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CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture

CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area at Popular Culture Association Annual Conference (April 2019 - Washington DC)

The Popular Culture Association annual conference will be held April 17-20, 2019, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.
The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. Possible topics include:

• Descriptions of research collections or exhibits
• Studies of popular images of libraries, librarians, archives, or museums
• Analyses of social networking or web resources
• Popular Culture in library education/information literacy
• The future of libraries and librarians
• Developments in technical services for collecting/ preserving Popular Culture materials

Organisational things
Papers from graduate students are welcome. The deadline for submitting a proposal is October 1, 2018. Proposals may be submitted on the conference website.

Questions
Please direct any questions to the area chair or co-chair for Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture:

Allen Ellis
Professor of Library Services
W. Frank Steely Library
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101
859-572-5527
ellisa@nku.edu

Co-chair: Casey Hoeve
Associate Professor
509A Hale Library
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-7672
achoeve@ksu.edu

Hinweis aus: The library writer's blog.

Diverging from library policy - oh yes!

Ausgangspost:

Library Staff: Raise your hand if you ever diverged from policy for the sake of a greater moral or empathy

— Drunkest Librarian (@DrunkestLibrary) July 11, 2018

Ausgewählte Antworten:

I call it guerrilla librarianing. It's a challenge, staying relatively under the radar while still trying to actually have an impact.

— Librarian at Large (@Coliemta) July 12, 2018

Many, many, many times... like free copies to people who clearly need free copies to changing due dates for that frazzled mom who is on the verge of tears. pic.twitter.com/vYb8uu93tt

— TheFactinator (@childbrite) July 11, 2018

Spent over an hour helping a guy apply for welfare, from creating his email addy, creating govt e-ID, filling in the actual application, writing down all his IDs, passwords, list of docs he'd need to bring to welfare office. There was no way he could have done this himself.

— Kathryn (@kathlibt235) July 11, 2018

Giving full library membership to prisoners on day release with only their prison ID card so they could use computers without having to show their prison ID every time. And I waived 90% of fines, basically any I thought might stop people coming back.

— Cisco Ventura (@cisco664uk) July 12, 2018

My department's primary reason for existence is to do just this. We never ask for address verification and we aren't even allowed to handle money, so we don't charge fines and always waive them. Saying yes first and removing barriers, that's the goal of outreach services.

— Bookmobile Moments (@bkm_lyfe) July 12, 2018

Falls under “other duties as assigned” ;)

— Chrissy Bellizzi (@marimbamaiden18) July 13, 2018

Siehe dazu auch den Eintrag "Wiener Büchereien – Zügel anziehen, Hierarchien festigen" im Haftgrund-Blog vom 30. August 2013.

Neuerwerbungen für die Wörterbuchsammlung

Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of the Old Testament / Der homosexuelle Wortschatz im Russischen / Wörterbuch von Mittelfranken / Glossary of the old Northumbrian gospels