http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26176870


"The borrowing of erotic fiction from UK public libraries has leapt by 500% over the past 12 months, in what is being called the "Fifty Shades" effect.
Last year's most popular erotic fiction title, Indigo Bloom's Destined to Feel, was borrowed almost 11,700 times."

It's not just the UK!  I   ( Read more... )

 Dear library user:

I understand that you and another student are working on an assignment together & want to look at the same computer monitor.  It is fine if you pull up a chair.  However, please do not pull over the chair from the disability access computer station -- you know, the one with the sign in LARGE letters on the back, the sign that was ( Read more... )

"The Deaf World Library and Museum would be the first digital resource to offer access to relevant historical materials through a single online portal."
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=27419499&nid=148&title=uvu-professor-plans-first-deaf-culture-digital-library

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 That includes websites (the Library of Congress, etc.)  http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/government-shutdown-and-libraries
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I have many thoughts on this, as do other folk.  Immediate effects in my particular corner of the world:  as a result of the shutdown, certain information resources are now unavailable to librarians who use ( Read more... )

Someday soon, I should sit down with the writers and performers I know and discuss a sensitive topic: coping strategies for harsh critiques. We all have varying degrees of resilience, and abilities to sift through critique to find constructive, useful information that helps us improve upon our public speaking, acting, writing, dancing, etc. I've ( Read more... )

For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2011 at http://www.arlis.org.uk/

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Please contact the Zine Apothecary library directly, as I have no further info.
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Zine Apothecary Call for Zine DonationsThe Zine Apothecary is a new zine library in a garage in Minneapolis. It is Minneapolis' only circulating zine library, springing out of the Belfry Center for Social and Cultural Activities and Steven Square Center for ( Read more... )

I belong to a listserv for art librarians working in academic libraries. Someone posted the following question today:

Looking for information on Black Women Illustrators and Graphic Novelists!
One of my students is looking for some guidance on locating the names and other information on black Illustrators, cartoonists and graphic novelists, ( Read more... )

Opportunities for academics and graduate students abound...and the book of literature and art on the contemporary American Indian experience in Michigan is open to non-academic work and art, including comics, creative nonfiction, photography, short stories.
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