RSSBibliobeat June 25/2010
Jun 25
One More Day to Get Yourself to Jersey
For the Combat Paper Project at Newark Public Library.
The Newark Public Library is featuring art by veterans in a new exhibition, The Combat Paper Project: Healing through Art. The exhibition highlights art by veterans on paper made from military uniforms and may be viewed from April 1 through June 26 in the third floor gallery of the Main Library, 5 Washington Street, Newark.
Combat Paper Project: Healing Through Art
Curated by Jared Ash, Special Collections Division
Newark Public Library
5 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07101-0630
Ends tomorrow 6/26
Free
Reading is My Window
Books Through Bars is teaming up with Freebird Books (where BTB is currently housed) to present a talk and discussion with Megan Sweeney, author of the new book Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons.
Drawing on extensive individual interviews and group discussions with ninety-four women imprisoned in North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons (UNC Press, 2010) explores how women prisoners use the limited reading materials available to them to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. The book offers the first analysis of incarcerated women’s reading practices, and it foregrounds the voices and experiences of African American women, one of the fastest growing yet least acknowledged populations in U.S. prisons.
Books Through Bars Presents… Reading Is My Window
Discussion and Reading with Megan Sweeney,
Author of Reading is My Window
Freebird Books
123 Columbia Street,
Brooklyn 11231
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
7:30 – 8:30 PM
Free
Looking for work? Mark Your Calendars.
New York Chapter of SLA, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) and ACRL/NY are presenting the Library Workers’ Skill Share next month at Brooklyn Public Library.
The Skill Share is an effort to provide support for all library workers in NYC who are job hunting, unemployed or facing potential layoffs, and will feature:
“Locating and Using Local Career Development Opportunities”, Tom Nielsen from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
“E-Portfolios and Profiles: Using Free Web Tools to Prepare for the Job Market”, Susanne Markgren from ACRL/NY
Speed mentoring sessions: Meet one-on-one with library workers from academic, special, medical and public libraries for advice and networking – arrive early to sign up for a time slot
Resume review roundtables
Workshops
Spotlight sessions
Networking and resource tables: Meet with representatives from various associations and agencies and find out about available resources and services
And much more!
Library Workers’ Skill Share
Tuesday, July 13 from 4:30pm – 7:00pm
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Register: http://tinyurl.com/libraryworkersevent
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