This serves as my personal/professional blog. I write about zines and alternative press publications in libraries, cataloging, library activism, and cats.
I also review books and zines and occasionally publicize events.
Right now much of my professional stuff (talks, interviews, and whatnot) are at my Barnard site and on the zines site. My plan is to bring all the non-zines stuff over here. I've made a start with an academic page.
I get so sad when my books are "in transit" at NYPL for extended periods.
Jenna Freedman is a zine librarian at Barnard College in NYC, and she is also a librarian zinester. She has published articles on zine librarianship and presented around the United States and in France on that topic as well as on other themes of library activism.
This year I was fortunate to win the Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award. I will miss the award ceremony because I am home taking care of my sick cat, but it's not like I would have gotten to make a speech anyway. Still, I have people to thank, so I thought I'd make my little speech here.
Polar Fiction -- who knew?
Ayun Halliday
Lauren Jade Martin
Eleanor Whitney
Small Press Book Fair 2005
What exactly are zines, and how do you go about creating your own? Four local zinemakers describe their experiences creating zines, including content, design graphics, how to copy and distribute, and networking with other zinesters. Join us to learn more about these unique and important publications and the role they can play in building a vibrant independent publishing community.
Cristina Favretto
Lynn Thomas
Roger Adams
RBMS Conference 2005
This seminar will explore the implications of collecting popular culture and other "unusual" collections, as well as examining their impact as educational tools. The speakers will discuss issues of collection development, institutional support, outreach, cataloging and arrangement/description. The speakers will describe their personal experiences working with collections on the history of surfing, penny dreadfuls and inspirational series literature (i.e. the Horatio Alger stories), cookbooks, and zines.
Columbia University Summer Reference Institute 2005
Radical Reference librarians
NYC Independent Media Center training
Sandy Berman
Jim Danky
Milo Miller
Madison Zine Fest, 2005
