Member: harambeegirl

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GroupsAfrican-American Fiction/Nonfiction, African/African American Literature, All Books Africa, Black Theology & Religious Studies, Books By Us, Chattylibrarians, Christianity, Collapse, Cookbookers, Diabetic Cooking, Baking and Diabetes Cookbooks — show all groups , Dystopian novels, Editors, Researchers, Whatever, English majors!, Feminist SF, Feminist Theology, Feminist Theory, INFJ, Librarians who LibraryThing, Myers-Briggs: All Types, Progressive & Liberal!, Read YA Lit, Reading Globally, Tea!, Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night

Favorite authorsMaya Angelou, James Baldwin, Steven Barnes, Octavia E. Butler, Patricia Hill Collins, J. California Cooper, Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Ernest J. Gaines, bell hooks, Nalo Hopkinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Brian Keene, Jamaica Kincaid, Stephen King, Bentley Little, H. P. Lovecraft, Brandon Massey, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Gloria Naylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Charles R. Saunders, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson (Shared favorites)

About meI am a Young Adult Library Services Specialist with Houston Public Library. I plan programs for youth in 6th to 12th grade, visit schools to promote library services and talk with youth to gauge what they would like in their library. I would love to meet with other librarians to discuss issues such as the digital divide, information literacy and Library 2.0. I expect to complete my coursework in the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences online degree program in December 2009 and graduate Spring 2010. I plan to focus my career in African-American studies. It is also my goal to pursue a doctorate in African-American Studies and utilize my degrees at an institution devoted to African-American collections and research.

Strangely, I love to do research. I also love to hang out in bookstores and libraries, share information with others, use the computer and search the Internet. I am also passionate about many social issues and love to discuss these issues with others.

As a Virgo and a personality type somewhere between INTJ and INFJ, I am an avid collector and reader. I love books, OTR (Old Time Radio) horror and mystery broadcasts, plush animals, candles, jewelry, recipes, cookbooks, unicorns and anything soft and cuddly -- the softer and cuddlier the better!

About my libraryThis library is a combination of books, CDs and DVDs that I own and those that I would like to own. Books I would like to own are on my Wish List. I have read most of the books that I own. I have also read many books in the past that I currently do not own. For the sake of completing my library, it is still my goal to get the books I have already read because, in my opinion, these are classics. It is also my goal to read not only all the books I own, but those that I still want to own.

Regarding DVDs, I only intend to collect the ones that I consider classic or educational. Once I watch a movie, I generally don't care to watch it again unless it is spectacular. At the moment I don't own any DVDs, so they are all on my wish list. The CD collection is comprised mainly of the CDs that I own and a few that I'd like to get. I will eventually get around to tagging the CDs and DVDs.

In short, my literary and entertainment interests are:

* Literature (African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, Young Adult, Multicultural)

* Historical fiction and historical fantasy (i.e., African-American, Civil War, slavery and African Diaspora)

* Speculative Fiction (i.e., horror, science-fiction, fantasy)

* Utopias and Dystopias (plagues, nuclear holocausts, hostile alien invasions, end of world scenarios, oppressive and totalitarian societies, post-apocalyptic civilizations, alternate histories)

* Nonfiction --
Afrocentric or Afrikan studies,
African and African-American studies,
African Biblical studies,
Afrikan and Afrocentric Biblical studies,
Literary criticism,
Women's studies,
Womanism/Feminism,
Education reference,
Writing reference,
Cooking,
Diabetic education and lifestyle

* Folktales (African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American)

* Poetry (African-American, Afro-Caribbean, African)

* Humor -- morbid humor, macabre humor, sick humor, overlaps somewhat with horror. I think my taste in humor is rather twisted. I may need professional help because I think this is funny.

* DVD (genres, but not tagged) -- horror, mystery, science-fiction, African and African-American history

* CD -- I like a variety of music. See the library.

* MP3 -- a collection of OTR horror and mystery broadcasts

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Member sinceOct 7, 2005