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January 20, 2010

  • Critical Teaching and Everyday Life by Ira Shor. Introduction was pretty amazing; about CUNY and the struggles of the open admissions.
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

January 19, 2010

  • The fine print on my immunization forms for MALS
  • Signage of Brooklyn on the way for celebratory Ethiopian fare

January 18, 2010

  • More writing than reading today, and business librarianship homework.

January 17, 2010

January 16, 2010

January 15, 2010

  • Finished Play it As it Lays; quick and satisfying read. The kind that makes you feel like you could write too (which could be the best kind?).

January 14, 2010

  • A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988
  • Play it As it Lays by Joan Didion

January 13, 2010

  • A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988

January 12, 2010

  • A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988
  • spreadsheets of info about earnings, spendings, retirement, debt.

January 11, 2010

  • Info about Chip Berlet, after hearing him on this morning's Democracy Now! broadcast warning about the increasing number of racist white supremacist groups on the rise and a new film about them.
  • A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988--just as amazing as I had guessed it would be!

January 10, 2010

January 9, 2010

January 8, 2010

  • Jerianne's Literature Review and Zine Cataloging Needs Assessment
  • "Synergy, Social Responsibility, and the Sixties: Pivotal Points in the Evolution of American Outreach Library Service" by Toni Samek, in Libraries to the People
  • Some of the new (Winter 2009) issue of Radical Teacher
  • Skimmed Revelling in New York zine, recommended!

January 7, 2010

  • Finished Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
  • Skimmed #'s 6 & 7 of The La-La Theory

January 6, 2010

  • Finished In Dubious Battle on the morning commute (perfect timing as we pulled into my station)
  • Skimmed Alternative Library Literature: 1998-99 (27 page index!) and 82/83, 88/89
  • Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation

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Currently Reading

Seed to Harvest
Blindness
Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870
Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
Critical Teaching and Everyday Life
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog



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Daily Reading Log

September 5, 2010

  • American Captivity Narratives for class, on the train on the way to and from working on the CHPCMA presentation. Sometimes you just can't read fast enough.

September 4, 2010

  • More work on the paper!

September 3, 2010

September 2, 2010

  • Not much reading, but lots of writing!

September 1, 2010

  • A truckload of materials from the archives about Jackie Eubanks and the Liberation Library.
  • I listened to Bill Moyers interview Jane Goodall on the way home.
  • Part of my homework, "How Indians Got to be Red," by Nancy Shoemaker.

August 31, 2010

  • I can not believe it is the last day of August already. Shortest summer break ever!
  • Lots of "alternative-media-turned-corporate-in-the-90s" articles

August 30, 2010

  • Research, research, research. Counterpoise, zine books, zine guru Dodge, and a mish-mash of other things.

August 29, 2010

  • Irwin Weintraub, "The Impact of Alternative Presses on Scientific Communication"
  • Dr. John Van Hook, "The Selection of Alternative Materials: Building a Library Collection"

August 28, 2010

  • Anna H. Perrault, "The Changing Print Resource Base of Academic Libraries in the United States"
  • Angela Brookens and Alan Poulter, "Support for Alternative Publishing by Public Libraries in Scotland"
  • I won the first round.

August 27, 2010

Further down the rabbit hole:

  • Daniel C. Tsang, "The Alternative Media: Open Sources on What's Real."
  • Sanford Berman, "Where It's At."

August 26, 2010

  • First day of "Save the World on Your Own Time: The Rhetorics of Advocacy." We read through a few definitions of rhetoric, and a few examples of advocacy (from 8.5x15 photocopy mash-ups), and then I read "The Cooling Out Function in Higher Education" by Burton R. Clark on the way home--because Ira Shor prints out the readings for us each week.

August 25, 2010

  • I don't know how, but I always forget just how hectic these first few days of each school year can be. Graduate students were orientated! In a room too small to hold them all!
  • I listened to some of the Fresh Air episode on advertisement surveillance online, and Democracy Now!, and fretted over consumerism on my way home today.

August 24, 2010

  • Today was Orientation at my campus for undergraduates. I made a zine, copied a zillion handouts, and had fun meeting new students. Which utterly wiped me out for any other reading.

August 23, 2010

  • Danky, as found in "An Alternative Vision of Librarianship: James Danky and the Sociocultural Politics of Collection Development" by Juris Dilevko in the Dankyfest issue of Library Trends:
    • We check off the books sent on centralized approval plans, replicate the cataloging others have done (frequently without the complete book in hand), and then answer our patrons’ questions with information from commercial databases.
  • Kiss My Filing Indicators

August 22, 2010

  • A Passage for Dissent: The Best of Sipapu, 1970-1988
    • Noel Peattie on the word Sipapu: “For me, who chanced on the word, only dimly understanding its significance, it’s a personal message… If I have borrowed the term unfairly, at least I made my Sipapu a place of emergence for others: contributors, poets, and raisers of issues...
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