Yet another reason why librarians need to band together and/or seriously consider unionization: librarians in Wassau, Wisconsin are having their salaries cut by $10,000 a year. The director and board of the Marathon County Public Library in Wassau, Wisconsin, have decided librarians "today do less complex work". Funny given that the director also thinks librarians should focus more on technological assistance.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Vanishing Librarians
John Berry, past president of the ALA and editor-at-large at Library Journal, has written a very thought-provoking piece in the most recent edition of of LJ. If the opening paragraph doesn't pique your interest, I don't know what will:
It looks like the “transformation” we seek for libraries and librarianship may turn out to be more of a “deskilling” of library jobs than an enhancement of the profession. More and more working librarians are “managed” by a new breed of library leader. Their model for the new public library is that dehumanized supermarket or the chaotic disorganization of the largest Barnes & Noble.
Read more...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Sex Workers' Art Show--Feb. 24th
The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour is coming to Indiana University, Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 7 pm at the Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union. This event is FREE and open to the public (18 +, please)!
The show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!
The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringing audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry.
The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality!
For more information, visit http://www.sexworkersartshow.com or email cps@indiana.edu
Sponsored by: Office for Women's Affairs, Commission on Multicultural Understanding, GLBT Student Support Services, Kinsey Institute, Gender Studies Department, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, CommUNITY Education Program, OUT, Crossroads, Keshet, Women's Students Association, Feminist Law Forum, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Friends of Middle Way House, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Progressive Librarians Guild, PFLAG of Spencer, IN, bloomingOUT, Boxcar Books
The show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!
The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringing audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry.
The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality!
For more information, visit http://www.sexworkersartshow.com or email cps@indiana.edu
Sponsored by: Office for Women's Affairs, Commission on Multicultural Understanding, GLBT Student Support Services, Kinsey Institute, Gender Studies Department, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, CommUNITY Education Program, OUT, Crossroads, Keshet, Women's Students Association, Feminist Law Forum, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Friends of Middle Way House, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Progressive Librarians Guild, PFLAG of Spencer, IN, bloomingOUT, Boxcar Books
Friday, February 1, 2008
Library Smut
Because every blog should have something more on it than a mere welcome, I would like to draw your attention to one of those web sites that just makes me happy inside. No, it's not actually dirty. But "Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut" is the sort of page that has to make you glad you've decided to become a librarian.
Welcome!
Hello all, and welcome to the newly reborn Indiana University Progressive Librarians Guild Student Chapter (IU PLG-SC) blog! Hopefully we'll have something interesting for you to read posted soon; in the mean time, keep checking back!
(If you are looking for the pre-2008 IU PLG blog, click here.)
(If you are looking for the pre-2008 IU PLG blog, click here.)
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