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call for participants: collecting sex materials for libraries: an opinion survey

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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I’ve shared this on Twitter and Tumblr, but figured I might catch some folks here as well, so what the hell. This call for participants came across my dash via the H-Net: HistSex listserv. I took the survey last week and it does take a good 45 minutes if you want to be thoughtful about it an include commentary. I was frustrated with some of the multiple-choice options and the framing of some of the questions, but I also hope that the researchers will be able to get some useful information out of the data they collect — so if you’re a library and/or archives professional and interested in the question of sexuality in the archives, I encourage you to help ’em out!

Here is their call for participants in full:

In an attempt to understand librarian and library staff attitudes towards collecting sexual materials for libraries, librarians Scott Vieira and Michelle Martinez, assistant professors at Sam Houston State University, are asking for survey participants and offering the chance to win one of four available $25 gift certificates to Amazon.com.
 All librarians and library staff from any type of library are encouraged to participate.
 The survey, “Collecting Sex Materials for Libraries: An Opinion Survey,”
takes anywhere from between 25-40 minutes depending on reading speed, and consists of 49 questions. We’re looking for opinions on how librarians and library staff members feel about things such as 50 Shades of Gray, Hustler, gay erotica, and other items that are often considered contentious.
 Participants’ privacy will be kept and personal information is not required unless the participant wants to register for the drawing. Any personal information will be deleted once the drawing has been held within one week at the closing of the survey. Participants will be emailed the gift certificate.
 Participation in the survey is strictly voluntary. Participants can exit the survey at any time without penalty.
 By consenting to participate through accessing and submitting the survey, you authorize the use of your data to be compiled for possible articles, without any personally identifying information as may have been submitted for the prize drawing.
 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NZT9P79 If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Scott Vieira at
936-294-3743 or svieira@shsu.edu<mailto:svieira@shsu.edu> or Michelle Martinez at 936-294-1629 or mmartinez@shsu.edu<mailto:mmartinez@shsu.edu>.
 Or by mail: Attn: Scott Vieira or Michelle Martinez, SHSU Box 2179, Huntsville, TX 77341
 Scott Vieira
Assistant Professor &
Electronic Resources Librarian

Have fun!

you know you’re a giant nerd when …

04 Monday Feb 2013

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… your NPR membership card arrives in the mail and you’re super excited to a) feel like a grown up again ’cause you can afford to be a member of NPR for the first time since starting graduate school, and b) because WBUR is awesome enough that they actually had a way for us to join as a family and the membership card features both our names.

Um, yeah. That’s it for now. 

me –> writing elsewhere: looking back / looking forward edition

29 Saturday Sep 2012

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On the shore (Falmouth, Mass.)

Even though I took much of August and September off from regularly-scheduled blogging, I haven’t done one of these posts since early summer so there’s quite a bit accumulated on the interwebs to direct your attention to.

at the corner of your eye I put up the following reviews:

    guest posts at In Our Words include:

    at The Pursuit of Harpyness I contributed:

    and a few Tumblr-length thoughts over at the feminist librarian reads:

    Just today, I put up a farewell post at Harpyness; after nearly two years of blogging at what Hanna refers to as “the orange blog” I’ve decided it’s time to move on. In part, the break I took from blogging in the run-up to our marriage helped me see how over-extended I’ve become on the interwebs. I’d like to re-dedicate myself to this space (the feminist librarian) in the months to come, as well as focusing more systematically on longer-term writing projects. 
    In the immediate future, I’ll be sharing more stuff about our wedding and book reviews as I am able; my new responsibilities at work are making for a hectic season and I find that I get home in the evenings with less writing energy than usual. I don’t expect this to last, but please bear with me while it does — I love meeting you in this space, and promise I will be here in the years to come. 
    Incidentally, this is my 1000th post at annajcook.blogspot.com (which began life in 2007 as “The Future Feminist Librarian-Activist” in the spring before I embarked to graduate school in Boston. 

    me –> writing elsewhere: summertime living edition

    16 Saturday Jun 2012

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    view from my pillow, sunday afternoon

    It’s time for the semi-regular round-up of posts written elsewhere. As a reminder, I’m now linking all blog posts, regardless of host site, at my public twitter account: @feministlib. So for those who use Twitter, it’ll get you day-of updates from here and elsewhere. I realize Twitter isn’t to everyone’s taste, though, so I’ll keep providing these link lists intermittently for those who care.

    Over at the corner of your eye I reviewed:

    We’re also still posting three fan fic recs per week over at everything is gay and nothing hurts, for those who need a regular injection of slashy goodness.

    And at The Pursuit of Harpyness:

    And as I already highlighted, I participated in The Last Name Project back in May, writing about the way Hanna and I chose to combine our middle names in marriage. In July, I’ll be contributing further wedding-themed posts to the “queer salon” In Our Words, which has already cross-posted my outline of our minimalist wedding plans.
    I continue to feel that the feminist librarian is my true Internet home — and I thank you all for stopping by to visit me here! I’m glad you find it an hospitable space.

    me –> writing elsewhere: springtime for harpies! edition

    08 Sunday Apr 2012

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    Blackthorn Fairy*

    Here’s what I’ve been “writing elsewhere” since the 5th of February. Yep. It’s really been that long!

