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Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Dream of expanding your collection with a huge shipment of books, videos, and audio books and recordings? Boy, have we got an offer for you!
ALSC and the Grants Administration Committee are now accepting online applications for the 2015 Bookapalooza Program. This program offers select libraries a collection of materials to be used in a way that creatively enhances their library service to children and families. The materials are primarily for children age birth through 14 and include newly published books, videos, audio books and recordings from children’s trade publishers.
Applicants must be personal members of ALSC, as well as ALA members to apply. Deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 1, 2015. For more information about the award requirements and submitting the online application please visit the Bookapalooza Web page.
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The Association for Library Service to Children is thrilled to release a new white paper titled, The Importance of Diversity in Library Programs and Material Collections for Children. This paper was written for ALSC by Jamie Campbell Naidoo, PhD, and adopted by the ALSC Board of Directors on April 5, 2014.
The white paper explores the critical role libraries play in helping children make cross-cultural connections and develop skills necessary to function in a culturally pluralistic society. It states:
By including diversity in its programs and collections, the library has the potential for helping children make cross-cultural connections and develop the skills necessary to function in a culturally pluralistic society.
As this paper calls for libraries to include diversity in programming and materials for children as an important piece in meeting the informational and recreational needs of their community, ALSC encourage you to take action in your own library and community. The paper is available online at: http://www.ala.org/alsc/importance-diversity. Hard copies can be requested by emailing Joanna Ison at [email protected].
The Importance of Diversity in Library Programs and Material Collections for Children, and its message, has the endorsement of ALSC, the world’s largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children.
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A Poem of Her Own:
Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today
edited by Catherine Clinton, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
Harry Abrams Publishing, 2003
Following chronological order, this collection features poems of twenty-five women over the last three hundred years. There is a definite focus on modern poets with half of the poems from the last fifty years, but a good sampling overall. The poetry and illustration is pretty sophisticated, and would find the best audience in the middle to high school reader. Biographies of the poets are listed at the back of the book which "reveal not only individuals, but, together, comprise a particularly intriguing story of America, a story of courage in the face of hardship, a story which traces varieties of creative expression unfolding over three centuries.” (I liked that phrasing from the introduction too much to paraphrase it.)
Here's a poem for today:
I, being born a woman and distressedPoetry Friday Round-up is hosted today at my juicy little universe.
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body’s weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave my one again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923)
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Check out this wonderful collection from the talent of my FAEteam on Etsy. These are truly remarkable gifts and I wanted to share them with the world. I even have one of my own pieces in there, “Little Mermaid Steampunk Pendant”
Trinkets & Toadstools, Chapter 2′ by FAEteam
Flutter to FAEteam blog for the team’s entire springtime exhibition.
Steamy Love Charm Necklace |
Little Mermaid Pendant- Fair…
Chain Maille Heart Keepsake
Ladybug Fairy Cameo Pendant …
Spirit Of Love Fairy Fantasy…
Red Oak Headband Fascinator …
SALE Lovebugs for your Valen…
Mushroom Fairy Door Fridge M…
Silver Circle Earrings Mushr…
Lavender Love Faerie Box
Wize Wimmin Fae – Open Editi…
Ceramic Fairy with Baby Wild…
LionHearted necklace pendant
Teacup Fairy Garden Needle F…
The Poet’s Talisman Seri…
Love Birds Necklace Wire Wra…
Treasury tool supported by the dog house
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For the past couple of years selling fairy tale art at various conventions and art shows, I have heard many people ask about Wizard of Oz. After seeing how well my Alice in Wonderland Characters have been received, I have decided to create a new character series for Oz. As always I like to add my own twist on popular stories. For my first painting of the series, I have the Wicked Witch of the West in Steampunk style. Because I love Steampunk and fairy tales, the idea of combining the two was irresistible to me.
I have hand-painted all of the textured layers you see in this digital painting.
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Thousands of careful lines;
such small changes of pressure, shade, direction.
How much of your time
to draw all those buttons, coins, badges, tickets,
I’m a voyeur reading your notebooks,
You rummage in the attic of my memory
A kind of give and take
It takes time and close attention
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By Michael Levine-Clark
Probably like most librarians, I went to library school because I loved books and associated libraries with some of my fondest book-related memories. In my childhood, and through college, I used libraries to find books. Occasionally I used periodicals or even microfiche, but the library, to me, was all about the books. I learned in library school that library collections were becoming increasingly digital, and that most of the things libraries purchased were journals; already, in the mid-1990s, the collection was much more than an aggregation of monographs, and had been for a long time. But students coming to use the library had no choice but to encounter books, and it would have been very difficult to complete any research assignment without using some print publications.
Overall, electronic resources are a good thing — an amazing thing. They can be used by students wherever they happen to be; they can be searched in ways that would have been unimaginable a decade ago; they free up valuable shelf space; and they make available incredible content that would have required focused research trips when I was in college. Resources like Early English Books Online or London Low Life — just two of hundreds available to University of Denver students — make it possible to conduct primary research at levels impossible at most universities not too long ago.
