ZineLibraries.info

Purpose: Show & share documentation/documents for collects & maybe even upload them to the site.

Jenna: Donor Agreement

Trying to think about permissions & provenance. Part of the form: whether name or gender has changed.

Getting reimbursed for purchases made in person & with cash (zine fests, etc). As much info as possible about the event (fill it out ahead of time). Buying in person – use own cash and get cash back from the school.

Reciepts: zinesters can fill them out at zinefests.

Legal council on these documents??

Barnard used documents already in existence and modified them.

Getting a credit card from yr library/institution.

QZAP makes a manifesta of the donation. Also using Bento software to catalog which synchs with computers & iPads as a barefoot way to catalog.

QZAP asks for permission to digitize and if they don’t get an answer they put it up but will take it down if they are asked. Have a section on fair us on the site.

U of Iowa: Some zines are digitized. “Memorandum of Understanding”

ZAPP: catalogingandpreservation.pbworks.com

FAIL at Flywheel: Going to have a cataloging party – maybe use librarything. (Soapbox & Jude use librarything). Fail advice??

ABC No Rio: filemaker pro database. Crappy but still in use. (Lesson: Whatever you start to use you will probably continue to use even if it sucks).

Build the database in an online environment s it can be browsed & edited simultaneously and is not on-site. Always backup. Multiple backups in multiple places.

Bento: Can you lock records?

Celina: catalogs in excel (removable fields for when patrons browse). Excel isn’t very searchable. Librarians end up pulling things for patrons.

Celina: Had a successful zine night. Had people make zines. There was a complaint about some of the content. Now they can’t really distribute the zine.

Kelly: Zine machine which has free zines available. Disruptive Technology event (mostly IT & faculty tech event). Made a zine for the event. Factulty have reached out about using zines in the collection.

Alana: has a zine workspace in the library & has open lab hours. Helps to suss out last minute logistics.

Jill: has a zine they made when their blog went down. Completely propaganda. Wanted to make a zine on work time w/work $$$.

Zine as annual report – anticipates making 1 per semester.  Since most folks are not solely zine librarians they play up their zine work in annual reports.

Alana: Sometimes  zines b/c they are “cute” and not technologically advanced get devalued. Craft vs. art.

Celina: Value judgement of zines. “weeding out bad zines”. Bad zines don’t exists. Values for collection dev. Only weeded out zines that were overproduced.

In the “Memorandum of Understanding” who owns the zines???

Barnard Fail: Jenna wanted to include collection dev. that included trans zines said women (cis & trans) and ended up questioning if that was the right language.

The Zine Librarian (un)Conference is happening July 27-28 in Pittsburgh, PA. Check out the wiki here.

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS:
If you are interested in leading a one-hour workshop during the conference, please submit the following information by creating a page for your proposal on this wiki and linking to the proposal on this page by Friday, May 27th, 2012 (deadline okay?).

On your workshop page, please include:

1. The title of your workshop
2. Your name and a very brief biography of all workshop leaders (1-3 sentences each)
3. A brief (100 word) summary of topics you would address
4. Any tools, equipment or technology that would be required
5. Add your proposal page to this list (You’ll need to be logged into the wiki to do so):
   1. Sample proposal from the 2009 ZL(u)C: Zine Anatomy

Guidelines for workshops: We are interested in hosting workshops that will be informational, how-to’s and describe a task, skill or scheme that another zine library would find useful. This could be hands-on, or a presentation of what your library has done well.
Note: This is a call only for workshops that require extensive pre-planning, are practical in nature, or require specific materials.

We will also have facilitated discussions at the conference, but those will be selected at the conference itself. List of potential discussion topics. Please add yours!

Looks like we can at least videotape sessions we’d like to, then upload to YouTube or some other place of our choosing. Who wants to be our tech person/s?!  – Jude

To register for the PGH ZL(u)C you will need to register for this wiki first.

After you have logged in to the wiki add your name, alphabetically if you please:

• Elvis Bakaitis, Queens College student in Archives & Special Collections
• Marie Elia, Archivist Time Capsule Project, Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh
• Violet Fox, Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Seattle
• Jenna Freedman, Zine Librarian and middle manager, Barnard Library
• Eric Goldhagen, technology worker and zine librarian groupie, NYC
• Rhonda Kauffman, adjunct cataloger, New York University.
• Alana Kumbier, Research & Instruction Librarian, Wellesley College
• Jill Luedke – Reference & Instruction Librarian/Art Subject Specialist, Temple University, Philadelphia.
• Kelly McElroy, Undergraduate Services Librarian, University of Iowa
• Milo Miller, Co-founder, Queer Zine Archive Project
• Honor Moody, Cataloger, Schlesinger Library
• Erica Saunders, Brooklyn College Library Zine Intern
• Alycia Sellie, Zine, Media and Cultural Studies Librarian, Brooklyn College
• Kalmia Strong, Graduate Fellow in Special Collections & Archives, University of Iowa Libraries
• Jude Vachon, Librarian/Zine Librarian Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• Celina Williams, Zine Librarian and Graduate Research Assistant, VCU Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives

Please include your name and a short description when proposing a discussion.

• union catalog update
• zinelibraries.info update/check in
• microcosm update
• zine libraries day
• Hit By A Bus (Milo) – in many instances there is a single person who has initiated or organized a library’s zine collection.  What happens if that person gets hit by a bus?  How is institutional knowledge about the collection shared so that it can be maintained?
• Zine-talking (Kelly) – Reader’s advisory fer zines
• Zinewiki (Kelly) – if there are computers available, let’s chill out and make some updates
• Show and tell (Jenna): forms, processes
• contribute to world’s largest zine
• any Carnegie PL service projects?

For keeping track of who is willing to to what, where we are, and what skills we have, here’s a page for the conference (un)organizers.

Jude, Pittsburgh, find rooms and housing, general make this thing work work

1. Theme-off
After much discussion, it seems to make sense to stick with WordPress. We’ve narrowed our theme options to two: Tweaker4 or 2011. We’ve currently updated to Tweaker4, which will be up until next Friday, November 25. Then we’ll put 2011 up until December 2. So please poke around with each theme and send comments to kellymce [at] gmail.com by December 2.

Keep in mind, the content will still be shifting, this is more about the aesthetics and functions.

Since it doesn’t show up in the title menu, take a look at how wikis will look: http://zinelibraries.info/wiki/test/

2. Art contest
Down the line, we’ll be changing the URL to Zinelibrarians.net, restructuring things, and making it easier to add and use content. As part of this process, we need some new art to freshen up the site, and we want your help.

We most need the following:
- a banner at the top of the display
- small badges that folks can proudly post on their own websites
- a general logo that can be easily repurposed
But additional ideas are welcomed!

At this point, please don’t bother making a refined product — just submit a rough sketch, and any explanation you deem necessary. Entries are due December 18, 2011. Sketches will be posted to the website for public voting. The winner will be asked to produce a more complete design by early in 2012. Email your entries (and any questions) to kellymce [at] gmail.com.