    At the corner of your eye:

    • I wrote a joint review of In Search of Gay America (1989) and Art and Sex in Greenwich Village (2007).
    • I reviewed Seanan McGuire’s new Discount Armageddon (2012). 
    • I shared a list of books read, not yet reviewed (sensing a theme at all?).
    • I posted the second episode of Ivor the Engine (1958), a children’s television show from England. Oliver Postgate wins the things.
    • I reviewed six books at once in a pre-vacation round-up on subjects ranging from last year’s best sex writing to the nature of identity in the twenty-first century.
    • I shared a list of ten books purchased but not yet read (randomly chosen from the many titles on our shelves!).
    • I reviewed The Hound of Conscience (1981), a history of English conscientious objectors of the First World War.
    • Also Bachelors and Bunnies (2011), a history of gender relations as articulated in the pages of Playboy through the 1970s.
    At The Pursuit of Harpyness (excluding cross-posts):

    Hope y’all are enjoying a long and fruitful spring. Can’t believe we’re heading back into baseball season already here in Boston … that time of year when you have to calculate the options for your commute home based on the relative number of Red Sox fans crawling around the neighborhood!

    *Before you ask, yes. I was completely besotted with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies as a wee one. In my defenseI think I assumed they all behaved a bit like Tiki from The Fairy Rebel.

    signal boost: scholarships: feminism & archives unconference

    27 Monday Feb 2012

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    A few weeks ago, I shared an announcement for a feminism and archives unconference March 9-11 in Milwaukee. Conference organizer Joyce Latham has sent me the following:

    The UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is sponsoring student scholarships for attendance at the “Out of the Attic, Into the Stacks, Feminism and LIS unconference” scheduled for March 9-11, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  To apply for the waiver of the registration fee, please submit your name, student status, and brief statement of how the participation in the conference will support your studies and/or practice to Adriana McCleer . Successful applicants will be notified by March 5, 2012.

    So if anyone is planning on attending as a student and feels the waiver of the registration fee will make attendance more possible, do let them know.

    me –> writing elsewhere [harpy fortnight]

    05 Sunday Feb 2012

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    So, okay, it’s been a while since I put one of these together. But here’s what I’ve been up to elsewhere on the internet since the last “harpy fortnight” (back in December).

    Hanna and I launched a new blog, the corner of your eye. And I’m not going to take for granted that y’all rushed over to follow it. I realize I’m not the center of the universe. But if you haven’t checked it out, and have no interest in adding another blog to your feeds, at least be sure to read Hanna’s post about swings. I also have book reviews up there for Britannia’s Glory and Inseparable (both about women + sex) and a couple of vintage films.

    Over at The Pursuit of Harpyness I’ve been keeping steady with about two posts per week, the contents of which can be summarized as follows:

    • Tuesday Teasers (links lists) gathered stuff I’ve been reading around the Internets every other week on Tuesday morning. I’m hoping to keep this going as a regular thing, though they’re surprisingly time-consuming to put together. See 12/20, 1/03, 1/17 and 1/31.
    • Let’s Talk Images is a series I started because I had some visual materials to share and analyze. I’ve done three so far, in which I put up an image, make a few observations, and throw the comment thread open for further analysis. See the conversation on a health insurance ad, Boston Magazine’s depiction of single women, and breastfeeding pictures on Tumblr.
    • Blog for Choice 2012 (January 22) actually prompted two posts this year, a pre-post discussion and then the actual post.
    • Hanna reviewed the new Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (at the corner) while at Harpyness I posed the Bechdel-esque question “how many women can one script sustain?“
    • Also, will we ever get over asking “what do women want?” when it comes to sex (and porn)?
    • I posted the audio of Terry Gross’s interview with Jill Lepore about Margaret Sanger and the history of Planned Parenthood. 
    • Also the trailer for Jessica Valenti’s new documentary film on the purity myth.
    • What are your favorite holiday books and/or traditions?
    • and I gave a signal boost to the Boston-area researcher working on dissertation research concerning queer folk and social interactions. If you read this blog regularly, you’ll already have been following my participation in Holly’s research.
    That’s about all, folks, bar the re-posts and all the regularly-scheduled signal boosts I give stuff over on Tumblr. Have as much fun as you wish, and leave the rest to me.

    signal boost: feminism & library science "unconference"

    04 Saturday Feb 2012

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    This came through my work inbox yesterday and I thought there might be interest among readers of this blog:

    “Out of the Attic and Into the Stacks” : Feminism and LIS : the Unconference : March 9-11, 2012 in Milwaukee 

    A meeting of practitioners, scholars and aspirants in the field of library and information studies to explore feminism as theory, boundary, ecology, method,flavor, relationship, and epistemology — among others.

    Unconference will include an unposter session.  Cost is $25.

    Support provided by the Center for Information Policy Research at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the School of Information Studies. Co-sponsors include the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the School of Library and Information Science at University of Wisconsin – Madison.

    Unconference begins with a reception on Friday evening and concludes Sunday at noon.

    Room reservations available at the Hilton Milwaukee, which provides a shuttle service to the UWM campus.  Light breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, lunch on Saturday provided.

    Contact Joyce M. Latham (latham@uwm.edu) or Adriana McCleer (adriana.mccleer@gmail.com).

    Sadly, I’ve got a previous commitment that week — even if travel money was in the offing. So if anyone ends up going, I’d love a report! Shoot me an email and we could talk guest post(s) and/or link love.

    harpy fortnight: season of thanks

    27 Sunday Nov 2011

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    I’m finally getting around to posting a round-up of Harpyness posts for the first time since October 2nd. Sorry folks! But it’s actually been kinda a slow season for everyone over at TPoH, so the links haven’t been accumulating too fast. Here’s what I got for y’all:

    I think blogging will likely continue to be sedate through the holiday season, as we all balance our personal, professional, and online priorities. As always, you’re welcome to hop on over to Harpyness to check out all the conversation in situ there.