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Lesbrarians 12 years, 5 months agoIf I didn’t hate university so much I’d probably get a librarian degree of some sort. As it is I’m the resident information maven in town. Also BOOOOOOOOOOOOKS ZOMG
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books books books books. now see, that just SOUNDS cool.
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I can’t speak for Australian university programs, but all of my papers have been very technical or experience based, and library theory is more like educational theory or business theory–we’re dealing with real people and real books, so we’re writing about how to best organize information and serve peoples’ needs. No time for postmodernism there. :D
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practical papers, melikey, because there’s a chance the info comes in useful to somebody. hmm *ponders*
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just started reading some of David Foster Wallace’s work and I love him!!! Any other fangays?
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I read the Broom of the System ages ago and didn’t like it, but have been thinking I should try one of his again – what are you reading?
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I’m reading The Girl With the Curious Hair, just read “This is Water,” and have Infinite Jest sitting on my nightstand. I think Broom of the System was his first book, maybe his later books are different?
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m reading Role Models by John Waters. His writing makes me make this face: http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/disgusted_cat0.jpg but in the best way possible
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI really liked “Pages For You” by Sylvia Brownrigg. Any suggestions?
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About a Girl by Joanne Horniman (also everything else she writes, but especially My Candlelight Novel and A Charm of Powerful Trouble)
Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties by Felicia Luna Lemus
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Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties by Felicia Luna Lemus
looks really good, i’ll make sure to order that from amazon or something.
Thanks Rie!-
Remember to use the AS Amazon link!
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rightto. haven’t done that yet.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI wrestled so much with joining this group. On the one hand, Autostraddlers + books. On the other, the number of members was at 69.
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Lesbrarians 12 years, 5 months agoHello all. MLIS student here. I’m hoping to be a science librarian/data curator when I get out of school. :D
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very nice! welcome. :) any particular field or do you know how to do it all? when i was little i wanted to catalog all the stars, but i kept losing count/falling asleep.
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I’m more of a hard sciences person (astro, physics, some geology) than a squishy sciences person. (By squishy, I mean things involving complicated organic things.) Librarianship-wise, my career goal is to be an embedded librarian, but I’d be willing to do some academic stuff first as a stepping stone.
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ew…squishy. that’s hilarious. i’m facinated by astronomy, geology, archaeology…and a lot of the social sciences, anthropology, sociology (who can choose?!) so i started as a general reference librarian and then found out how much i loved working with teenagers. when you say embedded librarian, do you mean at a museum or institute? i think…[Read more]
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Hi Kaye! I’m a student too–hopefully graduating this summer after the comps. Are you comps or thesis?
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I’m not really sure what comps stands for, but I don’t think my program has them. We don’t have theses, either … I think we’re evaluated a bit differently. It’s mostly project-based classes and 150+ hours of interning. I’m in my first year, so graduation isn’t happening until next May-ish for me. :)
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Lord love a duck, that’s the smart way to do it–experiential education for the win. Comps are comprehensive exams–everyone says they’re easy, but I’m terrified.
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Experiential learning is great, and it’s very helpful for building a portfolio of work. I took an outcomes-based planning, marketing, and assessment course this semester and worked with a real library to plan a service. It was super intimidating, but nothing exploded and the library was happy with the result.
What kinds of things are in your…[Read more]
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All of the above, and case studies and research methods and lots of wonderful awful things, in essay format.
That is a great project! We’ve done similar things–my very favorite class involved a three-part project that culminated in planning 52 weeks of children’s programming, with a budget of 5000$. Challenging and fun–every librarian I’ve…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI read a lot of YA and kids’ stuff and review it at pannarrens.wordpress.com. I will take requests as long as it vaguely interests me and I can get it from my library. If I had to buy all the books I read, I’d go broker than I am now.
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Especially if you have any YA LGBT books to recommend…
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“A Love Story” by Emily Horner (that i posted earlier here) is a lesbian YA that i highly recommend. are you just looking for new titles or anything…
i’m a teen librarian and these are of interest to me. :) sooo many good books (i also just read “Huntress” by Malindo Lo! #omg).
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i have so many favorite lgbtq YA books: anything by David Levithan (esp. “Boy Meets Boy” and “Love is the Higher Law” & “Wide Awake”), anything by Julie Anne Peters (favs include a book of short stories, “Grl2Grl,” “Between Mom & Jo,” and “Rage”.) “Gravity” by Leanne Lieberman is profound and offers a look into orthodox Judaism, “Empress of the…[Read more]
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“Pages for You” by Sylvia Brownigg is my fave.
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Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters is pretty much the best LGBT YA I’ve read.
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Yes! A thousand times yes!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Tropic of Cancer right now. And listening to Crime and Punishment on cd! I’m really liking all three, especially The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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hee hee. i totally read that as a mashup: “the unbearable lightness of the tropic of cancer.”
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KUNDERA! been meaning to get to unbearable lightness for some time now.
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Hehe, that is a mashup I’d like to read!
I know, I put off reading it forever, thinking it would just be too pretentious, and now I’m loving it. Definitely lives up to the hype.
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I bet! have you read Immortality and/or Identity? Amazing books. How is Tropic of Cancer? i’ve tried reading it a bunch of times but… :(
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I haven’t read either, this is the first book by Kundera I’ve read. How are those? I’m liking Tropic of Cancer thus far, but I can see how it could be hard to get into. I’ve been reading just a few pages of it at a time, it isn’t as engrossing as some other books.
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Agh I love Unbearable Lightness of Being and Kundera in general. Have you read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting?
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I haven’t read it, but my mom keeps telling me too, so I probably will. What’s it about?
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It’s hard to classify as one plot. It uses a lot of the same characters (Tomas, Tereza, etc).
Anyway, two rolls and a bee.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agorecently read: “A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend,” by Emily Horner
this book made me laugh, it made me cry (a lot), and it made me want to build a mini-catapult to hurl beanie babies…highly recommended!
more encouragement here: “A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend: 5 Reasons You Need to Read This Book RIGHT NOW!” http://bit.ly/9F2GKq-
…so, Cass vs. Frankie Landau-Banks in guerilla art warefare, who wins? :D
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the lady with the better beanie babies. no one beats a psychodelic Grateful Dead bear! …also, Cass knows ninjas. so…
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or, the Plain Janes. They will art-ify your neighborhood so hard, your own gramma would get lost coming to visit you.
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One year I started a nanowrimo novel that was all about analogues of ambiguously gay YA characters hooking up with each other in college on a dare. Frankie/Ananka Fishbein, y/y?
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