonard Victor Huber, Peggy McDowell, Mary Louise Christovich, New Orleans Architecture, Vol. III: The Cemeteries (Gretna: Pelican Publishing, 2004), 9.
 Centenaire: Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 1843-1943, 19.
 “Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de la Nouvelle-Orleans, Rapport annuel, 1897,” Williams Research Center, Historic New Orleans Collection.
 Richard Campanella, Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008), 290.
 From the records of Sociètè Française de Beinfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de Jefferson burial books, Louisiana State University Special Collections.
 “The Old Jefferson Society Celebrates its 27th Birthday,” Daily Picayune, November 16, 1896, 10.
 Centenaire: Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 1843-1943, 37.
 Ibid., 35.
 “French Unit Will Fete Centennial,” Times-Picayune, March 14, 1943, 11.
 “Society Marks Centennial Day,” Times Picayune, March 15, 1943, 25.
 Centenaire: Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance et d’Assistance Mutuelle de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 1843-1943, 51.
 “25 years ago,” Times-Picayune, October 17, 1974, 19.
 Times Picayune, September 24, 1972, 6.


The Bishop Murder Case is the fourth mystery novel about the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete, by S. S. Van Dine, the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939), an American art critic and detective novelist. Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in a total of 12 crime novels, published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. The novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine (who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books as well as the author). Van Dine's first three mystery novels were unusual for mystery fiction because he planned them as a trilogy, but plotted and wrote them in short form, more or less at the same time. After they were accepted as a group by famed editor Maxwell Perkins, Van Dine expanded them into full-length novels. Although Van Dine was one of the most educated and cosmopolitan detective writers of his time, in his essays, he dismissed the idea of the mystery story as serious literature. He insisted that a detective novel should be mainly an intellectual puzzle that follows strict rules and does not wander too far afield from its central theme. [Elib]… (more)
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Vance had risen, but before he could speak Arnesson came forward and shook his finger in mock reprimand at Drukker. 'You really should learn control, Adolph. You take life with such abominable seriousness. You've worked in interstellar spatial magnitudes long enough to have some sense of proportion. Why attach so much importance to this pin-point of life on earth?' Drukker was breathing stertorously. 'These swine -' he began. 'Oh, my dear Adolph!' Arnesson cut him short. 'The entire human race are swine. Why particularize? ... Come along. I'll see you home.'
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The Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History
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The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons, while previously unknown documents have shown that most received histories were written retrospectively by victors, and present a correspondingly anachronistic perspective.
This handbook provides an authoritative survey of the major periods of Chinese history from the Neolithic era to the fall of the Latter Han Empire and the end of antiquity (AD. 220). It is the first volume to include not only a comprehensive review of political history, but also detailed treatments of topics that transcend particular historical periods, such as:
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Aliens For Lunch
by Stephanie Spinner Illustrated by Steve Bjorkman
Reviewed by Shylee K. (age 8)
Shylee K. is a student in Mrs. Poitra & Mrs. Jerome's 2nd Grade through 3rd Grade Class
Richard and Henry Bell are stuck at home during Easter vacation. Henry likes healthy snacks. Henry made the “Kaboom Korn” in the microwave. When the popcorn was done, Aric the alien came out of the bag.
The Graxians tampered with their supply of XTC-1000. The Graxians hijacked the planet with XTC-1000 that was going to planet Threll. Richard, Henry, and Aric are in the control room of the Graxian spaceship. If they don’t win, the Threllians with invade Earth. They are on the ugly planet, Grax. The boys are shown to King Boobrik the Heavy. The King is going to make the boys watch the Threllians invade Earth. They put Aric in the freezer. They take Henry and Richard to the lunchroom. They covered a vegetable. And the vegetable was celery. But the guard came. Henry and Richard were looking for Aric. Then a wamu watched them with its bright yellow eyes.
