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The Desk Set presents: QUE(E)RY: Que(e)ry: Leather Bound at ALA Chicago → queeryparty.org

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Owl Daddy has some more news about Que(e)ry: Leather Bound at ALA Annual in Chicago:

Announcing a live performance by Chicago’s queer rapper Big Dipper!

And get out your reading glasses for the Librarian Realness Contest!

The party starts on Monday, July 1 at 9pm, at Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave. and we’ll keep it going until closing time with DJs from Chances Dances, nerdy gogo dancers, and fun raffle prizes! 

21+; $10 suggested donation at the door, to benefit theLeather Archives and Museum, andChances Dances’ Critical Fierceness Grant.

Add the party to your ALA Annual Scheduler, andRSVP on Facebook

We’ll also be scheduling an Uncommons session at the Conference, so stop by and say hi!

While you’re in town, check out the GLBTRT Social and the Chicago Pride Parade, both on Sunday June 30. And stop in to visit theLA&M!

Signal boost!

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“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.” —

Paul Auster (via picadorbookroom)

I wonder if Paul Auster has been to one recently, though.

Libraries have actually become, in the US at least, de facto homeless shelters and centers for the mentally ill, as well as a resource for those needing childcare as well as the unemployed seeking work. There’s now signs on some of them in New York barring people from bringing ‘large packages’ which basically means ‘homeless people cannot bring their life’s belongings in here’—but they allowed it for almost a decade as homelessness in New York reached epic proportions. There’s actually very few places in American life so of this world, more than a library. Most public libraries are where you can see what is really going on for most Americans in a way you won’t ever see on the news or in a television show, or even in most fiction or nonfiction. And it is to the credit of most librarians that they continue to operate, despite budget cuts, the outlandish depravity of austerians and privitization mongrels. So, let’s not treat libraries like delicate flowers or temples withdrawn from the concerns of the world. They’ve shown themselves to be much tougher than that. Let’s instead make them what they should be, a better thing than what they’ve had to become—and look to what has been laid at their feet as a map to what our country really needs from its government services.

(via alexanderchee)

Alexander Chee, telling it like it is.

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“p.s. To any non-librarian readers: Libraries complete destroy your check-out records on purpose so that the government can’t ask us for it. Just FYI.” —

Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, the NSA, and the value of metadata | Pegasus Librarian

This last line isn’t directed at librarians, but it is a key fact. But the idea that metadata isn’t private, and as such libraries should get better metadata from publishers is interesting (and should be given a try).

(via chrischelberg)

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#libraries #librarians #privacy #NSA #Prism #tech #metadata
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Jun 18, 201354 notes
#lit #libraries #librarians #incarceration #Sesame Street #Rikers #NYPL
“We believe that if you buy it, you own it, you’re able to do with it what you want.” —

Andrew House, president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, affirming the core principle of the Owners Rights Initiative.

-“If you buy it, you own it”: Sony CEO Andrew House tells all about PlayStation 4 | Plugged In - Yahoo! News UK

(via arlpolicynotes)

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#libraries #librarians #ownership #DRM #politics #tech
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#libraries #librarians #Lifehacker #library card
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#libraries #librarians #METIS #MARC records #Dewey
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#libraries #librarians #tumblarians #book reaper #school librarians #overdue books #lit
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#ALA13 #diversity #lit #libraries #librarians
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“Is the modern city library engaging in activities outside its proper sphere, e.g. lectures, story-telling, art exhibits, victrola concerts, loan of pianola rolls, etc.?” —Papers and Proceedings of the 35th annual conference of the American Library Association, 1913 (via thepinakes)
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