But we have done such an amazing job building digital collections that students can attend the University of Denver without ever needing to touch paper publications, without ever having to encounter physical books — and that’s a shame. There is value to the book as a physical object, and libraries need to find ways to emphasize that value to digital natives.
At the University of Denver, we decided to emphasize books — while still committing strongly to our digital collections — by increasing funding for special collections. Within that context, we began collecting artists’ books heavily about five years ago and now have a collection of almost 900 titles, many of them unique. There are larger and more important collections at many libraries, but our collection is quickly becoming significant.
Artists’ books are works of art, books where the container is as important as the content, and books that call out to be handled. When done well, artists’ books can impact all of our senses. Direction of the Road, by Ursula K. Le Guin, produced in an elaborate edition by Foolscap Press, uses the texture of the paper to mimic the rustling of leaves. And this book’s use of anamorphic art always surprises readers. But artists’ books can also be quite simple. A Diction, a small but powerful book, shaped like a pint glass, uses simple text and white space to capture the experience of addiction.
As students become less and less used to physical books, this collection gives them a chance to immerse themselves in the book. It is a reminder that libraries have always been about books, and will continue to be about books even when most of our collections become digital.
There are some terrific resources for learning more about artists’ books. Vamp & Tramp Booksellers — besides having a wonderful name and being run by wonderful people — has a great website that makes it easy to get a sense of the books they carry. Joshua Heller Rare Books and Priscilla Juvelis have great selections as well. And the Guild of Book Workers maintains a useful list of Book Arts Links.
Michael Levine-Clark is the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services at the University of Denver’s Penrose Library. He is co-editor of the journal Collaborative Librarianship, co-editor of The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 4th edition, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 4th edition. He has been a member or chair of many committees within library organizations, and has served on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards. He writes and speaks regularly on strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries and the development of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) models. Read his previous blog posts: “An academic librarian without a library” and “Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks.”
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Image credit: Photograph of Steacie Science and Engineering Library at York University by Raysonho@Open Grid Scheduler. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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Blog: Diana Levin Illustration (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Franken Fairy with Bat Wings, Gothic Fantasy Art Print is ready to be framed and hung on a wall. The Franken Fairy is all stitched up from parts of other fairies. It’s a little morbid but cute. Frankenstein didn’t just create scary monsters. He also created cute fairies with bat wings. She is wearing a skull bow and a pink dress with heals while sitting on a mushroom.
This Print is 8 1/2″ x 11″ with a white 1″ inch border around the image for easy framing. Printed on high quality archival Epson ink jet paper. It comes unframed. Beautiful vibrant colors. Looks even better in person than on screen. Convo me for larger sizes. Print is signed by the artist.
It comes in a clear plastic bag and a stiff unbendable envelope.
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Celebrate Steampunk!!!
I even have some steampunk in my own collection. I wanted to celebrate this fantastic style by featuring a collection of fabulous Steampunk items I found on Etsy.
'Celebrating Steampunk' by whimsicalFantasy
Steampunk is a type of genre that incorporates fantasy, sci fi, Victorian fashion and Alternate History. Its old industrial technology meets post-apocalyptic future. And here is a collection of fabulous items to celebrate my love for Steampunk!!!
Halloween Steampunk/Fan... $60.00 | Steampunk Set 3 Cabocho...
By: andrea joseph,
on 12/3/2011
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I've been working on some commissions recently, a couple of which were for visitors to my exhibition in the summer. I was very interested, during the exhibition, to know which drawings people liked the best; not for any particular reason, just for curiosity, I suppose. The drawings of collections of little things always seemed to come out on top.
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By: andrea joseph,
on 2/16/2011
Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: illustration, collections, travel, drawing, stuff, drawings, colour, step by step, colour pencil, colour ballpoint, souvenirs, illo, souvenir, AJ, andrea joseph, carnet de voyage, Add a tag
So I started this drawing about two or three weeks ago but unfortunately it's going to have to be put on the back burner for the next few days as a new, more pressing deadline has emerged from nowhere.
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Did you know that Mickey Mouse turns 82 this week?! On Thursday, November 18, 1928, Mickey Mouse made his debut in "Steamboat Willie" at the Colony Theater in New York.
To celebrate his big day, we have on loan a small sampling of JoAnn and Tom McDonnell's collection of Mickey Mouse objects. Tom and JoAnn are two the friendliest faces you will see at Please Touch Museum! You may know JoAnn from when you first enter the building at the admissions desk, or you may also have seen one of Tom McDonnell’s Magic Shows in the Please Touch Playhouse Theater. I had the chance to sit down with JoAnn McDonnell, Admission-Volunteer Supervisor, and she told me a little bit more about her awesome collection: Pinky: I really love your collection of Mickey Mouse! How long have you been collecting everything "Mickey?" JoAnn: I have been collecting since 1987, so it has been over 20 years. We now have thousands of Mickeys! Pinky: That’s amazing! What made you want to start a collection? JoAnn: We went to Disney with my children and really fell in love. We would buy small Mickey Mouse objects here and there then the collection grew. Friends would find out we liked Mickey Mouse and would give Mickeys to us, especially the ones related to magic because as you know Tom is a magician.