They all faded away into the air. They waved the celery in Boobrik's face and they all fainted. Then when they fainted, they grabbed the XTC-1000. Henry was invisible and so was Aric. Then they got on the spaceship and returned home. They were wearing their T-shirts in school and Miss Marshall, their teacher gave them an A+ on their report cards.
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I recommend this book for children 7-10. It was fun to read because children under 7 might not be able to read some of the harder words.


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Sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly’s mother has just died of cancer when she’s sent from Chicago to Simi Valley, CA, to live with a father she’s never met. At her massive new home, she’s greeted by a white stepmother and four half-sisters because Dr. Anthony Stone’s away on a medical emergency. Anthony arrives for dinner, surprising Tiffany with his light skin – so unlike her own. He proves to be an unbending disciplinarian about hair, phones, relationships, religion, even mental illness.
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The collection includes minutes of the Aftenro Society, some written in Norwegian; historical logs; scrapbooks; correspondence; annual reports; and photographs. It also includes one audiotape of Mrs. Arnold Berg, Aftenro historian, recounting the history of Aftenro Society.
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The collection includes incorporation papers, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, membership list, committee reports, newspaper clippings and 2 scrapbooks.
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- By-laws 4
- Correspondence 4
- Duluth (Minn.) 4
- Clubs 3
- Social service 3
- Women’s organizations 3
- Annual reports 2
- Community life--Minnesota--Duluth 2
- Financial statements 2
- Logs 2
- Photographs 2
- Public welfare 2
- Publications 2
- Reports 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Social conditions 2 + ∧ less
- English 5
- English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
- Aftenro Society 1
- Aurora Northland Lesbian Center 1
- Barnes, Julius H. (Julius Howland), 1873-1959 1
- Duluth Chamber of Commerce (Duluth, Minn.) 1
- Duluth Welfare Council (Duluth, Minn.) 1


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SSPC-VIS 2 provides a method to evaluate the degree of rusting on painted steel (or iron) surfaces. The reference color photographs and corresponding black and white images, which depict the percentage of rusting given in the written specification, form part of the standard.
This standard quantifies the degree of rusting on painted steel surfaces with a zero to ten scale base on the percentage of visible rust present on the surface. Visible rust includes rust blisters and undercutting of the coating.
The rusting depicted in the photographs is not accompanied by blistering, but the photographs show staning associated with the rust.


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A. Leonard Melander
Photographs, ca. 1904-1926
This collection of Axel Leonard Melander's photographs was donated to the WSU Libraries' archives in 1964 by Melander's wife.
Number of Containers: 1
Number of Linear Feet: .5
Number of Items: 165
Born in Chicago in 1878, A. Leonard Melander received his B.S. and M.S degrees from the University of Texas in 1901 and 1902, and after a short stint at the University of Chicago, came to Washington State College on Feb. 1, 1904, where he would serve as Professor of Entomology, Entomologist at the Experiment Station, and Head of the Department of Zoology. He left WSU exactly 22 years after he came, leaving on Feb. 1, 1926 to move to the College of the City of New York. Melander is held to be the first to prove that insects can develop resistance to insecticides, in a case involving the San Jose scale and lime-sulfur. Melander died on August 14th, 1962, in Riverside, California.
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The collection consists of black and white photographs of orchards, insects, spraying, experiment station research plots, WSC demonstration train, and WSC class pictures. Virtually every picture is both undated and unlabeled.
Here at MASC, Cage 3055 consists of approximately 75 clippings, notes, and manuscripts from A.L. Melander regarding insects and diseases, such as typhoid. A few additional materials may be found in other collections by searching MASC's site for Melander.
A small unprocessed collection of Melander's correspondence and photographs can be found at the California Academy of Sciences Archives.
