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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

I always enjoy hearing from former students. Please e-mail me and let me know where you are working today,
and whether it would be okay to post that information here.

Susan Burke, Pratt 2007, Association of National Advertisers, Knowledge and Research Specialist, NY
Kat Masback, Pratt 2007, Facts on File (NY), Assistant Project Manager of the Science and Health Databases
Katharin Peter, Pratt 2007, University of Southern California, Social Sciences Data Librarian
Maura Smale, Pratt 2007, City Tech, CUNY
Kathryn Takach, Pratt 2007, Brooklyn Public Library, Young Adult Librarian
Abbie Weinberg, Pratt 2007, St. Joseph's College (NY), Reference Librarian

RECOMMENDED READINGS

Recommended readings related to various aspects of LIS

Battles, Matthew (2003). Library: An unquite history. New York: W.W. Norton.
Bell, Hazel K. (2001). Indexers and indexes in fact and fiction. University of Toronto Press.
Harvey, Miles (2000) The island of lost maps. New York: Random House.
Kurzweil, Allen (2001). The grand complication. New York: Hyperion.
Stille, Alexander (2002). The future of the past. New York: Picador.

NON-COURSE MATERIALS

I. Books
Books, just plain old books. The kind one reads for one's own pleasure. Here is a list of some I read recently and enjoyed enough to recommend (mmm... seems like there are less books listed every year).

2008
    Arad, Maya. Family Pictures. Am Oved, 2008 (in Hebrew)
     Barlow, Toby. Sharp Teeth. Harper, 2008.
     Berrada, Mohamed. Like a Summer Never to be Repeated. Andalus, 2006 (in Hebrew, original Arabic, 1999)
     Bulgakov, Mikhail. A country doctor's notebook. Harvill Press, 1995.
     Koeppen, Wolfgang. Pigeons on the Grass. Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1991.
     Konrad, George. A Guest in my Own Country: A Hunganian Life. Other Press, 2002.
     Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love. W.W. Norton, 2005.
     Jin, Ha. AFree Life. Panthon Books, 2007.
     Lieblich, Amia. Arak for Breakfast, Schoken, 2008 (in Hebrew)
     Llosa, Mario Vargas. The bad girl: A novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
     Maurice, Edward Beauclerk. The Last Gentelman Adventurer. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
     Sutcliffe, William. Whatever makes you happy. Bloomsbury, 2008.
     Toobin, Jeffrey. The nine: Inside the secret world of the supreme court. Doubleday, 2007.
     Treichel, Hans-Ulrich. Lost. Picador, 2001.

    2007
      Al Aswany, Alla. The Yacoubian Building. Harper Perennial, 2006.
      Amiry, Suad. Shoron and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries. Anchor Books, 2004.
      Bernhard, Thomas. Gargoyles. Vintage, 2006.
Bernhard, Thomas. Gathering Evidence. Vintage, 2003.
      Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Harper Collins, 2007.
      Jozsef, Attila. Selected Poems. iUniverse, 2005.
      Lambert, Gavin. Nazimova: A biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
      Rowley, Hazel. Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. HarperCollins, 2005.

    2006
Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin: Eight weeks in the conquered city. Metropolitan Books, 2005.
      Bely, Andrei. Petersburg. Indiana University Press, 1978.
      Bolano, Roberto. By Night in Chile. New Direction, 2000.
      Buarque, Chico. Budapest: A novel. Grove Press, 2004.
      Dangor, Achmat. Bitter Fruit. Black Cat, 2001.
      Grass, Gunter. My Century. Hartcourt, 1999.
      Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Collier, 1959.
Marai, Sandor. Embers. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. (Originally published 1942)
      Milton, Edith. The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and growing up English. University of Chicago Press, 2005
      Morgenthau, Henry. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. Gomidas Institute, 2000.
      Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, momory: An autobiography revisited. Vintage: 1989

      2005
      Aciman, Andre. False Papers: Essays on exile and memory. Picador, 2001.
      Chute, Jenefer. User I.D. Houghton Miffin, 2005.
     Daudet, Alphonse. In the Land of Pain. Knopf, 2003.
    Doerry, Martin. My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944. Bloomsbury, 2004.
      Eco, Umberto. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. Harcourt, 2005.
      Fleming, Peter. News From Tartary. A journey from Peking to Kashmir. Marlboro, 1999.
      Hoffmann, Eva. Lost in Translation. Penguin, 1990.
      Jin, Ha. War Trash. Vintage, 2005.
      Kundera, Milan. Ignorance. Harper Collins, 2002.
      McEwan, Ian. Saturday. Nan A. Talese, 2005.
      Mulisch, Harry. The Discovery of Heaven. Penguin, 1997.
      Pamuk, Orhan. Snow. Vintage, 2005.
      Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America. Houghton Miffin, 2004.
      Russo, Richard. Straight Man. Vintage Books, 1997.

II. Where there is no bread there is no learning: where to eat near Pratt

Express cafe (7th Ave. @ 12 St.) is as close to a place where everyone knows your name that you can get in the city. Personalized service and good coffee, and they'll basically make you anything you want, whether it's on the
menu or not.

Tea and Sympathy on Greenwich Ave. transports you away from the hustle and bustle of 14th St., and with the tea and scones, you can actually pretend to be in England for a short time.

And while Tea Sympathy appeals to a more feminine taste, for a British take on meat-and-potatoes, try the fish-and-chips at A Salt & Battery next door. Also in the neighborhood is Miyagi, a Japanese restuarant on 13th st. between 7th ave. and Greenwich, right accross the street from Integral Yoga - good and affordable.
Making our way further west into the Village, is Cafe Cluny, almost too popular to mention, but never disappointing
(and where I take my GAs at the end of semester). Last in that general area (you may notice I am avoiding
14th street at all costs) is Taim, serving better falafel than you can get in Jerusalem, kosher, and its only
shortcoming is that seating is limited to a small counter.

Josh recommends Cafe Grumpy as well as Ninth St. Espresso - also on my list to try out soon.

Want a guiltless drink? How about having it at the library? The Brandy Library that is! I haven't tried it yet but it's on my list for this winter.

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