🦃 LIBRARY TUESDAY: Franklin Roosevelt Talks Turkey

It’s Library Tuesday in the River Houses, but first, we interrupt this post for an important message from the President of the United States (that would be Franklin Roosevelt) on how to cook a turkey: “Feathered game should never be plucked until just before it is eaten. Taking off the feathers dries up the meat.”

Although food and books (as material things) are best kept apart, cooking and libraries most certainly go together! On this Thanksgiving week, when food is on everyone’s mind, why not browse some amusing notes on the culinary collections of the Library of Congress (including President Roosevelt’s stern directive):

• 📚 Serving Up Food Collections at the Library of Congress (blogs.loc.gov)

Your local library has cookbooks too — have you and your students browsed them? If yours is a Dewey-Decimal-based library (most public libraries are), the magic number is 641.5. Perhaps you’ll have a few minutes to check some out this week before the long post-turkey sleep sets in. 🦃

What delicious educational discoveries have you made at your library lately? 😊

❡ Explore more: Have you found all the libraries in your local area? There may be more than you realize! The WorldCat Library Finder (worldcat.org/libraries) will point you to all the library collections near you, public and private, large and small, and the WorldCat catalog itself (worldcat.org) will help you locate the closest copy of almost any book in the world. 😊

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