At the end of the day on Sunday, someone from each session reported on the session's highlights. Before that, we took a group photo.
- Timberland Regional Library's Story
- how collection started
- how to get admin to accept it
- programming
- building interest from community
- lolcats slides
- patron initiated titled blank zines
- digital collections
- lots of info about qzap
- compared to print collections
- discussion of ethics of copyright/fair use
- technical process
- ethics of zine collecting
- since I'd already blogged it, I reported back from my notes
- union catalog
- five different tools drupal, librarything, athenaeum, zine wiki, biblios
- trying to cater to all types of libraries
- didn't reach a conclusion
- zinewiki as a stopgap while we discuss a more permanent option, also as an authority source
- need to form a work group, no tool works out of the box
- sustainability
- zapp and iprc members
- paid classes for fundraising
- iprc--outreach, membership, and workshops are three biggest fundraisers (get grants)
- july is international zine month (says alex)
- partnership between zapp and iprc--cascadia zine coalition
- structures of nonprofits and boards that don't understand what we do
- cataloging catchall--subject headings vs. tags
- outsider librarian lunchtime caucus
- how can institutional libraries support independent libraries?
- side conversation about when the champion of a collection leaves the library, importance of documentation
- cataloging for nonlibrarians
- history of cataloging
- how catalogs work
- examples of zines--how to determine metadata and where to put that data (which fields), assigning multiple categories, authority/compared to imdb
- bookbinding
- needed to be longer
- made a coptic bound book
- advanced cataloging
- what best practices should be
- how zine libraries can coordinate
- volunteer management
- what should be in a record
- how to describe zines
shared each library's practices - physical description
- controlled vocabulary/thesaurus getting input from experts and users
- how to use zinewiki as a stopgap cataloging tool--not uploading the entire record, just adding holdings info
- anatomy and preservation
- I was the designated note taker
- zine programming
- jerianne shared things she's done
- elaine too
- factors to consider--audience (e.g. teens), 24-hour zines, zines for seniors
- meta discussion
- zinelibraries.info--adding profiles there (rather than a new round of intros) to facilitate referrals to each other's libraries or to experts, maybe that should be where we do it
- zine yearbook
- zine libraries central fund for shared projects
- collection development/intellectual freedom
- criteria for accepting/rejecting zines
- patron challenges
- access policies (age restrictions)
- zine technical writing
- practiced writing an abstract and a review
- talked about the difference between the two
Sorry that was so long, but it was a packed two days. I'm still recovering!