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LCSH Week 7: Guest post from Carrie Pirmann
Since as I've stated, I'm getting a little sick of LCSHWatch, I took Amanda's suggestion to solicit a guest contributor. As you'll see Carrie did a great job with Week 7, but I'm not sure my inner control freak will allow me to share my blog, even a little. Feedback, please!
free:
Barnard Library Zine Collection
Co-presenter:
Jessa Lingel (hosted by)
Andrew Beccone, Reanimation Library
Abstract:
One! Hundred! Demons!
New! Favorite! Book! Ms. Barry covers some similar turf as she does in The Good Times Are Killing Me, but O!H!D! covers a broader spectrum of her "autobiofictionalography," plus it's illustrated. In color--over 200 pages. I'm impressed Sasquatch Books was able to put this out for $24.95 in '02. Barry did some zen painting exercise where the artist explores her demons, and this is the result. She shares 17 of hers with us, mostly about her childhood and adolescence, but a few take place in grown up life.
Quotations:
first panel:
During the machine recount I kept the TV on in my studio. It was impossible to work with the TV going but I couldn't turn it off.
TV: Bush's lead is, like, shrinking.
LB: I swear. Ten more minutes.
TV: Or is it?
LB: Then I'll turn it off.
LB: Shh. I'll feed you guys in a sec.
Three dogs: EEE! EE-EE. YEEE!
LB: Wait. Twenty minutes. That's it.
LB: Ok. Half an hour.
second panel:
By the time the manual recounts began, I stopped working altogether. This was bad. Even with the TV off I couldn't concentrate. Why?
LB: C'mon! Clear your mind! Stop thinking about Katherine Harris! Write.
LB: Katherine Harris. Katherine Harris.
LB: This is insane.
p. 197
reviewdate:
Mar 21 2010
isn:
1-57061-337-0
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Good Times Are Killing Me, the
I borrowed this book from Columbia's Butler Library, which like Barnard's library and unlike NYPL, still stamps the due date in the book, so you can tell how many people have checked it out before you. I miss that, NYPL! The earliest stamp is Nov 15 1989, and as best as I can tell it's been checked out about 15 times, though I have no way of telling how many times it was renewed. In an academic library with semester long borrowing periods, there's a good chance someone hoarded it for a year or two. I did that with Comics Librarianship: a Handbook for like three years in the early days of the Barnard Library Zine Collection. But getting back to the book at hand (sorry!), how did I not join the Lynda Barry cult sooner?
Quotations:
Seventh Grade
From the first day of seventh grade everyone was new. Even if you had known them all your life they were still new. And from the second we walked through the doors we all automatically split apart into groups of who was alike. Everyone knew exactly what to do, like someone was whispering instructions to our hands and feet and hair. Every kid from my old school, all of us who had ever lived on the same street together and played together all our lives stopped talking and walking with each other and never talked or walked with each other again. p. 77
reviewdate:
Mar 19 2010
isn:
0-941104-22-2
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Librarian crush of the indefinite period: Julie Tozer
Here she is, my next librarian crush Julie "Lulu-to-the-Barricades" Tozer of the Ocean County Public Library and the Garden State Rollergirls. Long-term readers of my blog know I have a crush on all derbrarians, but Lulu was my first.
photo by Patrick Brewser
Real Cost of Prisons Comix, the
Comix with footnotes--hubba hubba! But of course one's enjoyment is tempered by the fact that the facts presented about the prison industry are infuriating.
Quotations:
These prisoners are now seen as an economic opportunity. "When legislators cry 'Lock 'em up!,' they often mean 'Lock 'em up in my district!'"
"Prison Town: Paying the Price" by Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore
On average 80% of new prison jobs go tot folks who don't live, or pay taxes, in the prison town.
"Prison Town: Paying the Price" by Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore
African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population
And 13% of drug users
35% of drug arrests
55% of drug convictions
74% of those sentenced to prison for drugs.
"What's Race Got to Do with It?" by Sabrina Jones, Ellen Miller-Mack, and Lois Ahrens
reviewdate:
Mar 17 2010
isn:
978-1-60486-034-4
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Life of Glass, the
I was really happy with the first say 4/5ths of this YA novel--until it turned into a teen romance. What's up with that? I've got too much work to do right now to right a better description or review. With a 14-year-old narrator, the book is listed as grade 7 and up, but I think it's perfectly suitable to older readers. It doesn't feel at all "tween."
reviewdate:
Mar 16 2010
isn:
978-0-06-168651-1
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Disobedience
Coincidentally, like the last book I read, this one is by an author who left (escaped from?) an insular community in England and then returned to it. The Killing Jar took place in crime-ridden Nottingham, and Disobedience in Orthodox Jewish Hendon. I say "coincidentally" because I found Disobedience browsing in my new branch of the NYPL, Hamilton Fish. Moving is traumatic; I'm going to miss Tompkins Square.
Moving was not traumatic for Ronit Krushka, who left the Orthodox community over which her father presided as Rabbi.
reviewdate:
Mar 12 2010
isn:
978-0-7432-9156-9