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 You are invited to the Progressive Library
Skillshare, hosted by the SIS Graduate Student Organization
and the Student Chapter of the American Library Association. Planned
for September 7 & 8, this free event will bring together
library workers, library lovers, zine enthusiasts, book
artists, publishers, and community members to explore
the relationship between library work and social justice,
alternative information resources and socially responsible
ways to share information in our communities. This
series of events will encourage attendees to think critically
about information: how it’s produced, distributed,
and consumed. For more details, visit http://progressivelibraryskillshare.wikispaces.com/.
On Friday, September 7th, events will be held at Kiva
Han Café (420 Craig Street). The speaker
will be Jenna Freedman, zine librarian & librarian
zinester, who will discuss radical reference and zines. She
is the Coordinator of Reference Services at Barnard College
in NYC and a member of Radical Reference, a collective
of library workers that meets the research needs of activists
and independent journalists. She has published articles
on zine librarianship and presented around the United
States on that topic as well as on other themes of library
activism. She is the 2007 winner of the Elizabeth Futas
Catalyst for Change Award and a 2003 Library Journal
Mover & Shaker.
Saturday’s events include a presentation by Sanford
Berman who has been a public, college, and military librarian
in Washington, DC, Germany, Zambia, Uganda, Los Angeles,
and Minnesota. An ALA Honorary member, he co-edited Alternative
Library Literature: A Biennial Anthology and is now an
editorial advisor for Journal of Information Ethics,
Counterpoise, MultiCultural Review, and Unabashed Librarian.
He founded the ALA/SRRT Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty
Task Force and co-authored ALA policies on workplace
speech and service to poor people. There will also
be skillshare opportunities and an alternative info fair
featuring independent publishers and local organizations.
Friday,
September 7 2007
Kiva Han Cafe - 420 S Craig St, Pittsburgh 15213
| 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm |
Jenna Freedman
on radical reference and zine collections |
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| 8:45 pm - 9:30 pm |
Film screening : Book'Em
a documentary by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE |
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| 8:15 pm- 8:45 pm |
Q&A session + discussion |
Saturday, September 8, 2007
The Union Project - 801 North Negley Ave. Pittsburgh,
PA 15206
| 11am -11:30 am |
Independent publishers and local organizations
will be setting up tables in the Great Hall before
the keynote speaker begins. feel free to come early
and socialize. |
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| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm |
Sanford Berman
on being an activist librarian, and library involvement in ending genocide |
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| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
alternative info fair + snacks
Participants:
- The Big Idea
Bookstore
- Book'Em
- Soft Skull Press
- AK Press
- Fractious
Press
- White Privilege
and Anti-Racist Organizing Discussion Group
- Encyclopedia
Destructica
- Lillis
Distribution/ PittsburghWords Like Kudzu Press
- The New Yinzer
baked goods by Nina
zines from the Braddock library's
Zine Scene program |
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Skillshares and Discussion
sessions |
2:00 - 3:00 |
international responsibilities and libraries |
2:00 - 2:30 |
bookbinding |
2:30 - 3:00 |
health information resources |
3:00 - 4:00 |
library services for homeless people |
3:00 - 3:30 |
tips for setting up an alternative press |
3:30 - 4:00 |
postcards and letters for prisoners/prison resource
guide mailing session |
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