Lower East Side Librarian

October 6 will be Sandy Berman's 76th birthday. To celebrate and to thank him for everything he's done so far, you might want to consider sending him a birthday card, like a lot of people did last year.

Send cards in the mail to:
4400 Morningside Rd.
Edina, MN
55416-5043

A new alternative library grows in Brooklyn: the Branch Library in Clinton Hill is a project driven primarily by designers I believe, but they were respectful enough of the library profession to talk to some librarians, including the NYC Radical Reference collective.

A picture from opening day

The latest Library Journal reviews column is up. In it, Jeremy Brett, Katie Haegele, Lacey Prpic Hedtke, LP Smith, and Julie Turley review zines by Mike Baker, Jenna Brager, Davida Gypsy Breier, William Patrick Tandy, J.B. Winter, and Sugene Yang-Kelly. I throw in a little zine etiquette for good measure.

Over a year and a half ago I linked to WordsPlay, an online Bogglish game where you compete in real time against other players. Since then I've discovered a whole new geekarrific angle to it. One of the options is to play as a team. Anyone can join a team, they just have to make their team name the same as yours. e.g. Team Librarians (case sensitive, I believe). I find that if I team up with even one other librarian, we pretty much dominate the game.

This week on LCSH Watch:

• African American women college students
• Castanet players

• Dating shows (Television programs)
• Income tax deductions
• Memory—Sociological aspects
• Prosecution—Decision making
• Rockabilly subculture

• Skis and skiing—Religious aspects
• Snowboarding—Religious aspects
• Sustainable tourism
• Word of God

And some fussbudgetry from moi.

This week on LCSH Watch

• Air signs (Astrology)
• Earth signs (Astrology)
• C♯ (Computer program language)
• Child trafficking
• One‑way streets—Conversion to two‑way streets
• Polarization (Social sciences)
• Schoolboys in literature

• Work environment