Jun 25
Sarah MurphyBibliobeat
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
Have an idea for the next Bibliobeat? Write to us at bibliobeat@gmail.com
Jun 04
Sarah MurphyBibliobeat, 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
Have a suggestion for the next Bibliobeat? Get in touch! bibliobeat@gmail.com
May 21
Sarah MurphyBibliobeat, 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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