• 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...
  

• 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.
  

• 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?
  

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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!

• 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!
  

• 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).
  

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...

• "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!)
  

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