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nprbooks:Fasten your seat belts, true believers: If you haven’t flipped through a comic book in a while, you might be in for a surprise come May. The entire Marvel multiverse is collapsing and for the first time inhistory, the group known as Earth’s mightiest heroes — the Avengers — will be
composed entirely of women. And they’ll be going by an entirely new moniker: the A-Force.

A-Force co-writer G. Willow Wilson tells
NPR’s Arun Rath about the team’s new, genderless character and the growing community of female comic book writers. The
Woman Behind Marvel’s Newest Team Of HeroinesImage courtesy of Marvel Entertainment

Cannot accurately describe in words how excited I am to see G. Willow Wilson give the opening keynote at ACRL in March. Who’s with me?

Fasten your seat belts, true believers: If you haven’t flipped through a comic book in a while, you might be in for a surprise come May. The entire Marvel multiverse is collapsing and for the first time inhistory, the group known as Earth’s mightiest heroes — the Avengers — will be composed entirely of women. And they’ll be going by an entirely new moniker: the A-Force.
A-Force co-writer G. Willow Wilson tells NPR’s Arun Rath about the team’s new, genderless character and the growing community of female comic book writers.
The Woman Behind Marvel’s Newest Team Of Heroines
Image courtesy of Marvel Entertainment

Cannot accurately describe in words how excited I am to see G. Willow Wilson give the opening keynote at ACRL in March. Who’s with me?

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thelifeguardlibrarian:

Attention #tumblarians & friends! Going to midwinter? Thanks to the fabulous folks at jstor, we’ll be gathering at Moe’s Cantina (155 W Kinzie) this Saturday, 8-10pm, to shun winter with margaritas and avocados. Bring your badge and let’s get our guac* on.

(*A limited amount of booze and guac will be provided.)

(Gif cred & design cred)

It’s happening! See you there!

This is a picture of an awesome book haul my boss, Kristen, sent me and JPASS marketing manager, Sarah: public library hardcovers of the V. C. Andrews oeuvre, in all their early ‘80’s design glory. Thanks, Kristen! This week’s Beyond the Book installment is dedicated to those, like Sarah and me, who secretly read trashy romance novels as tweens in the pre-cellphone age.

Before we begin, a little about V.C. Andrews:

From wikipedia:

"Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Andrews died of breast cancer at the age of 63.

Andrews’ novels combine Gothic horror and family saga, revolving around family secrets and forbidden love (frequently involving themes of consensual incest, most often between siblings), and they often include a rags-to-riches story. Her best-known novel is the infamous bestseller Flowers in the Attic (1979), a tale of four children locked in the attic of a wealthy Virginia family for over three years by their estranged pious grandmother.

Her novels were so successful that after her death her estate hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to write more stories to be published under her name. In assessing a deficiency in her estate tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service argued (successfully) that Virginia Andrews’s name was a valuable commercial asset, the value of which should be included in her gross estate.”

Articles on JSTOR about romance novels all published, appropriately for our celebration, in the 1980’s:

BRB, reading at my desk.

Friends! I’m playing around with a new series and calling it JSTOR: Beyond the Book, where we take popular non-fiction and fiction titles and direct you to journal articles on JSTOR that enhance your reading experience. Maybe the author cites articles and you can find their original research on JSTOR, or there are first-hand accounts of a historical event, or even just really great background information.

First up: Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

From Amazon: ”Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.”

Journal articles about the 1983 Chicago World’s Fair published in 1893-1894: these are real-time accounts of the White City and the entire list of (free!) articles can be found here. A few of interesting individual articles below.

Exhibit of Games in the Columbian Exposition - A detailed description of games and puzzels from around in the world in the Anthropological Building
The Decorative Uses of Electricity at the Columbian Exposition - ”By far the most striking exhibit was that made by the General Electric Company, on the main floor. The central piece of display was the great Edison Tower of Light, the tall shaft extending almost to -the roof of the colonnade, the whole studded with miniature incandescent lights, arranged in geometrical figures of red, orange and purple. These were wired on various circuits, each connected with a separate key on the keyboard, so that a variety of combinations, both of shapes and colors, could be brought into action by the simple pressure of the proper keys. The tower was surmounted by a huge model of the Edison lamp, constructed of forty-thousand prisms of glass carefully wired-to an iron framework within. The bulb was ten feet high. The total number of lamps was eight thousand, being equivalent to the light of fifty thousand sperm candles.”
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company’s Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition - cool picture of a Tiffany Glass window on this one.

Let me know what you think of this endeavor, and I’ll tag everything in this series #JSTOR beyond the book. And if you have any suggestions or ideas, send a me a message. Happy reading!

Transitioning from high school to college? Returning to school and need a research refresher? Check out Research Basics, a free online course from JSTOR. Watch the intro video below and go researchbasics.jstor.org to enroll today.

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JSTOR TUMBLR GIFtaway!

Dearest tumblr friends,

Because we have such a wonderful and weird time with you here in tumblr-land, we are doing a limited time GIFtaway.

Should you win (lucky duck), you will receive a:

Limited edition tumblr-themed JSTOR tote,
JSTOR mug,
Two! JSTOR posters,
JSTOR stickers, pens, and bookmarks,

AND, because you are all Falcon-Bucky-Steve shippers:

”Captain America: The Winter Soldier” DVD (HD and Blu-Ray set)

We’re giving away 5 of these tote bags full of stuff and all you have to do to enter is post a gif that you think best captures your feelings about JSTOR (or research in general) and tag it “JSTOR GIFtaway"

Deadline is Friday, November 21, and I’ll tag and post the winners here!