First, whilst I was in Orlando amusing some of my favorite MMLs (Muckety-Muck Librarians) with my 12-megabyte PowerPoint slideshow, I received news that my essay The Outlaw Bride was accepted for publication! In my typical ultra-superstitious manner I’m not going to tell you where until I at least see a contract, but it’s a well-respected [...]
Tags: Librarianship · Writing
I just finished a major draft of the first soup-to-nuts literary essay I have written since spring 2006, when I was crankin’ ‘em out for MFA workshop homework assignments. (The essay, about local food, was on request, for an anthology.) Yay me! I hope it doesn’t suck, or at least that any sucking can be [...]
Tags: Tallahassee Living · This and That
First be sure to limit your group to six or seven members, so each participant can be assured plenty of opportunities to read. Look for serious writers with lots of material to submit. Make that serious novelists, because short story or nonfiction authors won’t be suited to this type of group, no matter how kind [...]
Tags: Writing
“‘ “I find the comparison between civil rights based on race and supposed new rights being granted for what amounts to deviant behavior to be really kind of ridiculous. There is no comparison. A black as a person does not by being black harm anyone. Gay rights is a collective delusion that’s being attempted. And [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n · Gay Rights · Writing
In this week of Link Love, I leave you with this YouTube video, Hitler Explains Second Life. I include it in my writing feed because the dubbing is brilliantly witty. I guarantee you’ll find a line or two that sticks with you.
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Tags: Writing · Writing for the Web
Mark Doty’s Dog Years: A Memoir won in the nonfiction category for this year’s Stonewall Book Award, selected by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Roundtable of the American Library Association — passionate readers who spend a year steeped in this particular literature (”exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience”).
Dog Years is a gorgeous book, [...]
Evergreen (the open source ILS software) gives me hope, and I see more “greening” of LibraryLand. So as I shake and shiver through this nasty brain-sucking cold (it’s hard to get creative when I wake up sounding like a vacuum cleaner), here’s yet more link love today!
“The pilot group for the Michigan Evergreen project will [...]
Tags: Next Gen Catalog
I know it’s considered lame to write a hey-gee-look-at-the-pretty-linkies post, but first of all, link posts make a great amusee bouche between those huge ketchup-sauced meatloafs I dole out once or twice a week, and second, I’m tuckered from a whirlwind conference at ALA, backlogged on homework due Thursday, and about to go to an [...]
Mild post updates:
First, if you are attending Midwinter and want to see the LITA Trendsters in action, it’s Sunday, January 13, 2008, 8-10 a.m., LOEWS Congress B. The session will be recorded, but we’re so much more fun f2f.
Second, under interoperability/open data I’d add NISO’s ballot item to establish a working group on serial knowledge [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n · Hot Tech · Standards Schmandards
Mary Ghikas, ALA wonk, once again put out an amazzzzzzzzzzzzing guide to ALA Midwinter. Must reading! I found it thanks to Aaron Dobbs’ post to several ALA lists, and may I remind you he’s running for ALA Council and I’m supporting him.
On the ALA wiki page linking to Mary’s report I also saw the following [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n