{"id":40576,"date":"2013-09-27T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=40576"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T19:26:48","slug":"did-you-know-that-the-library-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=40576","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know That? (The Library Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Shelley Macon, Head Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5680\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ Florida<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Did You Know That? (The Library Edition)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shelleymacon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-29026\" alt=\"shelleymacon\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/shelleymacon-300x168.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>I have had a terrible case of writers block this month. I had no idea what to write about. So, as any good librarian would do, I turned to research for help. I figured if I dug around the internet enough I would find a topic. So I began by searching topics ranging from the history of libraries to current issues in librarianship to common job hunting mistakes and everything in between. At least that&#8217;s what it felt like. So I searched and I read and I searched and I read and searched and read some more. All the while waiting for inspiration to strike. But it never did.<\/p>\n<p>So I find my self with a week left and I am getting desperate. (OK, I admit it, it was more like 2 days, but who&#8217;s counting?) As I sat and thought over what I had read, I realized that I had learned some pretty cool and interesting stuff.\u00a0 So here it goes: <b>Did You Know That? (The Library Edition)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Golda Meir, most notably the Prime Minister of Israel, was a librarian.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mao Zedong, the man who basically created the People&#8217;s Republic of China was a library assistant.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Giacomo Casanova, the famous lover (among other things), was a librarian too.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the Wikipedia entry for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_science\" target=\"_blank\">Library Science<\/a>, Gabriel Naund\u00e9 wrote the first library science textbook in 1627.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, according to the Wikipedia entry for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library\" target=\"_blank\">Library<\/a>&#8220;, Martin Schrettinger wrote the first textbook on library science in 1808. I wonder which article was definitely NOT written by a librarian?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAustralian librarians carry their young in pouches, and have venomous spurs on their hind feet capable of causing severe fines to patrons who don&#8217;t return recalled book.\u201d (From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/librarianfacts.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Librarian Facts<\/a>.)\u00a0Hmm, interesting\u00a0<b>and<\/b>\u00a0scary.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAmericans spend more than twice as much on candy as they do on public libraries.\u201d (From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/ola\/quotablefacts\/quotablefacts\" target=\"_blank\">Quotable Facts About American Libraries<\/a>.)\u00a0Sadly, I have decided that there is no hope for the human race.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Never mind, maybe there is a glimmer of hope yet. A tiny, grease cover glimmer, but a glimmer none the less. Because, there are more public libraries in the United States than McDonald&#8217;s restaurants. (From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovelibraries.org\/public-libraries-versus-mcdonalds\" target=\"_blank\">I Love Libraries<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did you know all that? I know I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Shelley Macon, Head Editor, INALJ Florida Did You Know That? (The Library Edition) I have had a terrible case of writers block this month. I had no idea what to write about. So, as any good librarian would do, I turned to research for help. I figured if I dug around the internet enough&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=40576\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,3652,5385,3920],"class_list":["post-40576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-inalj-florida","tag-library-facts","tag-shelley-macon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-ays","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}