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...
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Up with Christian Theology! LCSH Week 09 2008.
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 09 (February 27, 2008). Here is my semi-regular commentary on Library of Congress Subject Headings. This week: the usual bit on SHes more important than the waves of feminism, and also headings that made me giggle or made me mad, including The addition of the word Christian in a couple of headings, which is a good thing.
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Columbia Reference Symposium Report Back
On Friday I attended the "Beyond the Desk" themed 6th Annual Reference Services Symposium at Columbia University.
These are my notes.
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So Friendly in the Midwest!
The RNC Welcoming Committee in the Twin Cities has announced that it is ordering tasers for protesters. However, "The Welcoming Committee has no plans to purchase machine guns, rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, concussion grenades, batons, water cannons or helicopters, all of which will be at the disposal of local police and federal agents in September."
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Bancroft Prize for Having a Penis
Three men awarded book prize administered by a male university librarian and given my a male presenter. In the male dominated field of...history!
LCSH Weekly List 08, 2008
Here it is, LCSH Weekly List 08 (February 20, 2008). I've divided my favorites into three categories: "Why now / aka it's about time," "Gotta be a lotta books about, way more than about the waves of feminism," and "I don't know what it's all about, but I'm intrigued."
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Googling with the Russians
Here's a little report back from the Google and Libraries conference I attended on Monday. The conference was organized to be part of ILIAC (International Library Information and Analytical Center)'s Tenth International Workshop: "Digital Resources and International Information Exchange: East-West." It was held at Columbia University on Monday, March 10, 2008.
BarCamp: DrupalCampNYC4
It's Drupal BarCamp time, once again in NYC, and as usual, I'll be out of town. But if I weren't going to be at WAM, I'd be at Brooklyn Polytechnic learning how to make this site (and others, notably Radical Reference) better.
Sign up now, they're capping registration at 120. It's free. You'll learn the same kind of stuff other groups might charge you $1200 for.
Pu Pu Platter of Library Activism for LIS Students
Co-presenter:
Ann Sparanese
Event:
Deirdre Stam's LIS classes at LIU/The Palmer School
Abstract:
We will spend approximately 2.5 minutes on each of these topics, alternating speakers:
- Local public library--collections, Library Bill of Rights, intellectual freedom, community analysis
- Alternative press--zines at Barnard College
- ALA/SRRT, the Social Responsibilities Round Table
- PLG, the Progressive Librarians Guild
- ALA/COL, the Committee on Legislation
- Radical Reference
- Labor unions
- Free/open source software
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1st LJ Zine Reviews Column
The first Library Journal zine reviews column is out!!!
The print version has a cover image of Sugar Needle. The online links to a couple of the zines' websites. Other than that I think the online is comparable content-wise.