Melander's collection of nearly a quarter million Diptera samples and his personal library were acquired by the Smithsonian, and became part of the U.S. National Entomological Collection.
|1||1||Orchards, pesticide application, people at work in the orchards, undated.||84|
|2||Photographs and drawings of insects, undated.||14|
|3||Experiment station research plots, men at work, undated.||25|
|4||Detail of trees and plants, undated.||16|
|5||Gathering at Yakima Valley train station, undated; panorama of Washington State College, undated.||6|
|6||Envelope containing black and white negative of A.L. Melander or P.L. Snodgrass, undated; Envelope containing black and white photographs of a Washington State College horticulture (?) class, undated; Postcard of Nog High School, Pomeroy, WA, undated; Black and white photograph of a Washington state relief map.||20|


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I came across a review of Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say “No” to Drugs while I was looking at Awful Library Books.
This book is hilarious! I admit that I have been giggling (yes, giggling) about it all day. Horses doing drugs? Don’t you need… you know… hands? How did they open the bottles? And how did they light their smoking drugs? And what do these smoking drugs consist of (cigarattes, marijuana, crack, etc)? And why would horses want to do drugs in the first place?
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The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas (Hardcover)
Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century.
In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate members of their racial group. On the Court, their judicial writings--often in concurrences or dissents--richly illustrate the ways in which these two individuals embodied these crucial American (and African American) debates--on the balance between state and federal authority, on the government's responsibility to protect its citizens against discrimination, and on the best strategies for pursuing justice. The gap between Justices Marshall and Thomas on these questions cannot be overstated, and it reveals an extraordinary range of thought that has yet to be fully appreciated.
The 1991 transition from Justice Marshall to Justice Thomas has had consequences that are still unfolding at the Court and in society. Arguing that the importance of this transition has been obscured by the relegation of these Justices to the sidelines of Supreme Court history, Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspective as Black justices - the lives they have lived as African Americans and the rooting of their judicial philosophies in the relationship of government to African Americans - that makes this succession echo across generations.
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For the most part the perceptions of faculty are encouraging for any anxious librarians. Faculty value libraries highly for their collection development functions: buying materials and preserving them, especially in electronic formats. This hardly comes as a surprise to me, since buying stuff is one of my main functions for the faculty in the departments I serve, along with solving problems and explaining any library procedures that might be considered byzantine by the uninitiated.
One minor disagreement concerns the “consultative role” of librarians. “The consultative role of the librarian in helping faculty in their research and teaching is viewed as an important function by most librarians [I bet it is], but most faculty members do not put the same emphasis on this role of the library.” Again, not much of a surprise. I often get requests to track down hard to find resources or to purchase materials the library doesn’t have, but almost all of my research consultations are with students. Usually professors only contact me for help if they’re doing research out of their usual areas. Librarians who think they know more about a scholar’s research than the scholar does are often deluding themselves.
The major disagreement between librarians and faculty concerns the relevance of the library in the future. For example, “in the future, faculty expect to be less dependent on the library and increasingly dependent on electronic materials. By contrast, librarians generally think their role will remain unchanged and their responsibilities will only grow in the future.”
Some anxious librarians may question the future of the library, or whether libraries will be needed, especially since so much information and so many resources are online and more or less easily searchable. Why bother with the library?
One key problem is the meaning of “library.” I think the article uses the word “library” equivocally. The major disagreement may be that faculty expect to be less dependent on the library, while librarians expect their responsibilities to grow, but faculty and librarians may very well mean different things by “library” when they answer these questions. Faculty expect to be “increasingly dependent on electronic materials,” but who provides most of these electronic materials? The library, obviously.
By “library,” do we mean the library building, or even the library website as first stop portal to scholarly resources? If we do, then the library probably will become less relevant. Even some of the hard core humanities professors I know don’t come to the library if they can help it. They want everything available online, so they can work from anywhere. I can’t blame them, because I’m the same way. I don’t want to be tied to a particular place for research.
But the library as place is increasingly not what I and some other librarians mean by “library.” The library building is great, and will probably always be an important location for residential college campuses. Physical books will probably still be an important part of research, at least in the humanities, for a long time to come, and traditional library functions will survive for the time being. Personally, I get great satisfaction from wandering around a research library with millions of books, which may help explain why I’m a librarian. I’m not alone in this satisfaction, but the joys of wandering around a good research library are not the same as the joys of research and scholarship.
