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Lesbrarians 12 years, 3 months agoConference season is in full swing, so … does anyone have conference(s) they love or hate? What are people up to this summer? The topics for all of them sound so good this year.
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 3 months agoNYC-and-tristate-area-lesbrarians, heads up: http://www.brokelyn.com/library-lovers-wanted-for-all-night-read-in/
From 4pm Saturday to 4pm Sunday, in 15 minute increments, authors, supporters and library staff will read aloud from books oftheir choosing. Readings will span the gamut and includes hours of Sunday morning story time for…[Read more]
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 3 months agoAwesome article about the people behind that Lesbrarian graphic that went around tumblr and the work they’re doing: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/revenge-of-the-feminerd-libraries-lesbrarians-censorship-and-equality
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 3 months agoso, i’ve been lazy/busy with work, but thought this group was a little neglected. i know from people who’ve commented so far that they’re either library students, library staff/librarians, fans & supporters of libraries…but what’s YOUR angle, you sexy lurker, you? what do you want to talk about in this group? a particular type of library? the…[Read more]
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agoLibraries with a retail based cataloging standard: wave of the future, or good intentions to pave the road to hell?
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agoMy friend Kate (a librarian at Sarah Lawrence) just put out a zine about her feminist friends–all proceeds are going to the Cindy Crabb’s Doris Anthology Kickstarter.
Release of my zine “My Feminist Friends”
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If you want to read more about Cindy Crabb, Doris, and the Doris Encyclopedia: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/369768719/the-doris-encyclopedia
(Cindy is one of the awesome people supporting Alex Wrekk in the Microcosm debacle)
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agoALIA conferences in Sydney talk about their jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztaOhpLJLTE
ALSO I have a question! Those of you who have library degrees – what sort of work did you have to do within them?-
I saved the link to watch later–I’ve been interested in how other countries approach libraries as an entity. (The Australian model and US model appear similar.)
As a grad student, I’ve taken classes on Into to Libraries (history, overview of information exchange theory, usually bits about sociology, business management, and a little bit of…[Read more]
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omg you can have an lgbtq focus in library school? every time i start dreaming about being a librarian i envision having some kind of focus on lit of/for under-represented groups.
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Mine is unofficial–whenever I have a project, I tend to make it ghey. :D
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agoALA: “Department of Education withdraws federal support for school libraries”
http://bit.ly/jlIWOZi’m so pissed off that i can’t be objective right now. please forgive me. a society spends money on what it agrees is important…so, sponsoring NASCAR is more important that school f*cking libraries?!! *i need a minute*
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Kids who don’t enjoy reading or think critically will grow up into the kind of adults who do not think critically when exposed to political rhetoric or fact-check stuff important people say. One of the professors at my iSchool did research that showed student performance was better in schools with degreed librarians than in those without one ……[Read more]
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agohttp://us.reachout.com/reachoutreads
ReachoutReads is a website for teens that recommends YA lit for life’s tough situations, and hosts author chats so readers can discuss the books and meet other folk going through what they’re going through. I don’t see anything queer yet, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t there by the end of the month…
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Missy posted an update in the group
Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agofrom the kslis-listserv, reposted w/o permission (on my own initiative, bc i think it’s important. In regards to conservative members ofour listerv – i will alert the author & remove this post if requested): “It’s unfortunate for the collections you may be maintaining in the future that you think that “fairness” and “balance” mean never…[Read more]
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Kent State SLIS listserv; Jennifer Casteen is the author of this post.
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We had a token Republic Roman Catholic dad in one of my classes, and he pulled a lot of BUT WHAT ABOUT US and my classmates gentle reminded him that it wasn’t all about him, and that tailoring curriculum and classroom libraries to every parents’ set of morals was a slippery slope to accepting the parents who think interracial marriage is immoral….
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that’s what i love about working in the public library. it’s not always comfortable, but we serve the entire community. there’s something extremely democratic & patriotic about that, i feel. there are lines that won’t be crossed, however, like the infamous ”flat earth” conundrum from my slis class, birther literature, and eugenics materials t…[Read more]
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agoThe disgraceful interrogation of L.A. school librarians
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0513-tobar-20110513,0,3002882.column-
Right on the tale of Big Brother meets school lunch: http://blog.twowholecakes.com/2011/05/foucault-and-bentham-walk-into-an-elementary-school-cafeteria/
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months agoWho has feelings about a Lesbrarian ask/tell thread? Folks post their field or area of study (if you’re a student), other folk ask them questions. I’ll start!
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Hi, I’m an archivist for a UN entity I refer to as (Clap Clap) NGO. If you are American, you probably collected quarters for us at Halloween.
I’m also finishing up my MLS, where my concentration is in children and youth services.
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teen librarian at a public library. ask away, y’all. :)
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What’s a typical day like?
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i get up, i get dressed…oh, you mean at work! :) i divide my day between ordering books, reading professional literature, maintaining the teenspace at my particular location (i’m coordinator for all eight branches, but get to play at one), and if i have a program that evening, i get set up for it.
right now we’re getting set for summer…[Read more]
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there’s so many other things, too. outreach events/visiting schools, coordinating speakers/programs, creating pathfinders, bookmarks, surveys, etc.
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 4 months ago“The Public Library Manifesto: why public libraries matter, and how we can save them.” http://bit.ly/ivEtfm
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Have you read This Book is Overdue?
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i have not. do tell.
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“the public library is a singularly american invention” – really now?
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maybe the author means circulating libraries available to the public at large (communities), as opposed to private or subscription models.
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I still find it hard to believe that *that* specific idea is originally American, given that we’ve had some form of publishing and knowledge exchange since the days of papyrus. o_O
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true, but were the materials available to the people? in certain ancient societies (thinking Egypt here) the scribes had access, and the upper class, if they could read. books were collected/stolen and added to the collection and not allowed to circulate.
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Seems like the author is thinking of the current conception of public libraries as document repository, educational center and community hub–which is about a hundred years old, give or take. A lot of the pioneers of that movement were American, but not all–there are so many different library models that my job at (Clap Clap) NGO works with…[Read more]
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Considering the oldest library in North America wasn’t even USian…it was founded in Mexico by a bishop who kicked out the Jesuits out of town and made their confiscated books available to all readers.
Unfortunately the history of libraries in North America is going to be tied up with the history of colonialization pretty much uniformly, though…[Read more]
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it was an interesting day in my mlis class at kent state university (ohio) when we discussed the carnegies. i always thought of andrew carnegie as a philanthropist who donated money for the lovely library i got to grow up in as a child. my fellow students from pennsylvania enlighted us all to his robber baron reality. #conundrum
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Melville Dewey used to make women put their bust size on their job applications. Apparently everyone in the history of our field was kinda a dick. :D
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I don’t know much about Carnegie, but that makes him sound like Robin Hood.
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there is an argument to be made that he exploited his workers, though he was outspoken about worker’s rights.
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I heard ALA is basically a big partywhere librarians and authors get drunk together and decide what books they’re going to push based on epic session of Beer Pong. :D
You know, I’ve been to ALA since I was a preteen or something like that, and I don’t think I ever remember my mom showing up at the hotel late at night and drunk. It’s probably different traveling with kids …
However, I just went to a different conference up in Canada and let me tell you, the drinking … the drinking … the drinking. I…[Read more]
Also, the people overhearing our heated complainfest about publishers, eReaders, and e-Books must have thought we were out of our minds.