Report back: LACUNY Institute on Library Leadership: The Next Generation
I went to this CUNY librarians event Institute because I was invited to participate in a "Graying of the Profession" panel.
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NY Art Book Fair Conference report back
Here is a brief report back on the NY Art Book Fair Conference at which Alycia Sellie, Susan Thomas and I presented.
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 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
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.
Archiving Women Report Back
Archiving Women was a one-day conference "bringing together scholars and archivists to examine feminist practices in the archive."
If I were a little more organized, I could share my notes, but unfortunately they're gone. Instead I'm going to bring up three different threads that for me characterized the event. They are preservation vs. privacy, the de-emphasis of the practitioner, and notable vs. common lives.
PS My presentation.