The “library” will eventually become a mostly virtual world, consisting to a large extent of “electronic materials.”. It’s only a matter of time, as much as some librarians try to fight it. Librarians care about the format of information, but researchers usually don’t; they care about the ease of access. However, that doesn’t mean that whatever the library becomes isn’t the library, or at least the functional equivalent for the library in scholarly research.
Academic libraries will be useful for what content they provide and for helping people find and use that content when they need help, just like they are now. Libraries buy and organize materials, even if the materials are all online. Perhaps scholars aren’t using the library website as their first portal to information, but even if they use Google Scholar or some equivalent the content is often available only because someone in some library has made a decision to purchase it or digitize it and a lot of people have worked to make it available. This stuff doesn’t just buy or digitize itself, and it doesn’t just organize itself, either. And if researchers need help using it, they will need the expertise of librarians, even if these librarians don’t sit at a reference desk or even in a building called a library.
Some librarians grow anxious with declining circulation or reference stats, or with the disappearance of traditional ways in libraries. In many ways, it’s the success of librarians and others to make so much information easily available that leads to the anxiety. We’re so successful we won’t have jobs anymore! For some reason, this doesn’t bother me, and as a relatively young librarian who has an interest in supporting serious scholarship I should probably be more anxious than some of my older colleagues. I’ve got at least 30 more working years ahead of me, and it would be nice to have a job for those years, but I’m not sure it will bother me if that job changes radically over the decades.
Perhaps it’s a lack of imagination on my part, but I can’t imagine a time when all relevant scholarly information is digitized, organized, freely available, and easily accessible to all, at least not a time in any immediate future. (If I can just make it to 2040, I’ll be safe!) And if that ever happens, I think that whatever World Brain the library evolves into might just be called a library, and the people who make it happen librarians.


This is the first installment of the Wheelock Community Read Summer Blog Series. Each week, we will be posting a blog written by Wheelock faculty or staff that deals with a theme from this years’ community read; “The Beautiful Struggle” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. This week, please welcome guest blogger Jenne Powers, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Writing.
The Mythical World of The Beautiful Struggle
By Jenne Powers
The first chapter of Coates’s memoir opens with a fight scene described in terms that evoke Dungeons and Dragons, the World Wrestling Federation, Lord of the Rings, and the Transformers. Right away, Coates plunges his readers into the media- and myth-saturated world of his young mind. The opening lines describing Murphy Homes read, “When they caught us down on Charles Street, they were all that I’d heard. They did not wave banners, flash amulets or secret signs. Still, I could feel their awful name advancing out of the lore” (1). The lore here is local legend amplified by a boy’s imagined confrontation with orcs, goblins, and trucks that turn into robot killing machines. By including this kind of imagery and these references, Coates casts himself as a player in a monumental story. His mentors – his father, his brother Big Bill – are larger than life. His journey travels through time into the past and the future. Reading is ritual. He is struggling not just on the path to college, but to the Mecca.
As the chapter progresses, Coates develops the complex voice that characterizes this book. Like many narratives about childhood it is a double voice – at once a child’s and a man’s. His point of view is often limited to his child’s eyes and conveys a child’s enthusiasms and fears (“amulets or secret signs…”) but at the same time it is informed by the experiences and wisdom of mature Coates, the author.
