Jul 23
SarahBibliobeat
Do this Right Thing : Tonight!
This heat wave just won’t quit, and Brooklyn feels steamy, lazy, and increasingly ticked off. Can’t help but think about Spike Lee’s ah-MAY-zing Do The Right Thing, and I’m thrilled to report that Books Through Bars is screening the film tonight at Freebird Books. Great cause, great film, great idea.
And, speaking of the 80s…
Our favorite rock journalist and Desk Set friend, Rob Sheffield, just published his second book : Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut. Each chapter showcases a different song from the 80s, and a different moment in Rob’s coming-of-age. Unless you’re either made of stone, or under 20, you’ll love the moments when your own 80s musical history overlaps with Rob’s – and seeing as he was listening to everything from The Smiths to Big Daddy Kane, it will – and his funny, sweet narrative will just make you want to have a beer with him. Luckily, Rob is often found at Enid’s, and as the world’s nicest man, he will probably take you up on that.
Listen to Rob’s interview with Leonord Lopate on WNYC.
Dancing in the Stacks
Well, not the stacks exactly, but the stairs near them. There are three more chances to catch the live swing music and dancing at the Central Branch of Brooklyn Public Library. Show up at 6:30, and learn a few steps. Then stick around and dance the evening away.
Plaza Swing Series
Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
Thursday July 29, August 5, August 12
6:30 pm
Free!
More Info
And, finally …
Seems like there’s a trend sweeping the librarians of the nation at the moment, and it involves singing about your profession. Here’s the latest example. If you’re an archivist, you’re O.K., and you just might find this amusing. (Thanks to lyricist and archivist David Kay for the tip!)
No, wait: there’s more
Check out this terrific interview with Gabriel Levinson, founder of the Book Bike project, a Chicago based library on wheels. Levinson talks about his project, his opinions on libraries, ebooks, book books, and some a-hole’s piece on Fox News.
Jul 09
SarahBibliobeat
Mini Festival, Regular Sized Zines
Check out Pete’s Candy Store at the end of this month for the Mini Zine Fest:
Pete’s Mini Zine Fest is what you need this summer. Cold beer, warm handmade zines and books, live music – great location. Come browse and buy, meet local writers and graphic artists and get inspired.
Pete’s Mini Zine Fest
Saturday, July 31, 2010
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn
Free!
More Info
Satisfy Your Curiosity for Vintage Photography
There’s always something unusual to see at the Burns Photo Archive Blog. I’m especially taken with the floating Victorian heads, and a little frightened by the colt with two legs.
© 2010 The Burns Archive
Dr. Burns’ collection of vintage photographs (1840-1950) has been generally recognized as the most important private comprehensive collection of early photography. It has been showcased in numerous national media venues worldwide. Artists, researchers and historians access the one million+ photographs.
Thanks to Burns Archive Librarian, Sarah Simms, for the tip!
Check out the Schomburg Center
If you’re free on Monday July 12th at 3:00, join the Desk Set on our tour and behind-the-scenes look at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. If you’re not free on Monday, check it out some other time! One of NYPL’s Research Libraries, the Schomburg Center is one of the nation’s foremost resources on African and African American culture and history.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world’s leading research facilities devoted to the preservation of materials on the global African and African diasporan experiences. A focal point of Harlem’s cultural life, the Center also functions as the national research library in the field, providing free access to its wide-ranging noncirculating collections. It also sponsors programs and events that illuminate and illustrate the richness of black history and culture.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY
Tour with the Desk Set
Monday, July 12th, 3:00PM
RSVP thedeskset@gmail.com
Check website for regular hours
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Jun 04
SarahBibliobeat, Events from Other Orgs, Programs of Interest
Not Your Mother’s Craft Fair
So, here’s my perfect weekend morning: sleep late, eat eggs, buy a handmade skirt made out of vintage New York Yankees bedsheets. Back in 2005, when the Renegade Craft Fair first came to McCarren Park, such was my dream Saturday. Other treats picked up over the years at RFC include a bottle opener featuring a 50s era gal opining, “Babies creep me out,” a “What would Tim Gunn do?” button, and any number of “Reading is Sexy” items. Librarians and DIY crafters tend to like each other (and often be each other), so we feel pretty confident in saying we’ll see a lot of you there!
Renegade Craft Fair
McCarren Park, Greenpoint
Saturday & Sunday June 5 & 6, 2010
11:00am – 7pm
*** this just in: If one Craft Fair isn’t enough for you, stop by Daddy’s in Williamsburg for $2 Buds, $3 Blue Points, $4 well drinks AND works by your favorite local artists/artisans/patrons and/or workers of Daddy’s. Handcrafts, Jewelry, Silkscreened Shirts and Bags, Records, Photographs, TIE DYE, Hand Knit Wall Art, Vintage Ts, Live Video, Textiles, Homemade Kombucha, and MORE
Happy Hour Flea Market
Daddy’s
437 Graham Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, June 5th
12:00pm – 6:00pm
Cook Book
Aimee Bender‘s new novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a little sweet, a little tart, with hints of magic and heaps of melancholy. The young heroine is blessed/besotted with the gift of empathy through eating – she can feel the emotions of whoever prepared the food she tastes, leading her to refuse her dissatisfied mother’s cooking for anything that came out of a factory. Don’t be fooled by the pastel and curlie-cue cover; this is a good book.
We’re delighted to extend a super swell offer from our friends at Symphony Space: use code SSP
253 for $10 tickets (regular price $24) to see Ms. Bender in conversation with Heidi Julavits about The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake as part of the Thalia Book Club.
Aimee Bender at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street,
New York, NY
Monday, June 14, 2010
$10 with discount code SSP253
Read Up, Hook Up
If you judge your dates by their bookshelves, why not skip awkward dinner conversation and the potential disappointment of going home with someone who fills a bookcase with video games, or keeps the latest Glenn Beck on a nightstand? Get straight to the heart of the matter at Word Bookstore’s upcoming literary matchmaking mixer at the Diamond. Enjoy drink specials, DJs, and the chance to be crowned King or Queen of the Prom!
Literary Matchmaking Mixer
Sponsored by WORD at the Diamond
43 Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Thursday June 17, 2010
Facebook RSVP encouraged
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May 21
SarahBibliobeat, Events from Other Orgs, Programs of Interest andrew beccone, beer, brecht forum, colson whitehead, dorothy parker, emily drabinski, gilbert ford, goodreads, greenlight, julia weist, new york city lit pub crawl
We’re pleased as pie to bring you the first installment of the Bibliobeat, our little blog’s way of shouting out and hyping up the stuff we heart.
Want to suggest something for the Bibliobeat? Send an e-mail to bibliobeat@gmail.com
And without further ado, here are some things to do/see/hear/imbibe this week:
Learning to Fly
Gilbert Ford, illustrator and author (whose work you may know from certain librarian dance party invitations), published his first picture book in March.Flying Lessons is a treat to view – Gilbert’s signature cheerful but edgy characters are on full display, and the New York City skyline has never been so lovingly rendered – and a delight to read. We’re also very fond of the dedication… Catch Gilbert tomorrow morning at Greenlight Books in Fort Greene!
Gilbert Ford reads Flying Lessons
10:30 AM, 5/22/2010
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street, Ft Greene, Brooklyn
Also includes Paper Airplane activities!
The Best Way to Enjoy Your Booze? With Books!
We just found out about the Goodreads New York City Lit Pub Crawl, and we think it sounds pretty swell. The invitation mentions the following enticements:
Housing Works, beer, Dorothy Parker, Colson Whitehead. Need we say more? Perhaps just the essential information:
Goodreads New York City Lit Pub Crawl
May 27, 2010 07:00PM
Housing Works, Botanica, Tom & Jerry’s, KGB Bar
Beginning at: 126 Crosby St, New York, NY
RSVP
And while we are on the subject of pub crawls, if you’ve not yet experienced the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl, it’s never too late. Every Saturday, rain or shine, you can walk around the village with actors and story tellers, and learn all about Hart Crane’s love triangle, Dylan Thomas’s legendary drinking, Thomas Paine’s corpse, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s tiny house, and more.
Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl
Every Saturday at 2:00 PM
Beginning at the White Horse Tavern
567 Hudson Street, New York, NY
$20
Totally Rad Reference
Some of our favorite librarians are speaking at the Brecht Forum on Monday for Radical Reference’s Shelf Life event. Julia Weist (who among other accomplishments has just started blogging for our Librarian in the Spotlight column!) and Andrew Beccone will discuss Deaccession, Reanimation, and the Social Justice Implications of Library Discards. Come with questions and comments for the discussion to follow, moderated by LIU Librarian Emily Drabinksi.
May 24, 2010
Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune) New York, NY
7:30pm
$6-10 sliding scale, no one turned away for inability to pay
p.s. like our Bibliobeat logo? Yeah, so do we! We’ve got the fabulous Rick Banister to thank for it.
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