Lower East Side Librarian

The 5th FREE drupal camp is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday September 13 and 14th.

According to this MainStreet post I originally saw on LISNews the book release Breaking Dawn is a pretty big deal.

Sadly, while that's true at libraries in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, and while the book release inspired a long wiki post and discussion list brainstorming session, my own branch of NYPL is sadly lacking.

The Big She-Bang 3 at ABC No Rio
Saturday, August 9

"The Big She Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for womyn and womyn identified artists & community members."

11am-9:30pm
(You might need a MySpace account to view their schedule, but that's the only place I see it.)

ALA has a build your own READ poster gizmo, which I saw on The Shifted Librarian.

They give you four choices of backgrounds, and bizarrely, the one I liked best was "Americana."

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 29

I feel a lot of pressure right now since my last blog post on this topic got widely read due to its having been posted in American Librarians Direct. This week, IMAGINARY PLACES and a candidate for the memory hole.

Last night I couldn't connect to the internet from home. First I went through a lengthy telephone system diagnostic with Time Warner, my service provider. Ultimately they determined that the problem was with my ISP, Earthlink. I tried to get help from them over the phone, but after an hour on hold I got disconnected. Following is a transcript of my online chat with Earthlink. Up until the very end I was convinced I was chatting with a bot.

I'm getting awfully tabby lately, so here are a bunch of links, so I can close tabs and not feel so bad about it.

• Betty Charm♥cils
• The future of federated searching
• Greens, after the nomination of the McKinney-Clemente...
• Is it Protected by Copyright?
• Library questions and answers
• Life on the command line
• mon.thly.info
• Not guilty!
• Our government wants to define some forms of birth control as abortion

Annotations and provenance information if you read the whole post.

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists Week 26, Week 27, and Week 28: FILMS vs. MOTION PICTURES, SUBD GEOG vs. NOT, DANDIES and DANDYISM, and the dissing of balloon sculptors...brought to you by T (THE LETTER).

At first accidentally and then with deliberation I ended up spending the first half of July reading only librarian literature--that is books and zines by and/or about librarians.