Somehow I never put these up earlier this Spring. I think I was attempting to learn to install Drupal and typing notes at the same time. Without further delay, a few notes that barely begin to encompass all of the wonderful things we talked about at the Zine Librarian (un)Conference in Seattle, WA, March 2009.

More notes from all of the sessions are available on the wiki: http://seattle-zine-unconference.wikispaces.com/Notes+from+sessions

*Disclaimer: I'm using this post to mess with outline functionality. Bear with me!

Intro/Planning

• Everyone put emails on Registration page on the wiki
• 2 people/session online
• For each session:
  o Documenter
  o Note-taker
  o Facilitator

  Zine Ethics and Zinesters Speak Out

• What if a zine creator doesn't want their work in your collection?
• Clint: SLCPL: treat it like a challenge, black out their contact info
• Jenna: Barnard archives: seal it for 50 years
  * What do you identify as?
  o Lesbian archives
  o Transgender
  o Altering collections to reflect the creator's wishes
• Policies and Procedures: so that people know ahead of time
  *WHS: explain why you want it
  *Internet crossover: privacy, blogs, etc.
  *Readers rights vs. Writer's rights
  *Alex: deal with people as individuals
  *Binding, in book form: Dan Halligan hates it! Boxes instead or enclosures (like a multi-volume DVD!)
• Weeding: what do we do with our unwanted issues? (other than those that are damaged)
  * Centralized unwanted zine sharing? Organized weeding/discards among zine libraries?
  * Point people to where zines go if their donated zine goes to another library (if concerned about their material)
• Copying: depends on the zinester
• Zine Librarians Code of Ethics? (including copyright)
  * Zines in libraries are ok, whereas media is not as ok (I have no idea what I meant by this)
  * Alternative press vs. zine collection-SLCPL
  * Permission from the publisher to include in the collection? or cease and desist on the part of the zinester? who is responsible to seek and allow permission to house in a collection?
  * Open letter to the zine community to communicate with zine librarians?
  * Are putting covers only online ok?
  * Punk zine archive online http://www.operationphoenixrecords.com/archivespage.html
• Shelving and classification issues-unhappy with where their zine was organized/labeled?
  * How do you categorize zines?
• Do zinesters like digitization? varied responses
  o Jerianne: if she wanted it to be digital, it would be.
  o Alex: book arts
  o Older issues only perhaps?
  * ILL copies and scans: include a copyright disclaimer
  * Libraries vs. archives and zines

  Union Catalog: a Sampler

  Clint-Salt Lake Public Library-Drupal

  * CMS or Wiki?
  o Both allow collaborative access
  * SLCPL: users can add tags
  * "Morally" CMS is better?
  * "translator between you and the internet"
  * (side note: is there a circulation module in drupal?)

  Jenna-Biblios.net

  * MARC-based
  * download one item to use
  * free, plus proprietary version
  * open source
  * upload MARC records
  * could be adapted for zine use
  * new space/universe for zine libraries (friendly towards suggestions)
  * suggests subject headings as you type them in
  * as-is, need to be logged in to see records, and can only view in MARC
  * within a year, an OPAC/front end?
  * Youtube tutorials
  * Slash Fiction site: a very good example: http://208.100.59.10/cgi-bin/index.cgi

  Jerianne-Zine Wiki

  * Not a union catalog, but a great resource
  * Authority record repository
  * 2500 entries (as of now)
  * Started in 2006, Dan and Jerianne are admins
  * Alpha, searching: title and author
  * 1900 zines, 473 zinesters
  * 600 images (cover scans)
  * needs a template for entries
  * Info: publisher, place, issues, covers, subjects headings
  * largest online database of zines that exists?

  Milo-QZAP-Athenaeum
  QZAP:

  * 1200 zines
  * tried to use a koha catalog, or evergreen, but too hard a learning curve for a decided non-librarian
  o MARC dependant
  o perl libraries
  o on pentium server, and Milo will mail it to anyone who wants it for shipping.

  Athanaeum:

  * File maker pro based
  * proprietary ($45 for software and $450 for MARC version)
  * takes 5 minutes to make, 20 minutes to train others to use
  * circulation and cataloging modules
  * sumware-New Zealand
  * very easy to adapt to zines
  * automatically email info to patrons
  * if pay for server version of file maker, can put this on the web (but only 10 people at a time)
  * How different from file maker pro? more automatic, plus circulation module

  Sonya-Library Thing:

  * Organizational accounts
  * Tags, reviews
  * No ISBN=can't add currently :(
  * Z39.50 api
  * you can manually add titles ?
  * private company
  * visually display
  * put a patron # in the record to designate check-outs

  Discussion:

  * What do we want vs. what exists currently
  * Create a system that works w/MARC and OCLC?
  * Zine wiki-use for authority files
  * Templates for zine wiki?
  * Training sessions on MARC cataloging for librarians? Cataloging tutorials and how-to's?
  * Servers-who supports (whatever we decide to go with)?
  * Eric: Hybrid-drupal and file maker, with biblios.net front end?
  * Union catalog as a repository
  * Disaster preparedness: server crashes, backups, etc.
  * Ann Arbor Library-good example of tags in the catalog http://www.aadl.org/catalog

  Zine Anatomy and Preservation
  Preservation:

  * Circulating zines? how is preservation affected?
  * Zine Preservation Standards (and how-to's)
  * Digital Repositories as preservation mechanisms
  * Digital projects vs. circulating libraries (in terms of missions and visions)
  * Zine Capsule-Kim Riot
  * Heather's questions:
  o Do you consider preservation in your library (or while making your zines?)?
  o Do you have a disaster preparedness plan?
  + Use special collections models to justify the need for a disaster plan
  * Preservation vs. Access
  * 2 copies-one circ, one archives
  * Getting your book off of Google Books?
  * ZAPP is a former mortuary, used to be in the basement where the bodies were kept!
  * Documentation and paper trails for whatever system you put in place
  * Photocopy rare zines
  * Descriptive standards-Library of Congress
  * audio archiving zines (also good for visually impaired)

  Anatomy:

  * Colophon for zines like in fine printing!