Unfortunately, I’m guessing the Dolly photo will have to be changed at some point.

From Bitch Magainze’s Facebook events page:
Come celebrate the grand opening of our community lending library with us! It’s happening at our Alberta Street office during July’s Last Thursday. The Bitch staff will be hanging out and showing off our 800+ book collection that covers topics like feminist theory, media studies, queer and gender studies, history, and sociology, to name a few. Bring an ID and a piece of mail and we’ll get you signed up to borrow books.

The library is open to the public on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-7pm, and on other weekdays by appointment. We hope to see you on Thursday!

More DEETs:
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: The Bitch Offices, 4930 NE 29th Ave., Portland, OR
Email: library@b-word.org

And don’t forget to CHECK OUT [smooth] the library catalog here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bitchlibrary

If you live in Oregon, you can contact your legislators via this generic form. I’m sure there are a slew of interns who will review your submission and promptly route it to the correct place. Feel free to copy, tweak, and paste the message I hastily copied, tweaked, and pasted from the District Dispatch post.
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Hello.

I am a [librarian, bibliophile, cheerleader for libraries, etc.] living in [Anytown, OR], and am writing you in hopes that you PLEASE, PLEASE include important library provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  In particular is it crucial that you:

• Restore education construction funds eliminated from the Senate version of the ARRA. The House version of the ARRA would provide $14 billion for K-12 construction and $6 billion for higher education construction and specifically mention libraries as an allowable use of funds. The K-12 construction funds would create 300,000 jobs.
• Restore the money cut from the State Stabilization Fund in the Senate bill to $79 billion to and restore the Governors ability to use a portion of the funds at his or her discretion.
• Maintain the $8 billion for ‘Broadband Technology Opportunities Program’ for robust broadband to all of America including “fiber to the libraries for the 21st century.”
• Make no less than $200 million available for competitive grants for expanding public computer center capacity, including community colleges and public libraries.
• Uphold the open access of networks and not include provisions allowing intrusive network management techniques.

Libraries are a key source of free internet access to look for jobs and so much more. Our libraries provide essential services that stimulate our local economies.  Please help to ensure libraries receive the  much needed funding the ARRA can provide.

 Thank you.
[You know who you are!]

Give it a listen here.

Here is Sherman in the library, looking deceptively wholesome, I think.  She looks very young [Sherman was 23 when this was shot, old enough to have just finished her MLS degree] and there is a ‘Library Lolita’ feel to this photograph.  Oh yes, I love fueling the bookworm-by-day-bad-girl-by-night librarian stereotype.

I think this would be a great idea for an exhibit at a library or, EVEN BETTER, as an alternative way of displaying staff and committee photos on library walls!  Shot in black and white, those being photographed would create [or recreate] some library-centric scene from the past.  Since black and white film would be used, scenes from 1960s and earlier would be best.  Ooh!  Now how do I get management to share MY VISION.

So this website, retrobacklore.net, is going to be a virtual, gentle nudge of the things I am interested in, and perhaps you or your library may be interested in as well. As the title indicates comic books [from all countries], librarianship, and, that’s right, WHITE-HOT DATA ON DATA ACTION [I am starting a campaign to have this phrase replace 'metadata.' JOIN ME.] will be discussed. I hope you will stay awhile to see what adventures await us but again, the choice is yours.