I go to Dot for Little Saigon and learn that the library is getting a new building!

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ movie is corny. Which is why it gets Superman right – National Public Radio – NPR

Review
James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ movie is corny. Which is why it gets Superman right
July 10, 20254:27 PM ET

Heard on All Things Considered

David Corenswet plays Superman in James Gunn’s new film. Warner Bros. Pictures

Glen Weldon, 4-Minute Listen

Before I saw James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which sets out to lay the cornerstone of a new era for DC superhero characters, I was pessimistic.

Over my years as a critic, I’ve loved a few Gunn projects for their humor and cleverness (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy) but more recently hated others for their adolescent glibness (Peacemaker) and cheap sentimentality (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), respectively.

But I’ve spent far more years — decades, in fact — as a Superman fan. A few years back I channelled that fandom into an egregiously nerdy form of scholarship, when I wrote Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, a cultural history of the character that tracks which aspects of him have changed over the years (and why) and which have remained constant (and why).

Here’s the TL;DR for that book: The two central, definitive attributes to any Superman story are selflessness and resolve. He must always: 1. Put the needs of others before those of himself and 2. Refuse to give up. If either of those factors are missing, our minds rebel — it’s simply not Superman.

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My local #library now uses @KohaILS as a software backend, and I'm thrilled to find that Koha is on Mastodon!

New library card: Alameda Free Library

- Alameda, California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_Free_Library

https://www.europesays.com/us/58268/ New book collection aims to keep native languages alive #book #Books #Collection #Entertainment #history #languages #library #native #New #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US

Alameda Free Library Cafe craft chocolate

Listening to SONNY BOY: A Memoir (2024) - Al Pacino

A small release is out for JDeck.
This release adds functions to decode F# Maps and BCL Dictionaries which were missing from the last bit (link to release in the next tweet)

https://github.com/AngelMunoz/JDeck/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc-002

'What makes this paper great?' by Jenna Bartel (iSchool, Toronto). This paper won the Best Conference Paper commendation at the Conceptions of #Library and #InformationScience Conference (CoLIS).

Theorising Notions of #Searching, (Re)Sources, & Evaluation in Light of Generative AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0n_sacUNKyE&si=W_TNMeIEe5pfLfHm #GenAI #AI #search #informationbehavior

When did copy mean print and when did print mean copy?

asking for a friend

"𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀: 𝗔 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹" by: Percival Everett

When enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death and recently returned to town. Thus begins a transcendent and dangerous journey by raft down the Mississippi River...

https://bookblabla.com/book/james-a-novel

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Library Mouse!

No mouse den is complete without a library!

A 2x3 inch ink and watercolor painting

Bookplate stickers featuring this little guy at http://albaillustration.etsy.com/!