jenna's blog

Oct 25 15:59

Report back: LACUNY Institute on Library Leadership: The Next Generation

I went to this CUNY librarians event Institute because I was invited to participate in a "Graying of the Profession" panel.

Oct 14 18:26

LCSH Week 39: of Bowed and Plucked musicians, not to mention Married men

This week on LCSH Watch:

  • Bowed stringed instrument players
  • Plucked instrument players

  • Cookery (Lotus)
  • Husband and wife
  • Husbands
  • Married men
  • Library education
Oct 13 11:54

LCSH Week 38, which is kinda dull

This week on LCSH Watch:

  • Child trafficking
  • Christmas stories [Not Subd Geog]
  • Closed circuit television in police work
Oct 11 11:22

LCSH Week 37: in which I am puzzled by Christian vacation schools, but glad that LC has finally embraced Conspiracy theories

This week on LCSH Watch:

  • Political activity ADD: (May Subd Geog)
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Escape artists

  • Heretics
  • Memes
  • Christian vacation schools—Exercises, recitations, etc.
  • Women political activists
Oct 10 11:51

Status Update, October 2009

In case anyone cares, or maybe just for the record, I'm on a part-time sabbatical this year. I had the option of taking six months off completely or a year off part-time. PT seemed the wiser choice, productivity-wise. Plus we're in transition at Barnard--the College and the Library, so being around a couple days a week seemed like a good idea.

Oct 02 15:10

LCSH Week 36: of Sexual minorities and Nuns on television

This week on LCSH Watch:

  • Bisexual women
  • Dairy barns—Odor control
  • Domestics in motion pictures
  • Male-to-female transsexuals
  • Nationalism
  • Nuns on television

  • Reproductive rights
  • Sexual minority women
Sep 29 09:55

October Events

This is me immodestly promoting two events at which I'll be speaking. One of them specifically asked me to, so I'm not entirely betraying the library code of anonymous servitude. The first is the NY Art Book Fair, where Alycia Sellie, Susan Thomas, and I will be talking about zines in libraries.

Sep 19 11:14

LC boots FANZINES in favor of…FAN MAGAZINES?!?

Since this is kind of important to me, I'm ignoring the rest of Week 35 to focus on what I think was a spectacularly dumbass decision.

* 150 Fanzines CANCEL
(A) 150 Fan magazines [May Subd Geog] [sp 85047176]
680 Here are entered works on professionally and nonprofessionally published magazines that are intended for the fans of a particular aspect of popular culture.
450 UF Fanzines [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
550 BT Periodicals