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Sup Ct Breakfast Table should be on your menu

Sorry for a silly title of this post.  It is a terrific take on recent Supreme Court ups... and downs. 

Grace

The Atlantic has an excellent piece analyzing the remarks by President Obama in Charleston. 

Good vibes?

More from my apparently massive saved pile - this time, a weird view of qualities useful for librarians.

Friday Cat Pix!

Celebrating love

OSG FTW!

Happy to think that my library helped make these victories possible.

DIYs

In a mood to fix things up?  Some ideas via YouTube are shown on Lifehacker.

Are you prepared?

More cleaning up of some material  in the old "for a rainy day" pile.  This seems a little morbid, but recent family events pointed up the importance of letting the right people know what might be needed when you go.

Google bias

And here is another older article I had saved, this from the Atlantic on Google's efforts to eliminate its own biases.

Friday Cat Pix!

Something under the towel!

Standing in line for history

Another piece from a few weeks ago, this time from Slate.  It is still of interest - concerning who gets to witness Supreme Court arguments.

Justices get out more, but...

This is an older article I saved and came to mind as the current term comes to a close soon. Justices get out more, but...

Myers-Briggs book links

A classic book for every Myers-Briggs personality type - this sounds fun.

Citations

This article from a few weeks back discusses modernizing academic citations to include digital and full text info.

LCSH

How to Use Subject Headings to Browse the Library of Congress Online Catalog

Illustration Archive

Neat - o.  The Illustration Archive sez:
"The archive contains over a million book illustrations from the British Library’s collections, taken from around 68,000 works of literature, history, geography and philosophy​. The images span the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, covering a variety of reproductive techniques (including etching, wood engraving, lithography and photography)."

World Environment Day

Some resources highlighted for this day, brought to you by GPO's GovBookTalk. 

Is your profession predominantly Democrat or Republican?

Survey says...

Friday Cat Pix

Unsolicited help with filing - again

PDF files in Windows

From How-To Geek: How to work with PDF files in Windows.

Federally-funded research

Public access mandates for federally funded research: implementation plans -  there's a great summary table here.

The world changes today!

Ok, so maybe just my world is changing. I left my job of 18 years and am determined to have the best summer since being a timid teenager - so watch out!