Drupal Kitchen--hands on workshop
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Computers in Libraries, 2010
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Support a drunken hippie librarian on Etsy
Librarian Alexandra Crosier, who created the helpy and newsful Shelved @ NYC blog has now applied her talents to gourmet granola. Currently available in four flavors, each Granola Lab product description advises what beer goes best with the granola flavor. I suspect a popular item will be the one with coffee as an ingredient, but I'm more likely to try Get Gingersnapping for its calcium rich molasses or a veganified Cranberry-Cashew.
Nb: I am not actually implying or inferring that Alex is a drunken hippie. I am amusing myself however imaging her and her roommate testing granola/beer combinations long into the bleary night.
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April to do list
Now that library instruction season is winding down, many of my fellow reference and instruction peeps are breathing a sigh of relief and getting back to other projects. However I've got a few events to get through before I can give my full attention to weeding the reference collection, writing annual report documents, and cataloging zines like a mofo. Oh, and finishing settling into my new apartment!
Since when asked questions like "What are you up to these days?" I'm unlikely to give much of a response, here's what I'm up to for April...
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In the Men's House: an Inside Account of Life in the Army by one of West Point's First Female Graduates
You know I like to read memoirs, and although I'm personally not too keen on the military, perhaps because it's so foreign to me, I'm really interested in what life is like for a woman in the army. Unfortunately this book isn't great at revealing the author's personal experience. Her ability to convey them was possibly affected by her West Point training and subsequent need to maintain a military posture. It's still not a bad read, and its perspective on feminism in the army is well worth exploring.
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Part of the irony of our experience was that the women who went to West Point became feminists in deed, even if they rejected feminism in name. We were aggressive, independent, and ambitious; we were not radicals, we weren't challenging authority--but we were fighting inequity. [The book was published in 1990, in case you're wondering.]
reviewdate:
Apr 5 2010
isn:
0-671-67312-2
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Documenting Struggle--Radical Archives Program
http://radicalreference.info/radicalarchivesredux
Radical Reference presents a second evening about how community history is documented and celebrated. Archivists and activists will present parts of their collections and discuss how their work keeps the struggle alive.
Monday, April 26
7:30pm
Brecht Forum
451 West St (between Bank & Bethune Sts)
NYC
$6/10/15 sliding scale (no one turned away)
Details about our first Documenting Struggle.
Short Girls
Last year I read and enjoyed Nguyen's childhood memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner, so I was way psyched to learn that she had a novel out. In some ways, this story of two sisters takes place where the memoir left off, although with a different cast of characters. The women, born in the US to Vietnamese immigrant parents about a year apart, are in their late twenties and facing what some call the Saturn Return. The older one, Van, is having marriage woes, and the younger Linny has boyfriend problems and also a (related) job crisis to deal with. Plus with their mother is long dead, and their father is only semi-capable of taking care of himself, good Asian girls are expected to pick up the slack.
reviewdate:
Mar 30 2010
isn:
978-0-670-02081-2
