Looking for the Second Stacks?

Hi!

And welcome to Citizen Reader.  If by any chance you got here because you attended the nonfiction workshop in Toledo (and if you did--thank you for attending; I had such a great time in your city!) and are looking for the outline from May 14, it can be found at:

http://www.citizenreader.com/citizen/secondstacks.html

Thanks again and feel free to check back here as well; as soon as I can get things up and running I hope to do daily book posts here as well.

Comments

[Sarah]

I like how you have personalized this (Mr. Langaveesha, anyone?) But I am not entirely sure as to the anatomy of your various obsessions - how EXACTLY does the novel North & South fit into this topic? Or is it a gratuitous attempt to get me to watch something at work that I shouldn't be watching?

[CitizenReader]

Well, Sarah, you're too smart for me. Mainly it was an excuse to see Mr. Armitage in the middle of the day.

I am a firm believer, however, in fully exploiting one's own passions (okay, obsessions) to do a better job on the reference desk. My point with that segment was that I got a lot of information out of my bad YouTube habit: I found some more BBC movies to suggest to my patron who loves the BBC. I learned about the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, and also used that interest to track down other and similar nineteenth-century women authors. I heard the music of Pink that I'd never heard before, adding another female vocalist to my list for when people are looking at our CD collection.

But okay, at the end of the day? It's also just fun to watch the North and South clip. You found me out!

[Sarah]

Well, you could also call it "reader mapping" . . .