Tag: reading discussion

G.L.A.M. Bookworms Book Club for June

You are invited to Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives’ next G.L.A.M.* Bookworms Book Club discussion is on Wednesday, June 18, 7pm (EDT) via Zoom. RSVP/information: info@wolfsonarchives.org.

We’re reading NATURAL HISTORY by Carlos Fonseca:

A curator at a natural history museum investigates the mysterious life of a fashion designer. As he unravels her story, he uncovers deep connections between art, politics, and nature, blurring the line between truth and fiction.

*Gallery, Library, Archives and Museum professionals, but anyone is welcome to join!

Book Launch Event: Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create

Join us May 6, 2025 at 7pm Eastern for virtual book launch for the new title Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create edited by Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski.

Register Here

Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create sits at the heart of the library project, shaping how materials are described and organized and how they can be retrieved. The field has long understood that normative systems like Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress do this inadequately and worse, deploying language and categories that are rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, and U.S. imperialism. Ways of Knowing presents unique and timely oral histories of alternative thesauri created in response to the inadequacies and biases embedded within widely adopted standards in libraries. The oral histories tell the stories behind the thesauri through the narratives of the people who created them, revealing aspects of thesauri work that ordinarily are overlooked or uncovered.

The set of oral histories included in the volume document the Chicano Thesaurus, A Women’s Thesaurus, and Homosaurus. The authors recorded hour-long oral histories with two representatives from each project, documenting the origins of each thesaurus, the political and social context from which they emerged, and the processes involved in their development and implementation. Introductory essays provide a context for each thesaurus in the history of information and activism in libraries. The book and accompanying digital files constitute the first primary source of its kind and a unique contribution to the history of metadata work in libraries. Capturing these stories through sound recording offers new ways of understanding the field of critical cataloging and classification as we hear the joy, frustration, urgency, and seriousness of critical metadata work.

Learn more and purchase the book here.

Article Discussion: Teaching with Primary Sources Subcommittee

The Teaching with Primary Sources Subcommittee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section would like to invite you to an article discussion on Friday, March 21 at 1:00 PM (EDT)/12:00 PM (CDT)/11:00 AM (MDT)/10:00 AM (PDT). We will be discussing the new article “It’s So Liberating To Do The Work: Education In Archives Creates Space For People With Disabilities” by Jen Hoyer and Julia Pelaez. To register for this event, please sign up here: TPS Article Discussion March 2025. 

SAA Book Club

Hi All! I have scheduled a virtual meeting for the SAA Book Club on January 16th at 2 PM EST. This is a meeting to discuss ideas for updating the book club’s setup and our first three books.

Below is an invite for the virtual meeting. The meeting can only last 40minutes, so it will be a short one but hopefully an informative one as well. If you would be interested in being a moderator for the club please let me (Melanie) know during the meeting. Thank you!

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 
Time: Jan 16, 2025 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83706400923

Melissa Gydesen

Article Discussion: Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives

Join the New England Archivists for a free reading group event on Thursday November 7th from 1:00-2:00pm ET. We will be joined by author Sophie Penniman to discuss the article “Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives” from the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of the article, where they can hear more from Penniman, pose questions to the group, and consider how the issues raised in the article reflect or inform their own work.

Register for the event here. The article can be downloaded for free at this link.

The article discusses how neurodivergent records creators and their recordkeeping behaviors often don’t fit within traditional archival paradigms which center verbal, written, and linear documents in specific organizational systems. The article brings together sources from disability studies, feminist and gender studies, library studies, literary analysis, and archival scholarship to imagine ways in which the principle of provenance could be expanded to fit the archives of neurodiverse creators (and archives that resist wholeness and completeness more broadly).

SAA Member Book Club

We are looking for more participation in the SAA Member Book Club on Fable. One of the other members of the book club is working to set up a virtual meeting to discuss our last two books “Decolonial Archival Futures” and “Archival Accessioning.” 

If you would like to add to the discussion please follow the Fable link below or add books to our TBR list on the Google Doc link. For those interested in joining our virtual chat please hop into Fable and add your availability to the Lettucemeet link here:

lettucemeet.com/l/ma3Rw

Fable Book Club

links.fable.co/mqfr35ctwLb

I have also set up a Google Sheet for members to add books they think would be useful or beneficial to read. It is fairly simple: Title, Authors, Publication Date, and a Link to Purchase.

SAA Professional Development Book Club Google Doc

THANK YOU!

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Melanie Gydesen
Victor NY

Article Discussion: Trading Eights: Teaching Collaboratively with Primary Sources

The Teaching with Primary Sources Subcomittee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section would like to invite you to an informal article discussion on Friday, November 15 on Zoom. We will be discussing the article “Trading Eights: Teaching Collaboratively with Primary Sources” by Jill E. Anderson and Kevin Fleming. This article is freely available online at creativelibrarypractice.org/2019/10/23/…

We look forward to seeing you there!

Zoom Information

When: Nov 15, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:

uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/… 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Book Discussion: GLAM Bookworms

Join the next G.L.A.M.* Bookworms book discussion!

Book: THE VAULTS by Toby Ball: In a dystopian 1930s American metropolis, a chilling series of events leads three men – a journalist, an archivist, and a private investigator – down a path to uncover their city’s darkest secret.

When: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, 7pm (EST)

Where: Zoom, RSVP required: info@wolfsonarchives.org

*Gallery, Library, Archives, and Museum professionals, but anyone is welcome to join!

Next discussion: THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig, Mar. 19, 2025, 7pm (EDT)

Sponsored by Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives.

Need any additional information or have any questions? Please contact me directly at lkramer1@mdc.edu.

Thank you!

Regards,

Lou Ellen Kramer
Miami Dade College Archives

G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion

Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives invites everyone to join the next G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion:

THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom

[The next discussion (we’re switching things up a bit): 
THE VAULTS by Toby Ball
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom]

Please share with anyone who might be interested-​all are welcome to join the book club!

Please let me know if you have any questions: lkramer1@mdc.edu.

Regards,
Ms. Lou Ellen Kramer
Archives Manager
Miami Dade College

Reading Discussion: Eira Tansey’s “A Green New Deal For Archives”

Please join SAA’s Issues & Advocacy Section Steering Committee for our 1st meetup of 2024 in the Hive Mind program series, in which we will be discussing Eira Tansey’s A Green New Deal For Archives on Thursday, January 25th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pmCT/12-1pmMT/11-12pmPST).  Zoom information below.

Tansey’s important work brings up a lot of issues archives and archivists are facing and calls for us to take action in demonstrating the centrality of our work.

We invite you to join us for this conversation to talk about this thought (and hopefully action)-provoking piece.  Topics we plan to discuss include: 

  • Gaps inarchival education: How do we effectively create opportunities to understand the impacts of climate change on communities and collections in both graduate archival programs and continuing professional education?)
  • Advocacy: What strategies if any are archival professionals currently using to advocate for engaging with communities impacted by climate change? Are any institutions actively changing collecting practices in ways that adapt to climate change?) 
  • Cross-institutional collaboration: How are institutions supporting one another against the threat of climate change in their region? Are there networks that might be activated to ensure the safety of both communities and collections as threats associated with climate change are realized?

We look forward to seeing you there!  Please reach out with any questions or concerns.  

Issues and Advocacy Section Steering Committee 

Elizabeth Call is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: I&A Hive Mind

Time: Jan 25, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

rit.zoom.us/j/91575968470

Meeting ID: 915 7596 8470

Find your local number: rit.zoom.us/u/amko9M5Sv