Moon Pearl
This historical novel of 19th century Chinese feminists was my latest book club selection, and it broke what felt like a long dry streak, in terms of finding good, literary novels to love.
This historical novel of 19th century Chinese feminists was my latest book club selection, and it broke what felt like a long dry streak, in terms of finding good, literary novels to love.
Especially for those of you who regretted missing the last one:
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This is another report back from the Zine Librarians (Un)conference: my notes on the collection development/intellectual freedom session.
At first I thought this book, about a woman's mentor relationship with a homeless teen was a lot like Erlbaum's previous memoir, Girlbomb, which I read last year and mostly liked.
The idea here was to sort out how we use all of the different online resources we've created and will create, including, but not limited to
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 08 (February 25, 2009)
In which the Library of Congress changes its tune from CATALOGING, COOPERATIVE to COOPERATIVE CATALOGING. They also welcome DECOLONIZATION, POST RACIALISM, and WITCH HUNTING, and I use the term "idem."
My photos (and some of Eric's) from the Zine Librarians (un)Conference on Flickr.
I just posted my (really Eric's) photos from the Radical Reference ACRL Preconference Unconference.
Heather Davis led a discussion on Zine Preservation—mostly theory, but a good bit of practice, as well. Alycia Sellie's Zine Anatomy was a show and tell and discuss on some of the different art techniques used in zine making.
The idea behind this session was to explore several different online tools for possible use as a shared catalog, where zine libraries of all types should upload records and holdings data, sort of, as we ended up calling it in the workshop, a "non-evil OCLC for zines." Whoever the official note taker was for the session will post to the (un)conference wiki.