The Washington Post reports that the FBI has recalled a National Security letter. This is the method that the FBI uses to get information on library users. Three times libraries have gone to court, each time they have won. Over 200,000 such demands have been made.
CBAA Biennial Conference Call for Proposals: Due June 1, 2008
College Book Art Association
Biennial Conference
Art, Fact, and Artifact: The Book in Time and Place
January 8-10, 2009
Hosted by the University of Iowa Center for the Book
The art of the book has been at once visionary and documentary, imagining a future that has yet to exist while finding inspiration from the resources of the past. The first biennial conference of the College Book Art Association seeks to bridge the worlds of book art, book history, cultural criticism, and curatorial work through appreciation of the book as an aesthetic sensorium. Along with session programming, the conference agenda will include keynote speakers, exhibits, tours of facilities, open discussion time, and portfolio reviews.
For the conference program, the organizers invite submissions for individual presentations, pre-formed panels, and studio demonstrations.
Proposals Due June 1, 2008.
The UI Center for the Book encourages graduate student participation and has secured funding to assist students with conference expenses.
For details on the event and submitting proposals
Found on the internet, so it has to be true!
10. If you are going to come to the library, you may want to bring your library card with you. If you don’t have a card, then you should probably have some sort of ID with you. In a similar vein, if you need to print of copy something, you may want to bring money with you. What type of person goes out to a public building with the intentions of acquiring a product or service from that building, without money or ID on them?
9. I am a librarian. I know about books and computers. I do not know how to do your taxes, what the wacky growth on your elbow is, or how to get free money for you to get new gutters. I cannot and will not do the work for you. I will point you in the right direction and provide you with whatever resources I know of that can help you, but it’s ultimately up to you to do the work. I am also not a social worker or a lawyer, so don’t assume I can tell you how you can get your kids back from your ex-wife or how to what steps are necessary for you to apply to get low income housing three states away.
The Salem News reports: “School Committee member Beverley Dunne wants to take a novel approach to choosing summertime selections. If a book can’t be read out loud at their committee’s meetings, it doesn’t belong on the list, she proposed Tuesday night.”
Let’s let the teachers teach, please.
The 5th Annual Ann Arbor Book Festival will be held from Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2008.
The 2008 Language & Literacy Symposium will be held on Thursday, May 15, 2008.
The 2008 Writer’s Conference will be held on Friday, May 16, 2008.
The 2008 Street Fair will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2008. Come have a look at the event schedule and plan your day!
Bookstore Crawl
Be sure to visit our area participating bookstores and libraries in the annual Bookstore Crawl. If you visit at least half (14), you are eligible for a small prize. If you visit 25, you will be put into a drawing at the Festival on Saturday, May 17. NEW THIS YEAR: a number of the Festival events are listed on the passport. Come to these events and get your passport signed. Check out the list - it’s a good one!
The International Center for Calligraphic Arts organizes the course:
BOOKS BY HAND
FROM HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS TO CONTEMPORARY GESTURAL WRITING
with Monica Dengo and Cristina Balbiano
Arezzo, October 18 - 25, 2008
Books by Hand is a calligraphy and bookbinding workshop held in Arezzo, a beautiful medieval art city in
Tuscany, near Florence. This unique course offers students the opportunity to rethink the relation between
form and function. Having access to the historical sources, we will study directly from a manuscript written
in a clear Carolingian hand, kept at the Arezzo Public Library.