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In reply to Russell.

The official grammarians would endorse your comma after “Myths” (but perhaps not after “Fabrications).” Plus, that’s the way they have it in their title tag.

In reply to Anonymous.

First: According to the Wikipedia page on the serial comma, the GPO Style Manual supports its mandatory use. Given FGI’s subject matter, your preference seems appropriate.

Second: The question of whether or not the blog title uses the serial comma depends on where in the page you look. The prominent, white words in the brown box make it look as though the serial comma has been omitted. However, the page is coded to include the serial comma in the Title tag — just look in your window’s title bar for confirmation. In fact, if you search the HTML, there isn’t a single place where “myths and” appears without a comma after “myths”. You appear to have correctly quoted the blog’s content rather than its title’s graphical representation. Well done.

The Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement is looking for contributors for our upcoming issue’s Idea Lab section (example). Idea Lab is practice-centered, is not peer-reviewed, and focuses on a theme selected by the editorial board. Public librarians, school librarians, and LIS graduate students are highly encouraged to contribute. We are looking for short contributions (approx. 200-600 words) responding to the following theme.

In recent years, social media companies like Twitter and Meta have come under scrutiny. These companies face data leaks; provide platforms for hate speech and disinformation; promote unchecked echo chambers; and are becoming increasingly predatory. Still, many libraries continue to use these platforms as a convenient tool to reach their users. Considering these ethical challenges, should librarians and libraries walk our digital footprints away from exploitative platforms?  Authors might address the following topics and questions:

• As information professionals, do we have a responsibility to our users to lead by example and stop lending our credibility to troubling products?
• What other platforms (Mastodon, post.com, bluesky, etc.) are you using or considering as Twitter alternatives  and why? How effective are they?
• How can we communicate with our users as ethically as possible?

Please send questions and a statement of interest to Jenna Freedman at jfreedma@barnard.edu and Stephanie Diaz at sad35@psu.edu no later than June 10, 2023. Final submissions are due ~June 15, 2023, and expected publication will be in fall 2023. JLOE is a peer-reviewed, open access interdisciplinary journal focused on advancing library outreach and engagement. To learn more about JLOE, visit https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jloe.

You will not be paid, nor will anyone involved in the editorial process, but neither will Elsevier!

FYI I'm on the editorial board of this journal, hence the post and co-editing the lab. Mwah!

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Books I read in 2016, in reverse chronological order according to when I read them, favorites starred.

I made it past my goal of 60 books, and then basically didn't finish anything in all of December. Writing up this list I saw a lot of books that now seem like they weren't worth the time, or now are barely worth remembering--somehow I seem to have ended up finshing things this year that I might have let go in other years. But I also read some really great stuff, and it was great to get so many things read this year. I didn't make it to my goal of 25 books by women of color, but I did read 16, and setting that goal did make me really think carefully about how I cho(o)se what to read, what is most promoted at large, and what is suggested to me/in my filter bubble.

1. Behold the Dreamers / Mbue *
2. Train Your Dog Positively / Stillwell
3. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It / Meloy *
4. The Everything New Puppy Book / DeVito
5. Dear Sister / Factora-Borchers
6. Asking for It / Harding *
7. Baise-Moi / Despentes
8. Turning Japanese / MariNaomi
9. Post-Digital Print / Ludovico
10. The Century of Artists' Books / Drucker (re-read)
11. A Child of Books / Jeffers *
12. Americanah / Adichie *
13. King Kong Theory / Despentes *
14. The Promise of Happiness / Ahmed
    

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Experiment: Circuit Bending Participant(s): Jason Soares, JFRE ‘robot’ Coad, J Lesser, P Hix and Rob Crow Time Frame: 1994 + Location: San Diego Submitted By: Jason Soares Submission Date: 2002-03-23 In the mid ’90s we learned of an idea called “curcuit bending”, the term of which was created by Qubais Reed Ghazala. Its the idea […]

Experiment: hacked labelle duo 16 Participant(s): Matt Lorenz & Jason Soares Time Frame: 1994 – 1995 Location: San Diego and Tour of US Submitted By: Matt Lorenz Submission Date: 2002-03-28 Around the spring of 1994 I found a bizarre old combo-projector at a secondhand store called thrift village in Linda vista, ca. It was called […]

Experiment: Killer Whale Copyright Participant(s): Jason Soares Time Frame: 1998 Location: San Diego / Internet Submitted By: Jason Soares Submission Date: 1998-01-27 In January of 1998 I received a cease and desist letter from the law offices of Wienberg Sullivan about offending slide photographs I had posted on The Experiment. The photos were found in […]

Sorry it took so long, but I finally got around to uploading our photos from our trip. Check them out! Related posts:Graphics and Photos from U.S. Government Vietnam wrap-up Eating and wandering through Korea Related posts:

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