Yesterday I promised more America and less politics. I misspoke. Today we have both.
After an interesting talk about how Euston Road might develop over the night few decades, the Americas Collections section returned to their desks to the news that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (despite some aides at first thinking at first it was a joke). The citation praised Obama for creating a 'created a new climate in international politics', and seems to be as much a hope for the future direction of international diplomacy and the 'strengthening of democracy and human rights' as an endorsement of what has happened in the last nine months. Good stuff, of course, but has created something of a debate online about the timing.
More prosaically, I am looking to see what this means in terms of materials to be added to the collections for future generations of researchers (and spending a little bit of time to see if we have anything on Kissinger and his gong).
P.S., a prize for anyone who can name the Peace Prize winners who made an appearance in Taking Liberties.
Rene Cassin
Posted by: Jerry Jenkins | 12 October 2009 at 11:04 AM