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Tags_gen (430), _cl (259), Christian worship (138), liturgy (133), _nola (113), New Orleans (103), bk23cm (94), docs (93), bk24cm (87) — see all tags

GroupsAtlanta Bibliophiles, Brooklynites, Christian Worship and Liturgy, Crescent City Connection, Cutter Classification, Reloaded, Erotica, Hymnbooks, ISLAM, Jewish Bibliophiles, Judaica — show all groups , Reading Big with the BIG READ!, Sex Between the Covers

About me NOTE: This library started out as the smellthecoffee library. It has been copied over to its new home here, and the smellthecoffee catalog will be used for other functions.

On the one hand, I am a professional librarian in a public library system, and have both cataloguing and reference experience. On the other hand, I am a professional DJ and the proprietor of a production company, involved in production and related activities with colleagues in Brooklyn, New Orleans, Newport RI, and Atlanta.

NOTE: Having not found an LT group related to New Orleans, I have started one under my alternate LT persona smellthecoffee I have started an LT group -- the Crescent City Connection.

About my library 4 collections are catalogued in the Nautilus Library:

1. the living room library,
anything on any interest that isn't in one of the following collections. The motley group of my interests that are reflected include (but are not limited to), social and historical dynamics (ethnicity, class, wealth level, spiritual orientation, gender dynamics, neurological orientation, erotic orientation, etc.) from all perspectives, but with a special emphasis on Africentric analysis ... progressive Islam, ... the Rastafari movement, ... Christian liberation theology, ... speculative fiction (esp. CJ Cherryh and Octavia Butler) ... animal psychology and behaviour and animal rights ... languages, mostly from a study overview perspective ... material about (and geared to) adults with Asperger Syndrome and Adult Attention Deficit Disorder (or whatever it is being called these days) ... any random eccentric or oddball (and occasionally twisted) thing that catches the interest of Nautilus crew members.

2. our music biz library, including any computer books that will help my improve my novice web page design skills and database skills,

3. Research resources
at this time primarily on worship and liturgical practices from a cultural perspective, and secondarily on information organization and classification theory and systems.

4. New Orleans Past, Present and Future
keeping in mind that the everyday people in their lives, work, blood, sweat tears, and joys have made New Orleans the unique place it is. The deliberate strategy -- by the national and some local powers-that-be -- of keeping thousands of New Orleans people from returning is, I humbly maintain, cultural genocide, period. This is said with all due respect to those who may sincerely differ in this assessment.

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This library reflects most of my books and DVDs and those of others of the massive. I plan to add CDs and collection of vinyl (i.e. "phonograph records", remember those?) mostly accumulated as a DJ.

Some other print formats are included, including, maps, document files (such as magazine and journal articles), and miscelaneous items. In addition, digital materials are included, i.e., PDF files and other formats.

Books are mostly in English but other languages are represented, mostly Spanish and French.

As vinyl and CDs are added the musical genres will be varied but strong in hip-hop, reggae (roots, lovers rock, dancehall), house and other dance genres, tropical latin, as well as jazz, Black gospel music (esp. the 70s and 80s), Western art music ("classical" music), and quite a bit of other miscellany.

Homepagehttp://smellthecoffee.info/

LocationAtlanta, New York, New Orleans, Newport RI

Emailwebmasterfloor8.info

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Account typepublic, lifetime

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/nautilus_library (library)

Member sinceFeb 26, 2007