Mark this down on your calendars as a must attend event. Monday, November 16th at 6:00pm Al Stavitsky, Portland Director of U of O’s School of Journalism and Communication, will moderate a discussion on how “digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers.” A panel full of heavy-hitters includes: Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love; Dennis Stovall, director of publishing and publisher of Ooligan Press at PSU; and Vailey Oehlke, director of Multnomah County Libraries.
Here is the teaser from U of O:
Electronic book devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony E-reader are part of a new wave in digital publishing–one that’s drawing attention in the media and creating an uncertain world for publishers, authors, journalists, librarians and booksellers. How do digital books change us as writers, publishers, and readers?
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Hat tip to Dave from the institution that is Dave Knows: Portland for the kind words about Reading Local’s coverage of the events surround this weekends Wordstock Festival, and additionally for making me aware of the Friends of Multnomah County Library’s 36th Annual Fall Used Book Sale that starts tomorrow from 6pm – 9pm for members of the Friends (you can sign up at the event, click here to see the full benefits of becoming a member).
Saturday (10-10) is the first day the general public can get their hands on the over 100,000 donated items including Books, CDs & DVDs, Audio & Video tapes, and Maps & Sheet Music. Children’s books and pocket-sized paperbacks start at 50¢, and hardcover books and large paperbacks start at $1.50. The genre of books available includes: Art • Biography • Children’s • Cooking • Gardening • History Home Repair • Literature • Math • Mystery • Old Books • Popular Fiction • Reference • Science • Sports • Travel • and more …
All proceeds from the sale benefit the award winning Multnomah County Library.
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The Central Library is a happening place today. Below are a few of the highlights, check their event finder for the full schedule.
Title Raves: Assigned Reading (Central Library, US Bank Room, @12:00pm): Rave about your reading faves @your library. Remember junior high and high school required reading? Did you sleep through The Scarlet Letter? Read the CliffsNotes for The Canterbury Tales? Adults are rediscovering – and enjoying – the classics that bewildered them as students. Library Director Vailey Oehlke; Martha Gies, writer and teacher, author of “Up All Night;” Robert Brock, Professor Emeritus, University of Montana, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Craig Johnson, who taught Language Arts and Foreign Languages at the Metropolitan Learning Center, will talk about the highlights – and lowlights – of those classics novels. Program participants are encouraged to share their experiences – be prepared to name names (authors and titles)!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Ralph Nader (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! (Seven Stories), former presidential candidate Ralph Nader asks: What if America’s wealthiest individuals decided to work for the collective good?
Other Book Events Today:
Friends of the West Linn Public Library Used Book Sale (West Linn Library, @12:00pm-5:00pm): It’s time for the annual Used Book Sale from the Friends of the West Linn Public Library. Cookbooks, gardening books, novels, and more!
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I think I am somewhat of a minority in the book blogging world. Or at least it sure felt that way when a group of book bloggers from up and down the west coast got together this past weekend in Portland for a self-proclaimed “Book Blogger Retreat.” In attendance were:
Wendy from Caribousmom
Bethany from Dreadlock Girl
Trish from Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’?
Gilion from Rose City Reader
Teddy from So Many precious Books, So Little Time
Juli from Whimpulsive
Kristen from We Be Reading
Ali from Worducopia
(Thank you to Gilion for compiling this list, of which I copied and pasted…)
If you look closely you will notice that all of the other bloggers are female, and lil’ ol’ me was the lone representative of the male book blogging community. Of course you won’t hear any complaints in that regard coming out of this mouth. For a year while in college I lived with a group of girls, so it was somewhat like old times spending a weekend with eight members of the opposite sex, a feeling that was aided by the friendly and ingratiating women in attendance.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country Opening Reception (Central Library, @6:00pm): Robert J. Miller, professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, will present a program on the variety of relationships native peoples and the Lewis and Clark party forged and the impact of the American presence on Indian Country. Mr. Miller’s new book, entitled Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny (see Rose City Reader’s review here) features a section on Lewis and Clark in the Northwest and the claims they were making for the United States to sovereignty and ownership of the Oregon Territory. Mr. Miller is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
Please join us for the lecture, exhibition and light refreshments. In the Collins Gallery.
