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July 19, 2010

  • Today was catch-up. I read my notes from HOPE and googled all the things that the hackers had taught me about over the weekend.

July 15-18, 2010

  • These past few days have been devoted to hacking everything from culture to typewriters to toenails.

July 14, 2010

  • Dane Ward, "Re-Visioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Meaning."
    • "We continually experience the world of inner information.

July 13, 2010

July 12, 2010

July 11, 2010

  • Today I went over to the dark side, instead of getting a million things done on my to-do, and to-read lists: IRC.

July 10, 2010

  • Finished Clay's Ark and Patternmaster. I think the first two books of the series were more intriguing, but I enjoyed all of them thoroughly and am trying to get a hold of the excluded Survivor, third in the series and which hasn't been reprinted because Octavia Butler didn't like it.
  • Started Alex & Me, after hearing Irene Pepperberg on the Moth (and thought it would be nice to pass on to a certain nonagenarian who has been reading books about birds and their relationships to people lately...)

July 9, 2010

July 8, 2010

  • More Butler; Clay's Ark
  • Telegram Ma'am/Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell! split again

July 7, 2010

  • Finished Mind of My Mind on the train home, and yes, I will admit I took the long way to read some more. 500 pages in and it feels like nothing!

July 3-6, 2010

  • Octavia E. Butler has totally taken over. I found myself thinking, amidst enjoying being a NYC tour guide this weekend, what the characters in the novels were doing when I wasn't reading about them. Must have been the heat.

July 2, 2010

  • Finished Wild Seed, and moved directly on to Mind of My Mind, since the trilogy is conveniently bound together. Good waiting-at-the-airport reading.

July 1, 2010

  • Wild Seed, which I am really enjoying. Thanks to dkg for leaving it in the back seat of the van for sharing to get me started.
  • Telegram Ma'am zine #14. I was happy to also find this in the box o' zines. This one was about bipolar and a welcome read today, when I am feeling up and down and wonky.
  • Telegram Ma'am #18/Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #9 split. I am reviewing this zine for Library Journal!

June 30, 2010

  • Wild Seed
  • Re-read parts of "Don't Leave your Friends Behind: Anarcha-Feminism & Supporting Mothers and Children" zine, which I came across a copy of in a box of donated materials at work.
  • "Notes on Anarchism" zine by Noam Chomsky, in which he quotes Rudolph Rocker:

June 29, 2010

  • Started Blindness, by José Saramago
  • All of Dan Clowes' new graphic novel, Wilson. Pretty depressing. 15 minute read, so glad I didn't buy it. Each page had the thickest paper I've ever seen in a graphic novel.
  • More of Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, which I am really enjoying

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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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