<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Life in Libraries]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[cbecker53]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com/author/cbecker53/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Father&#8217;s Day Musings]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Since I wrote a mother-themed <a title="Mothers, Libraries, and Reading" href="https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/mothers-libraries-and-reading/" target="_blank">post for Mother&#8217;s Day</a>, I decided to write a Father&#8217;s Day post today.  My father didn&#8217;t read stories to us like my mother did, but he did like to read, and he did use the public library.  As I recall he liked to read <a title="Zane Grey site" href="http://www.zanegreyinc.com/" target="_blank">Westerns</a>, books about the <a title="Drache books" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Hiram%20M%20Drache" target="_blank">land and agriculture</a>, and <a title="Bicentennial series" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kent_Family_Chronicles" target="_blank">historical fiction</a>.  We didn&#8217;t always talk a lot, but one of the things we could talk about was books.  I miss you, Dad.  <a href="https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="606" data-permalink="https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/fathers-day-musings/fred-1971/" data-orig-file="https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg" data-orig-size="996,1008" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP oj5700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="fred 1971" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg?w=296" data-large-file="https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg?w=996" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-606" title="fred 1971" src="https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg?w=296&#038;h=300" alt="Dad" width="296" height="300" srcset="https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg?w=296&amp;h=300 296w, https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg?w=592&amp;h=600 592w, https://cherylbecker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fred-1971.jpg?w=148&amp;h=150 148w" sizes="(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px" /></a></p>
<p>In honor of Father&#8217;s Day, here&#8217;s a potpourri of links related (some more loosely than others) to fathers or dads or men, and libraries:</p>
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<li><a title="Storytime" href="http://www.geelonglibraries.vic.gov.au/event/fathers-day-storytime-it%E2%80%99s-dad%E2%80%99s-turn" target="_blank">Father&#8217;s Day Storytime</a> (Geelong Regional Library, Australia)</li>
<li><a title="Book giveaway" href="http://www.champaign.org/support_us/friendshop.html" target="_blank">Father&#8217;s Day Book Giveaway</a> (Champaign, Illinois)</li>
<li><a title="father's day events " href="http://www.kerncountylibrary.org/HTML/news/events_father.html" target="_blank">Father&#8217;s Day Events</a> at Kern County (California) Library</li>
<li><a title="Ranganathan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Ranganathan" target="_blank">Ranganathan</a>, the father of library science</li>
<li><a title="Mr Mustache" href="http://mrmustache.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mr. Mustache, Another Librarian Blog</a></li>
<li><a title="Men of the Stacks" href="http://menofthestacks.com/" target="_blank">Men of the Stacks Calendar</a></li>
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