International Goodness 2

I forgot I had started a post oh so long ago and the article I had sitting here is really amazing, so I'll start my new linkage with it:

Women Librarians in Nigeria convene to figure out ways to eradicate poverty

School and multiple jobs and soap-opera-scale drama in my personal life has kept me so, like, busy and stuff? I'm going to have to slowly get back into posting links. I really want to start writing more about my work and school and eating (etc., etc., etc.) and I will - starting today!

SLJ has a piece on "Librarians as, um, Crap Detectors" and I couldn't agree more. I keep saying to anyone who will listen that librarians will always serve a purpose and will always be important. We weed books and information so that the patron (of all varieties) will have access to the most relevant, um, stuff.

I loved this quote in an article about librarians at Wright State University, “Every student has a librarian, find yours." This was said by Sue Polanka, Head of Reference and Instruction. This should be (one of) the motto(s) for librarians everywhere. It could be something like, "Everyone has a librarian. Find yours!"

This is just weird and there is so little written that I have no idea what the whole story is. However, the headline made me laugh a little. None of my schools ever had a lollipop man!

Here is a small piece on the increasing efforts to manufacture fair trade chocolate.

Books, Books, and Candy!

This book sounds really interesting to me, as who doesn't enjoy reading about a slow hemlock death?

Biker Poet anthologies are now on my must read list!

When I was in Vegas last Christmas, I loaded up on whiskey fudge from the international supermarket near me mum's house. I bought a few varieties and can't wait to get more the next time I go out there. (I would share it with my brothers [maybe].) Anywho, now this BonBon scotch bar candy looks just as good and it is now on my list for when I see my sister in California.

The title is the best part of this article: "FDA: Pistachio Plant knew some nuts were tainted" (heh heh!)

Stuff and stuff

I agree with the author here: academic librarians need to teach research methods, not computer skills.

Kindle DX? No thanks, not for me, but Princeton is giving them away!

If you really want to get technical, OSU is not burning books, they are merely migrating to more digital collections, which results in the loss of physical items. This is why I think there needs to be some sort of book landfill or place somewhere where people can go and scrounge around the landfill of thrown-away books and take some home.

You've read the news stories, the blog posts and watched the specials, but if you are anything like me, you would have found it hard to fully grasp the way the world economy is growing (or not growing). I need visuals and this article and this accompanying "parking lot" map helped me visualize the situation. Hundreds of ships just sitting around Indonesia you say? Why yes, I did say that. Now what are we going to be doing with all of these ships if we end up with an economy where we eliminate the need for these ships? What's this I hear about reducing or trying to eliminate carbon footprints by not moving food around the globe as much as we have been?

ASEAN Cocoa Contract update

For your viewing and reading pleasure, fer sher

I love old pictures! I've been reading a lot of old chocolate books and they have some of the coolest pictures in them. This is from a website showcasing old photos from Sri Lanka.

Libraries that Twitter - yet another article about it!

As an aside, read Marion Nestle's blog. Not just because I told you to, but because it is not only funny, but informative on current food politic topics.

No time for 'splaining

Ghana + World Food Crisis

WTF? rant against NYC locavores

Nigeria + Cocoa

One of many links to that chocolate study everyone is yapping about

Urban Garden from place of animal cruelty (obviously from my alert for cocoa!)

Ghana + Cocoa refuse potential

SWEET! Chocolate disguised as Swiss Army Knives!

World's Worst Chocolate? Judge for yourself, as I haven't tried them all . . . yet

Libraries are everywhere!

The 14th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians took place yesterday and you can find a recap here and here

Nigerians pushing for library advancement

Nestle sales decline (surprised?)

Man gets imprisonment with 6 months of hard labor for stealing 1.5 bags of cocoa beans

Rising cocoa prices are benefiting growers in Ivory Coast - which is a good thing!

Too much to handle

I've been posting things on Facebook, but I see too many articles that I want to keep and don't want to post too many and end up bothering my friends.

New York Chocolate & Confections Company will start producing chocolate at the former Nestle plant

Seattle Public Library is facing big cuts, including layoffs and extended closings

145-year-old book returned to library

Kindle users' strife with accounts being locked, etc.

"Chocolate may not go straight to the groin . . ."

Chocolate innovation center opens in Wisconsin

Cars & Chocolate - why growing in Africa makes sense

Discourse on the unfairness that is farming in Africa

Nigerian farmers ask state to raise subsidies