Fierce and Fabulous: Elisabeth Irwin HS feminism class
Co-presenter:
Ileana Jiménez
Event:
Elisabeth Irwin high school class visit from the Barnard Library Zine Collection
Abstract:
Van Alen Legacy, the
The fourth in the Gossip Girl meets the Vampire Diaries series Blue Bloods is more romance than vampire. It's as absorbing as its predecessors but is somewhat thin--like its three vampire/model narrators.
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Nov 13 2009
isn:
978-142310226-7
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LCSH Weeks 42 and 43: of Bird kills and Income smoothing
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LCSH Week 41: of Airplane restrooms and continued irritation with the lack of Fat power in the Library of Congress
This week on LCSH Watch
- Airplanes—Restrooms
- Blaming the victim
- Human multitasking
- Minorities in baseball
- Rape—Psychological aspects
- Rape--Public opinion
- Women blue collar workers
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Daughters of the Stone
The first non paranormal fiction novel I've read finished in ages--and it's magic realism! Daughters of the Stone, by a Puerto Rican YA librarian from the Bronx (That's hot!), tells of five generations of gifted women.
reviewdate:
Nov 11 2009
isn:
978-0-312-53926-9
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Travesty: Musings on Being a Transvestite Metalhead
I don't usually read zines by men, not because I'm biased, although I am, but because most of my zine reading is for the Zine Collection at Barnard, which is comprised mostly of zines by women, with a few by people of other genders writing about femme identity. The author of Travesty is a cisgendered male who likes to wear women's clothes.
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Nov 10 2009
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Library Journal zine reviews column: Zines by People of Color
Thanks and congrats are due my zines bestie Celia Perez for contributing the latest Library Journal zine reviews column on Zines by People of Color.
The Myth of Professional Neutrality
Co-presenter:
Valerie Bell
Jana Varlejs (moderator)
Event:
MLIS Colloquium Activist Librarianship and the Ethics of Library Neutrality
Abstract:
Symposium description: In defense of user rights, librarians have sometimes been labeled radical militants, but more typically they adhere to the principles of nonjudgmental service, balanced collections, and political neutrality.
My talk refutes the concept that one cannot have and espouse political opinions while still providing nonjudgmental service and representative collections.
Dead and Gone
I am returning to my earlier haiku format reviews:
Things aren't going
well for Sookie, but at least
she is getting some.
(Should "aren't" get counted as one or two syllables?)
reviewdate:
Nov 4 2009
isn:
978-0-441-01715-7
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Hybrid
First off, I need to come out as a payolateer. The author sent me her book--the second YA writer to do so, the first being Jessica Dreistadt--for free to review right here on my blog. I didn't promise a good review or accept money or anything, but if I understood Lisa Von Drasek correctly at the blogging meetup, I should pay taxes on the cover price of review copies I receive.
reviewdate:
Nov 1 2009
isn:
978-098230508-9