{"id":2066,"date":"2015-10-22T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T22:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:18:13","slug":"roots-libraries-diagram-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/10\/22\/roots-libraries-diagram-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;roots libraries&#8221; diagram poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2067\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries.jpg?w=243\" alt=\"rootslibraries\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries.jpg 1796w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries-768x948.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries-1244x1536.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries-1659x2048.jpg 1659w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/rootslibraries-624x770.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>Now and then I myself perpetrate a library shenanigan. I&#8217;ve been making a lot of diagram poems lately, using images from old library books and other things. <a href=\"http:\/\/ohioedit.com\/2015\/10\/13\/diagram-poems-by-jessy-randall\/\"><em>Ohio Edit<\/em><\/a> recently published my &#8220;roots&#8221; series, which includes a diagram showing my library roots. (It also includes one for my book roots.) The illustration is from: William Austin Cannon. <em>The Root Habits of Desert Plants<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute, 1911 (full text available from <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Mw8oAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=William%20Austin%20Cannon.%20The%20Root%20Habits%20of%20Desert%20Plants.%20Washington%2C%20D.C.%3A%20Carnegie%20Institute%2C%201911.&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Google Books<\/a>). If you&#8217;d like to make a similar diagram poem showing your own library roots, email me the image (jessyrandall@yahoo.com) and I&#8217;ll collect them in a separate post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now and then I myself perpetrate a library shenanigan. I&#8217;ve been making a lot of diagram poems lately, using images from old library books and other things. Ohio Edit recently published my &#8220;roots&#8221; series, which includes a diagram showing my library roots. (It also includes one for my book roots.) The illustration is from: William [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}