Reading list for Siu Loong
Following are book recommendations for my friend Siu Loong, a voracious reader who just turned 8.
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Library Journal reviews column going online only
I got the disappointing news that due to budget cuts and whatever all is going on at Library Journal since Reed Elsevier decided not to sell the magazine, the Zine Reviews column will be online only, beginning in 2009.
I Am a Woman
Tedious tale of
lesbian crush on straight girl,
father issues too.
reviewdate:
Dec 11 2008
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1-57344-145-145-7
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Historian, the
This was a longish book, 640 pages, but it felt longer. In contrast, here's a short haiku review:
Primary sources
and undead librarians.
Quest for Dracula.
Quotations:
He seemed always to have liked scribes, archivists, librarians, historians -- anyone who handled the past through books. p. 630
reviewdate:
Dec 5 2008
isn:
0-316-01177
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LCSH Week 47
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 47 (November 19, 2008)
In which LC welcomes FEMALE FETICIDE and UNCIRCUMCISED MEN and ends the INTIFIDA, 1987-1993 while soft-pedaling its CAFFEINE HABIT. ...
free:
Hey LC--survivors, not victims!
I recommend a change in Library of Congress Subject Headings from -VICTIMS to -SURVIVORS. Affected subject headings for materials I've cataloged for the Barnard Library Zine Collection include:
ADULT CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS
RAPE VICTIMS
SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS
The Carbon Footprint of Print and Digital Media
APHA-New York presents:
Don Carli, "The Carbon Footprint of Print and Digital Media: Why you should care and what you can do about it"
Co-sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Columbia University.
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, 6-7:30 p.m.
Butler Library, Room 523
Columbia University
LCSH Weeks 45 and 46
LCSH Weekly Lists for 2008: 45 and 46, in which the Library of Congress welcomes ASSASSINS, CAPTIVE FROGS, HETEROSEXUAL MEN IN MOTION PICTURES, and POWER LINE BIRD STRIKES.
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StateStats
StateStats "shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state."
The first thing I tried was [zines], which appropriately showed Oregon as having the most searches on that term, followed distantly by Washington, with New York in third with just under half as many searches.