I checked out a some summer reading material, including Revolting Librarians Redux. While I don’t know if I’ll agree to all that I read in this volume of essays, anything with some passion is worth checking into. I’ll attempt a review later on.

I was reminded of Revolting Librarians Redux when I attended an unofficial ALA conference event at Quimby’s Bookstore: “The Secret Lives of Librarians Event Feature Jenna Freedman, Travis Fristoe, Jenn Phillips-Bacher, Keith Helt and Celia Perez.” The place was packed, and everyone was having a great time. Each of the librarian/authors read from their zines. Writing wise, I was particularly impressed with Jenn Phillips-Bacher and Travis Fristoe. Jenn’s humorous biographical essay on Dewey (I hope to get ahold of the one existing issue of Riot Librarrrian if there’s a copy around somewhere). Travis’ writing seemed perfect as spoken word performance, with hilarious comments on library work and library patrons.

Jenna Freedman, who also read from her work, is a member of Radical Reference, a “service provided by librarians from over the United States to support the work of activists and independent journalists.” Check it out.

(this post is also at www.indylibrarian.net)

*if you’ve read any of my other posts for the last month, you’ll know I’m all about “settling in.”

I’m hanging at Spiderhouse for a bit, waiting for the noon tour of the Museum of Ephemerata. I’ve been wanting to check it out for quite awhile now, and as I am in a museum studies course right now, I am even more curious what these curators are up to. Maybe I can get some ideas for a final project.