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The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 11, November 19, 2012 are...

Here are organizations that I donated money to this year. Some of them even got my time, as well!

ABC No Rio

Adalah-NY

AIDS Walk

Alzheimer's Association

Anchor Archive Zine Library/Roberts Street Social Centre

Books Through Bars, NYC

Critical Resistance

Denver Zine Library

Good Old Lower East Side

The Illuminator

Interference Archive

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

New York Abortion Access Fund

Planned Parenthood Health Center, Providence, RI

Running Down the Walls

ZL(u)C Scholarship

A delegation of librarians, archivists, and other library workers will travel to Palestine in the summer of 2013. We will connect with our colleagues in library- and archive-related projects and institutions there, applying our experience in the form of skillshares and other types of joint work. We will travel as truth-seekers and information-skeptics, eager to dispense with the superficial and inaccurate portrayals of life in Israel/Palestine that we see in the west and to learn about the realities of life under occupation and apartheid. As library workers, we support access to information, and recognize that this goes in more than one direction. Our trip will shed light on how Palestinian voices and information about Palestine reach us (or do not) and how Palestinian people access (or cannot access) information. We will bear witness to the destruction and appropriation of information, and support efforts to preserve cultural heritage and archival materials in Palestine. Upon return to our communities, we will share what we have seen, apply what we have learned, publicize projects we have visited, and otherwise break down barriers to access in any way we can.

The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 10, October 15, 2012 are...

The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 9, September 17, 2012 are...

The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 8, August 20, 2012 are...

As I've said before, I'm growing weary of this LCSH game, and even caring about subject headings in general. I believe in the concept of controlled vocabulary, but I'm starting to come around to the idea that if no one uses them, they're not worth agonizing over, especially when LC/SACO have such different priorities than the library users I know. I'm supposed to do an LCSH show at ACRL in the spring, but I don't know if I'll be able to do so with any conviction.
Still and all, I do enjoy this game, plus Adam Schiff asked nicely, so I'll play a little while longer.

The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 7, July 16, 2012 are...

A submission made via the LoC suggest terminology form: