Saturday, June 2, 2018

Weeding or historical sanitization at LINKcat libraries?


Print copies owned by 7 libraries.  Madison Central and its branches hold 5 of 11 copies.  There are currently 10 holds.  At a minimum, shame on you, Baraboo and Portage.



Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and literary icon, dies at 85. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/23/2018)

Better job of retention on American Pastoral.

Get me rewrite: Paul Ryan lauds Harvard award-winner and big GOP donor Helen Johnson-Leipold



Paul Ryan lauds Harvard award-winner Helen Johnson-Leipold.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/22/2018)
Johnson-Leipold also is chairman of The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread and serves on the board of S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. and The Prairie School.

Employment for butlers: This is why the NBA demanded that the Milwaukee Bucks build a new arena



The last suite at the Bucks arena: No. 13 available for $295,000, and a butler is included.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/22/2018)

Football billionaires: 15 very rich and mostly white guys pledge allegiance to the flag



NFL team owners, from richer to richest.  (CBS News, 1/17/2017)

Related reading:
NFL owners adopt new policy to address national anthem protests.  (Madison.com, 5/23/2018)
Commissioner Roger Goodell said the change was approved unanimously by the owners at their spring meeting in Atlanta, but even that was up for debate. 
The head of the San Francisco 49ers — Kaepernick's former team — said his franchise abstained from the vote. CEO Jed York said he wasn't comfortable with a process that didn't directly involve the players.