Crazy Horse's Girlfriend
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Feb 19 2015
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9781940430430
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Clockwork Prince
Before I get into my review I need to whine about a weird glitch in NYPL's hold request system. I had a copy of Clockwork Prince checked out from Seward Park, which has a great teen section, btw, and sadly it came due before I was finished. The library system holds 67 copies of the book and is currently listing 27 available, which is probably similar to the number that were available when I attempted to renew the copy I had checked out. I say "attempted" to renew, because the system wouldn't let me. Since there were two or so holds on the book at the time, I was unable to renew the copy I had in hand, even though there were at least twenty copies on shelves in NYPL's circulating collection, including another copy at Seward Park. In order to continue reading the book, I returned the copy I couldn't renew to Seward Park and picked up their other copy, which was right on the shelf where it was supposed to be. Wtf, NYPL?
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Jul 23 2012
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978-1-4169-7588-5
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This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians Can Save Us All
The author quotes former ALA president Patricia Wilson Berger in her epigraph "Show me a computer expert who gives a damn, and I'll show you a librarian." I wouldn't say all librarians give a damn or that no non-librarian computer geeks don't, but I do think that sentiment is an appropriate way to launch into Johnson's 250 page mash note to librarians. What she likes about us is what I like about us—that we are dedicated to our user population and to our professional ethics. That unlike many other experts, our mission involves educating people and providing access to self-education tools without being snotty about it. At least to your face.
As it turns out, although it was the computer expertiness of librarians that made Johnson notice us, many of the librarians and library projects she profiles in this book are stronger in "give a damn."
Before I really get started, I need to contemplate for a moment that Johnson got interested in librarians, because in researching her previous book The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiff, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries she fell in love with librarians through their obituaries. She is a loving and generous writer, but we have to admit a little quirky, right?
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Jan 16 2010
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978-0-06-143160-9
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NYPL privacy fail follow up
Just so's you know, when I visited the Tompkins Square branch of NYPL last night, the hold books were no longer indicated by people's full names. So yay!
Now, if only they'd had the book Library Elf told me was ready for pick up! Granted, I'd hadn't been notified by NYPL itself, so I guess they still need to work out their syncing in the new catalog.
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love and hate at NYPL
I wrote in my zine that I have a love/hate relationship with the New York Public Library (NYPL). A friend (who works there) asked my why, which I did, on Facebook. But I thought the discussion might be worthy of exposure beyond Facebook's walls.
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NYPL and FreshDirect
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.
Link Digest, September 2008
Dawn not Breaking at NYPL
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.
Dive Bar at the New York Public Library
The East Village's skankiest bar is collaborating with its neighborhood library, the Tompkins Square Park branch of NYPL on an art exhibit: "22 Years on Marz: A Retrospective of Artists from Marz Bar Since 1986." ...