ABC No Rio Zine Library quick doc
This 3 minute documentary of the of the ABC No Rio Zine Library came my way via Heather Davis on the Zine Librarians Yahoogroup.
Tagged with zine libraries
Zine Librarians (un)Conference post-mortem report back
And of course like any decent organizers, at the end of the conference we did a go around where everyone said what they liked about the event and what could have made it better. And we set up some working groups to keep things going after the conference ended. I know it's morbid, but the term I learned to use for this exercise is post-mortem.
Zine Librarians (un)Conference all sessions report back
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.
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.
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
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.
Hennen, 4 top 10s, and Zines
Did anyone else notice that three of the top ten libraries in the 500,000+ population category and one in the 100,000 in Hennen's American Public Library Ratings 2008 rankings have something in common? That something is zines!
ACRL preconference unconference and ZineLibCon
I am in the midst of helping to organize two events around the ACRL conference in Seattle in March. They are an ACRL Unconference and a Zine Librarians Conference.