Blogs

So. I guess being a radical librarian will ruffle a few feathers. Here is what a wacko posted on Indymedia:

So. The weirdness has begun in the Twin Cities. We will be blogging about our days during the RNC convention.

UPDATE: Here's the wiki with all the info! http://wiki.radicalreference.info/index.php/RNC2008

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