wow, that Holiday Brass and Chorale Concert looks very cool. xp
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone else have new year's eve off? i do but sarah doesn't. anyone want to have a film festival or hang out?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
I prob do.
I just walked past Rev. Old Navy and though it would be nice to stand next to him and hand out cigarettes. "Heaven doesn't exist. Smoke up!"
Rev. Gap.
He should get Gap to sponsor him. "You're not gonna get into heaven wearin' that ratty coat from 5 years ago, so head into the Gap for 40% off select outerwear for heterosexuals."
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Urban Outfitters on Rush could get an ironic reverend out front.
― blues bras (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
i (having had 5 hours of sleep and probably showing it) passed him just a minute ago and he said "god don't want no weed smokers in heaven!!!"
― sweetántangó (clouds), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol
I've wondered sometimes if he has good gaydar.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
Having read the play and knowing the actors and director, the new show at Steppenwolf, The Motherfucker with the Hat, should be great.
Oh yeah, I think we'll be seeing that. We have four tickets to use by mid-June (as part of the RED subscription for under-30s), so that'll be one of the two shows. Not sure about the other. Honestly, Belleville interests me more than either The Birthday Party or Head of Passes, but it opens after our subscription expires.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
I just saw: - a man who was no less than 7' tall- a beautiful cat in a McDonalds
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 6 December 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
And
- a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 6 December 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
there's a country music lyric waiting to happen there
― sweetántangó (clouds), Thursday, 6 December 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
A cat who was no less than 7' tall, now that would be something.
― blues bras (Eazy), Thursday, 6 December 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
7' man was incredible. I was walking behind him, waiting for 6' tall people to walk by b/c he made them look teeny.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 6 December 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Somebody call Don Henley.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 6 December 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
Holy damn, this thread was started on January 2, 2012!
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 6 December 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
At this point we might as well finish out the year on it. I was just thinking the other day, though, that we hadn't had a new one in awhile.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 December 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
Yeh, I will not use a new Chicago thread started before Jan 2, 2013.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 6 December 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
my work building is testing the fire alarm notification system on our floor by playing a string quartet version of "stairway to heaven" over the alarm speakers
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 December 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's kind of awesome.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Haha. Hopefully that's the real alarm.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
evie and i are going to brownstone right now for a very early dinner if anyone wants to come over for a drink
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 7 December 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
anyone ever frequent the food court on wabash between madison and monroe next to iwan ries? it used to have my favorite mural probably in the world, but i guess it got painted over recently. RIP
http://i.imgur.com/sGEON.jpg
― 1staethyr, Saturday, 8 December 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
wow
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 8 December 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
crazy day. a water pipe burst in the library over the weekend, shooting water across half the library. somehow none of our books or computers were damaged but the floor is saturated. spent most of the day so far clearing the books off our bookcases so that they can dry the carpet underneath.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 December 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yikes. Reminds me of my dad telling me about an incident that happened at the library of the school where he and my mom work (I think you shared a link once upon a time about a job opening there, n). Some kind of small electrical fire triggered the sprinkler system in the archives section and drenched the shit out of a good chunk of their collection. Sad to hear about, but the way they're trying to save stuff sounds pretty cool... LITERALLY. They're doing some kind of freeze-drying treatment to a lot of the documents.
― dansplaining (dan m), Monday, 10 December 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i took a preservation class in grad school and it was pretty much my favorite class, all about fixing books and dealing with disaster scenarios. in this case it's more a matter of waiting for the building to dry and clean everything but until then i don't have a dedicated place to work. on the plus side, we were going to move the bookcases anyways so this is just pushing that project up a little bit.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 December 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
that totally sucks about the murali like it too
two questions for librarians:
1) do any of you know where i should look for help locating copies of old educational filmstrips (that are not already online obvs or i might have been able to find them)?
2) n/a -- when you were doing stuff with that chicago underground library thing, did you have contact with the guy who is responsible for public collectors?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know who that would be, but i'm pretty out of touch with them, i only know 2-3 of the people there
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
just wondering totes identify with this person, that's whyhttp://publiccollectors.tumblr.com/
what about #1
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know, sorry - the stuff i do is so specialized/niche that i'm not much help in anything outside of my little corner. EW probably has a better idea than me.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
ok! i'll pester him. thank u
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
thinking maybe CPS teachers could help w/ filmstrips? or do they not even have those?
― dansplaining (dan m), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
the ones i'm looking for are from the 60s and 70s and are almost certainly waaaaay out of circulation
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
LL, do you have the names of particular filmstrips in mind? If so, there might be some libraries somewhere in the state that has them still, which you could find out via worldcat? If they would ILL them, I don't know.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
yes i do -- the only ones i've found are black widow and secret life of 118 green street
Battle of the BugsBlack Widow SpiderA Night out with Mr. ToadLife Cycle of the Monarch
National Geographic
Animals and AmphibiansThe Hidden World of InsectsSecret Life of 118 Green Street
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
there are library of congress listings but that's all i can findi don't know how to librarian
should i just post this on the librarian thread?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
this is what AJ was talking about: http://www.worldcat.org/ you just put in the name of the movie and it tells you what are the libraries closest to you that have it in their catalogs. however, i don't know if it includes filmstrips. i tried "secret life of 118 green street" as a test and it showed libraries that carry it on vhs.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that one is a little easier to find -- it's on youtube toothe black widow one is particularly good and i found it on archive.org
if you feel like watching it http://archive.org/details/0769_Black_Widow_Spider_Her_Life_Cycle_and_Her_Enemies_18_04_42_00
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, sorry. It does include filmstrips, such as this: http://www.worldcat.org/title/life-cycle-of-the-monarch/oclc/18785367&referer
As you can see with that one, there's only one library in IL that has it, and it's far away. But you very well might be able to ILL it through CPL.
xp
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
ah! ok. thanks. that's good info. love the name of that library!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
does that mean that there are only two copies in circulation in the entire country?!
It means that there are only two copies catalogued in the entire country, though with something like that, there very well could be a lot of uncatalogued copies...And I will say that audio-visual material is sometimes hard to get via ILL. Like, some libraries are reluctant to lend it out. Or it just could be in a non-circulating archive...
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, I feel like my reference skillz have severely atrophied in the year since I became director.
well i don't have any, so this is helpful to mei guess i'll have to contact lumpkin library to see what the deal is...
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
licensed to ILL
― dansplaining (dan m), Monday, 10 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
what's fun is when i'm trying to go to worldcat.org and i type in worldcat.com instead
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 10 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
thanks dudesi did also post this to librarian thread in case someone out there in the world wanted another annoying patron
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure if you're looking for filmstrips AND/OR 16 mm films - but Amazon sells a box set of the old ones - http://www.amazon.com/Educational-Archives-School-Locker-DVD/dp/B000654ZFA/ref=pd_cp_mov_3
There's probably a way to rent it from somewhere too ...
I kinda wished I had organized some sort of Chilxors 'library people' 'meet and greet' this week, 'cause my kid sis is in town and she does some cool special collections work at Oregon St. U. She probably would like to commiserate on the state of digital preservation from school to school (or libraries in general).
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 10 December 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
the ones i want haven't been collected yet as far as i can tell -- they're time lapse nature cinematographyi wish someone else had bothered to collect them for me!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 10 December 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe you should find collect and release them! or at least put them on youtube.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Monday, 10 December 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link