Zine Librarians collection development/intellectual freedom report back
This is another report back from the Zine Librarians (Un)conference: my notes on the collection development/intellectual freedom session.
Have You Found Her: A Memoir
At first I thought this book, about a woman's mentor relationship with a homeless teen was a lot like Erlbaum's previous memoir, Girlbomb, which I read last year and mostly liked.
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Mar 23 2009
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978-0-8129-7457-7
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Zine Librarians Meta discussion report back
The idea here was to sort out how we use all of the different online resources we've created and will create, including, but not limited to
- ZineWiki
- zinelibraries.info, our shared WordPress blog
- Zine Librarians discussion list
- We Make Zines Zine Librarians group, ning (special interest social networking site)
- ILL
- union catalog
LCSH Week 8: post-racialism and montage
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 08 (February 25, 2009)
In which the Library of Congress changes its tune from CATALOGING, COOPERATIVE to COOPERATIVE CATALOGING. They also welcome DECOLONIZATION, POST RACIALISM, and WITCH HUNTING, and I use the term "idem."
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Zine Librarians (un)Conference photos
My photos (and some of Eric's) from the Zine Librarians (un)Conference on Flickr.
ACRL Preconference Unconference photographs
I just posted my (really Eric's) photos from the Radical Reference ACRL Preconference Unconference.
Zine Anatomy & Zine Preservation report back
Heather Davis led a discussion on Zine Preservation—mostly theory, but a good bit of practice, as well. Alycia Sellie's Zine Anatomy was a show and tell and discuss on some of the different art techniques used in zine making.
Zine Union Catalog Sampler report back
The idea behind this session was to explore several different online tools for possible use as a shared catalog, where zine libraries of all types should upload records and holdings data, sort of, as we ended up calling it in the workshop, a "non-evil OCLC for zines." Whoever the official note taker was for the session will post to the (un)conference wiki.
Zinester Ethics session report back
The first session I attended at the Zine Librarians (un)Conference was about how zine libraries serve the zine making community, as opposed to how we serve historians and the general reading public. We specifically asked non-librarian zine makers to attend this conference in order to get their feedback on how we're doing and what we could do better.
ACRL Preconference Unconference Report Back
Members of Radical Reference (i.e. Lia and me) organized a free unconference to precede the Association of College and Research Libraries biennial conference. About a dozen attendees met for four and a half hours and discussed critical pedagogy, what it means to be a radical librarian, and workplace issues and also conducted a 45-minute work session where we cleared the Radical Reference site of its unanswered questions.