Lower East Side Librarian

I wrote a four part article for Library Journal's Academic Newswire. The introduction and first part came out today. In the series, I interview several librarians who have been working in librarianship for 20+ years about the present and future of academic libraries.

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 21 (May 27, 2009)

This week on LCSH Watch

• Bottles in literature
• College catalogs CANCEL
• Several UFs for Regulatory reform
• Hierarchies in literature
• Manx fiction (English)
• Naval pottery
• Rogue waves
• Spotted lady beetle
• Surrealism in mass media

My pick for NYC Pride Week is Jessica Max Stein's "The Rainbow Connection" zine reading/release at Bluestockings.

Monday, June 29th @ 7PM - $1 to $5 Suggested
Queer Muppet Pride
Presentation: Jessica Max Stein "The Rainbow Connection"
Miss Piggy, Scooter, Beaker, Janice, Elmo, Statler. Each of these characters was created or performed by gay Muppeteer Richard Hunt. Please come to celebrate the release of "The Rainbow Connection: Gay Muppeteer Richard Hunt," and come prepared to laugh yourself silly as Stein presents the nerdy, gleeful, and gay-as-in-homosexual subtext of the Muppets and the work of Richard Hunt.

The Papercut Zine Library needs a new home!

Per an email message I received via the Zine Librarians list, also posted on their MySpace blog:

I updated some modules on my site this weekend, mostly on my own because I'd taken notes the last time through. I had to ask for help a few times, and it seems like some steps change a bit from time to time, but if you are a novice on the command line sick of being totally dependent on a programmer friend or partner, see if this will work for you for updating your Drupal site:

Note: these instructions are for someone like me, who has down this a few times, but with someone holding her hand the whole time, but who does know how to wget and tar –zxvf, even if she messes up the order of the letters sometimes.

fyi, I just changed my comment settings so that comments have to get approved. This was in response to getting like 50 spam comments in about a five minute period. As I understand it, my site attracts a lot of spam because I allow commenters' links to be clickable. I hesitate to change that setting, but it looks like I may have to.

I got news via Facebook and an email message that the Denver Zine Library will soon close for some period of time beginning next month.

It is with mixed emotions that we are announcing the temporary closure of the Denver Zine Library (DZL) which has been housed at The Other Side Arts on Platte St. for the past few years. There are several factors contributing to this temporary closure that we’d like to share with you. We have often found ourselves struggling to meet the demands of rent expenses, making us recognize that we cannot sustainably maintain our current location. Our core group of board members have also been taking on the role of volunteers, consistently sharing the responsibility of staffing the DZL every weekend so that it can remain open. Unfortunately, we have seen very few visitors, and while we know there is community interest in having a zine library in Denver, we want to make sure those same community members are invested in both visiting/utilizing the DZL as well as telling others about this incredible resource.