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Show Me The Awesome

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Like the logo? Or, rather, LOVE the logo? A big thanks to John LeMasney via lemasney.com for the terrific logo; and if you’re using the image with your 30 Days post, please remember to give John credit! As you’ve figured out, it is May which means that it is the start of Show Me The [...]

Pop Programming!

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Remember my self promotion post from a few days back, about Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect to Your Whole Community AKA the book that Sophie Brookover and I wrote? And I said how Sophie and I have contributed a couple of guest posts to our publisher’s blog, ITI Books Blog? Well, [...]

Wikipedia and Sexism

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A couple days ago, The New York Times had an opinion piece, Wikipedia’s Sexism Towards Female Novelists. Long story short: “editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory.” Also take a look at The Atlantic Wire’s take: Wikipedia’s Boys Club [...]

Kickstarter

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I mentioned the Veronica Mars Kickstarter last month (which, by the way ended up being funded for $5.7 Million). There’s another Kickstarter I want to mention, because it’s library related: Circulating Ideas, the Librarian Interview Podcast. You may remember that twice I’ve been a guest of Steve Thomas on this podcast, once in July 2012 [...]

Happy Blog Birthday to Me

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It’s my blog birthday! My very first post was on April 26, 2005, making this blog eight years old! I’m looking forward to Year 9 being just as fun as the past 8 years! Thank you, everyone, for reading and sharing!

Pop Technology!

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Excuse a little blatant self promotion; yes, it’s about the book Sophie Brookover and I wrote in 2008, Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect to Your Whole Community (Information Today). Sophie and I have contributed a couple of guest posts to our publisher’s blog, ITI Books Blog. The first post: Don’t Be [...]

Central Park Five

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The Central Park Five is a documentary by Ken Burns, David McMahon, and Sarah Burns. Sarah Burns also wrote a book by the same name (Knopf, 2011; reprint 2012). In 1989, a female jogger was raped in Central Park. Five teenagers, all African American, were questioned, confessed, and arrested. They recanted and plead not guilty. [...]

Lizzie Skurnick Books

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What makes a grown woman scream in delight, then have to redo her budget to double the numbers of books that can be bought? This, via Publishers Weekly: “Ig Publishing, which for more than a decade has maintained a list of fiction and nonfiction for adult readers and reissues for the academic market, is moving [...]

This is War . . . Chocolate War

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True confession: I have never read The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Or, if I have, I’ve forgotten it. Also? Sometimes I get it confused with another book I haven’t read, A Separate Peace by John Knowles. I’ll give you all a moment to recover from that. Back? You OK? Need a glass of water? [...]

Spring Cleaning!

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Officially, it is Spring. So, Spring Cleaning! I’m not the only one who thinks of online cleaning and organizing when springtime comes; this past weekend was Bloggiesta, which is about “ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog.” So, what am I doing? I’m organizing posts, trying to get myself back [...]