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August 6, 2010

August 5, 2010

  • Adulthood Rites on the train.

August 4, 2010

  • Finished Dawn, and moved on to Adulthood Rites.
  • Older radical librarian pubs. So beautiful and so sad. Why were the 70's so awesome?

August 3, 2010

August 2, 2010

August 1, 2010

July 31, 2010

  • Dawn by Octavia E Butler. Immersion hangover.

July 27-29, 2010

  • I'm still at Immersion in Vermont. Here I've been reading:
    • Many powerpoint slides
    • Handouts
    • Lyrics to an amazing collection of tunes at the Trapp Family Lodge. I heard librarians sing Puff the Magic Dragon, Danny Boy, Supercalafrajalistic insanity. To the accompaniment of a harp. My mind is blown.

July 26, 2010

  • We talked about a great, great many things today at Immersion--we had over 12 hours together! I got to tell my group members about an article I read ("Re-Visioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning" by Dane Ward), and then we all talked about Palmer Parker's "Heart of a Teacher" chapter from The Courage to Teach.

July 25, 2010

  • Some more Octavia Butler--I broke down and bought Lilith's Brood for my final trip of the Summer (at last!). I read a bit of this at the airport and while in my native Vermont friend's recommended Burlington coffee shop, after exploring down by the water.

July 24, 2010

  • I didn't think that Survivor was anything to be ashamed of at all. In fact, I really enjoyed the questioning of the Missionaries a lot.
  • My suitcase has a hole patched with pink duct tape, and I haven't started packing yet. I'm off to Immersion for a week, and I'm feeling a bit anxious!

July 23, 2010

  • Amid procrastination, Survivor.

July 22, 2010

  • More Survivor, which I am enjoying.
  • Immersion documents!

July 21, 2010

  • Critical Library Instruction
  • I started Survivor, which is a bit scandalous (it's the book that Octavia Butler didn't want you to read!)...

July 20, 2010

  • Firebrands, which reminds me of Library Heroes in many ways.
  • Doonesbury compliations, since they were left out on the kitchen table.

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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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