Katrina: how librarians can help
This just came on the Council list. There is a Yahoo group for librarians who want to help with the Katrina Recovery Effort.
Archive for the 'helpers' Category
Librarians for Peace petition
Also in the libr.org universe, a newish petition to urge the US Government to end the occupation of Iraq.
well, my work here is done
I’m always embarassed when great content sources somehow escape my notice. Please go bookmark librarianactivist.org, right now.
keeping current even without a job
New mom Priscilla Shontz has written a great new article for LISCareer: A Librarian without a Library: Staying Professionally Active While Unemployed. Most of her advice is also great for library sfhool students looking at ways to engage with their future profession while still in school.
minority librarian in residence
Yale has a minority librarian in residence program to try to increase minority representation among Yale library staff. The information page also lists other academic institutions that have similar programs.
Ken Wilson will send you text-to-speech versions of Gutenberg titles
Ken Wilson is mostly blind but reads via text-to-speech software. He saves copies of the copyright-free books he reads in MP3 format. He offers to make text-to-speech recordings of Gutenberg titles on CD available to anyone who is blind or partially sighted as an MP3 or a wav file, for low or no cost [with donations gratefully accepted].
archive list
Here is a list of online libraries and archives dealing with HIV/AIDS information.
step in the right direction
The Rural AIDS Action Network in Minnesota is launching a Libraries Fight HIV/AIDS campaign in partnership with the MLA today.
exhibits at libraries today
Many libraries are hosting exhibits or events for World AIDS Day including: The National Library of Trinidad & Tobago, the Salt Lake City public library, the Maine College of Art library, the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro Vermont, Novato Public Library in Marin County and the Ames Public Library in Iowa.
gay library history
And, as some worthwhile related reading if you’re not too up on the gay library subculture: “They Sure Got to Prove It on Me”: Millennial
Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and
Gay Library History by James Carmichael from Libraries and Culture.
Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and
Gay Library History by James Carmichael from Libraries and Culture.
Without putting too fine a point on recent findings that suggest
that, even in urban collections, gay literature and gay studies have
received uneven treatment or recent evidence of a backlash against
social responsibilities as a part of the librarian mandate, it is probably no
exaggeration to claim that gay studies have progressed in spite of librarianship
as well as because of it. [pdf]
that, even in urban collections, gay literature and gay studies have
received uneven treatment or recent evidence of a backlash against
social responsibilities as a part of the librarian mandate, it is probably no
exaggeration to claim that gay studies have progressed in spite of librarianship
as well as because of it. [pdf]
