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2010

April 14, 2010

  • Migrant Imaginaries
  • I got reference questions that I could relate to today! Art history, television, media, film, art ed. Hooray!

April 13, 2010

  • Business research, social networking assignments, and more of Migrant Imaginaries

April 12, 2010

  • Cracked open Alicia Schmidt Camacho's Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (for class)

April 11, 2010

  • We did a lot of ebook talking today and some youtube djing.

April 10, 2010

  • Somewhat impossible reference questions today, and more weeding. Things like software program books for software I've never heard of...

April 9, 2010

  • Nursed hangovers at the cheesecake diner, got to meet the most famous partner of a friend, Madison-reunion style. YOU should let your ears read some Zola Jesus. Amazing.

April 8, 2010

  • Happy Birthday Brokenjaws'er!
  • Taught the undergrad version of my American Studies class about the library today. Enjoyed hearing about their research topics; everything from the Beach Boys to the Lower East Side.
  • Finished The Black Atlantic, discussed it and other imagined communities in class

April 7, 2010

  • The Black Atlantic

April 6, 2010

  • Black Atlantic: finished up all but the Richard Wright chapter (which I still hope to squeeze in!) on the train.

April 5, 2010

  • 46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence by Scott Liell
  • Finished really amazing but still published in 2001 ebooks article

April 4. 2010

  • More Black Atlantic, almost done!
  • First two chapters of Imagined Communities by Benedict Arnold
  • Browsed what I want to read in the History of the Book in America series and wished they were all part of my own library...

April 3, 2010

  • The Black Atlantic; jam-packedly dense but totally worth it.

April 2, 2010

  • ebook work day, complete with three simultaneous monitors--and that was just for me.

April 1, 2010

  • April fool's found me in the LES, re-organizing with a new planner and re-reading chp 1 of The Black Atlantic and resisting the urge to take notes by just copying every sentence into my notebook (as in, it's good).

March 31, 2010

  • more Black Atlantic

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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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