Five links so I won't get in trouble with Lois
Here is another buncha things I wanted to write long posts about but never will get around to:
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LCSH Week 11: Bring on the Zombie Films!
Welcome to the library catalog: ZOMBIES FILMS & FECES
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drupdate: 4.7-5.7
I updated this site yesterday, from Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5.7, with much help from Eric. We decided not to move it up to 6.x, since 6.x has some incomplete modules in its core. (If I'm misstating that, it's on me, not Eric, btw.) I thought I'd summarize my experience with the process a bit, since I know there's a lot of interest in Drupal among librarians.
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WAM Report Back
Last weekend I attended the Women, Action & the Media conference at MIT in Cambridge, MA. It was generally empowering and exciting to be at an activist event with a probably 90%+ female population--to learn about all the inspiring work being done, especially by young and youngish women of color.
STOPLINE: operation sabotage access to information about abortion
I know it's probably bad form to post the same thing on more than one of my blogs, but it's hard not to when you really really really want to get the word out about something. So, please go see my Radical Reference post on how a government funded database on reproductive health is deliberately sabotaging access to information about abortion. (emphasis added)
Radical Reference and Zines: Effecting Change at Your library, Online, and in the Street
Event:
Pratt Institute library school talk, April 9, 2008.
Abstract:
This is about activism in your library and in your life, focusing on Radical Reference and the Barnard Library Zine Collection and hoping that session participants will feel empowered to develop projects and collections in their libraries and lives. Romel Espinel invited me on behalf of SILSSA.
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FACT-UP: Fact Check, Research, and Thinking Critically like a Radical Librarian
Co-presenter:
Lana Thelen
Event:
Women and Media Conference, 2008
Abstract:
This workshop will introduce skills to novice and veteran media makers alike, encouraging them to 'research like a librarian,' providing tips on how to find and recognize appropriate resources for researching and fact checking their stories. The presenters will be happy to adapt this workshop to whomever is in the room, but the impetus for proposing it is sharing skills with those newer to advanced research and critical thinking. However, people who are already confident in their research skills will undoubtedly learn some things, too. The facilitators can field questions on fact checking and research, but also on the mysteries of tagging, RSS feeds and the like. Slides and handouts available from Radical Reference.
tab closing link clearout
I'm trying to clean out my inbox, close Firefox tabs, and in other ways organize my life. I've still got like 15 open tabs, but here are five I managed to close after writing a little summary about them:
Welcome to the Catalog, "Punkie Night" and "Christian Rock Music Festivals"
Welcome to the Catalog, "Punkie Night" and "Christian Rock Music Festivals" LCSH Week 10, 2008, but still no waves of feminism...