Sandy Berman is calling for the Library of Congress to establish a subject heading for SEX-POSITIVE FEMINISM. He cites the an interview Celeste West did with Joani Blank and Annie Sprinkle's Wikipedia entry, and other women sex writers as warrant.
LCSH Week 11
In which the Library of Congress welcomes FLIGHT ATTENDANTS IN LITERATURE, WIZARD ROCK MUSIC, and other fine new headings.
LCSH Weekly List 10
My friend Tracy is editing a book for a series my friend Emily is coordinating:
Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (a working title), edited by Tracy Nectoux and published by Library Juice Press as part of the series Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship.
Seeking submissions for an anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work. This volume seeks to represent a broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work. Also welcome are critical and historical perspectives on the challenges of navigating gender and sexuality in the library workplace.
The latest in Harrison's Hollows series finds witch Rachel Morgan still mourning her dead vampire boyfriend and trying to regain her memory of his double murder. (Vampires die twice in this reality--first to become undead and then dead dead.)
I had to pick up my brother at the airport, but I might be able to squeeze in a stop at the university library as well as a charm shop for Jenks before that. A locator charm was devilishly hard. I honestly didn't know if I could pull it off. The library would be the only place I could find the recipe. Well, besides the Internet, but that was asking for trouble. p. 93
Vani Natarajan
Deirdre Stam's LIS class at LIU/The Palmer School, Thursday, April 2, 2009
Vani Natarajan of the Brooklyn Public Library and I are speaking at Deirdre Stam's LIU LIS class, offering two minute lightning talks on 10 library activism topics.
And of course like any decent organizers, at the end of the conference we did a go around where everyone said what they liked about the event and what could have made it better. And we set up some working groups to keep things going after the conference ended. I know it's morbid, but the term I learned to use for this exercise is post-mortem.
At the end of the day on Sunday, someone from each session reported on the session's highlights. Before that, we took a group photo.
LCSH Weekly List 9, where LC tells you, "It's NANOTUBES not BUCKMINSTERFULLERENES, Dummy!", turns CATALOGS on their asses, and I suggest a related term that some might interpret as anti-law enforcement.
This historical novel of 19th century Chinese feminists was my latest book club selection, and it broke what felt like a long dry streak, in terms of finding good, literary novels to love.