Yesterday I went to Library Camp, an unconference held at Baruch College, and it was good. Perhaps the best library conference I've ever attended, in fact.
This is a way long post, so I'm going to split it up into three additional sections: blogging and microblogging, effect change, and green librarianship. This is the overview.
ABC No Rio -- Trying to raise a million bucks.
When the typical users of your space are young activists, punks, anarchists, freegans, "early career" artists, and the like, raising the dough to save that space is double plus not easy.
[Read My T-Shirt] for President...a True History of the Political Front--and Back a new book with one chapter researched at Barnard. Thanks for the thanks.
There is an article about Desk Set (Brooklyn librarians) in The New York Sun. (I assume the link won't last long. It's from July 5, 2007. Article by Gary Shapiro, "For New-Look Librarians, Head to Brooklyn.")