Across the Desk of a Library Vixen

Featuring all the unique items that come across my desk as the Librarian at the Center for Sex & Culture Library & Archive, and any other Instagram wimsey I have.

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Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award

Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award

  CLA’s Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award honors Californian people, groups, and organizations that have made significant contributions to intellectual freedom. Awardees are selected based on recent or important lifetime contributions to intellectual freedom.

The Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award honors the memory of California librarian Zoia Horn (1918-2014), who in 1972 chose to…

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On behalf of the California Library Association‘s PRExcellence Awards Committee, the South San Francisco Public Libraries promotion  “Rad American Women A-Z: The Countdown to Rad,” has been selected as the winner in “Less than $5 Million: Event or Campaign.” The South San Francisco Public Library was chosen based on their creative use of social media and online local organization“Become a Marketing Superstar,” in order to feature PRExcellence Award projects outreach in connection with a library event.

The PRExcellence Awards honor the highest quality efforts of California libraries in promoting and communicating their message to their customers. Your campaign will be featured in a special panel session, called “Become a Marketing Superstar,” in order to feature PRExcellence Award projects in which we invite you to discuss your project ot an audience of fellow librarians and conference attendees.

California Library Association PRExcellance  Award 2016 submission

Rad American Women A-Z: The Countdown to Rad

On June 16th, 2015 the South San Francisco Public Library was fortunate to have the opportunity to host Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl, author and illustrator respectively of  Rad American Women A-Z Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History…and Our Future! This New York Times bestselling book for kids of all ages documents America’s famed and unsung heroines. Rad American Women A-Z is a traditional A-Z  primer, but instead of A is for Apple, in this book A is for Angela Davis, B is for Billie Jean King, C is for Carol Burnett,  D is for Dolores Huerta, and E is for Ella Baker. The women featured include Civil Rights fighters, poets, singers, doctors, scientists, farmers, and many more important female figures. This book is an empowering primer for all genders and all ages.  

Our social media campaign consisted of a 26 day countdown to the appearance of author, Kate   Schatz and illustrator, Miriam Klein. Our countdown started with A for Angela Davis and ended on the day of the program with Z for Zora Neale Hurston. Each day leading up to the event we posted on one or all of our social media outlets, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, the image and information about the Rad Woman of the day, and linked back to our library holdings and other information related to that day’s person.  One of our most successful days in the “Countdown to Rad campaign,” was E is for Ella Baker, which we connected and linked to the Ella Baker Center in Oakland. We were able to let people know not only about our collection of material about the brilliant, black hero of the civil rights movement, Ella Baker, but also about the great work the Ella Baker Center is doing in our neighboring city of Oakland. The Ella Baker center strives to work locally, statewide, and nationally to end mass incarceration and criminalization by mobilizing everyday people to build power and prosperity in their communities, and it was our pleasure to help spread the word about their work.

The goal of our project was to promote the Rad American Women A-Z program, to promote our library system’s material holdings, to promote the author and artist, to reach community partners, and most significantly to highlight these important famous women while empowering women of all ages to be rad and radical. Our Countdown to Rad campaign was intended to reach our social media followers, community partners and organizations, and individuals who are featured in the book. Our success was measured by how many connections, comments, likes, and reblogs or retweets we received. Our largest connection was with the Ella Baker Center and their 14.1K Twitter followers. It resulted in many retweets and a lasting connection with the organization and their followers.

FaceBook  : Ursula Le Guin

FaceBook : Patti Smith

Twitter : #RadWomen

    California Library Association PRExcellence Award Winner 2016 On behalf of the California Library Association's PRExcellence Awards Committee, the South San Francisco Public Libraries promotion  "Rad American Women A-Z: The Countdown to Rad,” has been selected as the winner in "Less than $5 Million: Event or Campaign." The South San Francisco Public Library was chosen based on their creative use of social media and online local organization"Become a Marketing Superstar," in order to feature PRExcellence Award projects outreach in connection with a library event.

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Radical Librarianism

What does “Radical Reference” mean to you?

Recently I had the opportunity to explore this question in a Radical Librarianism class at Simmons College taught by Laura Saunders. The discussion revolved around the challenges and obstacles we can face when attempting to serve within a “radical” framework. Myself, along with Brian Flaherty, reference librarian at New England Law, and Alana Kumbier–…

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Giant sexy #HelloKitty robot (at EMP Museum)

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Stunning views from the library (at The Seattle Public Library)

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#Bukowski on #Cats- perfect good night audio book, I can't always be read to by the one I want. thanks @losangeleslibrary!

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Fanfiction from Female Mimic International. Soon to be part of the #DigitalTransgenderArchive #AcrossMyDesk #BunForHire #DTA #metadatamob

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Just your local sex librarian, educating the public on love, health, respect and sexual pleasure! It’s a dirty job…

Guess who booked February’s programs Just your local sex librarian, educating the public on love, health, respect and sexual pleasure! It's a dirty job...

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#RIP #ZiggyStardust

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Panty Raid, more #DigitalTransgenderArchive #DTA. The art of Stanton. #EricStanton #AcrossMyDesk #BunForHire

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Freelance #cataloging for the #DigitalTransgenderArchive #DTA. The art of Stanton. #EricStanton #AcrossMyDesk #BunForHire

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#FridayReads @phoebelouise #TheDiaryOfATeenageGirl

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Beautiful books at @burlingame_library! Thanks for the tour. (at Burlingame Public Library)

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Be there tonight @centersexculture party time in the stacks!

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#EatMyTwitter the party. Tomorrow, 12/5, 7:30pm @centersexculture. Come celebrate the #CSC community space, library, archive and gallery. Due to massive rent increase in our mid-market hood (right down the street from #Twitter) the #CSC will be in relocation mode just after the new year. So, now is your chance to see the library and come flirt with us.

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#perks of being a librarian, you get to order books from local BayArea #Porn celebrity. Super excited that some of these smart and super hot adult film stars will find their way into Worldcat! @jizleepg @jamesdarlingxxx @stoya @anniesprinkled @nina_hartley1 #acrossmydesk

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Eat My Twitter

Eat My @Twitter ▽ The Party

Dec 5 at 7:30pm to Dec 6 at 12:30am

Dear Friends and Perverts and Perverted Friends from all fissures of the identity spectrum.

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As some of you already know, The Center for Sex & Culturewill be relocating this winter. All across the Mid-Market section of SOMA, SF rents have tripled (or the buildings have mysteriously caught on fire).  This is all in…

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