His description of WWF wrestling and its juxtaposition to the Murphy Homes battle especially conveys at once his childish enthusiasm and his adult critique of cultural appropriation and racist media stereotypes:
I was open, and wanted to cheer the Birdman, resplendent in wraparound shades, a Jheri curl, and fluorescent gold and blue spandex. . . . maybe that night he dipped and glided toward the ring, flapping his arms and talking to the parakeets perched on each of his shoulders. I wanted to see the Dream, who was at the height of his feud with the Horsemen, and outnumbered, had taken to guerrilla warfare—masks, capes, ambushes, beef extended into parking lots, driveways and dream dates. But I lost it all out there, and when I dig for that night, all that emerges are the tendrils of Murphy Homes, how they dug into my brother’s head. (6-7)
His child’s eye delights in a grown man acting like a bird and bringing pets into the ring, while his adult’s critical eye sees a dangerous caricature of an African warrior, compounded by the subsequent rhetoric of the Dream, a White character who regularly appropriates Black culture. At the end of the passage, we feel a child’s confusion in the fray as well as an adult’s pain in the act of remembering. This double voiced narration allows Coates to develop the important ideas of Knowledge and Consciousness as expertly as he does. While reading this book, we are immersed in the experiences of a young boy who gains Knowledge every day, Knowledge rooted in his experiences as a young Black man in a world shaped by institutionalized racism. His child narrator may not always grasp the significance of his experiences (nor do we at times). However, we are led through the journey by an expert, Conscious guide – Coates.
Coates tells a story of growing up in a setting rich with myths – some patently fictional, some historically liberating, some media-generated, some community-minded. Young Ta-Nehisi demonstrates his resilience and strength by surrounding himself with so many myths. He is not one to succumb to the danger of a single story. He has many heroes to choose from and villains to battle. His coming of age will be, throughout the memoir, owning and telling his own story: Consciousness.
And his voice is not always easy to identify with. But maybe he is not asking us to identify with him. Coates’s language is intensely personal and powerfully political. It is not an everyday voice – no hero’s is. And his journey is not without peril – no hero’s is. But he will persist, and it is his control over language that gives him the tools he needs to complete his quest. This memoir comprises the mythical origin story of the scholar and public intellectual who brings us “The Case for Reparations,” “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” and Between the World and Me.


Miller, Jesika; Towse, Jo
ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 9 (NLS9), 5-7 July 2019 Adelaide: collaborate deviate innovate
Recording (MP4 audiovisual) of session on the creative and accessible library services at Mandurah Libraries in Western Australia. Programs offered include storytime, craft activities, treasure hunts, morning tea and musical bingo.
Deakin, ACT: Australian Library and Information Association
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If the lyrical mode of the poems in Henri Cole’s Blizzard is something “elegant, libidinous, austere”—as one poem characterizes Cole’s own personality—the great subject to which Cole returns is desire itself, the desire that directs our actions and libidos, that guides all of life, separating those who act and are actionable, the truly alive, from those who exist in the futile compulsions that end in decay and death. He may think that desire becomes “coffin liquor,” as “To the Oversoul” puts it, but he persists in creating an art disabused of illusions and made astringent by the losses of experience. In Blizzard, his tenth collection, the frustrated idealist’s need to write about this living desire is inseparable from the erotic impulse that guides a poet to perfect the work. “I rewrite to be read,” he says in “At the Grave of Robert Lowell,” “though I feel shame acknowledging it.”
The shame arises, in part, from a sense of the tastelessness of worldly ambition, of seeking fame and human connection from an art form that Lowell himself, in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop, said, “hardly seems to exist.” A straightforward seriousness about one’s desire for posterity would probably garner laughter from the socially distanced audiences seeking solace and meaning at a Zoom poetry reading today. And if the larger desire of which this ambition is a part—the open-hearted, Whitmanian affirmation of the life force—is no longer poetically plausible, what then? Blizzard can be read as a series of answers to such a question, a contrarious flame of artistic strategies that burns with the old desire for veracity and sense—“If I want the truth, I must seek it out”—but does so only indirectly, when the abashed poet looks at the fire askant.