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By: andrea joseph,
on 11/8/2010
Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: illustration, collections, drawing, moleskine, sepia, collection, souvenirs, illo, my Moleskines, souvenir, travel moleskine, andrea joseph, tat, Add a tag
If I'm honest this isn't actually my little box. I've also taken to drawing other people's souvenirs in my quest to fill my travel themed Moleskine. This box of crap, I mean beautiful collection of memorabilia, accompanied my friend Tim home from his world travels. I am a big fan of tat and have wanted to draw this for the longest time.
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Blog: Welcome to my Tweendom (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: spooky, collections, graphic novels, Halloween, 2010, personal copy, better late than never, Dark Horse Books, personal favs, Add a tag I have been a fan of the Scary Godmother for some time now. I loved the cartoons on television, and was bound a determined to find some of Jill Thompson's books of the same name. It was hard, however, as they seemed to be out of print. Thanks to Dark Horse Books' release of all of the stories bound together in one GORGeous hardcover edition, I was able to go to my local independent comic shop and pick up this coffee table worthy book. Found inside are 5 quintessential Scary Godmother stories: "The Scary Godmother", "The Revenge of Jimmy", "The Mystery Date", "The Boo Flu", and "Tea for Orson". Readers will quickly get acquainted with life on the Fright Side as well as the main characters of The Scary Godmother, Hannah Marie, Jimmy, Skully Pettibone and the rest. Told with panels, but with straight lines of text as well, Scary Godmother truly blends the lines between graphic novel, illustrated novel and picture book. The big sell of this collection is, of course, Thompson's art. She is an accomplished illustrator who has worked on everything from Sandman to Wonder Woman . Her spooky palette of orange, black, purple, and green will appeal not only to the youngest tweens, but to burgeoning goths as well. My personal favourite panels are in silhouette with orange background and show such scenes are Scary Godmother swooping down the stairs with Hannah Marie, or a macabre parade of monsters heading over to Scary Godmother's place to find out who she fancies. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up!
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By: andrea joseph,
on 11/1/2010
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Before I signed with my agent I visited her at her home and we went through all of my drawings, so that she could get an idea of where my work was at and where it might go. When she saw the many drawings of collections, that I create, she said "These drawings look like endpapers. Beautiful endpapers, but endpapers all the same". I have to agree. They do.
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By: andrea joseph,
on 9/29/2010
Blog: andrea joseph's sketchblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap) JacketFlap tags: collections, moleskine, drawings, color pencil, colour pencil, colour ballpoint, collection, biro, my Moleskines, travel moleskine, color ballpoint, Add a tag
A couple more spreads from my travel themed Moleskine. It's a tale of two drawings. A game of two halves. Or something like that. The drawing above is of some bouquet garni I bought in Lyon. Now, I know some twigs and sticks wrapped in leaves isn't going to float every bodies boat, but it does mine.
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By: andrea joseph,
on 9/25/2010
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A couple of versions of this drawing. I added a bit of colour to it because it seemed to be asking for it. Just something to lift it. I'm not sure which I prefer. What do you think?
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This week’s collections object is a Etch A Sketch! This mechanical drawing toy works by using a two knobs to control the vertical and horizontal movement of a stylus across a field of aluminum powder. The very first Etch A Sketch rolled off of the Ohio Art Co. production line on July 12, 1960! Over the past 50 years, there have been several versions of the Etch A Sketch, including the Animator, but none have been able to reach the popularity of the classic Etch A Sketch.
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By: andrea joseph,
on 7/6/2010
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Here's a couple I resurrected from the Graveyard of Abandoned and Unfinished Drawings. It's funny how you see things differently with some time and distance between you. I resented both of these when I was working on them. I resented the time and energy I'd put into them, and I resented them not turning out as I'd wanted. Did somebody say I'm getting old? Ooooof.
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"A Poem of Her Own" is definitely a book I want to check out. Thanks for introducing it to us today. =)
Edna St. Vincent Millay has such caustic wit in so many of her poems. Thanks for sharing this one.
Hi Pam, this sounds like a book that every woman must have. :) I have a similar collection of poems written by women - from 'antiquity to now' is what it says. This would be a lovely companion book, I think. Thanks for sharing.
I think I just found a birthday present for my little April Fool, who is nearly a 14-year-old now and has more of a poet's heart than she wants to let on. Thanks for introducing this collection!
I stopped by your blog today.
Ann