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We read the most amazing article for my Information Access in the Arts class this week. (Well, okay, one person hated it. So it's a love/hate kind of article, depending on your frame of mind.)

No lie, library science articles tend to be the stuff that puts you to sleep, but this one- this one is a story. A really good story, that you can't stop ( Read more... )

The trouble with really good, thinky books is that I usually don't have anyone to discuss them with. I finished reading Terry Pratchett's Nation (sort of for class except we didn't talk about it at all, which is grrr because it was a waste of my nonexistent time, but on the other hand it's a really awesome book and you should totally read it), ( Read more... )

( 'Inland' by Edna St. Vincent Millay' )

So. I'm a librarian. My big issue as a librarian is censorship, and in particular as that relates to LGBT books. I've written papers on censorship and LGBT issues. I follow the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom on Twitter (@ oif). And [Banned Books Week] is my favourite time of the year, but I like to celebrate it ( Read more... )

Gah, I am waiting for an article from ILL that I desperately need by Friday and it has been "awaiting request processing" for four days now. D: Why is it so hard to find peer-reviewed articles? More importantly, why do I always choose hard topics on things that no one has written about (this was also a problem with my undergrad thesis, but at ( Read more... )

Here in the U.S., we observe [ Columbus Day ] on the second Monday in October, in celebration of Columbus first arriving to the "New" World in October 1492. The day is observed as a holiday for most federal government employees, the Post Office, and most public elementary school systems (institutions of higher education pick and choose whether ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, after loading up on kids' books from the library again, I headed over to Alexandria because I hadn't been there in ages and it was a lovely day for reading by the waterfront (and they have the most deliciously crowded, tiny tea shop).

( this is bliss )

I, like, never remember to actually rec things, and mostly everyone already knows about the awesome stuff before I actually get around to reading it. But.

flyakate has posted a new Elementary!verse story, [Lips and Hearts], and it is sad and heartachy and beautiful. (And possibly may have made me cry. But, like, in a good way. It's sad, but not ( Read more... )