Lower East Side Librarian

Have you noticed the new Google ratings dealies? You can promote or remove your ranked search results by clicking the arrow or X.

Anything look familiar?

Columbia University cataloger Alexandra Crosier has launched a local library events blog, Shelved @ NYC.

Alex provides annotated listings of NYC library news, events, and politics.

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists 40-44.

In which the Library of Congress welcomes BOY BANDS, EMOTIONAL MATURITY IN MEN, PREEMPTIVE ATTACK (MILITARY SCIENCE) and OUIJA BOARD.

I share many people's relief that Obama was elected and their disgust that Proposition 8 succeeded in banning same sex marriage in California.

I won't say the two are connected, but I also don't see queer rights near the top of Obama's agenda.

Seems someone in my neighborhood feels the way I do about the HSBC ad.

In this installment of my love/hate relationship with the New York York Public Library: a partnership with FreshDirect a company many New Yorkers claim to be an urban and environmental menace, bike lane usurpers, and union busters.

Did anyone else notice that three of the top ten libraries in the 500,000+ population category and one in the 100,000 in Hennen's American Public Library Ratings 2008 rankings have something in common? That something is zines!

This started as a Facebook update, but I thought it would be worth exploring at greater length here, especially as I hope to have a nice bibliography of queer women's fiction by the time I'm through.

This past weekend I attended the Southern Connecticut State University's 18th Annual Women's Studies Conference, participating on a panel with Kate Eichhorn and Kelly Wooten.

Sessions I went to:

• Negotiating Authority and Voice in a Feminist Girls' School
• Zines and Magazines: Girls Resisting and Mainstreaming
• Dinner performances: including Flamenco documentary about three young women, two of whom were Barnard students
• For Colored Girls, Track 1: "The ABC's of Colored Girls"
• Lunch performances: including SOLHOT
• Grrrls in the Library: Documenting Third Wave Feminist Activism through Zines

Plus I had some random thoughts.