Another Zine Library in Trouble: Papercut
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:
Drupdate June 2009
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.
Spam Survivor
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.
Denver Zine Library on Hiatus
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.
LCSH Week 20: Elvis demoted?
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 20 (May 20, 2009)
This week we examine:
- Altars, Rococo
- Art rejected for exhibition
- Chocolate milk
- Elvis Presley impersonators
- G1 (Smartphone)
- Gender in conflict management
- Jews in opera
- Pluot
- Typology (Linguistics)
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National Diversity in Libraries Conference: Call for Proposals
The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action, will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton, NJ.
The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region's culture.
The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for presentation at the conference. Submission details.
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I Saw You…: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections
Don't tell anyone, but I snatched I Saw You from the NYC Zine Fest fundraiser. Julia deliberately left it behind when she split, and, well, I was grabbing my zines from the merch table, and, uh… I justify my action with the knowledge that I will give the book away, perhaps to someone else who was at the benefit. Julia, claiming she was only a comics drawer and no writer, gave a great performance of two well-written essays at the zine reading, so I was curious what her work was like. She actually only has a couple of comics in this anthology of illustrated newspaper and online missed connections ads, but they're perfectly charming, as is her introduction, and I assume the clever idea to have the (alpha by first name ♥) bios all be personal ad style. For example:
Greg Means
www.tugboatpress.com
You: most beautiful woman in the world
Me: great personality
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Jun 13 2009
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Revelations: a Blue Bloods novel
In answer to a question I raised in my review of the previous book in the Blue Bloods series, the vamps do seem to get some in this volume, though the nookying does go undescribed. As one interpretation of the title implies, Revelations reveals stuff. Some secrets get told and you get a better idea of who the big bad is, but really, there's not much going on. Oh, except a lot of people die. Still and all, the series seems to be getting to that place where each book is a lead in to the next, not as solid a standalone story as it could be.
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Jun 12 2009
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978-142310228-1
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LCSH Week 19: If they won't give me FOUND POETRY, I'll find my own
Tune in this week for
- Alien labor
- Alien criminals
- Ghost slug
- Radio listening clubs
- some poetry I found in the Summary of Decisions, Editorial Meeting Number 19 (Why don't they say no. 19?)
The GHOST SLUG
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The Pumped Librarian
Welcome to the biblioblogosphere Pumped Librarian Nicole Pagowsky!
I know Nicole from zines and from Radical Reference, where she jumped in right away and started answering questions while in library school. She's got a temp job right now, folks, so you've still got a chance to hire before she gets snapped up by someone else!