Other Book Events Today:
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Chris Hedges Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges’s Empire of Illusion (Nation Books) charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate America that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Shuffleupagus – A Collaborative Zine Experience (Central Library, U.S. Bank Room, @6:00pm): Think you can draw? Think you can write? Shuffleupagus doesn’t care if you’re an expert, an amateur or a hack! Join Jesse Reklaw (”Bluefuzz”) and Androo Robinson (”Cryptozoa”) and hang out with other creative types and make some mini-comics together. Participants will contribute words and art toward the creation of several zines with a variety of themes. Finished zines will be debuted at the library’s table at the Portland Zine Symposium.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Peace Corps Journal Reading and Book Giveaway (Central Library, @6:00pm): Every day in the Peace Corps brings a new experience, adventure or lesson. Come listen to journal entries directly from the Peace Corps volunteers who wrote them and pick up your free copy of “A Life Inspired,” a collection of stories written by volunteers (while supplies last). A Peace Corps volunteer who served in Bulgaria will also share her personal experience, answer your questions, and provide tips to guide you through the application process.
About the Panel:
Jenny Ferro
Lesotho, Africa 2002-2006
Primary Education Resource Teacher
Reading: “Peace, Rain, Prosperity”
Vicki Crumpacker
Turkmenistan, Central Asia 2000-2001
Business Advising
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I may be preaching to the choir here, but just in case you weren’t aware of the greatness of the Multnomah County Library website, here are the top seven features that can be found:
- An Event Finder that allows you to sort by date, location, age group, program type, or by keyword.
- A whole section devoted to adult & teen booklists (calling Rose City Reader…), with categories as diverse as Chick Lit, Sustainability, Graphic Novels, and Prize-Winning fiction to name just a few.
- A section devoted to Zines featuring links to information on: the library’s zine collection; details about upcoming library events featuring zines or zinesters; other places in Portland to read, buy, or look at zines; and resources available in the libraries to help you learn about or make your own zine.
- A page entitled “Books We Love” featuring the favorite books of some prominent Multnomah County residents (i.e. M. Ward, Tom Potter, Chloe Eudaly, Emily Powell, Ethan Seltzer, Ursula LeGuin, and many others).
- RSS feeds of newly available titles in each different genre.
- A page featuring the most recent posts from the libraries three (An Embarassment of Riches, Furthermore…Where The Headlines Take You, and the MCL Teen Council blog) well-maintained and informative blogs.
- Informative guides produced by reference staff at the Library on several different topics, including: African American Musicians, Conflict & Terrorism, Green Buildings, and many more.
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An announcement from The Friends of the Multnomah County Library:
The Friends of the Multnomah County Library needs donations of used books, CD’s, DVD’s. We depend on sales to support many library programs. Please leave the above items (in good condition) at any local branch, or at the Title Wave Book Store at 216 NE Knott. For large donations call 503-988-6191 for pick-up. Donations are tax dedctible. Click here for their donation guidelines.
Do you think the reason for donations being down has something to do with the economy? People selling their books back instead of donating them?
Today’s Featured Book Event:
Matt Briggs Reading (Clackamas Community College, Rook Hall 220, @8:00pm): Novelist and short story writer Matt Briggs will read in CCC’s Literary Arts Center (Rook 220) at 8 pm on May 22. The event is open and free to the public. Briggs is the author of four collections of short stories, The Remains of River Names, Misplaced Alice, The Moss Gatherers and The End is the Beginning. His first novel, Shoot the Buffalo, won the American Book Award in 2006. He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Write Around Portland Spring Anthology Release (First United Methodist Church, @6:30pm): Mark your calendar now for our anthology release party and community reading featuring writers from our spring workshops, including adults living with mental illness, teen parents, seniors in assisted living, families of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and many others.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Writers Talking: Bonnie Henderson (Hollywood Library, @6:00pm): Bonnie Henderson will talk about her writing and will read from her latest book, “Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris.” As a 10+ year volunteer for Oregon’s CoastWatch program, Henderson offers an interesting perspective on the surprisingly far-ranging journeys of what washes up on Oregon’s beaches.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Kirstin Downey Reading (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Written with a wit that echoes Frances Perkins’s own, award-winning journalist Kirstin Downey’s The Woman behind the New Deal (Nan A. Talese) offers a riveting exploration of the woman who was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion.
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