Shelf Check: election

9/9/08

Shelf Check #266

(2-part; forgive the break)

Note: While I don't and won't block comments, I'm not too interested in getting into a comment war over what may or may not have happened. I've read many articles/fact-checking sites, etc., and this is what *I* (and Jan) have come to believe happened between Sarah Palin and Wasilla library director Mary Ellen [Emmons] Baker. I put in the "apparently" because this info is based on what Anne Kilkenny has stated, not something I saw with my own eyes. I will say that I think it is wrong-minded and silly to say there's no issue here because "no books were banned." I don't even really think the story is about banned books (nor have I used my "bannedbooks" tag on this strip), and it's a shame discussion is getting mired in faux banned-book lists, etc. I think the story is about power and control. Banned books fall under that banner--the desire to have control over what is made available to the public. But this attitude seems to me to be just as (or even more) dangerous brought into institutions other than libraries, and I do not expect that Palin did stop or will stop, if elected, at libraries. For reference: link to Kilkenny letter; link to "Palin: Library censorship inquiries 'Rhetorical', an article that first ran in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman on 12/18/96.

1/29/08

Shelf Check #185

xkcd's announcement of support for Obama
Toni Morrison's endorsement
xkcd, if you're not familiar, is a really great "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language" (and computers and gaming and, if not libraries, a lot that pertains to them). Here's a link to one of my favorite strips--one with definite relevance to libraries right now: "Future"

12/7/16

11/17/16

11/1/16

11/7/08

11/4/08

11/3/08

10/16/08

10/6/08

9/27/08

9/24/08

9/16/08

9/9/08

9/8/08

9/3/08

8/27/08

5/14/08

2/11/08

2/10/08

1/29/08

Emily Lloyd

Selected Prose Posts (Not-Comics)

Find Strips by Tag

Blog Archive