“I need everything within / to be livelier,” he writes in the poem “Blizzard,” making clear that the book’s title refers not to any particular snowstorm but to what these poems embody, the desire for a weather of livelier emotions, often about aspects of the human spirit—“infatuation, sadism, lust”—that intensify in the memory against our will. Some of the poems, like a lighthearted paean to a friend’s lingonberry jam, are necessary respites from darker concerns. Others are persuasively empathetic responses to global issues, interior impersonations and omniscient storytelling about prisoners and victims and refugees from the endless wars in the Middle East and central Asia, and about historical events, like the brutality that Goya’s art documented or the Armenian genocide that exiled Cole’s maternal grandparents. Others are howls of execration at the vileness of a certain American president. Still others return to the direct, autobiographical mode, employing not fictionalized characters from history or the news but people whom the poet appears to have known, such as friends from his youth who died during the worst years of the AIDS pandemic. Each type of poem is a method of variousness—of renewed liveliness—on a poem-by-poem level, just as each line and word enact the desire for variousness on a microcosmic level, for the sake of our and the poet’s edification and pleasure.
In his versions of Rilke’s “thing poems” (Dinggedichte), Cole uses nature as a proxy for voicing the kind of perceptions that would be too bald or contrived if human characters talked about them with each other. We hear remarks addressed to a graveyard cat and a wayward bat, we follow jellyfish in a sewage-tainted ocean, we meet a child’s horse named Jelly, but we also encounter the thereness of a potato and the “desire creating desire” that delicious mushrooms engender. In his 2018 work of autobiographical prose about the art of poetry, Orphic Paris, which radiantly discloses the materials of his inspiration and provides a template of aesthetic knowledge and living wisdom with which to approach art itself, Cole writes, “As a poet, I am a worker bee beside other workers who are metabolizing language, like nectar, into poetry. . . . Like a worker bee, I take something raw and try to make something gold from it.” The bee and the nectar and the gold reappear in the first poem of Blizzard, “Face of the Bee,” with some important changes. “With your fuzzy black face, do you see me— / a cisgender male, metabolizing life into language,” he asks. Life itself is turned into language, a larger endeavor than language being turned into mere poetry, and the specificity of the term “cisgender male,” which identifies the source (and limits) of the desire, makes the art of poetry an act of Eros inseparable from the fundamental identities by which we name ourselves. By addressing a disinterested bystander, a bee metabolizing honey for its hive, Cole places identity not in a contentious human realm but in an idealized setting where it is closer to simple disclosure—of his cisgender, male privilege and his oneness as a poet with the creative forces in nature.
A cursory glance at his allusions, including Beowulf’s hoariness, Song-dynasty sagacity, Dante’s shades, George Herbert’s “meat,” Stevens’s pigeons, Elizabeth Bishop’s moose, a smidgen of Auden’s Brueghel and 1939, may show a proclivity for timeless culture, but the effect of the book as a whole is a state-of-the-art expression of despair and moral force that marks a step away from the more baleful ironies of his previous collection. Through decades of meditation on his poetic practice, Cole has remained open to the relentless changes in our culture, distilling his work to an unnerving (and deceptive) plainness that is a world away from his early poems, which were indebted to older contemporaries like James Merrill and Richard Howard. (Of his youthful work, Cole self-effacingly writes, “My words were farting on stone.”) Rereading the formally elaborate and baroquely detailed poems of those first books, we can see how the 1980s might have viewed the culture now: as syntactically and intellectually challenged, literal-minded when not mindlessly hedonic, full of deficits in attention and taste and probity. The present would see it in a different light, of course, our moral and aesthetic clarities befitting a time more alert to the ugliness of artifice and inequality. Through the stylistic changes chronicled in his ten collections, Cole has arrived in Blizzard at a colloquial plainness that matches the directness of the current moment without sacrificing what readers seek from poetry. After a dozen readings or so, these “plain” poems can seem endless in their internal changeability and prismatic quality.
