ABC No Rio -- Trying to raise a million bucks.
When the typical users of your space are young activists, punks, anarchists, freegans, "early career" artists, and the like, raising the dough to save that space is double plus not easy.
I saw Jason Epstein talk about this print on demand book making machine at METRO's "It's All about the Book" conference earlier this summer. It will be set up at NYPL's Science Industry and Business Library through September 7.
I got the print brochure for this collection in the mail from a friend and was glad to see that it's online, as well. It's the Transgender Resource Collection from the Oak Park Public Library in Illinois.
The latest form of found/made poetry is stacking up your books so that their titles create poems. It's a Dutch thing, but they have some poems in English, too, my favorite from Elisabeth Franji.
Okay; I've been back from Minneapolis (SHARP conference and Zine Fest) and Chicago (visiting a library school friend) for almost a week, but it's taken me a while to get around to writing it up. First I needed a day off, then I had to focus on catching up on work stuff, and then there was Harry Potter to devour.
This time NYPL's "in transit" message was accurate, and I was able to pick up my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the day it came out. Don't worry; no spoilers will follow.
I am a total sucker for in-jokes, especially when they're as bibliogeekarific as this punny history of cataloging. I just wish they'd kept going instead of stopping in 1916.
Will Sherman of Degree Tutor (the same guy who wrote that 33 Reasons Libraries Are Still Important article) interviewed 27 library workers including me. I'm pretty happy with how mine came out--except for some grammar weirdness and missing links.