Schedule!

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All programs (besides tours) will take place in the Bobst Library at NYU.
All the notes pages in one place.

Strikethroughs indicate folks who couldn’t make it. 🙁

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Friday, August 2, 2024 – notes document

  • Dorm check-in (Details will be emailed to dorm folks)
  • Suggested evening activities, 8pm-ish (These outings are not organized and don’t have point people; dorm folks should get a button and/or sticker if you want to wear something identifiable, or conspicuously carry a zine or a stapler.)

Saturday, August 3, 2024 –

Note: A quiet room (613) and a craft/zine-making room (411) will be available all day. notes document

9am-9:30am: Breakfast (2nd Floor North Reading Room)

9:30am-10:05am: Opening and Welcome (2nd Floor North Reading Room) notes document

10:05am-10:15am: Break / room-finding

10:15am-11:30am: Session 1

  • 1A- Academic libraries lightning talks (room 745) notes document – moderator: Kelly Wooten
    • Zine Machine: overview of a semester-long zine seminar at Alfred University / Kevin Adams & Sara Kramer
    • Organizing the Reed Zine Fest at Reed College / A’misa Chiu & Chloe Van Stralendorff
    • Creating a queer comics research zine at Virginia Commonwealth University / Heather Winn
    • Creative risks in the classroom: incorporating creative risks in classroom zine assignments in a college course / Zorianna Zurba
    • Reflections on a quasi-sabbatical on zine instruction and cataloging at Michigan State University / Joshua Barton
    • Zine class syllabi / Lauren Ksa & Kelly McElroy
  • 1B- Collecting and organizing lightning talks (room 743) notes document – moderator: Lauren Kehoe
    • The 309 Punk Project in Pensacola, FL / Britt McGowan & Seth Mattei
    • Brooklyn Public Library’s Zine Box Program / Emma Eriksson
    • Using e-zines to organize the Salt Lake City Public Library Workers United / Michelle Cao, Ivy Smith, Christina Ordoñez & Esther Daranciang
    • Processing grief, documenting personal histories, and building community at zine swaps organized by a zine distro / Rachel Simanjuntak
  • 1C- Collecting and archives panel (room 619) notes document – moderator: Destinee Thom
    • Challenges and strategies of preserving and promoting a DIY zine archive in a conservative community in Aguascalientes, Mexico / Argel Camacho SĂĄnchez
    • The political frameworks influencing zine culture and its intersection with knowledge production, drawing on Factsheet Five / Izabeau
    • The difficulties of cataloging zines: highlighting the clash between traditional cataloging principles and the free-spirited nature of zines at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard / Jonathan Tuttle
  • 1D- MarcEdit Workshop (room 617) notes document – moderator: Jenna Freedman
    • A brief overview of MarcEdit for cataloging zines and a demo on how to use it for creating MARC records from a spreadsheet of data / Rhonda Kauffman

11:30-11:45: Break (2nd Floor North Reading Room)

11:45-1pm: Session 2

  • 2A- Outreach and workshops lightning talks (room 745) notes document – moderator: Sharaya

    • The Anchor Archive Zine Library’s updating of their Zine Thesaurus through an Editorial Collective / Violet Fox & Susan Hallgren
    • Using collaborative zines to foster community in one-shot workshops / Carolina Hernandez
    • Tips on mini-zine creation, using digital tools like Google Draw and Adobe apps for visual impact / Marya Errin Jones
    • Fostering public library engagement with subcultural community via zine fests, a monthly zine, and more / Meg Nance Coker
    • Pocket zines as tools for advocacy / Jessica De Jesus Rodriguez
    • Building zine community with zine-making challenges at an academic library / Madeline Veitch
    • Zines and the museum: dissemination of information for the digital age / Heather Winn
    • An update on DePaul University’s “Zines to Prisoners” program / Derek Potts
  • 2B- Radical collecting lightning talks (room 743) notes document – moderator: A’misa Chiu
    • Collecting and programming with Indigenous zines at Harvard / Julie Fiveash
    • Insights on creating literary zines with the New York Public Library Zine Committee / Whitney Davidson-Rhodes & Tabrizia Jones
    • Queer/ing zines as a practice of collective trans-formation / Kika W. L. Van Robays
    • The significance of the black zine archive project / Momo Mullings
    • Establishing a zine collection at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs with a grant from the Radical Librarianship Institute / Liz Brown
    • Combating archival silence by documenting female and non-binary skateboarding zines from the 1980s-1990s / Natalie Porter
  • 2C- Latine Zine Futures panel (room 413) notes document – moderator: Kelly McElroy
    • Latine Zine Futures: three zinesters share their experiences as Latine zine makers, considering the significance of their zine creation work, the afterlives of their zines in the world, and elements of the zine scene / Pau Venadito, Veronica Melendez & Marisol Silva Pilares
  • 2D- Building community and Subverting educational institutions panel (room 619) notes document – moderator: Gina Murrell
    • How underrepresented students can find empowerment in higher education through zine research, DIY culture, and “nontraditional” scholarship / Andrea Serna & Easton Brundage
    • Community building through zine workshops: collecting and preserving ephemera that capture the student experience / Brittany Newberry & Charlene Martoni
    • The FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival Archive / Kathryn Manis, Mandy Mastrovita & Robert Newsome