“Human Highway,” “(Re)creation,” “Ginger and Sorrow,” “On Friendship,” “Goya,” and “At the Grave of Robert Lowell,” in particular, possess a masterly command of strategies for poetic estrangement that ensure continued liveliness while retaining clarity and gravitas. Such strategies—omission of key pieces of context, shifts of perspective, as from the first-person plural to singular, a kind of in medias res storytelling, startling voltas and juxtapositions, a mutating, oneiric sense of reality, sudden aphoristic summations whose confident finality Cole’s dry and ironic tone immediately undercuts—are themselves a way of creating verisimilitude from the mystery and surprise of daily existence. They may be trade-offs with randomness, but they are far more difficult than the merely arbitrary. In the end they unfold a kind of fractal scaffolding to support the moments of hard wisdom: that “memory of feeling is not feeling,” that life is “trance, illumination, spectacle,” that the “true spirit / of living isn’t eating greedily, or reflection, or / even love, but dissidence, like an ax of stone.” The poems show wisdom not in forcing present-day culture into a mold it no longer fits but in recognizing its immanence in our lives while standing at an ironic distance from it, as a good poetic dissident does. The fact that the same culture can be said to produce poetry of such ax-like power and acuity is cause for hope in a particularly dark season of the republic. Blizzard is contemporary American poetry at its most accomplished and telling.
The most resonant poem in the collection, “Human Highway,” is exemplary of Cole’s current methods. He begins with what should be a set phrase familiar to airline passengers, “We were encountering turbulence,” but here unmoored from context and, like the title of the collection, indicating the emotional valence to which the poem aspires rather than something literal, like a snowstorm. But before we can figure out who “we” are and why things are turbulent, the “we” is compacted to the autobiographical “I,” who is situated elsewhere: “I stood on a gilded balcony.” The phrase conjures an inherent privilege, such as the privilege of being a cisgender, American male in a world where people are poorer and more diverse or the privilege of writing poetry in a time of hunger, pestilence, and disaster.
Below him he sees an infernal parade not of the usual misérables but a strange mix of victims and self-victimizers: “vagrants, self-haters, hermits, junkies, / chumps, the defeated, the paranoid, / the penniless, and those led astray by desire.” The last group reminds the reader the extent to which Cole’s poetry resides in a world where love has failed—“post-pas de deux,” he calls it elsewhere—and how frankly and sorrowfully he has contemplated the ways in which impulse and longing have led him astray (“Blur” in Middle Earth, “Gravity and Center” in Blackbird and Wolf, and “Self-Portrait with Addict” in Touch come to mind). He doesn’t salute the human highway like a leader at a military parade but observes that they are striding backwards, as if a hellish projector were running in reverse an endless shot of Béla Tarr’s marching peasants. Why backwards? Simply because “this is how life can be understood,” an inverted, goose-step repetition of human contingency. Silent suffering prevails, except for “the gnashing teeth” of Earth’s tormentors, an image reminiscent of another artist that Cole writes about, the Goya of Saturn Devouring His Son.
The “we” and the airplane image return—“we were in some kind / of holding pattern”—and the parade turns out to be a dream from which the poet awakens. For a moment there is a respite that could be a scene from Elizabeth Bishop’s equally deceptive “A Miracle for Breakfast”: coffee percolating in the kitchen, a pussycat purring at the poet’s feet. But the solace of awakening from a nightmare is also taken away, even if the images remain grounded in the domestic and the real. The poet doesn’t merely slice a piece of fruit: he cuts “open the throat of a grapefruit.” A usually sinister creature, a bat, appears “groggy” in the poet’s backyard, and we know it must be the same hapless beast that he addressed despairingly in “To a Bat”: “the world is crammed, / corrupt, infuriating, / shallow, sanctimonious, / and insincere.”
Now the human highway continues in the light of day, as seen from the invisible gilded balcony of middle American life. There are good things: summer rain, bread, and “education.” And yet the happiness these good things generate possesses an undertone of unreality and mayhem, “like a strange psychedelic moth,” or—stranger still—one of those relics of unimaginable, ritual bloodshed, a “bone flute” made from a warrior’s skull. With this image the scene connects with the history of human violence. That the bone flute is “unplayable” is the final irony that the poet leaves us with, an image not only of violence but its futility. That it is also a cultural artifact, an object on which one would desire to play music, suggests that art itself, including the beautiful and audacious collection in which the poem resides, is of a piece with all human desire, helplessly implicated in the ceaseless, blood-soaked traffic on the highway.


Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with a passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill. Peeling away layer after layer of personal history to reveal the torment of a fugitive spirit, Missing Joseph is award-winning author Elizabeth George's greatest achievement.
Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
It’s to the author’s credit that by that by the end of the book I came to care about characters so much that I found myself wondering how their lives will play out after we’ve closed the pages of the book. I found myself dissatisfied with the future that seems to await Maggie Spence, the thirteen year old whose mother has been taken away for murder and kidnapping. While Lynley has visited the home of her birth mother Sheelah in London and has determined that despite the poverty and array of half siblings from different fathers, Sheelah genuinely does love her children, a close reading reveals some troubling factors in Maggie’s the
new environment. During Lynley’s visit, Sheelah’s oldest boy warns her about her latest fiancée. Sheelah points to her pregnant belly and explains that the baby will need a father. It indicates that contrary to Lynley’s opinion, she has not matured very much since she first exposed Maggie, who was an infant, to a violent father who fractured her skull and some ribs. I was hoping that Maggie’s boyfriend Nick’s family would somehow become involved in her guardianship, which in some way would parallel the history of Simon and Deborah. Nick was a character whom one takes an initial dislike to and distrust of in the manner in which he is introduced into the story, only to find that he and his family turn out to be genuinely decent people. It is a strength of the author to be able to create such vividly drawn characters that I,as a reader, am speculating over their fates as if they were real.


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Star Wars – Hidden Empire #2 (2022) : The plans of LADY QI’RA to use an ancient Dark Side weapon known as the FERMATA CAGE to destroy the Sith are falling apart, and she has lost many of her primary resources and allies, with DARTH VADER drawing ever nearer. Can she salvage victory from certain defeat?
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Wednesday 29 June 2016
Can you hear me now? Ongoing conversations with the “researcher of the future”
"A lively full-day ALPSP seminar in London last month featured a most productive knowledge exchange among early-career researchers, publishers, librarians, and other experts in scholarly communication. Our focus was to raise awareness among information providers about the experiences and needs of today’s researcher – and we gathered a packed roomful of engaged and eager participants to hear from a panel of doctoral researchers and students.
We heard about their frustrations with peer review, their thoughts about open access, and the ways in which faculty play a starring role in shaping their publication and career decisions. We then heard about how librarians and publishers are working to integrate an understanding of the researcher experience (RX) into their innovative solutions and programs.
But, Dear Reader, we managed to achieve something else that we hadn’t expected. The researchers came away with their own lessons and insights into the realities of today’s information provider!
What a bright light to see such excitement from scholars at being asked for their input and realizing the ways in which we symbiotically need one another along the supply chain of academic publishing and research! What a refreshingly collaborative and solutions-oriented response to such a stimulating event!
These insights punctuate the importance of publishers and libraries being vocal and eloquent and proactive about communicating our value within the research workflow and broader scholarly enterprise, in everything we do, great and small. Let this serve as a call to each of us actively engaging on a routine basis with those academics who want to maintain an open dialogue about scholarly communications.
And this type of discussion and collaboration represent a growing trend within scholarly communication community – from joint research efforts, events geared toward education and open conversation, user-centered design projects, and longitudinal studies. In part, these efforts are answering the call for greater cooperation across the academic supply chain and greater sensitivity to the user experience.
This ALPSP seminar gives me hope that a collaborative movement is well underway and includes a deeper understanding of the experiences of librarians and publishers too."
Lettie Conrad chaired the seminar Are you ready for the Researcher of the Future? Understanding the researcher experience in London last month. You can follow her on Twitter via @lyconrad.