One of the side effects of moving within anarchist circles is that you don’t take the word “revolution” at all lightly. This has made the past decade rough in terms of palatability of advertising. Sometimes when there is particular envelope-pushing, I am at least interested in marketplace revolutions. Reality Publishing claims to be on the forefront of just such a revolution… everyone chips in for the book’s publication, everyone helps write, everyone gets to share in the fruits of the labor. Their first project is about the Dean campaign. Nominally democratic [if badly copy-edited] I don’t know if I would call it a revolution, but anything that challenges current business models in publishing is a good start.
Month: March 2004
komputer kog, or “I got an MLIS for this?”
Speaking of my job, I would like to chime in with a hearty “hear hear!” to this sentiment.
”Research-related issues are within our job parameters,” said [librarian] Nevin Gussack… “Signing people up and making up numbers [to log on], as a professional, is kind of demeaning. I don’t like being a disciplinarian. I like being the purveyor of information. I would rather teach than be a policeman.”
edible books coming up soon
Edible Book Festival coming up this Thursday.
the librarian dreams of rare items
Do you have collector dreams ever, where you find one fo the world’s rarest things? I used to have dreams when I was a kid stamp collector of finding an inverted Curtis Jenny stamp. Apparently, one librarian in Maine had this dream come true and was recently verified to be in posession of the world’s rarest silver dollar. [thanks belva]
naked in a library… bookstore?
I think this naked lady is in a bookstore, not a library. [nsfw]
