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Feminist Theory in Library School
"No seriously, we are a profession that is made up of 80% women. Why the fuck is basic feminist theory not mandatory reading in library school?"
PhD in LIS
Last year the note on Jessa's copy of my Winter Solstice Shout Out zine asked if she was going to make a dissertation procrastination zine. On the first page of Jessa's new zine she answers me, "Yes, Jenna. Yes, I am."
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Internship at Marvel Library
Apparently they haven't received any applications from library and information science students yet. So if you're in an LIS program and looking for a for credit internship, and you want to work with comics (How could you not?), please get in touch with these nice people!
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Tech and Reference: a Feminist Perspective
Library Activism Sample Platter
Vani Natarajan
Deirdre Stam's LIS class at LIU/The Palmer School, Thursday, April 2, 2009
Vani Natarajan of the Brooklyn Public Library and I are speaking at Deirdre Stam's LIU LIS class, offering two minute lightning talks on 10 library activism topics.
- Jenna: Radical Reference
- Vani: Historical people of color activist librarianship
- Jenna: ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table
- Vani: Outreach to prisoners--Books Through Bars, METRO SIG, Prisoner Express
- Jenna: PLG
- Vani: Infoshops/bookstore collectives
- Jenna: Alternative press/zines at Barnard
- Vani: Working with media makers
- Jenna: Free/open source software
- Vani: Organizing a conference
Pratt Insitute Library Media Specialists class
Jessica Hochman
Melissa Jones
Pratt Insitute Library Media Specialists class
Barnard Library Zine Collection
Pratt Institute LMS Class
November 19, 2008
with Teacher/Librarian Melissa Jones
Professor Jessica Hochman
Radical Reference and Zines: Effecting Change at Your library, Online, and in the Street
Pratt Institute library school talk, April 9, 2008.
This is about activism in your library and in your life, focusing on Radical Reference and the Barnard Library Zine Collection and hoping that session participants will feel empowered to develop projects and collections in their libraries and lives. Romel Espinel invited me on behalf of SILSSA.
Pittsburgh Progressive Library Skillshare report back
It's now been three weeks since the Progressive Library Skillshare in Pittsburgh, so my report back will not do justice to the event, I'm afraid. I'm just going to list the highlights, since too much time has passed for me to produce a thoughtful narrative.