“Does Sheila Butt’s Does God Love Michael’s Two Daddies? belong on your shelves as well (as a Tale of Two Mommies)?”
From ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee
-As a librarian I have weeded a number of books that include stereotypes or bigotry (why an elementary library opened in the 90’s would include such books to begin with is beyond me). And I would not purchase books now that have anti-Semitic or anti-immigrant themes, in the same way that I would not purchase such an anti-LGBT book. My limited library resources will go to books that open eyes and minds rather than close them.
Read the short article and the thoughtful comments. It’s an interesting discussion - one that is more nuanced than my answer may indicate. But with those nuances and complexities of intellectual freedom in mind, my thoughts above hold true to me.
Oh, just the title of that Butt’s book (and geez, that name) makes me nauseous.
"Oxford and Cambridge universities are putting aside an historic rivalry in a bid to acquire thousands of rare texts that give insight into Jewish life and culture from the medieval era until the 19th century."
Oxford, Cambridge work together to preserve Jewish texts | The Jewish Chronicle (via thequasiarchivist)
(via thequasiarchivist)
(via librariansoul)
"Kids these days and their vernacular"
| Me to co-worker: | Have you heard of YOLO? |
| Co-worker to me: | No... |
| [reference librarian walks in] | |
| Co-worker to reference librarian: | Have you heard of YOLO? Something kids say? |
| Reference librarian: | No, but Yolo is the name of a county in California. |
Daniel Ransom | the pinakes: from papyrus to PDF
As I recently stated, I’ll be posting some of my longer tumblr posts to my Wordpress site. “How to write the perfect letter” was published on tumblr in September, 2012 and was one of my most popular posts to date.
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Brain knows knows how to look out for his friends in the changing information landscape.
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On ego, teaching, and trousers.
It’s been a wonderful week of self-conscious (in a good way) dialogue about librarians in the blogosphere, librarians in their daily work, and librarians of the boy and girl sorts.
While I know I’m not the target of her reflection (I have nothing to the so called celebrity of the bloggers she’s referencing), Hi Miss Julie’s honest, insightful post about the intersections, or lack of intersections, between popularity, creative librarianship, and gender, got me thinking about what the hell I’m doing here on tumblr.
For those faint of self-interested blog posts, this one’s all about me. Things I’m good at, even things I like about myself. You’ve been warned.
“In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary,” says audio curator Greg Budney, describing a major milestone just achieved by the Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All archived analog recordings in the…
I guarantee this is the coolest thing you will learn about all weekend.
