Link Roundup #23: Books in Prisons, Plants, Giza, & Gender in the Library

Valerie ShaindlinOctober 24, 2019economics, tattoos, teens, hip hop, music, Hustlers, prison, books, gender, plants, art, libraryComment

Link Roundup #21: Lizzo, Beyoncé, Antidepressants & the End Times

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 13, 2019Beyoncé, Lizzo, Climate Change, homelessness, library, royalty, Indigeneity, writing

Link Roundup: Literary Hoaxes, Stylish Kids, & New Food Mags

Here are links to articles I’ve been meaning to read: Literary hoaxes and the ethics of authorship, stylish kids seen around NYC, and more. Have you read any of these, and if so, what did you think? What’s on your to-read list?

Valerie ShaindlinFebruary 5, 2019japan, literature, hoax, writing, Brigid Hughes, editing, #MeToo, new york, style, fashion, kids, food, magazine, science, library, archives, women authors, Ferrante

Link Roundup: Kit Kats in Japan, Education in Finland, & Food in Naples

Here are links to articles I’ve been meaning to read: Kit Kats in Japan, Education in Finland, Food in Naples, and more.

Valerie ShaindlinJanuary 29, 2019link roundup, Japan, Italy, Ferrante, library, candy, chocolate, politics, feminism, Finland, technology, materialism, education, immigration

Deconstructing the Library with Jacques Derrida

When I saw a book chapter applying Derridean thought to Library & Information Science, I was immediately intrigued.

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinJanuary 3, 2019librarian, jacques derrida, library, michel foucaultComment

Social Justice in LIS Instruction: A Reading List

This is a list of academic articles, books, libguides, monographs, and websites, all related to Social Justice in LIS Instruction. This list is a resource my friend Holiday and I shared with attendees of our round table discussion at the Hawaiʻi Library Association’s 2018 conference.

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinDecember 13, 2018social justice, instruction, education, library, librarian

HLA Article: Full Interview with Guha Shankar

An Interview I did with Guha Shankar, a keynote speaker at the Hawaiʻi Library Association’s 2018 conference, was featured in this winter’s HLA newsletter. Here is the full version of that interview, and a more personal introduction.

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinDecember 11, 2018interview, cultural heritage, folklore, academia, HLA, Indigeneity, Guha Shankar, librarian, library

Contemplating Cataloging: Tuttle’s “Aphasia of Modern Subject Access”

How can we distill the ‘aboutness’ of an item?

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinNovember 27, 2018language, contemplating, cataloging, librarian, libraryComment