The Library Life

Hi, kids. Sit down we need to talk.

You may have noticed that tumblr and I have been having some problems in our relationship. Our trial separation has gone on for too long and we think it would be best if we both moved on. We want you to know this isn’t your fault. It’s just sometimes grownups and blogging platforms don’t always see eye to eye and it becomes difficult for us to be around each other.

So, I’m moving over to WordPress. I know this seems sudden, and things are not serious yet necessarily, but you can find me over there if you need me. 

I am not deleting my blog. My blog will always be here for you. It’s just that I won’t be around very often. I probably won’t post anymore. That will take some getting used to, I know, but you’re older now, I believe you can handle it.

I know tumblr will take good care of you while I’m gone and you can come visit me anytime. 

Honestly though. A gal starts a little tumblr about librarying and finds a great little community and gains 500 followers and a new appreciation for so many aspects of humanity. It’s not easy to give up, but hey, things happen, people move on. I appreciate the experience I’ve had here with (almost) everyone and I wish you all best of luck. I will keep following a few people whose blogs have a personal touch that I’ve really come to enjoy, but that’s it. There’s just too much going on in the general flow of tumblr and it was wearing me down emotionally, and I’ve got enough pain in my life as it is.

Thanks for inviting me to the party. I had a lovely time and I bid you all a very fond farewell.

Goodbye.

Anonymous asked: Hi, im gonna be an upcoming freshman in college and I was wondering how is the Information Systems major?

I didn’t take Library Science as an undergrad, so I can’t really speak to that experience. As a grad student, I found Information Systems difficult to approach without a background in computer science. Maybe your college will do better for you, but if you’re committed to info sys, I would definitely devote some of your class time to computer science. Hope that helps.

Anyone have a different opinion?

A note to my fellow white feminists about the renewal of Agent Carter

medievalpoc:

karnythia:

gearsofpleasure:

knitmeapony:

Okay, remember when there was a lot of criticism about the lack of PoC in Agent Carter, and remember when everyone was freaking out about how that might mean it doesn't’ get renewed?

And you see now how it’s renewed?

It’s time to own the ‘it’ll get better in season 2′ and ‘give season 2 a chance if we get one’ and every time we suggested that folks who wanted better representation in that show should wait.

Start talking about it now. Start writing to the network now, and the writers, and get the word out there.

We’re SO EXCITED about Season 2, and we can’t wait to see a lot more diversity.  Where’s Jim Morita?  Where’s Gabe Jones?  Where are plots dealing with racial issues in the era?  Where are all the women of color?  It’s NEW YORK CITY, FFS.  By both actual reality and comics canon, the show is about 8000% too white.

SEASON TWO IS A LOCK, SO LET’S START ASKING FOR EVERYTHING WE SAID WE WERE WAITING FOR.

Push.  Push hard.  Because a LOT of us told the women of color who complained about the lack of intersectionaliity to wait.

The wait is over.

There was no diversity in the 40′s, people of color couldn’t drink from the same water fountains or ride in cabs. No need to fake it, if the show is about the 40′s well they were correct in season 1 i do not think any poc were agents of any kind in the 40′s 50;s 60′s 70′s The show is about agent carter not race relations.

You’re wrong in the MCU and in reality. There were Black Congressmen from the 1870′s on so this myth of complete segregation has never been true or possible. The first Black FBI special agent was James Wormley Jones who was appointed in 1919. Basic American history, federal jobs were integrated (not that they were ever really completely segregated) by Roosevelt with Executive Order  8802 in June 1941. In fact after WWII Truman continued to support desegregation of the armed forces and all other agencies, going so far in 1948 to appoint the first Black Federal judge among other high ranking positions, and issuing Executive Order 9981 which stated that  "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in  the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.“ By the end of the Korean War almost every unit in the military was integrated.

That’s before we get into how Jim Crow actually worked. Black & white people didn’t necessarily socialize in all places (though that list was mostly schools and church), but they worked in the same places, went to the same movie theaters, white people frequented clubs in Black neighborhoods like Harlem, Black people worked and performed in clubs with white audiences etc. Black and white people ate in the same restaurants, just at two different counters or sides of the same building. Their communities were side by side, they used the same transit systems, the idea was separate but equal even if the execution missed the mark. So the MCU was integrated as a reflection of the reality of the 1940′s. Some hotels didn’t allow Black people, but many did, especially at the lower end of the economic scale like the boarding house where Peggy lives. There’s literally no canonical or historical reason to erase the diversity of New York City in Agent Carter.

I think we all owe karnythia a debt of gratitude for the free history lessons, and I want to acknowledge that the painful need for them remains. “There was no diversity in the 40′s”? In New York City? The 20th century isn’t my area of expertise, but even I know that’s a ridiculous inaccuracy meant to silence justified criticism of a show being made right now.

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today’s agenda

flyinlo:

heydiggler:

• Survive till 5pm
  
• go see a movie (age of adeline or hot persuit)
• eat chicken fries
• go home and HOPEFULLY not get into ANOTHER argument with my mother
• sleep

BK chicken fries?😢

THEY STILL MAKE THOSE?!?!

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Is anyone else kind of freaking out that “Uptown Funk” is destined to be a landmark pop song, and it happened in our generation? Like it’ll be in the Rolling Stone Top 500 songs of all time? Like you will hear it at weddings and birthdays for the rest of your natural born life?

It’s that good, y’all. It’s that good.