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Discussion Guide for CODE BLUE

Jenny has posted the questions from Saturday's Non-Partisan Critiques of Capitalism Book Club Presentation: Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex, by Mike Magee, MD.

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Nail Shop

We have reached the end of the series of short stories Jenny wrote for her former employer’s Writing Club. This story imagines a library that is very similar to IVAN Library, except we don’t have a physical location (yet).

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The Joke

Jenny continues her series of short stories written for her former employer’s Writing Club. This story imagines a library used by a new class of urbanites: Hummers, or Houseless Slummers.

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Robot Apocalypse

Jenny continues her series of short stories written for her former employer’s Writing Club. This story, like week 3. imagines a library that has developed services out of its core value of privacy-- with the added challenge of considering the ROI of algorithms.

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Schoolpocalypse

Over the past two and next few weeks, I (Jenny Trevino, IVAN Library’s Librarian) have been/will be posting a series of short stories I wrote for my former employer’s Writing Club. The first week, I posted a story in which I had the idea of making Andrew Carnegie answer for his sins. In the remaining stories, I was trying to imagine ways in which the concept of a library might evolve in a future that has moved on from even the non-traditional services that are currently being presented as constituting a library’s post-print portfolio.

The prompt for this story was generated by drawing a slip of paper with a notable public figure’s name on it.

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Include a Car Chase

Over the past two and next few weeks, I (Jenny Trevino, IVAN Library’s Librarian) have been/will be posting a series of short stories I wrote for my former employer’s Writing Club. The first week, I posted a story in which I had the idea of making Andrew Carnegie answer for his sins. In this story, I imagined a library that still offers current-age services such as reference assistance and electronic resources, but has also developed services out of its core value of privacy.

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Graduation Party

Last week, I posted a story in which I had the idea of making Andrew Carnegie answer for his sins. In the remaining stories, I was trying to imagine ways in which the concept of a library might evolve in a future that has moved on from even the non-traditional services that are currently being presented as constituting a library’s post-print portfolio. This story imagines a library that is keeping its doors open as an event space.

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Carnegie on trial

Over the next few weeks, Jenny will be posting a series of short stories written for her former employer’s Writing Club. In this one, she had the idea of making Andrew Carnegie answer for his sins.

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2024 Book Clubs Scheduled!

2024 Book Clubs will meet on the third Saturday of each month starting January 21. Meetings will be held on the "Book Club Meetings" voice channel on the IVAN Library Discord server.

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