Zine Union Catalog, Part II

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Notes continued from part I: http://zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2014/schedule/zine-union-catalog-part-i/

  • POSSE ethos, individual collections syndicated into union catalog Post to Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

    • Git projects, like P3K

  • Code for America, remote hackathon?

    • bid, institutional residence

    • connect with chapter heads

    • CSV conference

  • hackathon at library dev conference

    • next code4lib at PDX

  • funding

    • hosting at IPRC (via Amazon Web Services)

    • pro-rate contributions and volunteer hours from different libraries

    • LSTA – Lillian doing one right now, will report back

    • Knight – Jenna

    • Awesome grants (local) – Milo

    • IMLS – Jeremy

    • Lily happy to help write grants

    • IPRC umbrella

  • survey zine libraries, including international

    • LIS grad student: Jennifer will do outreach to UT students

    • alternative spring breaker

    • Jenna and Madeline work on survey if no student (ask Lisa Darms to look it over)

  • survey zine library users, too

    • Radical Librarians Guild at Simmons in Boston

    • who keeps usage stats?

    • zine fests

  • letters of support needed (from scholars)

  • IPRC: zine stork – zines for starting a new collection, including records

  • international

    • help from alex zamora for outreach

    • web analytics

  • standards?

    • preferred standards: encouraged, but not required

    • look through xZINECOREx to identify fields that need standardization

    • what is the minimum info needed in a record to include in union catalog?

    • standards going forward: you don’t have to clean up your legacy data

    • data can be harmonized after the fact

    • records are more similar than different right now, says Milo

  • Lillian has an IPRC comic about zine cataloging

  • action item: people who volunteered for things, create a survey