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CHANGED DATE! - Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction Event

Library Association of CUNY Instruction Committee Spring Event "Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction"

Saturday, May *8*, 2010
Brooklyn College Library
1:00pm-4:00pm

This event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP by April 9th via the webform at: http://tinyurl.com/ycj239j

Click through for more details...

Get a copy of The Borough is my Library/Biblioball Zine!

For all of you who may not be able to make it to the Biblioball on Friday night, you can now order a copy of The Borough is my Library zine through paypal! Complete with silkscreen covers and special inserts! Proceeds go to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens: http://www.literacyforincarceratedteens.org/LIT/Welcome_.html


Borough is my Library-Sliding Scale $3-7 (plus $2.50 shipping)




Click through for contact info for mail and international orders*

The Borough is my Library Debut!

The Borough is my Library: A Greater Metropolitan Library Workers Zine

Donate Art for ABC No Rio Clothesline Benefit

Dear Artist--

ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side gallery and arts center, is planning another of our Clothesline Benefit Art Sales to raise money for our Building Fund.

The event will take place on December 10th and 11th. We are asking artists who support ABC No Rio to participate by donating work.

Work should be no larger than 11" X 17", and limited to two works per artist. All work will be presented on clotheslines strung through No Rio's gallery space, and should be unframed, two-dimensional work.

Shirley Chisholm Day Still to Come

The Shirley Chisholm Day celebration was great!*

What I discovered was that there is an official holiday in the state of New York dedicated to Shirley Chisholm, but that it is on November 30th each year, Chisholm's birthday. So there is still more celebrating to come this year!

Shirley Chisholm Day

Tuesday, November 24th is Shirley Chisholm Day.

Even if you don't live in Bed Stuy, visit my post office or go to Brooklyn College, I think it would do us all good to reflect a bit tomorrow on the spirit and vigor that Chisholm embodied. "Be a catalyst for change."

Report Back: Feminist Pedagogy Conference

I had a moment at the both the beginning and the end of the Feminist Pedagogy Conference yesterday; I relished in the fact that I have the ability spend a day listening to feminist scholars talk about the intricacies of their "intellectual signature"* (and I get paid to do so to boot). I felt really lucky to be at the conference, and savored the feeling of being able to sit and absorb the work of these speakers.

3rd Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference

The 3rd Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference is free and open to the public (with registration), and happening on Friday November 6 at the Grad Center. After kicking this cold, I hope to see you there!

I just took a peek at the program and I think this might be one of those times when you have to make tough decisions about which panel to attend (which is a good conference problem to have). Thanks to E. for the link!

Biblioball Zine

I am teaming up with Desk Set to create a zine to distribute at the next Biblioball scheduled for December 11, 2009! (mark your calendars!) I am looking for local NYC-based librarians who might like to write something for this compilation zine, and for independent libraries or library groups/organizations that might like to talk about what they do. If you are interested, please drop a line to: alycia (at) brokenja (dot) ws

Generational Identity, Age, and the Blueing of the Profession

When I worked with Jim Danky at the Wisconsin Historical Society, he would often talk about how very young I was to have accomplished as much as I had in a very short period of time. After a while, I got used to telling him "I'm older than I've ever been!"

Metro Panel Slide Share

Here are my slide shows from the Metro Panel that I was a part of called "Get Published!: Create Your Own (Unconventional) Opportunities."

By the Way... Zine Librarian Zine #3

In March, Rooster(Rachel), Jenna and I edited Zine Librarian Zine #3 just in time for the Zine Librarians (Un)Conference in Seattle. You can download your own copy on this zinelibraries.info page (beware before copying that you may need to re-order the pages).

Sustain our Libraries

I just saw this new poster up at justseeds by Mary Tremonte and wanted to share it. You can buy one for $15.

I especially like what Tremonte writes about this piece:

Come see these slides brought to life tomorrow!

Who knows, maybe we will just "debate whether the collecting of zines by libraries and museums contradicts, even cancels out, the basically anti-establishment zine concept."... But don't bet on it. I'll be speaking about how my radical library heroes have taught me what's worth collecting (esp. Dodge and Danky, both of whose work I plan to talk about at length and to whom I owe another round of thank yous).

Jenna posted her slides for our talk tomorrow, "Zines: Institutional Collecting, Zine Makers, and the Fine Line of Art,"on Lower East Side Librarian. Click through for mine.

Happy Berman Appreciation Month 2009!

Still time to celebrate Sandy Berman Appreciation Month this year! I'm sending my card this morning!

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Daily Reading Log

February 8, 2010

  • More of the west readings
  • Kindle stuff-mostly printed from free online sources, before plunging into more scholarly works. There is so much that this touches, so many ways to explore the implications of this machine...

February 7, 2010

  • I have been very poor about reading on the train lately. Somehow if it's not fiction or a codex, I can't get myself into it on the platform or on the train. Or maybe it's just the normal procrastination that accompanies homework.
  • I printed out a good many things about the kindle today, and noticed a bunch of free ebooks online.

February 6, 2010

  • A bit about the west and manifest destiny via Henry Nash Smith
  • Pattern for a new hat. Why do I not have size 7 DPNs?

February 5, 2010

  • Kept reading our proposed abstract for the Conference on Intellectual Property over and over (and our readers helped immensely), until I had all the PDFs in order and sent it off. I like confirmation emails on proposals; they seem to come easily and have an excited person at the other end of the computer tubes.

February 4, 2010

  • American Studies homework at the cafe formerly known as the Bagel Zone: Janice Radway 1998 American Studies Assn speech (liked it best, and just discovered she's writing a book about zines!), Alice Kessler Harris' 1991 speech, Henry Nash Smith, Etienne Balibar, Stuart Hall.

February 3, 2010

  • Communications research textbooks for weeding (lots changed since 1996! Things like calling email "internet electronic mail")

February 2, 2010

  • Homework readings about the history and nature of American Studies
  • Spreadsheets: collection development

February 1, 2010

  • We went to 'Snice and I read my homework. I need to remember to keep a dictionary handy, as I have slowly become someone who does not skim over words, but insists upon looking everything up. I bothered Matt a lot because he has a dictionary on his computer, with or without the wireless.

January 31, 2010

  • Readings for tomorrow's LACUNY LILAC event on credit bearing information literacy courses.

January 30, 2010

  • A lot of 2010 so far has been about organizination and getting hardware on the up and up in my free time, and today I finally got GnuCash to work properly (without futzing up the back end myself), and re-installed Open Office. Contemplating going totally linux. Reeling in numbers and installation pop-ups. Is this reading? Caught up on blogs amidst all of this-especially glad that Library Praxis is back up!

January 29, 2010

  • I'm starting in on the homework readings! The very first of which is "On Recovering the 'Ur' Theory of American Studies" by Leo Marx, as published in American Literary History, 2005.
  • Where is my last tax document? I would like to read it and be done filing!

January 28, 2010

  • Zine from Kelsey, "Getting the Guts Out" (really nice!)
  • Ira Shor's Critical Teaching and Everyday Life has been rattling all my dreamy illusions about education, and feels so close to home and pertinent that I suspect someone is looking over my shoulder when I read it (especially on the train).

January 27, 2010

  • "Revisiting the Struggle for Integration" by Michelle Fine and Bernadette Anand in Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader
  • Celia's Reading Log zine (yay!)

January 26, 2010

  • Bits of Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, and supplemental materials from the BC New Faculty Retreat.

January 25, 2010

  • Finished The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao