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Feb 18 11:58

How the NY Post talks to New Yorkers, vs. the Rest of the World

By: jenna Tags:

UPDATE: Thanks to Johanna, I've realized that these are two different papers. I am pathetic. But so are both newspapers.

The cover of the copy of today's NY Post held here in the Barnard Library:

The cover on their the Daily News website:

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Jan 29 13:09

Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction

By: jenna Tags:

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).

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Jan 12 18:59

Web 2.0, Social Networking & Libraries Conference 2010

By: jenna Tags:

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

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Oct 31 13:51

NY Librarians Meetup: Librarians & Blogging

By: jenna Tags:
Co-presenter: 

Alexandra Crosier

Jennifer Craft

Lisa Von Drasek

Event: 

NY Librarians Meetup: Librarians & Blogging

Abstract: 

Monday, November 2, 2009
5:30pm, Little Italy (you have to join the meetup group to find out exactly where the meeting is--5 spots left as of 2pm Saturday)

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Sep 29 10:55

October Events

By: jenna Tags:

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.

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Aug 31 17:51

I [Heart] NYC: Well, Not Really, but I'm Trying

By: jenna Tags:
author: 
Plumb, Amanda

I ended up with a second copy of this reluctant New Yorker's guide to New York City and so had to decide whether the second one would go to the Barnard zine stacks or come home with me. I've decided I need it on hand for all future house guests. In addition to providing excellent food, entertainment, art, and cultural recommendations, Amanda writes cute essays about helping tourists take better photographs and subway incidents (maybe a little less cute, but still somehow cuddly).

reviewdate: 
Aug 18 2009
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Aug 20 17:45

Welfare Brat

By: jenna Tags:
author: 
Childers, Mary

I read a lot of autobiographies, but seldom does it occur to me to consider what a feat of memory and bravery it is to get down a rich portrait of one's life. Mary Childers does an admirable job of recalling her impoverished childhood and adolescence in the Bronx, and is pretty out there about what she endured, including her own shaming behaviors. I wonder if her telling the story in the present tense helped her with that? It kind of confused me, so I wish that even if the device helped her memory, that she'd switched it to past tense after the first draft.

Quotations: 

He had always been a cruel and violent drunk, but when he dangled Lacey out of a window because she wasn't his kid, Mom ditched him. At least that's what she tells us. I'm glad to have a standard for where to draw the line on the kind of abuse to take from men. p.17

I wish my social studies teacher would verify what the old Irish guy told me and Paula about these crowded hills belonging to the Appalachian Mountains. But during the geography unit we only memorized and pierced with pushpins the map locations of natural resources and capitals in Africa, Asia and Central and South America, as if preparing for lifetimes of exile or plunder. p.127

reviewdate: 
Aug 16 2009
isn: 
978-1-58234-586-4
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Aug 09 18:14

NYC Fringe Fest

By: jenna Tags:

Although I was a theater major in college and then worked in theater for nearly ten years after I graduated, I don't see too many shows any more. I make up for that once a year by seeing a bunch New York International Fringe Festival productions every summer. I'm about to buy my fiver pass (5 shows for $70). Anyone want to come see a show with me?

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Jun 11 13:51

Ashley and Tiana

By: jenna Tags:
author: 
Dreistadt, Jessica R.

Bringing together the two 12-year-old oddballs at Summer Science Camp, Ashley and Tiana is about the relationship between a middle class punk Jewish girl from Greenwich Village and a working class African-American hip hopper from the Bronx. (Is "hip hopper" correct? Should I have said "hip hop fan"? "Hip hop aficionado"?)

reviewdate: 
Jun 10 2009
isn: 
978-0-578-02239-0
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