lower east side librarian

I have to admit I'm getting a little sick of this game and also I'm becoming increasingly demoralized about the efficacy of subject headings, even if we could convince the Library of Congress to fucking acknowledge BUTCHES and FEMMES, the FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT, SEX WORKERS, FREEGANISM, and, for the love of dog, FOLKSONOMY. (See a larger list of Sandy Berman's suggestions if you don't already get the idea.)

But for some reason I can't let go, so here I give you a three for one on LCSH Watch!

Week 1, January 6, 2010, Week 2, January 13, 2010, and Week 3, January 20, 2010:

Anti-copyright movement
Condom use—Religious aspects
Corn mummies

Cultural intelligence
D.C. hand dance
Enemies

Feminism on television
Handball players
Happy hours
Jewish transgender people
Lesbian photographers
Mind and body in motion pictures
Orphan works (Copyright)
Pink in art
Stupidity in art
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Work life balance

Saturday, May 1st 2010
Brooklyn College Library
1:00pm-4:00pm
This event is free.

Please RSVP by April 9th.

Everyone involved in this except for the main speaker, Ira Shor, is in Radical Reference: Tom Dodson, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier (facilitators) and Alycia Sellie and Jonathan Cope (organizers).

Week 51, December 23, 2009 on LCSH Watch:

• Beards (Islamic law)
• Cell phone etiquette
• Cooperating teachers
• Ducks—Counting
• Female juvenile delinquents in literature
• Gay political refugees
• Marijuana in motion pictures
• Webisodes
• Weiss beer
• Wheat beer
  

It's Firefox tab closing time once again, so here are the first three of a bunch of sites I've been looking at:
Theater of Note
Kristen Connors
Susan Brennan
(click read more for annotations)

If y'all know of other SUNY NP theater grads from my day with websites or projects, please let me know.

Week 50 on LCSH Watch 2009:

• Animated films
• Door-to-door selling
• Climate change mitigation
• Coffee cozies

• Costermongers

• Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints)
• Internet in evangelistic work
• Multicultural services librarians
• Muslim gay men
• Muslim gays

• Necromunda (Imaginary place)
• Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-
• Operation Noble Eagle, 2001-
• Power line bird strikes

• Sacred space
• Subject headings
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 8:15AM - 4:00PM
Columbia University, Kellogg Center
15th Floor, 420 West 118th Street, New York City
$100 Early Bird

The Third Annual International Conference
Web 2.0, Social Networking, & Libraries:

How Libraries Are Exploiting Web 2.0 and Social Networking to Improve Service to Library Users and What It Means for Libraries, Library Users, and You, Including Ways to Better Serve Your Own Library Users with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Web 2.0, OPAC and Web Site Enhancements, and more

If I don't make this short, I'll never get around to creating this post. I want to welcome to the world two new blogs:

Marginal Mormon Literature by librarian Julie Turley

and

Two Story Sketchbook by Marissa Falco and Sarah Coyne

I just cataloged a zine to which I wish I could have assigned the subject headings FEMME IDENTITY and FEMMES.

Femmes Unite contains short essays by male, female, and genderqueer (another heading I'd like to see!) femmes on topics including but not limited to...

You can now order a copy of The Borough Is My Library, the zine Alycia Sellie created for the Desk Set Biblioball 2009.

With its three color silkscreen cover, it's a bargain at $3-7 sliding scale, and proceeds will go to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens.

Do I look any different?

I, well actually most Eric, updated my site last night to Drupal 6. Please let me know if anything seems weird, broken, or missing.

I think most of the changes are administrative; i.e. y'all shouldn't notice them.