free events

Aug 30 10:02

Desk Set: Detroit Retold Revised Re-visioned

Detroit based authors Steve Hughes and Lynn Crawford in conversation with Librarian Jenna Freedman

Thursday, September 15
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, BKNY

Jan 29 2010

Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction

Saturday, May 1st 2010
Brooklyn College Library
1:00pm-4:00pm
This event is free.

Please RSVP by April 9th.

Everyone involved in this except for the main speaker, Ira Shor, is in Radical Reference: Tom Dodson, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier (facilitators) and Alycia Sellie and Jonathan Cope (organizers).

Oct 31 2009

NY Librarians Meetup: Librarians & Blogging

Abstract: 

Monday, November 2, 2009
5:30pm, Little Italy (you have to join the meetup group to find out exactly where the meeting is--5 spots left as of 2pm Saturday)

Apr 24 2009

Tech and Reference: a Feminist Perspective

On Saturday April 25, 2009 ASIS&T and SILSSA will be jointly hosting a New Media Symposium at PMC room 609 from 2pm to 7pm. Pratt Institute, New York, NY.

Presentation: 
Mar 14 2009

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.

Mar 06 2009

Radical ACRL

For those attending the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Seattle, and those who live in/near Seattle...

Dec 28 2008

We Make Zines! -- zine reading at Bluestockings

Six fabulous New York-based zines (and one from Pennsylvania!) provide a delicious evening of readings.

January 7th, 2009
7pm at Bluestockings
172 Allen St (between Stanton & Rivington)
New York, NY

Dec 02 2008

The Carbon Footprint of Print and Digital Media

APHA-New York presents:

Don Carli, "The Carbon Footprint of Print and Digital Media: Why you should care and what you can do about it"

Co-sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Columbia University.

Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, 6-7:30 p.m.
Butler Library, Room 523
Columbia University

Aug 09 2008

Drupal Camp NYC - September 13 & 14

The 5th FREE drupal camp is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday September 13 and 14th.