Ping Pong for New Orleans
Since this doesn't seem to have much of a web presence, I thought I'd blog it, albeit a little late to do much good.
Ping Pong Tournament!
Sat. May 24 at 7PM
6th St. Community Center btwn B & C
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GLBT ALMS Conference: Susan Stryker Keynote
Day Two of the GLBT ALMS conference at the CUNY Grad Center.
Susan Stryker talked about how history can be
- a monument to ourselves
- nostalgia
- a tool for future work
She was most interested in the last interpretation, and discussed it mostly through the lens of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, which she directed for five years after being a regular researcher and volunteer there.
GLBT ALMS Conference 2008: Less Process/Less Privacy
Day Two of the GLBT ALMS conference at the CUNY Grad Center. Less Process/Less Privacy: Implications of Minimal Processing for GLBT Collections with Jodi Berkowitz, Laura Micham, Heather Murray, and Minnie Bruce Pratt.
Stop giving at the Microsoft Office
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative is hosting a training, or really an "untraining," meaning the event's program will be devised at the beginning of the day, based on the attendees' preferences, on using OpenOffice, the open source rival of MS Office. (I wonder if there will be any discussion of the Mac version, NeoOffice.) The event will be held at Google's NYC offices, so there may be some talk about Google docs and the like, as well.
June 5th, 2008 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 76 9th Avenue. Register.
GLBT ALMS Conference 2008: Coming to Terms
GLBT ALMS Conference 2008: Coming to Terms
Day One of the GLBT ALMS conference at the CUNY Grad Center. Coming to Terms: LGBTIQ Thesauri, Folksonomies, and Taxononomies with KR Roberto, Ellen Greenblatt, Michael Waldman, and Analisa Ornelas. And the same bad mannered know-it-all from the previous session.
Welcome to the catalog--singing cowboys!
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 17 (April 23, 2008)
My highlights from LCSH Weekly List 17. And since I haven't said it before except in a comment, here are some explanatory notes from the about page: "Changes to existing headings are indicated by an asterisk. (A) indicates proposals that were approved before the editorial meeting. (C) indicates proposals submitted by cooperating libraries."
This week's highlights include ice pops, singing cowboys, and towel folding. Messy sweet-toothed cowboys!
GLBT ALMS Conference 2008: The Catalog and You
Day One of the GLBT ALMS conference at the CUNY Grad Center. (ALMS stands for Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections, btw.)
I arrived at the conference in time to attend my friend Emily Drabinski's panel on Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
Just so's you know, I'm going to make a post for each workshop I attended, rather than one superlong post about the whole event.
stimulate this
Anyone else plotting a better use for your "Economic Stimulus Payment" than buying stuff?
I'm determined to donate mine to a cause specifically fighting government aggression, oppression, and/or repression.
free:
(un)intentional community: queer zines in an institutional context
Co-presenter:
Kelly Shortandqueer
Chris Wilde
Laura Wynholds
Event:
GLBT ALMS
Abstract:
Zines are important in archives for a number of reasons. First of all, they represent an important primary source of information for future historians. They usually come from subcultures that are poorly documented in the larger culture. Furthermore, unlike the traditional print media, they represent an unmediated rendition of people's experiences in a particular place and time distributed to a significant (albeit small) audience. Secondly, in a time when writing communities are increasingly digital ( e.g. blogs, myspace, facebook), the print culture of the zine world is unique in its sociology. People make zines, trade them with others, write letters, and meet other like minded people. The zine genre is almost as well known for its creation of community as it is for its contribution of physical documents.
Within the context of lgbt archives, the theme of building community is an important one. However, the traditional method of cataloging and housing zines (as monographs or serials) does little to preserve the context out of which the documents were created. Despite this, the culture of community still plays an important role and overlaps into archives preserving zines. This panel will present the views of queer zine collecting in academic as well as non-traditional archives and libraries. We will discuss the ways that the diy zine communities overlap into these collections, as well as the ways the larger parent institution shapes the type of community involvement.
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