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zine panel notes
These are the notes I made during the ALA Zine Cataloging panel. I can't seem to bring myself to write them in a nice narrative wrap-up. I think there's info that I'd like to make sure I get down somewhere, so here it is, unadorned for those who agree that something is better than nothing.
John Stevens, State Library of Victoria
- passively and intentionally accumulated zines
- zines kept in storage, no weeding
- stored by accession, date info on box label, and provenance (see John's slides for photograph of zines in storage)
- intentional collection seems to have less metadata/cataloging than passive (that's changing to some extent?)
- records uploaded monthly to catalog
- suppress private metadata in public catalog
Chris Ritzo, UC-IMC (also UIUC)
- volunteer library: three volunteer librarians
- how affected by affiliation with IMC
- librarians sometimes prefer doing programing than cataloging
- some grant funding,
- mostly donations, buy some zines
- using Drupal, circ module from Anchor Zine Archive
- if librarian cataloger, Dublin Core, if other volunteer just basic metadata
- drupal taxonomies for collection search
- focus on continuity for process
I went first and frantically tried to cover about five hours' worth of material in 15 minutes. People often describe my speaking style as "enthusiastic."
