Blogs

From Wanda in Minneapolis-Saint Paul: The RNC is just a little over a week away. I think it would be great to get together to start planning how we are going to provide support.

For your convenience, and that of Melissa and Lia at the IFLA conference in Ville de Québec, two versions of the Radical Reference flyer in French.

The Librarians' Internet Index this week pointed to a nifty collection of book covers from Syracuse University Library.

Dr. Philip Howard (Assistant Professor of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies at Michigan State University) maintains information graphics on the structure of the organic industry. Looks like a good resource for other researchers and activists, as well as regular consumers like you and me. Who owns what? Who's merged with whom? And more! (Thanks to the Park Slope Food Coop's "Linewaiters' Gazette" for recently reprinting one of these graphics.)

Jessamyn just turned me on to K.R. Roberto's new book, Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front. Go out and buy one for every librarian that you know. Really, do it now!!

(admission: I've now added Jenna's feed because I woulda known about the book earlier if I'd just read the Lower East Side Librarian!!)

The Radical Reference Subject Heading Blog-a-Thon got a little write up in Library Journal. Yay!

I learned courtesy of a Google Alert of this nice blog post about Radical Reference, "File Under Progressive: Radical Librarians Catalogue for the Cause."

ShinJoung Yeo, Lia Friedman, and

So: one of the most annoying/odious things i have to do at my current library is to find pictures of the California Missions for kids so they can build mini versions of them.

yo: i added some resources to the History, Resistance section of the Reference Shelf (look towards the top right of the website).