1pm-2pm: Lunch (2nd Floor North Reading Room) notes document

  • Zine Lunch Provided: Interest Group, Introvert Time &/or Mingle
  • Interest Group: Black Zines and Zinesters (743 or Outdoors)

2:00pm-3:15pm: Session 3

  • 3A- Punk Music in Libraries panel (room 743) notes document – moderator: Sharaya
    • Punk music in libraries: live music events at libraries to promote zine culture / Ziba PĂ©rez, Sara Pete, Chloe Van Stralendorff, Lorena Villegas, A’misa Chiu
  • 3B- Workshop comparing MARC, ZAPP and ZineCore (room 745) notes document – moderator: Kelly Wooten

    • Catalog along with me, the best is yet to be!: Three catalogers cataloged the same zines with MARC, ZAPP and ZineCore standards; now they compare decisions and discuss for your enjoyment / Joshua Barton, Violet Fox, Milo Miller
  • 3C- Interest Groups: Breakout discussion sessions on instruction! (room 619) notes document – moderator: Jenna Freedman
  • 3D- Pre-recorded session viewing (room 413) notes document – moderator: Lauren Ksa
    • Zines as a method of gentle/non-violent creative practice / Charlie Anne
    • Zine letters as a form to share remembrances during DĂ­a de los Muertos / Lily De La Fuente
    • Documenting community stories with the Bad Internet Librarians Collective / Arya Natarajan

3:15pm-4pm Wrap up Saturday Sessions (2nd Floor North Reading Room) notes document

6pm-8pm Zine Reading P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street notes document
Emcee: Emma Karin Eriksson. Readers include: Amber McCrary, Kika Van Robays, Jonathan Tuttle, Jennifer LaSuprema, Pau Venadito, Alice Wynne

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Note: A quiet room (613) and a craft/zine-making room (411) will be available all day.

9am-9:30am Coffee and Tea (2nd Floor North Reading Room)

9:30-10:15 Morning Welcome (2nd Floor North Reading Room) notes document

10:15-11am Session 4- Interest Groups

Each group will designate a facilitator, note taker, vibe-watcher and timekeeper

11am-11:15am Break

11:15-12pm Session 5: Introduction to the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics (2nd Floor North Reading Room) notes document – led by Madeline Veitch, Milo Miller, Joshua Barton, Rhonda Kauffman, and Jenna Freedman

  • This session will offer a history of the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics and introduce plans for updating this classic resource. Sections and interest areas will be created and attendees will sort into working groups.

12-1pm Lunch (2nd Floor North Reading Room)

  • Zine Lunch Provided: Interest Groups, Introvert time and/or Mingle
  • Interest Groups
    • De-centering the US (743)
    • Zines for Youth (619)
    • Zines & Archives (413)

1pm-2:45 Session 6: Zine Librarians Code of Ethics Working Groups notes document

  • Working Groups will be created and assigned rooms
    1. Access
    2. Acquisitions
    3. Community Care
    4. Digitization
    5. Instruction
    6. International
    7. Maintenance
    8. Organization / Cataloging
    9. Physical Processing
    10. Preamble
    11. Preservation
    12. Use/Reuse/Copyright/Fair Use
    13. School Libraries
    14. Shelving
    15. Wranglers

Breakout groups:

  1. Expand Preamble to include a statement of purpose on community care and statement of who librarians are 2nd floor
  2. Digitization 743
  3. International concerns 413
  4. Labor: volunteering, horizontal power, naming that non-MLIS holders are zine librarians, challenges from coworkers. Define what we mean by “zine librarian” 745
  5. Expand preservation to include stewardship, succession planning 2nd floor
  6. Challenges, bans, self-censorship 619
  7. Add shelving and accessibility concerns to Acq and Preservation sections 2nd floor
  8. Teaching (was worked on in 2022)

2:45-3pm Break

3-3:45pm Closing Plenary (2nd Floor North Reading Room) notes document

6:00pm Zine Library Tours notes document